Category Archives: advocacy

Looking back, looking ahead…

Posted on January 15, 2019 by dSavannah

So, y’all, it’s 2019. Not sure how… after all, I still remember when a credit card expiration of the year 2000 was wild. And no one would quite believe me when I used it to pay for something over the … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: Guest Post on Life with ME

Posted on June 20, 2018 by dSavannah

dSavannah note: You may have noticed I haven’t published anything since May 12, #MEAwareness / #MillionsMissing Day. All of that advocacy wore me slap out (and I don’t think I’ve recovered yet). A friend in one of my MEcfs support … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness – and here’s what I’m missing

Posted on May 12, 2018 by dSavannah

So, I’ve written about my chronic illnesses a lot. I even spent the entire last #AtoZChallenge (2016) writing about it, under the theme “dSavannah Defects” (aka things that are wrong with me), a category I’ve continued to use because, well, … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: What a Crash looks like

Posted on May 10, 2018 by dSavannah

On November 30, 2017, my husband took me to a Continuing Education event, hosted by the CDC and #MEAction, to view the documentary Unrest, an unflinching, real, true, up-close-and-personal look at chronic illness, specifically myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly (and erroneously) (and … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: Let’s talk about funding

Posted on May 9, 2018 by dSavannah

dSavannah note: If you follow me at all on social media, you’ll see that I am frantically tweeting and posting a BUNCH of articles & whatnot this week for #MEAwareness Month, and for the #MillionsMissing events that will be held … Continue reading →

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It’s #MEAwareness Month – and please act!

Posted on May 6, 2018 by dSavannah

May is Awareness Month for a lot of illnesses, such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) / Lou Gehrig’s disease, Lupus, and Mental Health. Last month was Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) Awareness Month, which Charis Hill wrote about extensively. (And I never … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about disability insurance

Posted on March 4, 2018 by dSavannah

This is a hard topic for me to write about, but: it’s important. And it also fits in with my mission to Shine A Light Into the Dark Places, the stigmatized places, the places no one wants to look at … Continue reading →

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