May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The month is about realizing how common mental health issues are, supporting each other through them, and removing the stigma about them. A few statistics: 21% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2020…
An Update Instead of a Book Review!
I looked back at my recent entries and realized that it’s been a really long time since I posted much of anything substantive. I’m coming out of a long period of being nearly zombified thanks to one of my medications.…
YAY!
We were fairly sure of this right after I finally had my Social Security hearing last month based on the very positive statements from the judge, but I didn’t want to jinx anything. We got the official letter in the…
Shouldn’t Be This Tired
The girl had an appointment at the doctor’s office today, then we had to go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done–just part of the normal monitoring for some of her meds. And that’s…
Review: Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease
I read Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease by Rosalind Joffe and Joan Friedlander a few months back, but for some reason, my review on Amazon took a while to show up, and I didn’t think to keep a copy for…
Working?
I’m working on a new podcast episode. Really! And I’d like very much to hear from you. Are you working? Have you had to change anything about work since developing a chronic illness? Have any of you gone back to…
Rumbles from the Recliner
Not from the grave, oh no, not yet! It’s been too long to do a real “this is all that has happened in my life.” Writing it would exhaust me, and reading it would likely bore you. If you want…
I need an empty nest icon
No, nothing shocking has happened. But Katie did start school today, and I feel as if she’s done needing me. It didn’t hit me nearly this hard last year, for whatever reason. It seems more “real” now. She’s just so…
It Isn’t Karma or Punishment
We did nothing, in this or any other life, to deserve illness. We aren’t being punished, nor are healthier people being rewarded. I’m all for finding out about the physical and biological bases of our conditions, as that information is…
Accessibility
I’m following up on my post about LJ accessibility. I would have simply replied in the comments, but I think it’s an important topic. Web site accessibility, just like building accessibility, is about making resources available to everyone regardless of…