Content Warning: body image issues, eating disorders, internalized ableism. I am enough. That’s a sentence I’m trying so hard to embrace and to believe. I’ve felt glimpses of it in the past. I’ve had good weeks and sometimes even months where I could say those words and they felt like truth. But something happened along […] Read more…
The bed in that photo is mine. It’s where I spend most of my time. It’s where I’ve spent most of my time for the last 6 years or so. Well, we’ve gotten a new bed since then, but I just swapped one memory foam surface for another and carried on like before. I lay […] Read more…
Hi. I haven’t done this in a very long time. It’s been so long that I’m not even sure where to begin, because so much has happened in that window of time. And I know that can be said for everyone. This year has been a decade long. When I think back on what has […] Read more…
An easy to follow guide for making your social media more accessible, from image descriptions and video captions to accessible hashtags. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Ooh typing out editor’s note makes this seem very fancy. May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month, so I asked my followers what topics they wanted me to discuss about EDS or chronic illness/disability. A bunch of people asked me to write about how to be a good friend to someone who has EDS […] Read more…
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about loss. I have been feeling a loss that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Being chronically ill and becoming disabled has brought about some losses I never expected to feel, or to feel this hard. And there always seems to be another one around the corner. I try to live in the moment, be positive and grateful (all of those characteristics everyone wants to see in a sick person), but some days I’m hit head on with that very real feeling of “what if this never happened to me?” Dreadful, I know. Read more…
You know what? This is all really hard sometimes. I joke around a lot. I look for humour in every situation I find myself in. I smile and laugh and reassure everyone that I’m fine. And in general, I am. I am very proud of how I handle what comes my way. But sometimes I […] Read more…
A few weeks ago we packed our bags, hopped in a truck with our best friends Pamela and Finn, and headed to Trinity for the weekend. I just recently found out that there are two Trinitys in Newfoundland, and it’s really important to specify which one you’re in when you have to call an ambulance […] Read more…
Last month the wonderful lovely people from Rollz International gifted me a Rollz Motion, which is a 2-in-1 rollator/wheelchair combo. They gave it to me in exchange for some social media posts and an honest review on my blog. So this is me doing that! Everything I am about to say about the Rollz Motion […] Read more…
When I first started using a cane, I was super squirrelly about it. I didn’t really want to be seen with it. I started out just using it in my house where no one would see me. Then I worked myself up to using it in places I didn’t think I would run into anyone […] Read more…