Finding Wellness Together
Happy Valentines Day!
Okay, it’s not Valentine’s Day anymore, but I started writing this post on Valentines Day before my brain gave up, and this image was too cute not to use.
You’ve asked, both on social media and in life, and here I will answer! [Read more…]
We’re coming to the end of Feeding Tube Awareness Week, and while I did not get to another Feeding Tube Vlog like I wanted to (I will soon, really!), I thought I’d dispel some myths about feeding tubes that I, myself, believed before I got a feeding tube a year and a half ago. I also asked some of my lovely internet people what they thought of feeding tubes, and got some really great questions! So this post will be followed by a FAQ. If you have any more questions, just post it in the comments or message me, and I’ll answer them!
But first, let’s have a tubie version of….
If you’re a person like me who spends an inordinate amount of time on the internet, then you’ve seen some variation of this mug floating around social media:
I have a lot of friends and family in the medical field, so I see this a lot. I understand where it comes from; there is a lot of false information out there that will mislead people into believing things that are categorically false (cough-anti-vaxxers-cough), and that can be frustrating for the people who spent a lot of time, money, and migraines learning the facts.
But, unfortunately, this kind of meme is also reductive to a resource that genuinely helps a lot of people with illness, chronic or otherwise. Because a google search can truly be a sick person’s best resource.
Because, quite often, our google searches find the answers faster than the people with medical degrees. [Read more…]
