Hey, it is Matt Cavallo from Situation Positive checking in at the end of week two of my medical weight loss journey. Now, if you remember last week, it was, it was week one. We had just kind of started it. I mentioned some of the health reasons that I wanted to go through the …
Hey everyone. It’s Matt from Situation Positive. And I want to share with you a story of one of our community members that called us in crisis, and we were able to turn the situation positive. So this community member had Crohn’s and was paying $400 a month out-of-pocket for their Crohn’s prescription medication. I …
Hey, it’s Matt from Situation Positive. I am at the Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The park was closed so this is as close as I could get. The arrow in the video shows when the vent, or volcano’s opening, is located. What do a volcano and a chronic illness have …
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Hey, it is Matt from Situation Positive checking in with you. And it’s about bedtime. And I have to do something interesting tonight. It’s called an at-home sleep study. Did you know that more than 70 million Americans have some kind of sleep disorder? Let me tell you a little bit about mine. So earlier …
Hey, it’s Matt from Situation Positive. Checking in with the green sea turtles on the black sand beach. These turtles travel a great distance, some over 1,500 miles, to have babies here. It’s really a remarkable journey. Just like the journey you’re on. The journey with chronic illness is remarkable and you never know what …
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Fitness expert, champion bodybuilder, and MS advocate, David Lyons, teaches Matt and Tara how to start a fitness program when you have a chronic illness. David talks about mindset, goal setting, and the importance of joining the right program. David shares tips from his Optimal Body Personal Fitness program. You can find David on Facebook …
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Hey everybody. It is Matt from Situation Positive and I’m checking in today from my infusion suite. My type of medication isn’t available to be administered at home. So I go to an infusion suite at a doctor’s office where a nurse administers the IV as an outpatient procedure. I’m here getting my multiple sclerosis …
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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