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Children as young as five years old report being dissatisfied with their body. While parents will not be able to entirely shelter their children from the bombardment of outside views (e.g. social and print media, TV and movies, comments from other children and adults), parents can certainly act...
We’ve seen it firsthand. Eating disorders are on the rise. When a family faces this diagnosis, parents may feel overwhelmed, helpless, and don’t know where to begin.
Parents may scour the internet for information, purchase multiple books that collect dust on their shelves, but...
Physicians and people living with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as long COVID, offer suggestions for dealing with symptoms.
Find a doctor with experience
“Look for doctors who have seen a lot of long COVID patients and who...
To the patient who wants to die: a psychologist’s perspective
I’ve been there. In my first two years of severe, chronic pain, I was right where you are at. I felt hopeless, mentally exhausted, and didn’t want to keep living with an extreme level of pain anymore. I felt there was...
I thought my time away from social media would be focused on adjusting to not having my infusions due to insurance issues (still an ongoing battle but I’m not dropping it!), but my body had other ideas.
After experiencing anaphylaxis for the first time as well as a bunch of other...
'I Got COVID 9 Months Ago and Still Have Symptoms'
Dr. Melissa Geraghty On 12/2/20 at 5:51 AM EST
At the beginning of 2020, when COVID-19 was still only in the peripheries of our awareness, I was recovering from neurosurgery. I have a rare neurological disease, tethered cord syndrome,...
Remember the talking Golden Retriever, Dug, in the cartoon movie Up who finds himself doing one thing — and then suddenly thrown off course by the mere mention of a squirrel? This is my perpetual state of mind of living through a pandemic. It's...
Originally I had planned to publish a compilation of my experiences with tethered cord syndrome, rare disease diagnosis, neurosurgery, and CSF leak, in time for my one year anniversary. My body and mind are currently not up for this seemingly monumental task, so I will be brief.
Each day I see more and more ableist attitudes. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have a word to describe this before, or maybe it’s because I have experienced so much ableist trauma that parts of my brain had to block it out. More likely it’s a...
You read that correctly. Today is not a day where I am thankful for what my body can still do nor am I reminding myself that this pain flare too shall pass. Today is not a day where I’m using...
I was reflecting last night on how I have not seen any friends in person over the past 6 months due to COVID. I chuckled a bit at this thought because, truth be told, quarantine life isn’t much different than my PreCOVID life. Only now, my absence on social outings is just seen as more...
I have wanted to start a blog for years. However, with every new medical diagnosis, writing a blog kept getting pushed further down my to-do list. So this is long overdue!
I plan to write about my experiences with chronic pain, neurosurgery, rare disease, being a COVID Long Hauler, advocacy work,...
I’ve been going through some new medical problems and as a result, I gained some weight and am bloated. So one night I went to the mall with my husband to get properly fitting dress pants for work so I could be comfortable. I found several pairs I liked...
A few days ago I was diagnosed with C. diff. I never really heard much about C. diff outside of acquiring it in a hospital setting or people of advanced age contracting it. Oh, was I wrong. “Clostridium difficile (klos-TRID-e-um dif-uh-SEEL), often called C. difficile or C. diff,...
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