For the record, both my partner and I have kept up with our vaccine schedule, and both mask (I'm on immunosuppressive medication) - I've likely not caught it once, and he's only caught it once, likely bc he got careless. I still travel fairly frequently, internationally. We go out, have fun. Neither of our lives have stopped, we're just more careful. Keep our distance from others. As an added bonus, I don't have to smell the underground anymore, at all. Personally masking is 100% worth it. Improved my health and his, and doesn't really impede on us. Though I am tired of nurses asking if I'm I'll bc I'm in a mask when I go in for appointments :/
Idk how many people know about it, but July is disability pride month! It's a moderately new celebration to the world, since it started in the US.
The first disability pride day was held in Boston after the signing of the ADA in 1990. It started as one day and became a month long thing about 2015.
Here, protests began around the ITV telethons for funds for disabled charities in 1992. Disabled activists blocked access to the studios as a result of the growing feeling of being made to be a spectacle and object of pity rather than functional members of society.
Disabled civil rights groups held protests and demonstrations which eventually led to the passage of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in 1995 after 14 unsuccessful attempts at similar legislation throughout the early 1980s and mid-1990s.
Due to the many shortcomings of the DDA and continual campaigning, the Equality Act replaced it in 2010.
There's more info on the history of disability rights in the UK here if you're interested in a longer read.
Disability Pride (to me) means that I'm proud of everything I can do, and that I have both abilities and disabilities. It means that my disabilities don't make me lesser, and that I deserve the same rights and opportunities as anyone. That my value as a person isn't measured in how productive I am, and that I deserve opportunities to contribute, participate in society at large, and be supported as I need (because a society should take care of its ill and elderly).
I'm on the third day of a continuous migraine and I'm so tired of it. I had a small reprieve from ibuprofen but holy heck it came back with intensity.
I'm currently lying in bed with blackout curtains and the dog. I'm bored out of my mind and the pain from my migraine is radiating down my face. Debating messaging for steroids to break the migraine but doing that means insulin use for about a week and a half - 2 weeks.
Intermittent phone use makes it less boring but doesn't help my pain lol. I guess I just want to moan a bit.
So I am on the hunt for a travel tablet organiser, specifically one for my as needed medications. I don't exactly want to take them out of blister packs when it might be days or weeks before I need the next dose but I usually break them out into 'singlets' to take out with me. I currently just keep them tossed in my bag but they're prone to being damaged or forgotten. Does anyone have any idea for how one might keep these tidy?
