Tag: mobility aid

• My Not-So-Invisible Illness

  

  I’ve always referred to my chronic health problems as my “invisible illness”. In a lot of ways it is invisible. In general, I appear to be a normal, healthy 39 year old mother of 4. This is especially true for the rare times that I feel good. However, over the last few years as my…

  Meredith Gallie

  December 15, 2020

  life

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• Leveling Up in the Disability Game

  

  Like many people who suffer from a chronic illness, I require the use of mobility aids. I had a very hard time admitting this to myself. I was admitting defeat. I couldn’t function like everyone else anymore. I had to accept a new term to describe myself; DISABLED. It hurt! I couldn’t accept it. I…

  Meredith Gallie

  December 15, 2020

  life

  anxiety, autoimmune disease, brave, cane, chronic fatigue, chronic illness, chronic illness warrior, chronic pain, depression, diary, disabled, ecv, handicap, invisible illness, life, mobility aid, mom, my story, scooter, shame, sjogens, sjogrens syndrome, spoonie, surviving as mom, unchargeable, wheelchair