humanity

Advocates, icons, influencers, and more. All about humanity.

Ambition
When I wake up in the morning I never know what the day will bring. Will it be a good day? A bad day? Will I be a lazy? Will I be productive? Will I be social? Will I be lonely? There are so many unknowns about how my day will unfold but I get up without knowing the answers.
By Liana Hewitt5 years ago in Longevity
The Greatest Illusion
Aloha, My Name Is Keoki Welcome To My First Published Writing using this platform! Im super excited to start this journey with you. I would have never thought I’d be writing in this lifetime. I am honored to voice my expression. To Share my stories, My experiences with life itself and the many predicaments we find ourselves in.
By Keoki Pa’ao Kaleo O’kalani McGowan5 years ago in Longevity
Constant Chronic Pain
My name is Heidi Wallen, I’m a single 43yr old residing in Plymouth, Devon UK. I would like to share my story, for many reasons, but more so in hope, that someone, somewhere may help me and the constant, excruciating and very debilitating lower back pain that I experience, every minute of every day, and have done now for over a decade. It changes you, I’ve been at the depths of despair countless times, and hand on heart, if my time were up, I wouldn’t be writing this today, fact. I have to pre warn that this story is not for the faint hearted, it’s sad, pitiful and quite frankly unbelievable, but it is all true. I have been shut inside my flat, suffering in silence for far too long. I have a huge amount of loss of sensation in my lower regions, bowel, bladder and other, as in sexual. I have Fibromyalgia, asthma and a few other health issues, including borderline personality syndrome, or so I’ve been told.
By Heidi Wallen5 years ago in Longevity
Vaccine Diary (Day 3)
Dear Diary, Today started like any typical day for me. I got home from my 11-7 job at 7:30; I went to the store to get some food for my lunch around 7:45 and was back home by 8:00. I ate my breakfast, drank my usual coffee, took my vitamins. Everything seemed to be fine, but then reality set in pretty heavy for me. One, today was my dad's bday, and he's no longer with us, and two, the shot is STILL kicking my butt up, down, and sideways. The symptoms continue to be a nuisance:
By Rain Dayze5 years ago in Longevity
Journal Entry 1: A little about me
I guess I should start this out by introducing myself. My name is Hannah Middaugh. My pronouns are she/her. I'm a 24 year old senior at a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania called Wilson College. I'm a Writing and Journalism major with a double minor in Communications and English. I have been the Editor-In-Chief and Graphic Designer for the college newspaper, The Wilson Billboard, for three years. I have started a photography business on the side. I have gotten to photography concerts, music festivals, AHL (American Hockey League) games, maternity photos, engagement photos, and portraits for school.
By Hannah Middaugh5 years ago in Longevity
There's No Such Thing As a Best Friend
I had a strange and twisted relationship with my previous profession. I think I'll call him Joe. I think I chose the name Joe arbitrarily, however, there was an actual Joe. He created the company which I worked for. Which makes Joe a building, a company and a real guy.
By Karen Lichtman5 years ago in Longevity
What Will You Do When This Is Over?
There are a lot of things most of us haven’t done for a while; get a haircut, go out to dinner, go to the movies. And as they relax quarantines and people get back out into the world, many of us will rush to do things we have missed for weeks, if not months.
By Darryl Brooks5 years ago in Longevity
Rare Disease Awareness
There are 7,000 rare diseases affecting 25-30 million Americans, and 90% do not have an FDA approved treatment. I was born with a rare blood disease called cyclic neutropenia. This disease prevents my body from reproducing white blood cells. When I was six years old I was playing roller hockey in the driveway and scraped my knee. Any other six year old boy’s mother would clean it up, throw some Neosporin & a bandaid on it but for me that was not the case. My scrape got infected. The cut on my knee became extremely swollen and I started to lose feeling in my foot. This little scrape on my knee resulted in me using crutches for four months because I was not able to produce the white blood cells to rush to this area to allow me to heal. I would get intensely sick every week because of my rare blood disorder. I was the only patient at CHOP with this disease then and for years no one had a clue what to do. It wasn’t until I met with Dr. Susan Travis Pediatric Hematologist who would eventually change my life! She continuously gave me reassurance throughout the years that she would find a medicine to give me a fighting chance at living the life I dreamed of and when I turned eight years old she did exactly that! She found a medication that cancer patients used while going through chemo called Neupogen. During chemo they have to kill off all the cells to ensure that they kill the cancerous ones. After that they need to build the patients white blood cell count back up. That is what this medication is for: to reproduce white blood cells in the body. This was the sole purpose of this medication until Dr. Travis introduced it to my family and I. Her resiliency to fight and find a medication for me is something I will never be able to repay. Little did we know then that this would be the medication that would change my life! Thanks to Dr. Susan Travis I was able to live a far different life than the one I was set up for. I am extremely grateful for Doctors out there like my Dr. Travis that have been able to change the outcome of patients with rare diseases. All I can try to do now is pay it forward to those patients and families that are still fighting their own battles to find a medication that will work for them. The purpose of this message is to make people aware that there are more diseases than people will ever know and most of them without an FDA approved treatment. The more well known diseases that affect the masses have a much greater chance of finding a medication to help them but the disease like mine that affect 1 in 20 million people are not as likely to have people all over the world searching for a cure or simply something that will give them a fighting chance. Because of this I’d like raise money to donate to The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) to again help those individuals and their families earn a fighting chance like the one Dr. Travis found for me. If you see the value in making a positive affect on the lives of people you do not know and will never meet. You may not need them but they do need you to help give them a chance of a lifetime. They will not know your name or meet you either but they will thank god for people like you willing to donate to changing their lives.
By Tommy5 years ago in Longevity
Did You Know Sound is one of the Most Powerful Tools For Healing in Existence?
They have known this for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Long before modern science, shamans used sound to induce a trancelike state into other people. Healers used sound and complex rituals to trigger the healing process of their patients and military leaders used sound to inspire and get their troops motivated for battle.
By Happydazegt5 years ago in Longevity
Don't Forget To Take An Umbrella, It Just Might Rain
Don't Forget To Take An Umbrella It Just Might Rain Judie had been living in the city for most of her life. And she always proudly proclaimed that the hustle and bustle of the city kept her going no matter what her days were like. She had no family there. But she did have a grandmother who lived in the country. And although Judie adored her aging grandmother, she knew to take some of the advice she often got from her grandmother with a grain of salt.
By Travis Patton Sr.5 years ago in Longevity
Real-Time Covid-19 Stats for EVERY Country
Can you remember a time when you weren't given a daily total of how many people had died from a certain disease? It's strange isn't it? Our governments and media have never told us how many people have died that day from cancer. Or how many have been killed in road accidents, for another example.
By Mark Campbell5 years ago in Longevity
You’re Right.
You’re right. You might not die, but you might end up with Long Haul Syndrome. You might not die, but you might end up with a brain injury.
By Mindy Best5 years ago in Longevity