Hey everybody! It’s Matt from Situation Positive. I’m at Hapuna beach on the Big Island of Hawaii and on my walk this morning I found a cave. In my mind, there is nothing more symbolistic of living with a chronic illness than being in a cave. It’s dark. It’s lonely. It’s isolated. And I know …
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Hey everybody, it’s Matt Cavallo, from Situation Positive. It’s January and that means that your health insurance benefits have reset and you’re going to start having out-of-pocket medical expenses again. Nobody likes those, so I’m going to teach you how to minimize the amount of money that you have to spend out of pocket for …
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Hello, my name is Matt Cavallo, and I am one of the founders of Situation Positive. Situation Positive is a nonprofit organization that provides a community for people living with chronic illness. Did you know that there are over 157,000,000 million people in the United States alone that have one or more chronic illnesses? Those …
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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the spring of 2005, and I was laying in my hospital bed wondering if I was ever going to walk again. A month after my hospital discharge, I was devastated to find out at the follow-up appointment with my neurologist that I had a chronic illness, …
