Dr. Laura Pratesi, Au.D.
Hard of Hearing, Doctor of Audiology, Hearing Aid User 🤟🦻, Mobility Aid User, Wheelchair User 🦽
- Apple has some pretty significant accessibility updates in the pipeline. Here’s where I breakdown the ones that will help deaf and hard of hearing users: www.instagram.com/reel/DJmk2ln... #TechUpdates #DeafAppleUser #AccessibilityUpdates
- Struggling with depression and melancholy after my sudden paralysis. It’s been since March 13th, but I just can’t seem to shake myself out of this funk. #MentalHealth #SuddenParalysis
- My sweet little 94 year old grandmother offering to mail me her walker. 🥹 I told her thank you so much but I could order one online very easily without needing to take hers (which she needs and uses). #DisabledLife
- Impressed with the native Health app on iPhone. Has really helped me keep track of all my new meds, and symptoms. #WearableTech #Healthable #DisabledLife
- My iWatch warned me my “gait” was unsteady and suggested I’m at an increased fall risk for the next 12mo. I mean…it’s not wrong, but who’s going to tell her I’m in a wheelchair now? #DisabilityLife #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain
- B/c it was suggested by one of the providers I recently saw, my cyst was not because I received Covid vaccines. It (the meningeal cyst) was a birth defect (similar to spina bifida) that formed in utero, and was likely exacerbated by several injuries I sustained to my tailbone throughout the years.
- Women and minorities weren’t necessarily included in clinical studies prior to 1993. In 1977, the FDA actually restricted the use of women of childbearing age in clinical studies. We have to make up this disparity and start caring better for women, NOT based on research that didn’t include them!
- Star Wars is really just a saga of how every man ever let down Leia Organa… #MayTheFourth #StarWars