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Happy Friday! Today is a rest day for me, and tomorrow is groceries. Hopefully I don’t sleep all day. I’ve been taking extra naps and resting more during the week, because this has ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
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Whatever holidays you celebrate or not, the period between late November and January often involves family/friend gatherings, festive meals, and traditional events. In addition to the standard offerings of expansive menus, decorated firs, candles,...
by Besame
on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
with 54 Recommends
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The majority of this piece will consider the issue of inclusion of disabled people; however, in order to understand the problem of inclusion for disabled people we need to understand what disability is. It is not the opposite of being abled bodied,...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
with 16 Recommends
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A canine disease that causes coughing, sneezing, and lethargy —and in a few cases death—has been reported in several, widely separated U.S. states and experts are still trying to figure out what it is and how to treat it. Infected dogs usually have a...
by Besame
on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
with 333 Recommends
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The last Diary I posted was about how I had just been denied for Social Security Disability, and was waiting to find out if my lawyer was going to drop my case. Unfortunately, she did, and after speaking with her about it. I realized that since I’m...
by Puck Goodfellow
on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 05:52 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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When fatigue is part of your daily routine due to a chronic health condition, you are likely to discover there are no medical�terms that adequately describe your status. A�new doctor recently�told me�
by Besame
on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 43 Recommends
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Happy Friday!� I started a new thing last week, and I wanted to give it a week before I brought it to you all, so I had some experience with the process. NCHPAD offers free�classes for people ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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Noting recent social dynamics of wheelchair use in elevators at my workplace. Every encounter I have is fraught with tension because of how other people behave, but here are a few highlights of recent weeks. If any 1 of these events occurred as simply...
by Franks Human
on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 12:39 PM PDT
with 131 Recommends
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On Thursday, a Senate Special Committee on Aging took place to discuss how people with disabilities, older adults, and veterans can be ensured access to government technology. Sen. John Fetterman ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 264 Recommends
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The ducks, as you can see are getting bigger. They don’t have their Carnucles yet (the red stuff on the faces of Muscovy ducks, similar to a turkey), but they have their adult coloring and ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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By Sara Luterman Originally published by The 19th We’re telling the untold stories of women, women of color and LGBTQ+ people. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Over the “Barbie” movie’s opening weekend, Senator Tammy Duckworth, like many Americans,...
by The19th
on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 02:05 PM PDT
with 534 Recommends
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This is an open thread for FloridaSNDad aka Nizz. They are home, they have a hoyer lift so they can get up, but they still aren’t feeling their best and they asked me to post a diary for them ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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Happy Friday! Nizz is home, so hurrah for that! I talked to the social services worker at the hospital, they should be starting home health soon, PT is being worked on, for an at home thing, and ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Thu Jul 13, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 18 Recommends
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Please excuse the roughness of this Diary. It’s somewhat of an emotional topic for me, and I don’t think I can give it a polished voice without making it too… clinical. For the last several months I’ve been waiting for the results of my Social Security...
by Puck Goodfellow
on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 09:17 PM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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Imagine that someone, or some�algorithm,�in an insurance company�office a thousand miles away�arbitrarily decides�the standard�medical procedure your�doctor prescribed is unnecessary even though it ...
by Besame
on Sun Jun 25, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 95 Recommends
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Happy Friday! This should be the last weekend in the new house. Given the processor gets things done, after they asked for a TON of last minute paperwork we had to hunt down. It really isn’t fair ...
by FloridaSNMOM
on Thu Jun 22, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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Visiting my local Verizon store in an upscale strip mall, Chestnut Hill, MA, this morning, I had a learning experience. The store was closed. If I wanted to find the store hours, I had to scan a QR code posted on the door. Being digitally astute for a...
by teplcon
on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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What a week for news junkies! With a few exceptions, however, tonight’s stories are amusing or quirky or intriguing and are not the accurate but dire apocalyptic fare served up by�the news media ...
by Besame
on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 08:58 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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Back in the 1990s, my wife and I were both fairly active in Seattle’s bisexual community, working to raise bi visibility and add B and then T to the now long list of initials in LGBTQIA (did I forget any letters?). At the time it was common to claim...
by ptalbert
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 04:18 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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We’ve all seen service dogs – dogs that help the blind, or physically handicapped get through their days with a little more independence. �But did you know there are service dogs for diabetics?
by lynnekz
on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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