Notes from Editing Hell
And it continues… The editing, I mean. Although I finished writing The Book about six months ago, I am still editing and rewriting and then editing some more. And it is kicking my butt. I take great comfort in reading about other people’s road to publication. It took Toni Bernard six years to write How…
A Whispered Thank You
I’m a lucky woman. Thanks to you, my post Sensitive to the D-Wordwon second place in the Best Blog Post category of the 2011 Canadian Blog Awards. Because of you, more people now know about disability discrimination. Thank you. And why the whispering? This is how determined your body can be to make you sit…
Show Us Your Hands! Establishes Founding Committee to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis
Show Us Your Hands! Establishes Founding Committee to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis (January 24, 2012) – Show Us Your Hands! is pleased to announce the new collaborative effort of three leading advocates from the autoimmune blogging community. Lene Andersen (The Seated View) and Cathy Kramer (The Life and Adventures of Cateepoo) have joined…
Once We Were Caged
This post is my commemoration of the International Day of Mourning and Memory of the Lives of People with Disabilities. This is a day of remembrance of those who were institutionalized, abused and killed for being different. It is a day to remember those who came before us and who fought hard to make the…
International Day of Mourning and Memory
Dave over at Rolling Around in my Head is spearheading an initiative to create a day of awareness and remembrance called the International Day of Mourning and Memory of the lives of People with Disabilities. In his words, the day would: “be one of remembrance of those whose lives were not celebrated or remembered, the…
The Unexceptional
I have become a wuss. There have been signs that I have deteriorated into a state of perpetual whining, what with the repeated mentions about having no energy. It was starting to bug me, so the other day I asked The Boy for more objective assessment of my health status. And he said something interesting….
Photoshoot
I’m plotting a certain something related to The Book. Something that requires proper photographs as opposed to snapshots, so I sent out an email to the talented Raff, a friend of my sister’s, who has her own production company. Did she know a photographer? Did she ever. She put me in touch with the equally…
The Best We Can
Back to work I went on Monday, humming that song from Snow White (except I always thought it was “it’s off to work we go” and now it doesn’t make any sense at all in this post). Okay, it’s entirely possible that I wasn’t humming – I spent my week’s vacation having a massive sinus…
RA Warrior: An Interview with Kelly Young
Every now and again, I get to do something for my job that doesn’t feel like work. Yesterday, I spoke to Kelly from RA Warrior – after years of reading each other, we finally met on the phone. It was more like a chat with a friend than an interview. I love my job. “‘Imagine…
Faces, Earthquakes and Ebola: Making Pain Scales Work in Real Life
“Please rate your pain on a scale from 1 to 10.” Said by many doctors and it sounds pretty simple, right? It isn’t. When you live with chronic pain, rating that pain becomes a really complicated question. Pain scales are an attempt to assign an objective measurement to a subjective feeling. And it gets very…
The AID Principle or How to Open a Door
Sometimes, you meet someone who really gets it. I was swinging by my dentist with the latest payment on the crown that cost enough that I’m sure it’s made of a giant ruby. Since nobody was about on the sidewalk, I knocked on the window and waved madly to catch the attention of someone who…