Hey everybody, it is Matt Cavallo from Situation Positive. I want to talk to you today about a problem that I’ve had over the last two years or so. And that’s with weight gain. I’ve lived a very sedentary lifestyle. We had quarantine. A lot of my work has been sitting at my desk and …
Why does our co-founder, Matt Cavallo, push himself every day to walk with a chronic illness? At age twenty-eight, Matt was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Seemingly overnight he went from a fully-functioning, healthy man to someone who was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and unable to walk. Matt learned how to walk again in …
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Brookanne Clark, who’s 40, is one of three siblings born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). She, unfortunately, lost one of her brothers but remains close to the other brother. Both live in Dallas, Texas. Brookanne has a great outlook and is a natural caregiver, taking care of family members, friends’ children, and helping out a friend who …
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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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At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Kash learned that she needed brain surgery for Chiari malformation, a condition where the brain tissue extends into the spinal canal. In this interview, Sarah explains what it is like to live with this chronic illness. She discusses the diagnosis, her brain surgery experience, and how she is …
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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