When the function of a service, support, or assistance animal relates to a mental or emotional disability, a psychologist may be asked to write a letter for a patient seeking to live with the animal, usually a dog, or bring it onto an airplane or take it into a restaurant. Understanding...
Not uncommon. MOST CID can’t work any appreciable amount of time, and SS disability income allows such a small amount of earnings before they take their minimalist stipend away from you, that it’s very close to ‘not worth it’. And that says NOTHING about how bad SS is at dealing w...
My bigger laments are probably obvious, but here are a few: How did we develop into a culture where the voices and opinions of people like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan shape the psychology, emotions, and behavior of so many young men? How did we become a nation that could elect a convicte...
Helping a dying friend What to say (or not say) to those who are dying or grieving HIPAA, electronic health records, and patient privacy Hospice care and palliative care End-of-life care and comfort care How storytelling can aid in healing (memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differ...
March 3, 2024 / Leave a comment My grandmother suffered a hip dislocation last year that led to her physical disability. She is now wheelchair-bound, unable to walk or move on her own. Her sons and daughters want her to undergo rehabilitation, hoping that she would be able to move on...
a few more words & she said, “Gimme another hug.” Second verse, same as the first…wonderful. As we got in the car & pulled away, Therese stood on the front porch and watched us for the longest time. I can’t forget the look on her face—pensive, patient, as if she stood ...
In 18 years together (for a given value of ‘together’), we never lived in the same building. Most of the time we weren’t even in the same area code. I had to be where my horses could be accommodated, and my SO had his little house that he inhabited sort of like a hermit cra...
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My most irrational fear is that I’ll lose this financial aid because of how I don’t have a general practitioner doctor and that that might seem, to the government, like I’m not “suffering” from a disability. It doesn’t help that it’s an invisible disability. ...
your writing. And, your experience as a reader, reviewer, and consumer of speculative fiction in general. I know that you read a lot, not just professionally but also for pleasure. What issues have you encountered with how disabled characters are represented in fiction, or disability in ...