This post is a response to Sheryl Chan of A Chronic Voice’s October writing prompts. This month’s terms are: disabling, enabling, committing, communicating, and reinventing. The first time I heard of Covid-19, my niece brought it to my attention. It was late December 2019, and she showed me a news article discussing this new virus…
Ableism is a large issue and one that occurs within the community as well as outside of it. Over the past few months I have been processing through a series of negative interactions and now that the issue is concluded, feel that I can glean some important lessons from it and move myself forward from…
It’s that time again, I’m writing in response to A Chronic Voice’s monthly linkup. April prompts: distancing, returning, stressing, understating, celebrating When I was diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder(FND) in 2003, I was told by the neurologist who diagnosed me that I also needed to see a psychiatrist to confirm my diagnosis, since it was considered a…
There are a lot of potential issues with going to a hospital ER, but one that many people don’t want to recognize is bias.