KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues surrounding this topic. There are two parts to each diary. First, a volunteer diarist will offer their specific knowledge and insight about a topic they know intimately. Then, readers are invited to comment on what they've read and/or ask general questions about disabilities, share something they've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.
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Hi folks - Just a simple open thread for this month's meeting of KosAbility .��
KosAbility Is By And For
People living with ...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Sep 28, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Happy Friday! I don’t have any big plans today except to tackle some cleaning if I have the spoons and enough of a lack of pain.� Today we’re going to talk about the effect of fatigue and pain ...
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Sep 11, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Happy Friday! It’s been a week, and I’m glad we’re about to move into a new one. Let’s hope the next week is better in che FLparents.�
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IAN is a great group to join, and a good place ...
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Sep 04, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Welcome to the KosAbility Open Thread this evening!
Allow me to reintroduce myself, for I’ve been doing some serious lurking these past few years. I’ve published five dairies in the last six ...
by Steven Park
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on Sun Jan 25, 2026 at 04:00 PM PST
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Last month we looked at how observational studies can mislead. With those lessons in mind, we now look at an observational study worth paying attention to: Chronic pain is a risk factor for incident Alzheimer’s disease: a nationwide propensity-matched...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Aug 31, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Observational studies determine associations. They do not prove causation. People can be misled into thinking there is causation when there is not. Even medical research professionals have made this mistake. This is part one of a two-part series. In...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Jul 27, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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As I write this on Saturday, the temp outside my NorCal home is 101 oF but this�isn’t official heat wave with NWS warnings and temporary cooling centers set up for people without ACs. The official ...
by Besame
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on Sun Jun 29, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Happy Friday! Hopefully my Friday is going better than my Thursday did. Chronic condition flare ups suck. Stuff I wanted to get done didn’t get done, some things that needed to get done, didn��
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu May 08, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,
by FloridaSNDad
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on Fri May 09, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,
by FloridaSNDad
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on Fri Apr 18, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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What currently passes for AI - large language model chat bots - simply find likely patterns of words. They do not apply reasoning nor do they maintain an internal model of reality. I participate in a Parkinson's patients' forum and find that I have to...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Mar 30, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,
by FloridaSNDad
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on Fri Apr 04, 2025 at 09:55 PM PDT
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What we do to maintain our mental health is necessarily a personal matter. What I suggest here is a menu of ideas that have helped me personally, rather than a prescription: Regulate news consumption: Online at DailyKos and elsewhere, we select what we...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 04:00 PM PST
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Radon gas is an extremely potent carcinogen if it gets past the skin. After the initial decay, releasing an alpha particle, several more decays occur in rapid succession, releasing two more alpha particles. All this originates from a single radon atom....
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Jan 26, 2025 at 04:00 PM PST
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. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,
by FloridaSNDad
39 comments
on Fri Nov 29, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
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Thirteen years ago I wrote a diary for KosAbility entitled “KosAbility: Flour, snow cones and blindness.” It was about the snow cone shape of my right eye. The reference to a snow cone was my youngest son’s description of my right eye when he was about...
by Clytemnestra
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on Sun Sep 29, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Way back in 2011 I wrote a diary about suffering from "menorrhagia" (heavy menstrual bleeding). I detailed the ablation I had in 2007 to burn the endometrial lining from my uterus and there after not have a period, or that was the hope anyway. Before...
by Clytemnestra
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on Tue Aug 27, 2024 at 06:28 AM PDT
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This is an update to the previous story written here . As shown in the image at top, the facet joints are located at the rear of the spine and link adjoining vertebrae together.
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by wilderness voice
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on Sun Aug 25, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Advance healthcare planning: There are three related documents to be aware of. A couple are overlapping — the� Living Will and Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment (POLST) — but serve ...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Jul 28, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Happy Friday! Bit is off on Saturday, so I’ll be home today!�
Welcome to the last Friday of Disability Pride Month. Today we are mostly going to talk about places that have increased ...
by FloridaSNMOM
48 comments
on Thu Jul 25, 2024 at 09:55 PM PDT
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