After screen grabbing my FDA testimony from the hearing held on stem cells, I went back to the Patient-Focused Drug Development for Psoriasis (held by the FDA on March 17th, 2017) to grab a video of my public comment. The quality isn’t the greatest, but you can hear what I said! I just realized I …
Oh the Olympics. Growing up, I remember watching swim meets, gymnastic competitions and figure skating routines with my Mom. But, if I’m honest, I can’t say I was ever fully into the Olympics. They were entertaining for the moment, but they came and went and were just a small blip on my radar. That is …
If you’re a psoriatic arthritis patient, you already know how unfamiliar people are with the disease. I mean, I’m pretty sure there are people in my life who still don’t understand what it is. There are more than a million people in the USA alone diagnosed with the disease, but who knows how many others …
My 23-year-old self (ok, let’s be honest, and my 30-year-old self) was freaking out when I had the opportunity to speak one on one with La La Anthony! Sure, it was in regards to her psoriasis and her new Picture Positivity campaign with the NPF, but AHHH! I WAS PUMPED! After graduating from college, I …
From December 2012 – August 2013 I definitely experienced some of the darkest days of my life. I had to spend the majority of my time in bed because I was so inflamed, my body was so angry at me, and I was in so much pain. I couldn’t put any weight on my left …
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The following is a blog post that I started as part of a social media blogging summit I had the amazing opportunity to go to this past weekend. The National Psoriasis Foundation and Leo Pharmacy put on a wonderful event for prominent psoriasic disease bloggers. I love being able to get together with my psoFamily! …
Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend a social media summit sponsored by Celgene. They so graciously invested in me, to help build up my medical knowledge around psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and even had one of the co-founders of blogHer give a presentation on increasing social media presence. As many of you …