We've all been faced with jobs we don't want. For Betsy Taylor, it's being queen of the dead. Of course, she doesn't learn this until she is hit by a car on her 30th birthday (as if that wasn't bad enough) and discovers no matter what she does she can't stay dead. Being newly dead brings it's own
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“You are going to stick what where and then put electricity through it to help my pain levels?” was my first reaction to a tens unit when used during physical therapy. The idea of putting patches with electrodes on my shoulder or any where on my body and then running electricity through it for f
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When you have had a chronic illness for some time, particularly if specific parts of your body are affected, you tend to become an expert on that area. Some of us end up becoming so educated about our ailment that we practically qualify for our own medical degree. But how much do you know about the
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We've all had to give up many things since becoming 'professionally chronically ill'. Slinky dresses maybe? High heels? Pantyhose or Tights? Pants? But the thing out of all of the things I've missed having daily since getting sick, is my bra!! My body is too swollen & tender to be able to be
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As a patient living with lupus, I must say that the various flavors of symptoms is often the hardest to cope with. Every month I experience something completely new that leaves my doctors gaping in disbelief as to whether I'm making it all up. As if! The latest offender has been my scalp. Whene
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Pillboxie is new application (app) that offers a simple way to remember to take your medications. The design is clean and user friendly, something I’ve found lacking in a lot of otherwise useful apps. Jared Sinclair, RN, developed Pillboxie. Sinclair seems to genuinely care about people and is ver
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I am a hair accessory addict. I own every kind of hair accessory. When I was younger, I swore I would always leave the house looking “presentable”. I would not just throw my hair in a pony tail. Not that there’s anything wrong with a well-coiffed pony tail, but they were not for me. The
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Now that my hands have been giving me more problems than usual, I was finding it very hard to lace and tie my sneakers. I hated the idea of not wearing my favorite sneakers, but I didn't think I had any other option. I found speedlaces.com and saw a simple solution. This little lacing tool w
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I had a bad week. I wasn't feeling well and I felt so useless because I couldn't get the things I wanted done, accomplished. I was tired with a fever and I just didn't seem to have the energy to run errands. A friend of mine suggested I try peapod.com It is an online grocery store and they deli
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“Is this gluten free?” Loaded question? You betcha, especially when posed by the smallest and most finicky person sitting at my breakfast table. My second gluten free product review is going to get a pretty high scoring from me again, but don’t start thinking that I hand out spoons too easi
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