Chronicles

My Onion Journey

July 7, 2021 Megan F.

Yet, while I was in college, I felt a whole new level of emotions. When I was a junior, I felt a mixture of sadness, then anger, and then resentment. I was worried about my next step in life. I was afraid to ask my mom to discuss my family planning future with my geneticist or endocrinologist. “What if I can’t have kids?” I’d often wonder.

Dancing with a Urea Cycle Disorder

May 17, 2021 Autumn P.

I also enjoy dancing and miss the days when I was able to dance every week. I dance any time I get a chance to do so. Sometimes I will take a class with my friends, or we go out dancing somewhere. I have done all these things while learning how to live, love, and manage to live with a urea cycle disorder. As someone who has a rare disease, I want to share my story with others to help others going through similar struggles and strides. Even though we might have to climb these rare-disease-mountains that does not mean we have to climb them alone.

Land Acknowledgement

As a platform operated by a Métis woman, this acknowledgment is to lift up the sacred diversity of the original First Peoples and caretakers of this land that we live, work, and thrive on in Taranton, Toronteau, and T’karonto.

We acknowledge we operate on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Attawanderons, the Huron-Wendat, the Anishinaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, and Haudenosaunee. All are home to the Dish With One Spoon—a treaty based on stewardship, reciprocal sharing, and sophisticated governance and healing practices, and is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.

We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

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