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Feeling Hyper with CFS / CFIDS / ME
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Sophie Meredith
I am well – perhaps steering close to hyper - today. I have been a lot better for over a week with only a piece of the weekend finding me feeling particularly ‘CFS-y’. I watch myself now swiftly dissociate from the illness. I am acting exactly as I said in my first entry My head remains foggy and the muscles are heavier than they ...
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Starting to Understand CFS / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Sophie Meredith
From Weighed Down by Sophie MeredithShe tells me to just get started. I protest that I want to write something interesting and engaging but honestly, when I feel well enough to consider that, I forget what it actually feels like to be down under the grimy covers of ME / CFIDS / CFS. Now, I am peering through one eye, my head is pounding. My throat ...
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Thengaipodi a.k.a Chammandhipodi (A Spicy Coconut Chutney Powder)
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Aparna
M y two weeks away from home meant that I did no cooking at all. Now I am back, I still haven't got back into my routine like it used to be before the vacation happened. I cook, and we eat but I haven't been taking pictures to blog about it all. There a lot of little things (nothing earth shaking, or a matter of life and death) that just need to b ...
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Saturated-Fat Epidemiology
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Seth Roberts ..
Here, at Free the Animal, are three scatterplots that show better health (less heart disease, less stroke) correlated with more saturated fat (= animal fat) in the diet. Each point is a different European country (Albania, Bulgaria, etc.). Small and large countries show the same relationship.The obvious confounding is with wealth — rich peopl ...
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OKLAHOMA CHIARI AWARENESS NOV
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Taffy
On October 14, 2009, Governor Henry signed a proclamtion declaring November Chiari Awareness Month for Oklahoma. This is a huge step as I was diagnoised in 1999 and this is the first year. We owe LeeAnn Thompson of Shawnee Oklahoma a huge Kudo for this. She is the mother of Jaden Clutter, a 3 year old beautiful, full of energy little girl that will ...
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Health Headlines - November 8
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Meredy
Double H1N1 vaccine, but still not enough Federal health officials said Saturday that there is twice as much H1N1 vaccine -- 38 million doses -- available as two weeks ago. "The majority of this is injectable doses," Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing in Atlanta. "If all goes well, ...
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How badly do you want it?
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Broken Brilliant
Do you want it so badly, you can taste it?Are you willing to do what it takes, to get it done?Will you stop at nothing (within reason and without harming others), in order to achieve it?Will you put everything else in your life on hold, until you get where you want to go?Are you focused?Are you clear?Are you more than eager — are you consumed ...
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On when life gets in the way of recovery
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Larry Drain
Recovery is not where you go, but how you get there. It is as much a process as a product. But sometimes life gets in the way.A major part of recovery (certainly not the only part) is how we get along with other people. We are “hard-wired” to connect with other people and there is ample evidence to suggest that when that part of our ...
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the very best thing about today
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Laura S.
I had The. Best. Cheering-section. Ever.I ran my 3rd 5K race this year and it sure was awesome to cross that finish line to this smiling face. Details about how it went, how awesome is my girl Jenn (her Dad is a rockstar too) and my invisible 3rd place medal later. For now, I think I will enjoy a nice long soak in a hot tub and perhaps a glass of z ...
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