Holland

My husband and I are trying to start a family. During routine testing, I found out that I would need to have a D&C. I reached out to each specialist...

Being a part of online chronic illness communities, you get to see many facets of humanity. This includes the good and the bad. As an administrator for pages, open and...

Florida, aka “the sunshine state,” is where I call home. I live about 5-miles from the region’s bay. It’s an area that rarely becomes cloudy unless it’s about to rain...

It’s been stressful times over here helping my mom and dad physically and financially during mom’s cancer treatment. So, in an effort to do something for just us, we invested...

The beginning of the year wasn’t too shabby psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis-wise. My skin was mostly clear and joints felt okayish. We were having cooler days in Florida and that...

During the summer, my skin is especially dry, irritated, itchy, and plain uncomfortable. The heat also affects my inverse psoriasis. It feels like a never-ending battle between hydrating my skin...

My teen years were not easy. I was besieged with one health issue upon the next. By the time I hit the high school years, my skin, joints, and digestive...

The last eight years have involved a countless number of doctor and lab appointments. Between Crohn’s disease, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, and some pre-cancerous skin issues, I became sick of all...

I try to be a compliant patient. I take my meds. Go to most of my doctor appointments without rescheduling them. I ask for permission or a green light before...

For those who don’t know me, I have super curly hair. A few years back, I committed to a washing and styling method dedicated to those with curly hair. Basically...

Living with a host of health issues since childhood, I chalked my sore behind up to frequent trips to the bathroom. After all, I have Crohn’s disease (a form of...

Hi, my name is Jaime and I have a weird immune system. In my early years, I was diagnosed with quite a few skin-related oddities. My peers were not experiencing...

This summer, my mom received a rare breast cancer diagnosis. Everything started to fly by at a rapid pace. The blur started the minute she went in for imaging, to...

Around the time my first plaques popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, I began having trouble sleeping. I lay awake for hours at night and sleep wouldn’t come. When I...

In a couple of weeks, we are heading to Fort Lauderdale to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. We are staying on the beach at the same hotel we got married...

Open insurance enrollment for many employer-sponsored plans will soon roll out. This time of the year brings me and a lot of our chronically ill peers a lot of stress...

I’ve noticed a trend in social media posts, groups, and boards where patients on biologics were talking about switching their treatments more frequently. Basically, they were hopping from one treatment...

These past two years with almost complete skin clearance from psoriasis is something I do not take for granted. Though I still struggle with mosquito and no-see-um bites as they...

When it comes to filing for disability benefits, there are a lot of moving parts. Firstly, there is the stigma and judgment about applying for disability to contend with. I’ve...

One of the reasons I got into patient advocacy was to help stop the flow of bad information. Some days, it feels futile. For every positive story about using medicine...