Find Your Voice: Top 5 Tips to Advocate for Yourself in Healthcare
There is a lot I do to keep my health in remission, pain levels manageable, and keep my energy as vibrant as possible. But let’s be real – it’s a constant balancing act. Last week, a comment from one of my regular wellness providers really hit a nerve. He repeatedly told me, “All you do […]
The 10 Demandments For Safe & Respectful Vascular Access Care
Emily and Matt
The Ultimate Guide to FSA/HSA Spending Accounts
At Mighty Well, our goal is to make our products accessible to our community. That is why we accept Flexible Spending Account (FSA) dollars to purchase Mighty Well products! For those who have FSA/HSA benefits, you use it just as you would a credit card at checkout. If you’d rather use your regular credit card, […]
15 Things to Consider When Living With a Port
In the fourth installment of our port series, I’ll share my personal tips, essential considerations, and a few complications to watch out for when living with a port. First: a few personal tips from me Second: port access is different depending on your location In our previous blog, I broke down feeling empowered by knowing […]
How To Access Your Implanted Port
In the third installment of our port series, I will break down the most crucial part of having a port: correctly flushing and accessing your implanted port by yourself. I believe patients should be empowered to learn how to access their ports if they are in a mental and/or physical state to do so. Special […]
What Happens After Port Surgery?
In the second part of our port series, I am breaking down a little bit of what happens after port surgery. A critical part of having a port is caring for the incision site after placement. My experience with getting a port implanted was far more painful than getting a PICC, primarily due to the […]
What is an Implanted Port? A Closer Look
Over the last ten years, I’ve had three PICCs, an implanted port, and numerous peripheral IVs for various infusion therapies. One of the critical areas that allowed for more freedom in my day-to-day life of living with vascular access was transitioning from a PICC to an implanted chest port. Like me, many patients needing long-term […]
Ketamine Therapy Changed My Life
In my last blog, I shared about my journey this past year and one of the treatments that have helped me heal – ozone therapy. Another treatment, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), has made a tremendous difference in my mental health and journey to overcome chronic pain. The purpose of sharing my healing journey is to […]
IV Ozone Therapy for Chronically Ill Patients: A look inside Emily’s newest treatment
Hi Friends in the Fight, Your support during the last few years has been essential to my journey towards feeling Mighty Well for myself. In honor of how far my body has come in the past year, I wanted to share with the Mighty Well community the treatments that have helped me heal and take […]
Emily’s Care Team Tips
As we explored building up a care team last month, I wanted to take this opportunity to dive into a few of the treatment plans, therapies, and healing modalities that put my chronic illness stemming from Tick Borne Illness in full remission in 2022. I wanted to share these tips with you in case it aids you […]
Mightier Together
Dear Friends in the Fight, Mighty Well is a mission-based company, and our team has faced a rollercoaster of emotions from heartache and outrage over the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, and all the other victims of senseless racism and police actions. We have hope that this will […]
Valentine’s Day Special: a story from Mighty Well co-founders Emily and Yousef
I met Mighty Well co-founder and my now husband, Yousef, when we were both 19. I was in my second semester of my freshman year of college, and he was in his sophomore. The first semester we were seeing each other, we didn’t know the source of my chronic pain, insatiable need for sleep, and […]