Category: Disability
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VITA EXPERIENCIA
mihi vita est miraculum. During the day, I was visited every hour. A nurse for every year. A rub of alcohol and a bit of saline twice as often. There were the IVs. The shots.I was reminded of my grandmother’s needle cushions watching the breaking surface of my skin. The nurses always asked, “Do you…
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Stepping Stones
In the way that taking one path can lead to your next footsteps, living is filled with complexity as yesterday’s fights are unyielding, and bleed past midnight. To cross the river, there are many stepping stones you are forced to go over, not all of which grant you with kind gifts. Like many of the…
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But You Don’t Look Sick
The following is my experience with physical and mental illness. Thank you for reading. As a chronically ill person, life is about managing the symptoms. Or, at the very least, it feels that way. Life is often incredibly exhausting, having to manage organs that your body has shut down or deal with constant pain that…
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Blood Sugar
The first of November marks the beginning of Diabetes Awareness Month, a month that too many people let slip on by without doing anything or without making positive change for those like me who have a pancreas that decided it just wasn’t going to work anymore. My diabetes journey starts off like many others. In…
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Why I Wear a Mask
With school opening up again a lot of my friends ask, “will you wear a mask?” “Yes,” I say without much thought. It is an easy choice for me, although maybe not for everyone else. Even though I am fully vaccinated, even though I have not caught COVID yet, mask-wearing is an easy choice for…
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What YOU Should Do for Disabled Pride Month
July is Disabled/Disability Pride Month. It doesn’t get a lot of coverage, but, for some of us, it’s a really important time. It’s okay if not every disabled person has pride in themselves at this time. It’s hard to reach that point, and each individual person has hurdles in their own life which may make…
Hazel J. Hall 