Tag: sjogens

• 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

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