When you live with any type of chronic pain and take medication, sometimes people do not understand what it does for you and think that it takes the pain away completely and cures you. Preventive medication can provide relief for some people who struggle with migraine headaches, but it is not a cure, and you … Continue reading What My Preventative Medication For Migraine Does Not Do
Disclaimer: In this post, I am sharing a few ways you can lose weight if you can't exercise but I am not a nutritionist or dietician. It is to be used for informational use only and is not a substitute for professional advice. If you take any actions from the content of this post, you … Continue reading How To Lose Weight When You Can’t Exercise
Disclaimer: In this post, I am sharing a few things that I do to help me have a bowel movement when I am on my period. I am not a doctor, and it is to be for informational use only and is not substitute for professional medical advice. When you are on your period, sometimes … Continue reading How I Have A Bowel Movement When I Am On My Period
Disclaimer: This post was written for informational use only because I am not a doctor and it is not substitute for medical advice. November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. When you have Hydrocephalus, it is common to develop a seizure disorder, but you don't need to have my disability to develop seizures, and it can happen … Continue reading What To Do If You Witness Someone Having A Seizure
Happy Halloween! Today, people will be dressing up in their favorite costumes to go to Halloween parties, and parents will be taking their children around to different houses trick-or treating to get some candy. If you are a last-minute kind of person and don't have a costume, you might think that sitting in a wheelchair … Continue reading Is Dressing Up As A Disabled Person For Halloween A Good Idea?
Halloween is tomorrow which means a lot of kids are going out trick or treating and getting more chocolate than they know what to do with. Most kids will get a stomachache when they eat too much chocolate but when you have a disability that makes you more prone to constipation it can be difficult … Continue reading How To Survive Halloween When You Struggle With Constipation
Diet culture is everywhere and can be harmful to anyone because it convinces you that unhealthy habits are healthy and makes people have unnecessary fear around food. It can be even more harmful for people with medical conditions who can't follow a restrictive diet because they have certain dietary restrictions. Diet culture affects everyone and … Continue reading How Diet Culture Affects People With Medical Conditions
Disability acceptance is difficult because disability is not accepted by society and is often seen as something bad that needs to be cured. Stoma acceptance can be even more difficult because most people don't see the good in a stoma and are horrified when you tell them you have a hole on your body that … Continue reading How I Learned To Accept My Stoma
When you start a blog, the first thing that every blogger has to think about is whether or not you are going to tell your family about your blog, because not all bloggers do, and a lot of people don't. Blogging about disability can be stressful because people who blog about health get more trolls … Continue reading Why I Told My Family About My Blog
When you have Spina Bifida, it is common for your bladder and bowel function to not work properly because when something affects your spine, it doesn't just give you back problems and other muscle groups can also be impacted. Chronic constipation will always be a part of my life because my bowels have never worked … Continue reading What I Wish People Understood About Living With Bowels That Don’t Work
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