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CAN I BORROW YOUR FINGER FOR A SEC?
Here’s a news flash: stress can make you sick. Maybe you haven’t gotten the message that stress can have a permanent effect on chronic illness. Clouds your thinking, screws up your judgment....
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“If you have multiple sclerosis, you’re treated with respect.”
The following assertion was made by Maxine Cunningham, founder and director of Empowered Walking Enterprise/Ministries. My response follows. “Dignity is not a word that we often hear in connection...
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How Come It’s “We’re Pregnant” But It’s Not “We’re Disabled”?
I don’t know when it became fashionable to identify pregnancy as an adventure à deux. It always seemed lopsided that pregnancy excluded men from throwing up, having swollen ankles and shrewish moods....
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HOW CAN PARALYZED BE PRETTY?
Photograph of Rachel and her husband Chris on their wedding day. Photo credit: Martha Manning Photography I blog for the government’s disability website, Disability.gov If you haven’t visited, do...
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THE RORSCHACH WENCH.
I keep a book in my office and if I had a coffee table, it would be on it. It’s red, with a coffee spill down the front that’s dried into a Rorschach-kind of thing. Nifty for it to be in a...
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THAT GIRL KEEPS FALLING ON HER BUTT
My balance, isn’t. So when I head straight toward the bushes at the entrance to my building it isn’t surprising. Bushes are a trigger in picturing my first (and only) experience as a new MSer in an MS...
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INVISIBLE DISABILITY GOT YOU SIDELINED THIS WINTER?
Even if I walked away, I wouldn’t be able to walk very far. For those of us who are disabled, invisibly so, preparing for weather that turns wintry follows a simple self-care rule: stay inside. As...
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WHEN A CAREGIVER DIES
First published on Disability.gov For 70 years she put up with his (sometimes volcanic) rumblings. He doted on her with diamonds, and was a poorer father for it. The youngest of 5 much older...
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEING HAPPY
If you’ll allergic to dogs, happiness is not a warm puppy. Metaphors about puppies, or anything else, are potentially dangerous. Even knowing where happiness — like any other emotion — occurs on...
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DO YOU NEED YOUR THERAPIST TO BE HUMAN?
“I can’t work with someone who’s broken,” he said calmly. The young man had just read my Disclosure, a description of rights that, as a Marriage & Family Therapist, I’m legally required to give all...
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THAT GIRL KEEPS FALLING ON HER BUTT
My balance, isn’t. So when I head straight toward the bushes at the entrance to my building it isn’t surprising. Bushes are a trigger in picturing my first (and only) experience as a new MSer in an MS...
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INVISIBLE DISABILITY GOT YOU SIDELINED THIS WINTER?
Even if I walked away, I wouldn’t be able to walk very far. For those of us who are disabled, invisibly so, preparing for weather that turns wintry follows a simple self-care rule: stay inside. As...
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DO YOU NEED YOUR THERAPIST TO BE HUMAN?
“I can’t work with someone who’s broken,” he said calmly. The young man had just read my Disclosure, a description of rights that, as a Marriage & Family Therapist, I’m legally required to give all...
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