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Dec

Happy holidays!

Posted by melissa  Published in chronic illness, family, podcasting

I apologize for my lack of posting. The crazy weather we’ve been having here on the East Coast has been causing my fibromyalgia and arthritis to flare, plus I’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 [...]

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14

Nov

Sometimes you have to remember your limits

Posted by melissa  Published in BYDLS, chronic illness, podcasting, randomness, school, technology

As I’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 [...]

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11

Nov

How to stay sane in times of change

Posted by melissa  Published in family, randomness

Change is stressful; uncertainty is stressful. I’m a planner; I write to-do lists constantly, I’m usually pretty uncomfortable if things are in flux and not figured out (though I’m getting better about that). I can be spontaneous, and I enjoy change and surprises; I just tend to plan more so than just act. Which means [...]

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