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	<title>Half engineer, Half neuroscientist &#187; chronic illness</title>
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		<title>Invisible Illness Meme</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/08/26/invisible-illness-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meme for Invisible Illness Week coming up in September. 30 Things About My Invisible Illnesses You May Not Know 1. The illnesses I live with are: fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Hashimoto&#8217;s thyroiditis, Addison&#8217;s disease, osteoporosis 2. I was diagnosed with them in the year: 2005 3. But I had symptoms since: 2000 4. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>101 things I have already achieved</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/07/15/101-achieved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day Zero list #66! 1. I graduated from a magnet, gifted, college-prep high school with above a 4.0 GPA. 2. I was a founding member of said high school&#8217;s robotics team. 3. I was the student leader of the robotics team for 2 years. 4. I was a mentor for the robotics team for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look! A blog post!</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/04/22/blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been ignoring this blog/website for over a year now&#8230;bad Melissa! What better thing to do while working an overnight shift at work than update your blog! So let&#8217;s see&#8230;I&#8217;m getting married in 38 days. I&#8217;ve been on antibiotics for almost 6 months because I was diagnosed with chronic recurring Lyme disease last summer, probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy holidays!</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/12/21/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for my lack of posting. The crazy weather we&#8217;ve been having here on the East Coast has been causing my fibromyalgia and arthritis to flare, plus I&#8217;ve been busy with end of the year wrap-up on projects at work.  In happier news, my cousin/sister had her baby, a beautiful healthy baby boy named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes you have to remember your limits</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/14/sometimes-you-have-to-remember-your-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing several times, I have quite a list of chronic illnesses. At the end of my junior year of high school, I was bitten by a brown recluse spider, one of the only two types of poisonous to humans spiders. I had a hard, purple indentation on the outside of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay no attention to the one-armed bandit</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/13/pay-no-attention-to-the-one-armed-bandit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ligament in my left wrist is still torn (from being mugged at the end of September, and then exacerbated by me twisting caps on tubes at work a few weeks ago); this means that I&#8217;ve got a fairly heavy brace on my wrist/hand. And that I can&#8217;t really use my left arm/hand effectively. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacSpeech Dictate &#8211; first impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/06/macspeech-dictate-first-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have torn ligament in my left wrist at the moment that&#8217;s been slow in healing partially due to my own stupidity in overusing it. I also have viral arthritis, which given the rainy, colder weather Philadelphia is experiencing lately, is flaring up. I do a fair amount of writing in general, but lately I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Philadelphia Arthritis Walk &#8211; Give me a hand!</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/09/18/2009-philadelphia-arthritis-walk-give-me-a-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.melitami.com/2008/09/18/2009-philadelphia-arthritis-walk-give-me-a-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melitami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the chronic conditions I have are viral arthritis and fibromyalgia, both of which are arthritic conditions. The Arthritis Foundation has walks every year to raise money for awareness and research for cures for the over 100 arthritis diseases that affect 1 in 5 Americans. Please help me out and donate towards my walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer changes into fall&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/08/26/summer-changes-into-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.melitami.com/2008/08/26/summer-changes-into-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melitami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This coming weekend is Labor Day. Kids are heading back to school, college students are starting semesters back up again, it&#8217;s starting to get a little cooler, leaves are slowly changing colors. It&#8217;s been a very different summer for me, so I feel like a bit of a review and some reflection are needed. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repost &#8211; Happy 5th Anniversary, BYDLS! Spoons!</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/08/12/repost-happy-5th-anniversary-bydls-spoons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.melitami.com/2008/08/12/repost-happy-5th-anniversary-bydls-spoons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melitami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website I love, and am a moderator on is But You Don&#8217;t Look Sick. This wonderful website and forums is for people with chronic illnesses and their caregivers/family members, offering a wonderful, caring community of people who understand the frustrations of having a chronic illness (or multiple) and dealing with doctors and people who [...]]]></description>
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