herniated disc Archives - Christina Irene

My 12 Hacks for Attending a Professional Conference While Living with Invisible Disability

1 Aug

I avoid in-person trainings and especially conferences, because my chronic conditions make them quite uncomfortable and even agonizingly painful. I live with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease (with one terrible herniated disc named Larry), and...
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Give it a name.

11 Jan

A few days ago, I named my L4-L5 disc “Larry.” I can’t believe it’s taken this long for me to give it a name, but we’re here now, so let’s not dwell on past mistakes. What I’m talking about is...
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On Mattresses and How I Hurt Myself

6 Aug

Mattresses tell the tale of a thing I do wrong a lot. Amica and I are traveling again, and our first night was a marvelous stay in a National Forest where I slept on my comfy air mattress. That air...
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