Advertisements When you are expecting to have surgery it can be stressful for both the person experiencing it and their families who nurse them back them back to health. The stress between families and patient is not the same because although it may be hard...
Author: My Rockin Disabled Life
Chronic Pain Myths You Need To Stop Believing
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 23, 2022
Advertisements When you live with a disability or chronic pain there will always be myths that people go around saying that they believe is true but is totally false. Chronic pain has myths like any disability but I think it can have even more stigma...
How To Be More Positive When Your Doctor Gives You Bad News
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 19, 2022
Advertisements When you have Spina Bifida sometimes you may need a lot of surgeries to stay healthy and manage your condition. Some people with Spina Bifida may not need as many but a lot of surgeries is a fact of life for some people and...
How Parents Can Feel Less Guilty For Their Child’s Disability
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 12, 2022
Advertisements Disabled people aren’t the only ones that struggle with acceptance and families do too, but more specifically parents have a real hard time with it. Parents often struggle with acceptance and in the beginning of your child’s diagnosis, you may even blame yourself for...
What You Should Be Telling Disabled People
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 6, 2022
Advertisements In my last post, I talked about a few things that you should never say to a disabled person and there is so much that you should never say that the list could go on forever. There is no shortness of things you shouldn’t...
Advertisements Abled people are always telling disabled people things they probably should have kept to themselves because it either comes off as abelist or kind of cheesy and everyone says it. I don’t think abled people are always trying to be rude but sometimes just...
How I Relieve Cramps When I Am On My Period
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
March 26, 2022
Advertisements If living with a disability that has constant challenges was not enough I also have to deal with normal things that everyone experiences and for women that means getting your period. Periods are not fun and it’s basically just a week of bloating and...
How Chronic Sleep Deprivation Affects My Everyday Life
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
March 22, 2022
Advertisements When you live with chronic or acute pain getting a good night’s sleep can be a struggle. I don’t sleep a lot and on most days I am sleeping around four to five hours. At some point, you do get used to having very...
Challenges That People Don’t See About My Fitness Journey
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
March 16, 2022
Advertisements Fitness is just as important for disabled people as it is for abled people but because it is much harder due to lack of resources and accessibility many people neglect fitness. I started working after I graduated high school because I was out of...
Why You Shouldn’t Call All Disabled People Inspiring
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
March 9, 2022
Advertisements If you are disabled you probably have been called inspiring more times than you can count. I have nothing against people calling disabled people inspiring if you truly mean it but unfortunately most people don’t and only say when they see our disabilities. A...