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Are You Aware? Expanding Perspectives
This is part VII in our Awareness Wednesday series on disability. Read the other posts in the series here. I have a host of medical diagnoses — a list of acronyms that likely won’t mean anything to most people. Some include POTS, MCAD, probable EDS, IBS, GERD, ME, mito, hypokPP, DSPD, PTSD, chiari, hyperPT… honestly, I don’t keep a running tally anywhere, so it’s hard to keep track of all of them. In plain English, I have a glitchy nervous system, low stamina, sagging brain, gimp leg, migraines, PTSD, allergies, and other conditions, all very complicated, most interconnected, few treatable, and most beyond the knowledge of the average doctor. I also…