Keep Trying
I’m celebrating using the last class on my 20-class yoga pass. It only took 10 months to go to 20 classes! Each card is good for a year and the last one expired before I got to use all the classes on it. I mention yoga so much…
Coping
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Chronic Illness Workshop Fail
In Chronic Pain Workshop Totally Unprepared for Patient With Chronic Pain, Sarcozona, who is a PhD student with chronic migraine, highlights a serious issue for people with all kinds of chronic illness: Being sick doesn’t come with an instruction manual. When a chronically ill person…
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Reflections
Unless you’re a new reader, you’re probably aware that 2014 has been an incredible year for me. I’ve found myself tearing up a lot the last few weeks as I reflect on the year. My loved ones have also been tearing up for the same…
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Unplanned Vacation
Whenever I’m away from the blog unannounced for more than a week, worried emails start arriving in my inbox. I’m doing fine — actually, except for Christmas Eve and Christmas day, I’ve felt quite good. In addition to holiday busyness, in the last week, Hart took…
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Migraine Expectations
Three days of a migraine unresponsive to medication last week and I was fed up. The evening of the third day, I was worried that I’d broke something by eating some triple-chocolate brownies and the pain would never again relent. Melodramatic, maybe, but the fear…