By Chally on 8 October, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. From cooking to laundry to repairs, doing things around the house can be pretty tricky and/or exhausting and/or time consuming when you’re disabled. If you’ve any tips to share that can [...]
Posted in Question Time | Tagged daily life, home
By Annaham on 23 April, 2010
In San Francisco currently, there is something of a debate brewing about Mayor Newsom’s proposed sit/lie laws, which would make it illegal for anyone to sit or lie on any public curb or street in San Francisco (with a couple of exceptions). The intersections with disability here are rather clear. For one thing, there are [...]
Posted in bodies, class issues, invisibility, justice, news, normality, othering, policy, politics, poverty, social attitudes, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged home, homelessness, invisibility, poverty, San Francisco
By amandaw on 21 February, 2010
(Cross-posted at three rivers fog.) I noticed something was wrong in the earliest hours of the morning, when my husband had disappeared from bed but I did not hear anything going on in the bathroom and could not see him anywhere. Around 8, he got up to go to the bathroom and I lifted myself [...]
Posted in relationships, small stories | Tagged chronic illness, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, home, interlude, pain, pain management, personal, relationships, stories, treatment, welcome to my life
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