Tomorrow is World Ostomy Awareness Day and I didn’t just want to write a post that simply educates people about ostomies because it is a lot more than that. I also feel like that can be left for other days and times, and doesn’t necessarily need to be done during the designated awareness day. I […]
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A year later, “My Story”
A year ago, I sat down and didn’t get up until I tried to lay out the last 12yrs of my life with ulcerative colitis in an effort to stop hiding who I was with the world. I spent so long masking everything real that was going on in my life that it was burying […]
Day 7: Raising Awareness for Another Condition!
Today, WEGO Health‘s topic is something too difficult for me to actually think about so I decided to use one of their alternate prompts which is to raise awareness for another condition. The condition I want to talk about is a rare, auto-immune disease that I was diagnosed with very unexpectedly last year around this time. […]
Getting Back Into Life (separate from #NHBPM)
When you have a chronic condition and are taken out of life for a while, it is incredibly difficult to come back from it. I use the term “taken out of life” to refer to someone being unexpectedly pulled out of school, work, had to miss out on social/family events, etc. I have had to […]