Patience Prevents Patients
COVID is not a respiratory virus: it’s a vascular disease caused by a respiratory virus. “Learning to live with” a highly transmissible,...
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- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Humanity's Lost the Plot (Again)
Humanity is at a fork in road: one that’s wholly manmade and a product of impatience, unchecked privilege, and a broken moral compass,...
- Feb 12, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Sugar-Coating Long COVID
Ironically, many #longhaulers find themselves in symptom flares due to sugar intake (don’t even get me started about the new onset...
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Disabled Are Ahead of the Times
The greatest human disability is a belief that one has a more valuable ability than another. That one mind is more powerful than another...
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
The CDC Is Failing Millions (if Not All Americans)
Dr. Walensky and @cdcgov: Gerard John Schaefer got into law enforcement because he too had a calling, and then he murdered many. Your...
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
The CDC Stands For...
I’m speaking as an American, as a patient on month 22 of #LongCovid now #disabled due to this new #chronicillness, and as a person who...
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Grief Amongst the Holidays
This holiday season I’m (like many) battling grief. The loss of my cherished Uncle George yesterday. The loss of my physical and at-times...
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
What's Compassion?
If you boil down the resistance to vaccines (outside of medical reasons), masking, our internalized ableism, and our unchecked privilege...
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Long COVID Reality
I shouldn’t have to share this, but society hasn’t evolved compassionately enough for the need to not exist (and goodness have I and many...
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
Mild Acute COVID Most Commonly Results in Long COVID
Cue the “I’m fu$!&ing Sick of It” audio clip…on loop. And cue the “we’re trying to save YOU from becoming US” cries of the entire...
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
My Life is Worth More Than a Mask
Healthy family and friends: I implore you to read each slide with an open heart, receptive to a perspective that you may not have invited...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 2 min
Lost at Sea With Long COVID
I sit here feeling a mix of emotions regarding the current state of society, the still active pandemic, and the ways in which my body and...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID is a Nightmare
The spookiest thing you hear when you become chronically ill is the ignorant mutterings of victim blamers unable to cope with the reality...
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
This is How Everyone Can Help Long Haulers
I’m momentarily breaking hiatus to say that while a lot has been going on with my health, with that update coming soon, and while *A LOT*...
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
Post-Viral Chronic Illness Isn't New
finalized this graphic that I began last week to help distract from the searing pain of a SECOND #shingles reactivation within the span...
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Pandemic and Emotional Intelligence
#eq is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate, have #empathy for others,...
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID and Work
Today marks the 31st birthday of the #ada, also known as the #americanswithdisabilitiesact, and thanks to the @whitehouse, it also marks...
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Apathy's Like a Wounded Soul
So well-said @oliviarodrigo 👊🏼: Maybe I’m too emotional…or maybe society has never cared about the long-term consequences of #postviral...
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
Chronic Illness Grief Iceberg
We all know that the tip of an iceberg represents a small fraction of what actually exists. We hear about it in terms of mental health,...
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
Western Society is Our Worst Toxic Relationship
Everyone loves dogs, right? So here’s a dog telling you that if given the choice between a mask and a muzzle, the mask is always a better...
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Full Cost of Travel During a Global Pandemic
his should really be common knowledge, but since governments still prioritize profits over people and people still boycott mask wearing,...
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Human Being > Human Doing
Many view disability as something to overcome. As an identity that’s lesser, misled by a societal script that’s worked hard to brainwash...
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
Stop Deflecting Onto Chronic Illness Patients
This is part 1 of “So You Want to End the Pandemic But Don’t Know How?” and it’s something that must occur first, since much is resting...
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
A Long COVID Birthday Wish
For my 33rd birthday I wish that the public stopped resisting reality and choosing to ignore the growing #longcovid crisis (recognizing...
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