My COVID+ Journey (so far)
This is my day to day experience being COVID+ with rheumatoid arthritis (since 1988), a history of neutropenia and a compromised immune system from taking TNF inhibitor Enbrel for 21 years. Evolving from a COVID story to a Public Healthcare one due to barriers prohibiting access to antiviral medicine for eligible persons (me).
Hip Surgery Needed
My quality of life is in decline so it’s time to ask for that hip surgery… only the question can’t even be heard right now because our healthcare system is so stressed due to COVID hospitalizations that I am one of thousands of Ontarians being temporarily denied care.
And Just Like That... Woke with Jokes?
Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That… preaches ‘wokeness’ yet uses ableist language. In S1 E5, ‘Tragically Hip’, Carrie Bradshaw refers to arthritis as ‘Old Lady Disease’. I was diagnosed at 18 months and am sick of being misrepresented. My pain isn’t a joke.
