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Riding the waves of chronic illness…

Well, this is my first post for well over a month.  I apologise for my long absence and lack of writing, but unfortunately, once again I have been battling rough seas as a result of the symptoms associated with my neurological condition. Take my legs, for example, the trembling in my legs at times have felt so violent that everyday activities such as standing and walking have been particularly difficult. Crippling fatigue has left me unable to function, and constantly finding myself falling...

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HAWMC 2013 Day 27: The Story of My Life….

    Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. Today’s prompt is as follows: If you wrote a book about your life, your community, your condition, or your health-activism - what would you title it?  Come up with 5 working titles. Perhaps someday I...

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HAWMC 2013 Day 24: Pinterest Board

    Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. Today’s prompt reads as follows: Create a Pinterest board for your health focus.  Pin 3 things.  Share the image [gallery ids=",1498,1499,1500"]...

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HAWMC 2013 Day 17: Wordless Wednesday

  Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists.  Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. Today’s prompt reads as follows: Go to http://www.wordle.net/ to create a word cloud or tree from a list of words associated with your condition, blog or interests.  Post it!   But there is more than me...

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HAWMC 2013 Day 13: Acrostic Poem of my Health Condition

    Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. Today’s prompt is as follows: Write a health acrostic for your condition, hashtag, or username! (acrostic = a poem where every letter of a word serves as the first letter of a word or...

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