Situation Positive Podcast
Interviews with individuals who are living with their best positive life despite the challenges of having a chronic illness.
Episodes
When you think about it, we talk about everything else. We talk about our families, our jobs, our vacations. But when it comes to chronic illness, we clam up. Why is that? Over 157 million people in the US have 1 or more chronic illnesses and yet we don’t talk about them. Maybe it’s because we are afraid of being judged? Maybe we think people won’t want to be around us if they know we have a chronic...
Dennis Hurley is an actor, advocate, and albino. He has been living with albinism since birth and has spoken about his experiences in the media. Dennis will be participating at the upcoming N.O.A.H. conference July in Orlando, Florida. In this Situation Positive podcast interview, Dennis talks about about his life with albinism and how it’s affected his ability to find work in the entertainment indu...
Urination is an important function of the body, but as men age it can become more difficult, time consuming, and frustrating. Urination may be painful, difficult, or impossible for men due to various causes such as an enlarged prostate due to Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Men tend to suffer in silence with urination problems.
A man may be unable to urinate due to an enlarged prostate, a spinal...
Hey everybody. It’s Matt Cavallo from Situation Positive. I want to talk to you today about putting together the pieces of your chronic illness, where it might’ve come from. How did it get diagnosed? Why was it you who ended up with the condition that you had? I was diagnosed with MS in 2005. And that’s been a question I’ve been trying to answer for myself for a long time.
The short answer is that y...
Prescription drug prices have been increasing at alarming rates in recent years, leaving many people struggling to afford the medications they need. The high cost of prescription drugs can have a devastating impact on patients’ health and finances, leading some people to forgo treatment or to ration their medication. In addition, the cost of prescrip...
Hey everybody, it’s Matt from Situation Positive and I’m not a t-shirt model, but I’ve been getting a lot of comments lately about the t-shirts I wear in my videos. And at Situation Positive, we developed a line of t-shirts. So that way, you know, you could share positive messages with those around you. If anybody has been following my weight loss videos, you’ve seen me in this t-shirt it says posit...
Hey everybody. It is Matt Cavallo and I’m checking in with you on my weight loss journey. Now last week ended our medical weight loss journey. That was the first month of the program. Where we were eating certain foods and we were also having medication to help aid us to get the weight loss started. Just to recap, in week one, I started at 243 pounds by BMI and body fat percentage standards. I was o...
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was May 2005. My wife just woke me up because she was going to work. She was a school counselor and she would leave a lot earlier than I did. So she would wake me up before she left to say goodbye. I had to get up. I was a real estate developer working in Boston at the time, and I had to get up and get ready and start my day.
Plus I really had to use the bathr...
Hey everybody. It’s Matt from Situation Positive, and I want to wish you all a Happy Rare Diseases Day! Did you know that across the world, there are more than 300 million people living with a rare disease? And unlike MS, which I have and is the most common neurological disorder, a lot of people living with rare diseases don’t have the same kind of opportunities that diseases like MS have that have ...
Hey everybody, it’s Matt from Situation Positive. If you’re living with a chronic illness, like I am, you know, that stress is the enemy. So what are some of the ways you could combat stress? One of the ways, and the way that I want to focus on in this video is to anticipate a stressful event so that way you can plan to minimize the stress.
So what do, I mean? Let’s say you’re going on a vacation. P...
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