Living

I have been on this journey for a long time. It has been sixty-one years to be exact. There were days I was highly traumatized. Just knowing what living with psoriasis would...

I remember being diagnosed with psoriasis when I was 11 years old. I had patches on my scalp so my mother took me to the doctors and I was given...

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In my twenty years of living with psoriasis I can say that I have had proper medical care for maybe six years of this journey. It is so frustrating. Most...

My husband and I have been remodeling our home for a while now. Our current project is remodeling our bedroom. There is one big window in our room and a...

Being diagnosed with psoriasis may come as a shock. You may have questions: will my psoriasis ever get better? Can I treat it? Can it be cured? While there is...

Hydration and psoriasis can be a tricky situation, particularly when traveling. Recently, I traveled to Washington D.C. to advocate on Capitol Hill. In order to be ready, I tried hard...

For years I was a private housekeeper. When I first started working as a housekeeper, I would clean individual houses for people. The last eight years of being a private...

When living with a visible chronic condition like psoriasis, it can be easy to feel discouraged and frustrated. It doesn't matter whether you are newly diagnosed or have lived with...

It is so amazing what we can remember as children. I am 66 now and I can remember my first day of school, probably because I was removed from people...

Today, I will share what a casual day with psoriasis looks like for me. I have a very disciplined routine now that I have started taking care of my psoriasis...

I think that in an ideal world, we would go to a doctor, get tested, get diagnosed, and get started on the quickest most effective treatment within the first week...

For as long as I can remember, my life has been covered with the experiences of those battling chronic illnesses. Sadly, my mom died from type 2 diabetes when I was...

When I was first diagnosed with psoriasis, I didn’t even know what psoriasis was. I had never heard of the word psoriasis, let alone the affects psoriasis would have on...

Losing a support person when you have a chronic health condition like psoriasis can cause mental strain. Even when you are unaware how much you think you can handle it...

If you’re like me and you’ve lived with psoriasis for most of your life, you may be wondering when the patches may go away. Will they recede on their own...

I have had psoriasis for 60 years. No matter how hard I try to normalize having this disease, it still makes me feel different. There are times I feel like my...

It almost seems too good to be true - everything seems to be running smoothly in life. Work is good, life is good, flares are manageable, and I'm able to sneak...

Swimming and psoriasis. I never thought I would ever use these two words together. For the first 40 years of my life, I had only been to a pool 3 times...

Before I was diagnosed with plaque psoriasis, something tingled where the patches were. That tingle would get worse as the patches grew larger and became more widespread. I now know...