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
More than 26 million Americans suffer from the migraines, according to the American Medical Association. For those who suffer from migraines migravent.com might be something to look into and maybe talk to your doctor about. Migravent ingredients are designed to reduce the frequency and intensity o
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Those of us who live with a chronic illness, deal with a lot of difficult emotions. I often find myself with feelings like frustration,boredom, loneliness, sadness, etc. For me, these emotions become their strongest at night, when I usually cannot sleep or go out. My biggest coping skills- going out
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From the woman famous for ‘The Princess Diaries’ comes a new series about a washed up teen idol who finds herself, for the first time in her life- a size 12. Without any career prospects and completely on her own, Heather
Wells takes a job as the assistant director of a college dorm (excuse me,
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Last fall, Anne Fadiman came to my school to gave a terrific talk about her book- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which prompted me to go out and read this book. I was not disappointed. It is the story of a young
girl, Lia Lee, with a severe form of epilepsy.
She is the daughter of Hmong
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When I go grocery shopping my favorite aisles are the natural foods section, because I love to find new foods I don't feel badly about eating, or bad after eating, as the case may be. I also look for new products that hide veggies from my finicky three year-old baby boy. Hey! They say if he won't go
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Website Review: http://www.protectyourincome.com
ProtectYourIncome.com is the premier site on the Internet for information and guidance on disability insurance for professionals including physicians, resident physicians, dentists, attorneys and individuals with incomes of $100,000 or more. Protect
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There is a special kind of writing style that speaks to a woman’s spirit and makes her soul rejoice. It can be difficult to find such a book, but when found it is a real treasure. In the novel, “The Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd, I found myself laughing and crying along with the cha
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I am in love with this book. This book has become my daily friend, someone I turn to with each physical ache and trouble. Thanks to this book, I now have a daily yoga practice. After years of dabbling, I finally decided that my health issues called for taking a deeper look into what yoga could br
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This book is subtitled ‘The Non-Drug Approach to the Treatment of Candida Infection’ and that gives you an idea of what it mostly contains. The first four chapters – ‘Candida albicans and common health problems’, ‘Candida and your defense systems’, ‘How Candida gets out of hand’ an
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Heather Van Vorous is a patient-expert in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) who has had IBS since she was a small child and who thought for years that she was the only person in the world with IBS. After a decade of not getting much help from the medical profession, she gradually learned which foods tr
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