Category: Community
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“Migraine and me” & a Zoom meeting invite
Anyone who’s visited my blog for more than a few weeks knows that I absolutely LOVE doing mid-monthly shout-outs for other blogs that I’ve read and enjoyed. I’ll do that again on the 17th of July (my blog-anniversary), but today’s blog post is a bit different; it’s a shout-out to…
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The rising tide of patient advocacy
Today is the 4th of July, which in the United States of America is called Independence Day. I don’t know enough about the history to talk about it here, but I did spend a bit of time brainstorming the notion of ‘independence’. I was always bought up to be an…
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Being provocatively polarizing… or not.
As well as blogging about my healing journey to reduce my migraine-days and increase joy in my life, I am also (hopefully) in my final year of completing a PhD, I’m the primary contact for my daughters’ school communication, AND I sometimes help my husband with things to do with…
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ChatGPT: what do you know about me?
ChatGPT is often accused of being ‘derivative’ – everything it writes comes from other people’s texts. Weirdly though, humans are not that different. We often write about what other people say, or about other people’s stories and successes and so on. Today’s blog, for instance is inspired by something someone…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 3)
Over the last couple of weeks, I have written about how chronic pain can affect friendships. First, I addressed the not-so-fun issue of ‘ghosting’ and then I wrote about those cruisy ‘coasting’ friends, with a reminder that you have to keep up your end of the friendship-bargain so they don’t…
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#shadesformigraine
I know I said I wasn’t going to ‘show my face’ here again for a while, but I forgot about the initiative that is always run on the 21st of June by migraine advocates around the world. They pick this date because it is the summer solstice; the longest, sunniest,…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 2)
Last week I wrote about friends ‘ghosting’ people with chronic pain, and how much it hurts. Today I want to talk about a different friendship arrangement; ‘coasting’. For me, I would suggest that most of my friendships fall into this category. My friends are ‘cruisy’. They’re low-maintenance. We don’t make…
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Angel Number 5
For those of you who are new to my blog, there’s a little habit that I have gotten into, which is celebrating my ‘inchstones’ (as opposed to ‘milestones’). All those little baby-steps that are helping me heal are recognized, including my monthly anniversaries of blogging (which I started on January…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 1)
This post started out VERY long in its first draft. Whilst I try to do my best to minimize how much I write in one go, (because I’m trying to save my pain-brain and yours too much effort), the issue of chronic-pain-friends is a subject that really deserves a decent…
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