How You Look is Not a Measure for How You Feel
Human beings are visual creatures, so we often associate how someone feels based on how they look and act. Sadly, this is very short sighted. Many people live with life…
Human beings are visual creatures, so we often associate how someone feels based on how they look and act. Sadly, this is very short sighted. Many people live with life…
Klippel-Feil Syndrome Awareness Day began five years ago, when a small group of people decided a specific day each year should be set aside, to help the KFS community speak…
Welcome back to Editor's Choice Patient Worthians! This week, a PW Contributor told a love story about how her husband's bipolar disorder helps her manage her rare disease. We also have an…
Happy Almost-New-Year Patient Worthians! What is your new year resolution? As someone living with a chronic illness, mine is to get back to my cardiologist for that much-needed check-up I've…
Recently I was asked to write a piece about what I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. My first reaction was, "Oh God, Thanksgiving is actually here again?" I don't have…
This is outstanding: However, be prepared because what I am about to say may not be popular, but it's my truth. It breaks my heart that adults with rare disease…
God blessed my husband and me with two girls, seven and nine. They are my reasons for living and my reason for fighting cervical dystonia every day. My oldest has…
How celiac disease, vestibular neuritis, and cervical dystonia have ruined my answer to the most common way to greet people in America. “Hello, how are you?” Is it okay to say…