Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
Last year, I wrote a post titled, Pinky Blues to speak on the importance of educating oneself on breast cancer. I also stated that Black women are more likely to die from Breast Cancer than any other racial/ethnic group here in the U.S. In March, I posted about Endometriosis Awareness Month, I spoke of…
Yesterday, May 7th was Teacher’s Appreciation Day. As an Occupational Therapist working with children on the Autism Spectrum, I work alongside teachers every day. Teachers are underpaid and overworked. Some of the teachers I work with must be parents to the students as well because there are some kids who require care with the…
When I think of home, I think of a place where there is more funding to low income communities. Where we see more people live to become productive in society. I recently watched Brittney Griner’s interview with Robin Roberts. She tells her story of being in a Russian prison. She spent 10 months in…
Today is April 22nd, and today we celebrate Earth Day. It’s a day to bring awareness to supporting our planet by keeping it clean and free of toxins and other material that damages its core. I live in NYC. If you have ever been here, you may know that the streets can be dirty…
It is still Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month. This is a month I acknowledge because I work with this population of children daily. One of the things that affect many of these children and adults is sensory processing issues. Our senses are touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight/seeing. Technically, there are three more senses being proprioception,…
Today is the last day of Black Maternal Health Week here in the U.S. It is 2024 and it shouldn’t be something that requires a separate awareness day, but it is. The history of Black people and healthcare has not been great. There were men with syphilis who thought they were getting medical help,…
Recently, it was reported that a formula used to assess kidney failure for Black people caused many to be placed on the transplant list later than they should. For one 29-year-old woman, she waited four years for a kidney. It was later determined, she should have been on the list four years earlier than…
Technology has advanced so much over the years. The problem with this is that we have lost some skills needed for our continuous development. One example is the ability to remember phone numbers. I can still remember a number from 1995 but can’t remember one from 2010. As adults over the age of 25…
The educational system here in America is still one plagued by division. Schools in lower economic areas don’t always have the support compared to schools in wealthier neighborhoods. But can you imagine less than 70 years ago, schools were divided by the color of one’s skin. There was a law of being separate but…
Being in the health profession is an honor. Since I was a kid it is something I aspired to do. The actual profession that I chose, Occupational Therapist, is not one I knew of back then. But I am happy about my decision. The story of women in healthcare in the United States started…