Grateful Little Victories

When every day is a struggle with illness, you learn to be grateful for the little victories.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Dungeons! Missions! Moogles!

Flare issues notwithstanding, I made some solid progress in FFXIV.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

I should have done this yesterday, but I was stubborn

I made sure to keep a constant level of pain meds in my body to combat an EDS flare.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Have YOU changed your passwords yet?

I got all my sensitive passwords changed, in the wake of Heartbleed.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Dietary diversity is important

I ate a good 4 servings of different fruits.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

I had a list easily 3x as long as I accomplished

When my body clearly said "enough" during my errands today, I listened.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

2nd of 3 follow-up visits with different doctors

I safely drove myself to and from my PCP post-hospital follow-up visit.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Being calm and knowledgeable worked in my favor

I convinced the chief resident that I could manage my asthma at home, and she discharged me.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Biding my time until it's safe for more meds

When pain interfered with sleep, I took steps to distract myself instead of stressing out.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

He was very happy with my current pain management

I saw my primary care doctor, and he was REALLY pleased with my overall condition.

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Welcome back, Poetry Muse, I've missed you!

I had a new children's poem spring, almost fully formed, into my head.

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Relevant blogs - places you might find related topics

  • A Southern Celiac
  • Benefits Scrounging Scum
  • ButYouDon'tLookSick.com
  • Deb's Fibromyalgia Blog
  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - Deal With It
  • FIBROMYALGIA
  • Guidance, Healing, and Love by Sydney
  • Life and Fibromyalgia
  • Little Miss Dinky's E.D.S. Diary
  • Sally Rouge
  • The Bloggess
  • The Tensile Times
  • The Zebra Diary

The Usual Suspects - some of my standard reading list

  • A Day in the (Fat) Life
  • Bardic Blog
  • From Rebecca's Window
  • Kottke.org
  • Leah Raeder
  • Life on the Fat Farm
  • Live.Like.A.Rockstar
  • Noël Lynne Figart
  • Whatever
  • WilWheaton.net
  • Zen Habits

Time for a break - comics I read regularly

  • Ctrl+Alt+Del
  • Dork Tower
  • El Goonish Shive
  • Gods Playing Poker
  • Joy of Tech
  • Misfile
  • VG Cats
  • XKCD
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