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    Dealing with Doctors | Strategizing for success

    Your treatment plan: a powerful tool for your well-being

    ByAlison Hayes November 20, 2020March 1, 2022

    You and your doctor(s) can co-create a quality treatment plan. This includes not only the medical treatments, but also lifestyle changes.

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  • Weathering the storms of life
    Strategizing for success | Taking care of yourself

    Weathering the storms of life

    ByAlison Hayes September 6, 2019September 4, 2019

    Once more, I am participating in A Chronic Voice’s monthly linkup. words: researching, dating, finding, recounting, and recycling. Sometimes in life, you get hit with a perfect storm of stress – and sadly it looks like from mid-august well into September, I’m in that position. There are times when even if you are doing your best…

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  • Al’s diagnosis journey: how a broken hip led to diagnosis of a blood disorder
    Dealing with Doctors | Overcoming Obstacles

    Al’s diagnosis journey: how a broken hip led to diagnosis of a blood disorder

    ByAlison Hayes May 31, 2019September 6, 2019

    This post is about why it’s so important to keep pushing doctors in order to find out just what the medical problem is, and how to solve it. The following is what Al and I went through(mainly from a medical perspective), and the lessons we learned from it. Despite mostly finding very good doctors, going…

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    Dealing with Doctors | Overcoming Obstacles

    Getting a second opinion: how, when, and why to do it!

    ByAlison Hayes February 1, 2019November 18, 2019

    If your condition is complicated, you will likely need to see a variety of experts.  Somewhere on that journey, a doctor, most often a specialist of some sort, will recognize your symptoms and give you a diagnosis.  Is that diagnosis enough?  Are you set now?  Or do you need to go deeper down the rabbit…

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  • Low B12 awareness week!
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    Low B12 awareness week!

    ByAlison Hayes September 21, 2018May 30, 2019

    I just learned that this week is low B12 awareness week, so I wanted to talk to you a bit about low B12, what it is, what it does, and what you may be able to do to manage it! I do have personal experience with this, as it looks likely that my partner Al’s…

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Alison Hayes

As a person with a sometimes-invisible illness that straddles neurology and psychiatry (Functional Neurological Disorder), I've dealt with a lot of the stigma surrounding physical and mental illnesses and both visible and invisible illnesses. I want to help other people with disabilities to regain perspective and control over their lives through manageable steps and make their lives better, one step at a time.

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I am not a doctor, lawyer, or therapist.  I am a person with a disability who has learned a lot about many aspects of living life with a disabling condition.  My posts are intended as jumping off points connected to the best knowledge I could find.  I cannot be held responsible for the decisions you make or the actions you take.  

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