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Tag Archives: Lupus
I Went to the Cleveland Clinic’s E.R. and All I Got Was Slipper Socks
We had a wonderful Halloween, delayed a couple of days due to Hurricane Sandy. For the first time since Tyler has been trick-or-treating I was well enough to walk with him, after either being pushed by Grant in a wheelchair … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic pain, Cleveland, Cleveland Clinic, Emily, Fibromyalgia, Freehold Raceway Mall, Grant, Hurricane Sandy, Interstitial Cystitis, Lupus, Lupus with R.A. Overlap, Manic, Mental Illness, Myofascial Pain, narcotics, New Jersey, North Chagrin Reservation, Ohio, pain management, Social Security Disability Insurance, SSDI, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tylenol, Tyler
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Someday I am Going To…
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 5. Someday I am going to…(Inspired by Marcy Writes) Someday I am going to build my blog back to where it was. The day before my last blog post on January 11, 2012, … Continue reading
F*cking Interstitial Cystitis!
After having increasingly worse vaginal pain, I went to my primary care practice on Thursday. Since I have only just started taking care of my health again in August, I don’t have a gynecologist. I was seen by an intern, … Continue reading
Dropping Back Into Life
Let me start off by saying how sorry I am to have made you worry. I received so many emails, tweets and comments on my blog from concerned readers. After eight months, I finally feel ready to talk again. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Depression, Disability SSDI, Emily, Grant, Lupus, Mama Kat's Losin' It, Massachusetts, Mental Illness, Ohio, Tyler
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Please Tell Me I am Not the Only One
It is really hard for me to write this, it has been really hard for me to do much of anything. Usually I write to let people know that they are not the only ones suffering from an illness and … Continue reading
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Tagged agoraphobia, anxiety, Benlysta, Depression, Lupus, Mental Illness, Methadone
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Disability: Denied
After waiting nearly five months for a decision on my disability trial, in yesterday’s mail I received an “unfavorable” decision. I don’t know how well I will write about this because in my heart I felt that I would get … Continue reading
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Tagged Denial, denied, Disability, disability trial, Emily, Grant, hypermobility, judge, lawyer, Lupus, Orencia, Pristiq, Social Security doctors, SSDI
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Flannery O’Connor: A Woman With Lupus Who Accomplished Great Things
It is thanks to the comedian Norm MacDonald and his twitter bookclub @normsbookclub, that I for the past few months have been expanding my mind and reading things I would have never read before if it wasn’t for Norm and … Continue reading
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Tagged @normsbookclub, @NormsStories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, bookclub, Disability, Flannery O'Connor, Invisible Illness, Lupus, Mary Flannery O'Connor, Moby Dick, Norm MacDonald, Pearl S. Buck, Percy Walker, Roman Catholic, Southern Gothic writing style, steroids, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, The Good Earth, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, The Moviegoer, Twitter, Wise Blood
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My Thanks to You
It gets hard to write a meaningful Thanksgiving Day post when one tries to be meaningful and thoughtful every day. You read my blog, you know I am grateful and thankful for my family and friends (mostly) all of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Chicken, bethszimmerman.com, Emily, giving thanks, Google+, Grant, Happy Thanksgiving, holiday, Hope in Bracelets, I See You Looking at Me, LinkedIn, livingwithfibromyalgia.ca, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop, Selfish Mom, Silicon Valley Moms Group, thank you, Thanksgiving, The Nerdy Nurse, Twitter, Tyler
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Forgetting Everything I Knew
I read Expecting Adam as a member of the From Left to Write book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post is inspired by the book. Welcome to all of my fellow book club members or anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged 401k, bankruptcy, blogger, blogging, Book clubs, Books, career, chronic illness, Chronically Ill, college fund, credit rating, Disability, disabled, Down Syndrome, Expecting Adam, Food Stamps, From Left to Write Book Club, Lupus, Lupus With RA Overlap, Martha Beck, Mental Illness, poverty, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Social Security Disability, special needs children, WIC, writer, writing
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Another Birthday…At Least I’m Still Here??
Today is my birthday and it just happens that it looks like we are going to set a record in NJ for we are expecting up to three inches of snow, which never happens here and is never happened on … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Birthday, chronic pain, Costochondritis, DSW Shoe Warehouse, endocrinology, flare, flaring, Lupus, New Jersey, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatologist, undiagnosed
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