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Chronic Pain and Illness: Who Is By Your Side?
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mpratt
Long days of illness can wear on us, and often make us feel as if we are navigating choppy waters in a leaky boat all by ourselves. How well I know the feeling when I’m especially ill of the hours dragging on, thinking that everyone else is out in the world, busy, being productive, while…
Chronic Pain: Are you a camel?
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mpratt
Some days, I just hurt. I hurt so badly that it’s difficult to tell where the pain is coming from, let alone what to do to make it better. Some days, there’s no easy way around or through it. We work with our doctors, we do what we can, but, inevitably, we realize there is…
Lupus Awareness Day – Putting on the Purple
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mpratt
Lent is over. Advent is a long while away. But, today, I’m going to wear purposeful purple! May is Lupus Awareness Month, and today is Lupus Awareness Day, and the color is purple. Purple is a deep color, sometimes mysteriously so, and lupus is the quintessentially mysterious disease – there’s no cure, there are not…
Caring and not caring about what others think
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mpratt
Illness can be very ugly. Yes, it can be that horrible blot on our lives, and certainly change our appearance in undesirable ways. And one of the hardest things to handle it is when we’re out in public – or planning to be out in public – and we know that we look “different” or…
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