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My Mascot – Platy
Prompt: My Mascot! Give your condition, community, or self a mascot. Who is it? What do they represent? What is their battle cry? Meet Platy. Platy is a platypus who is my mascot, cheerleader and super hero. He was entirely inspired by @unguidedmissile and @geeklygibby and he represents #rheum patients in way. The platypus is somewhat…
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Trust and Transparency
With RA, there are a lot of ups and downs. For many people, symptoms wax and wane in a series of flares (increased disease activity) and lulls (decreased disease activity). Personally, I don’t have a lot of ups and downs—or, at least, the ups and downs don’t go too far from my own “baseline” or…
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Laughing Out Loud
Prompt: LOL post. Write a post about a moment that made you laugh. Or a video, picture, blog post, or something else that made you. I am a huge fan of laughter. I mean, who doesn’t like to have fun? And laughter when you’re facing something tough sometimes really is the best medicine. It’s usually other…
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My First RA Post – Again.
Prompt: “Best of” post. Grab a post from your archives and repost it! Add a few sentences at the beginning to frame it. Why you chose it. Why you liked it. And why it should be shared again. Well, this is an interesting prompt since I’ve only recently started adding to my health-related blog posts. So,…
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Inspiration from Others
Prompt: A comment as a blog post. Pick someone else’s post (from the past or from today) and write a comment to them. Write that comment as your blog post for today. Link back to them to let them know you were inspired. I want to dedicate this post to a new friend of mine,…
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Letting Go…
Prompt: “What’s something that bothers you or weighs on you? Let it go. Talk out the letting go process and how you’re going to be better to yourself for it.” Something that often weighs on me is the uncertainty of the future with chronic illness. I have a fear of the unknown to begin with,…
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The Little Engine that Could
Let me start out with some back information. I recently noticed that there’s a 30-Day Challenge being put out by WegoHealth to write 30 health-related blog posts in 30 days throughout the month of November — with them providing a prompt for each day. I had just seen a few snippets about it the past couple…
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RA Un-Awareness
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis? It’s unfortunate, but if you don’t know, you are among the vast majority. Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by an overactive immune system that begins to attack the body’s own healthy cells. The disease often affects the joints, causing pain, inflammation, and permanent damage or deformity. It is…
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