Filing For Disability

When we talk about new or worsening disabilities it doesn’t take long for the subject of “filing for disability” to come up. And the myths about it are many. Among my friends and collaborators there are lots of stories of how we filed, the challenges we faced and our...

This AND That

I recently had a conversation with a family member about “health issues” and we discussed peoples’ (over ?) reliance on doctors and medications for treating everything. And it led me to think honestly about what I have found over 40 years with a serious, progressive,...

What About Tomorrow?

Forty years ago, a visit to a neurologist and subsequent tests lead to a presumptive diagnosis of MS. At the time there were no good tools available to confirm the diagnosis.  Doctors could only say things like “You probably have MS” or “You might be...

A Commitment to Commitment:

Those of us with disabilities and those of us “on disability” do not have a monopoly on getting distracted and not getting enough done.  But, because we have some justification for not working it can make it easier for many of us to avoid, or at least delay,...