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Most recently published stories in Longevity.
Things Your Friend Won't Tell You About the Big C. Top Story - April 2018.
I always hate introducing myself to people. Mostly because I do not have a filter. I share way too much way too soon. My story starts like every other story—with an accident. At 16 years old, I was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma in the soft tissue of my right shoulder. The only reason my doctors discovered it in time was that I hurt myself at work the week before. High school is difficult enough, but to have cancer your junior year? Unbelievable.
By Abigail Gray-Army8 years ago in Longevity
The Rules of Living With Chronic Illness as a Young Adult
I’m just like every other teenager. I wake up in the morning, get ready for school, walk to the bus. The only real difference is that a solid half of my body is on fire the whole time. I’m lucky enough to be part of a selective club. Very exclusive, very secretive. Teenagers with invisible illnesses.
By Jess Marshall8 years ago in Longevity
What Life Is Really About
Life is an exciting adventure that we have here in this world. Life is wonderful, marvelous, and awesome. Life is about living, creating, making and doing things that makes you happy. Life is an opportunity for us to learn and grow in many things, to experience things, and to gain learnings and lessons through our own experiences. In life, we grow and learn as we experience many stages in our lives.
By Kissy Anne8 years ago in Longevity
Rise & Grind
We’ve all been there: stressed, depressed, tired, low on motivation. It seems like a never ending cycle, right? We all want to be happy as much as the next person, yet it seems like no matter how hard we try, we just can’t seem to make it work which in turn, seems to make us more stressed and depressed — truly a never ending cycle! Or is it?
By PROJECT YES8 years ago in Longevity
Don't Notice People's Disability
I tell people to shut up if they notice my disability in any way. If I’m checking my blood sugar, butt out. Don’t stare. I caught somebody at Pantheacon staring at me at a workshop once and I stared at her back with a dirty look she took amusement with until she turned away. I’m very discrete about doing what must be done. Don’t give me shit for treating lows, unless you want me to die. Don’t give me shit about the way I need to check my blood sugar. Apparently, some people would like to endanger my health if they complain to me about treating low blood sugar. You, sociopaths, are bullies who do not apologize.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Path to a Healthier Lifestyle
Living a healthy life is something we all want to do. Being healthy really depends on whether or not you’re willing to sacrifice some things to make yourself feel and look better. You can actually make healthier choices in things throughout your everyday life, whether it be eating better foods or exercising more. There are also many vitamins and supplements you can take which cost money, but are totally worth it.
By Anna Lee Vaughn8 years ago in Longevity
Eliminate or Manage Insomnia, and Learn to Love It
It's 3:16 AM here, and despite the levels of savagery in my not-sarcastic sarcasm and my ability to function solely relying on my dependency of strong coffee, my body refuses to allow me the basic human necessity of sleep. I'm going strong into my fourth/fifth year of being a committed insomniac, but hey, by this stage, I'm basically a pro at dealing with it so I thought I should impart some wisdom onto my fellow sleep depraved humans.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Longevity
Sweet psycho little strong fragile girl
Her eyes neither flickered or grinned. Her posture never changed not by an inch. Her whole demeanour remained just the same. But someone upstairs tripped a wire in her brain and like a plane she came crashing down... without warning she had vacated.
By Chloe Patton8 years ago in Longevity
The Source of Chronic Illness
Chronic illness is something that affects a person their entire lives if they cannot find a good treatment for it. The first woman to be cured of sickle-cell anemia by a stem cell donation given to her by her sister without requiring chemotherapy resides in Chicago. Her sister is a 100 percent genetic match for donation to Ieshea Thomas. Sickle cell causes underlying organ disease in addition to chronic anemia, as well as crisis pain in the chest, abdomen, and joints, with pain also occurring in the bones. Chronic illness is devastating to all who have it because some are easily treated and some are not. For example, diabetes requires the use of insulin.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
9 Things That Cause Gray Hair Before 30
When it comes to our hair, we're so cautious of keeping it in tip-top shape. We'll wash our hair twice or three times a week (no more!), try not to put so much heat into our hair often, use the best products for our hair, and we limit the amount of times we dye our hair. Especially at such a young age, we want to avoid our hair from turning gray and falling out once we hit our older years. And it's pretty easy for our hair to thin and eventually fall out.
By George Nekilan8 years ago in Longevity
My Super Strength
When in elementary school, my backpack was quite loaded with schoolwork. I thought that if I inhaled a deep breath, I could lift it up. Many years later in college, I learned that what I was using was chi and it was called Qigong. I took two Qigong classes when I was in college and that helped clarify what the super strength thing was. I can breathe in three sharp breaths and push somebody bigger than me, which is what I learned how to do in class. This was shocking to me. I mean here I was in high school also lifting heavy backpacks. In junior college, the process continued much to the shock of my family.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
