I just recently upgraded from a double-size bed to a much nicer queen-size bed. It's a damn good thing too, because for the last few w…
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When the average person has the following schedule, it may not seem too involved: Doctor's Appointment: 1pm Bloodwork and urine sample…
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With a list of complex, complicated, and misunderstood illnesses, sometimes the healthcare system can feel like it is letting you down. Wit…
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So - it turns out that there ARE a couple more anti-nausea medications out there!!! Hooray!!! After a very long day - starting with a two…
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This weekend I registered to attend an information session at the hospital, put on by the Network of Rare Blood Disorders Organizations. H…
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How do you ACTUALLY find real love? In our immediate, impulse encouraging, fickle mind changing, instant knowledge, and short-term dating …
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One of the GREAT things about having several illnesses that have been stereotyped as elderly diseases, is that when support group coordinat…
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Oh man - I tell ya - over the course of the last 15 years, I am pretty sure I have had bouts of all of the most common sleeping issues know…
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Heading into the (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend, we are encouraged to purposely think about everything in our lives that we are grateful f…
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When we are kids, we have to learn what kind of questions are appropriate to ask others. Kids have no filter and are generally pretty inqui…
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It seems that I often have bad luck when it comes to washrooms. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I use the washroom much mo…
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Traveling while being chronically ill can be tricky. It doesn't really matter if you're flying, driving, sailing, even walking, and…
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If you have been following along, you will know that I have several chronic conditions - some of which are not AT ALL connected with each o…
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It seems like just about everyone is multitasking 100% of the time. Even when I was in University, it was not unusual to see textbooks fro…
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One of the toughest social aspects about being sick is how we compare ourselves both to others around us and to an earlier version of ourse…
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Science is something that I have grown to really love. Not because I necessarily wanted to, and definitely not in the manner I would have w…
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I had my 6-month follow-up appointment today with my ophthalmologist. Well, my actual ophthalmologist was on call at the hospital, so I saw…
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