May 11, 2016 |
christine |
Featured, Spoon Lady Speaks |
45 Comments
In addition to my lupus, I also have fibromyalgia. One of my best friends was recently diagnosed with it as well. I love her. I feel that although pain and fibro is something I know a bit about, I can not help her acceptance of this diagnosis. I have seen her in pain both emotionally and physically.
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TAGS: awareness, fibro, fibromyalgia, may 12, spoonie
May 10, 2016 |
christine |
Articles, Featured, Personal Essays |
20 Comments
If you ask my dad about Lupus he will give you a very seemingly odd answer. He will always say “Getting a grip on Lupus is like trying to tie up Jello with a string” Most people laugh, look confused, or even attempt to think of how one would even begin to tie up Jello with a string. It's one
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TAGS: angry, dad, jello, lupus, metaphor, miserandino, sle
May 9, 2016 |
christine |
Featured, Spoon Lady Speaks |
6 Comments
Wear orange or purple, send friends your favorite awareness websites (bydls.com ? lol) to educate, read, ask your friends to read some lupus facts, make your status a lupus support or awareness message, blog about lupus, blog about your friends with lupus, Do something nice for a person living with
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TAGS: lupus, lupus awareness, may 10, orange, purple, sle, spoonie
As someone who rarely gets out, online shopping has been a savior to reducing stress in my life when it comes to purchasing gifts or other items for my household. A few weeks ago, my husband and I had early 20-somethings over after church services, and we got to talking about Christmas shopping and
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This has been a great week in the medical/ health blogosphere for ButYouDontLookSick.com! We are proud to have been mentioned in articles by some really talented bloggers and we even have been nominated for an award. I originally started ButYouDontLookSick.com writing about my own experiences with L
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Right about now your skin is showing the effects of drying winter winds, central heating, and low humidity conditions. Aside from increasing the humidity in your environment, there are several other things you can do to relieve painful, dry winter skin.
Your skin is your largest living organ and it
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An essay submitted by one of our readers.
Denial serves a wonderful psychological purpose. Thus the “NO!! ” when someone gets terrible news. It is nature’s built in kindness to buffer the inevitable. Slowly, carefully, each according to his or her own psyche, we absorb the pain.
There ar
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Maybe the holiday season is so festive that we want to capture the memories forever? Maybe it is the moments with family and friends around the holidays that we want to cherish in some way special? Either way scrapbooking is more popular then ever around the holidays. Scrapbooking is a perfect hobby
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Christmas is over, the parties are finished and you are exhausted. But the traditional thank you notes haven’t been sent out yet, and they sit like an anvil on the back of your mind. Growing up, thank you notes were always carefully penned on beautiful stationary or tucked inside cute little car
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Well 2007 is over and now we open the book on 2008. Story unwritten, only the prologue from last year on the pages. What will you be filling the pages with on yours?
I have done a lot of thinking. I have been through so much in the last few years, that I really want to push my effort through, to mak
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I don't know how many of you are of the same mindset as I am. You find one book by an author that you like, and it's almost addictive. For me, that was Dan Brown.
The first book I ever picked up by Dan Brown was Da Vinci Code; the mystery, the intrigue, the deception, the ultimate quest for the
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Perhaps not in time for holiday baking, but for future cooking sprees, here's an idea that might help those with aches, pains, or strains in the hands! The battery operated sifter works just like it sounds. You pop in a couple
of batteries, depending on which sifter you purchase, and it does the wor
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So, I'm officially obsessed with my child. I'm not ashamed to admit it. BUT, I'm a rather private and modest person and I truly do not like to interfere with others' lives. I do not like to flaunt my baby's pictures and shove them into everyone's e-mail boxes every month, week, day...well, you know
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