sability Pride Month may be over (HOW is July already done?!), but that just means it's time for August and SMA Pride / Awareness Month. (I'm going to refer to it as SMA Pride Month from here on out, but want to acknowledge that it began as SMA Awareness Month.) Since the Q & A post for Disability Pride Month went over so well last week, I thought that I'd do a similar one about all things SMA.
I've mentioned before that July is Disability Pride Month - in fact, I have another whole post about it. But I want to be upfront about the less positive side of being disabled, too. There are days that I don't really feel like cheering about my disability pride, because I'm just too beat down and frustrated. Last Friday was one of those days.
August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness month, so each year in August I like to do posts throughout the month talking about SMA. This year, I'll be posting each…
At the end of last week, someone who I went to college with reached out to me on Facebook messenger. I wasn't close friends with her, so at first I…
Some of you may know this already, but I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is classified as a "rare disease," which means that it affects fewer than 200,000 in…
I realized that I've never talked about my wheelchair here, which is a little bit crazy considering that I spend 90% of my waking hours in it! I know that…
For the third guest post in my series for SMA Awareness Month, meet Alyssa. She and I met through Instagram also, and I'm so happy you get to read her…
I thought that this year for SMA Awareness Month, I'd share a few posts by other people I know who have SMA, so that you get to hear different perspectives…
For those of you who read my posts in August last year, I did a whole series on having Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and the different ways it's affected my…
Happy post-marathon Monday! Yesterday, I got up bright and early (actually, dark and early because the sun had not yet risen) to cheer on my mom and friends running in…
