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May is Arthritis Awareness Month! Yay!

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When most people hear “Arthritis” they think of old people with creaky and swollen joints. This is called Osteoarthritis, which is most likely caused by general wear and tear and of course, aging. However the vast majority of arthritis cases affect people far younger. These are Rheumatic diseases which causes the body’s immune system to [...]

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Two slipped discs and a kidney stone.

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I have had my face bitten my a dog. I have dislocated my thumb at least three times. I cracked my head open on a brick fireplace. I have had severe nerve pain in my back due to pressure on the dural sac. I have broken my toe. I have been dropped on my head [...]

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Stuff only I care about….

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Green tea may work as an anti-inflammatory for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis. How to make a plastic bag keeper. R.E.M.’s music catalog dissected once song at a time. “Now That The Day Is Over“, The Innocence Mission’s beautiful collection of lullabies, will make you want to burn your Baby Einstein collection. Buy it for your [...]

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Feeling like crap…as usual.

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Pain is the word of the day. Think your joints swell when you fly? My toes look like mini-sausages, my back is strained, neck is stiff, I feel like I have rocks in the above the skin on the soles of my feet, my fucking hand hurts, I haven’t slept in two days and even [...]

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The day I turned uncool

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“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” – Hervey Allen “If you’re some punk of thirty-nine or less….suck it up, dude. It gets so worse.” [...]

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