Tag Archives: AB/TAB

Well, I guess the gloves are off…

see more Lolcats and funny pictures And, well, I really didn’t feel like spending the spoons on this.  I only get so many, and I didn’t think you were worth it when I have a family and appointments and my … Continue reading

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Same story…different day…

and different patient. This could be a page out of my memoir: This letter was written after a nasty incident with another doctor in my clinic. She gave me all of twenty seconds to explain why I was there before … Continue reading

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Where I jump in and defend pills…

When discussions arise of disability, especially, it seems, of invisible disabilities, someone will almost always jump in and start harping about Big Pharma and how they have certainly invented our illness or disorder just to sell us or get us … Continue reading

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Obligatory NIIAW Post*…

Shamelessly stolen from Annaham… I agree, also, w/ her sentiment…Awareness isn’t enough.  Take that w/ as much salt as you need to digest.

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The Invisible Disability

Because of the new movie that is out I am currently re-reading Jodi Piccoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.  I read it about five years ago, but I read that the screenwriter for the movie changed the ending (why do we do … Continue reading

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5 docs, 3 years, 2 psychs, 1 day in the life of…

Moderatrix’ note:  I wrote this on 16 November, 2008.  For some reason I thought I had written it here and I did not.  I am sharing it now, because I want to show how disability and medical care intersect with … Continue reading

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A call to activism in Australia

From Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town comes this notice of intended changes to the criteria for using handicapped spaces: The government is proposing a national harmonisation of disabled parking schemes. Sounds great on the surface, doesn’t it? But they’re going … Continue reading

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A PSA

If you are engaging in discourse on a particular blog, and you use a word after which someone, and the blog’s owner, politely, saying “Please” and everything requests you stop using said word, the correct response is to stop using … Continue reading

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Random Blogwhoring…

Great new Disability 101 Series by annaham of Ham dot blog.  Please check it out, and spread far and wide.

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