Living Life With CP — Brittney Clouse

Since middle school, I’ve really been into planning. At first, I liked being able to plug in important due dates of my classes. But by my second year of college I wanted writing to become my job full time and to be be self-employed. To succeed I had…

Update to my recent column about bedwetting: I have found a solution that appears to be working. First, I put aside my experience with the uncaring doctor, the one who failed to conduct a thorough exam on me, yet told me that my diet was too acidic. I didn’t believe him, of…

Right now I’m hurt, scared and anxious. I’m so embarrassed to be discussing this, but I feel it’s something I must do. You see, for the past month, I’ve been struggling with nightly bed-wetting. I went to my primary care doctor and he thought I had an infection.

Today, I want to talk about my watch and how it helps me to deal with the symptoms of cerebral palsy. It is a smart watch, an Apple prodiuct. I know not everyone may have one, and I’m definitely not advising you to get one; but if you…

This was not the article I thought I would be writing today. It certainly isn’t the one I planned. And, for a few reasons, it took me all day to write it. I feel that I’m really putting myself out there this time. That’s saying a lot because…

If you’re in college right now, or if you ever have ever been, you know the pressure put on you to maintain a high GPA. The pressure is such that you may feel you won’t survive if your GPA drops below 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.  I’m here to tell…

I have a confession. I used a walker since I was in pre-school until I was 10 years old, when I walked independently without it for a few years. Throughout this time, I remember feeling very embarrassed and ashamed of my walker. While feelings of embarrassment are normal…

Lately, I’ve been experiencing something I never had to deal with before: Chronic fatigue. My pain levels have been higher and more frequent than ever. This has been going on for about a month and, while I’m happy to say I appear to be past the worst and am…

About a month ago, I took on the responsibility of a beautiful white-and-gray male baby cockatiel, which I lovingly named Buddy. Buddy was the love child of my mom’s male and female cockatiels. They’ve had so many babies! In fact, about a week ago, I adopted and…

You’ve been putting this off for at least a week. Your heart feels like it’s going to burst out of your chest as you dial the phone. Your heart thumps so loudly in your ears you can barely hear the phone beeping back at you. Your eyes suddenly…

I have a confession to make: I am a Netflix list hoarder. I see things, I read about them, I add them to “My List” and I go on, probably to watch something else. Before you know it, my Netflix list is countless titles long; maybe, once…

During the last two months of 2016, my personal life had taken a pretty steep dive. I have always coped with massive life changes by doing two things — changing my hair and changing my space. I changed my hair, and for the first time in my adult…