Think of the many things we associate with flying & air travel. Now imagine being in a wheelchair, you cannot move your legs, you cannot fit down any narrow aisles, you have on diapers just in case because there is no bathroom you can enter. Read More
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Unless otherwise noted, all posts written by Alicia M. Conill, M.D., founder of the Conill Institute for Chronic Illness. Dr, Conill is a physician living with multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed with MS in 1987 and her life has been deeply affected and transformed by this.
Untirement
I made a decision today. Or, I should say, the Social Security administration made it for me. I am retired. I even have a Medicare and Blue Cross card that says 65 special. Now, that is special… especially since I am only 45. Read More
I Never Really Understood Until It Happened to Me: Dr. Alicia Conill Becomes a Patient
By Barbara Burgower Hordern. What happens when a vibrant and popular young doctor develops a chronic disease that leaves her legs useless and fingertips numb? For Dr. Alicia Conill, the first reaction was deep denial–so deep she bought a house with spiral staircases. Then she lapsed into a suicidal depression. But it was what came next that transformed her life and the lives of countless others: She began teaching able-bodied medical students and health-care workers just how it felt to have a debilitating illness. Read More
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