Life with Autoimmune Diseases & Chronic Illnesses

Pineapple Chia Smoothie With Herbs

newstome1 — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:41:32 -0400

Pineapple Chia Smoothie With Herbs :

Carrot juice and sunflower seeds add flavor and texture to this drink.

fuckcrohns: sunsetprincess: Justified Selfie before...

newstome1 — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:43:42 -0400

fuckcrohns:

sunsetprincess:

Justified Selfie before colonoscopy

That t-shirt is awesome! I want!

stunningpicture: 1 Year Later. Fuck Cancer.

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:05:10 -0400

stunningpicture:

1 Year Later. Fuck Cancer.

thecvsgirl: The Magic Bracelet is a movie that 15 year old Rina...

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:40 -0400

thecvsgirl:

The Magic Bracelet is a movie that 15 year old Rina Goldberg, a girl with mitochondrial disease, wrote. Unfortunately she passed away on December 29 2010 before she could see the movie completed. She envisioned The Magic Bracelet to tell a creative, witty and sharp story about many facets of life, including friendship, love, adventure and magic, just to name a few.

Chandra Wilson ( from Greys Anatomy) and her daughter Sarina attended the event. Sarina has Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction. Chandra is the Cure Mito Ambassador, who introduced the new PSA for UMDF made on the film set, and Bailee Madison. Bailee plays Ashley in the film, her character has Mito.

yay to speaking out for mitochondrial disease and its related issues!

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with...

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:10:02 -0400

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “You’re just, a picky eater”]

my-lupus-state-of-mind: I just sent a message to Jane Velez_ -Mitchell about her offensive terms...

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:35 -0400

my-lupus-state-of-mind:

I just sent a message to Jane Velez_
-Mitchell about her offensive terms for mental illness and received a confirmation email from CNN. Maybe, just maybe they will change their terms but these are the terms that make mental illness patients scared to ask for help because they will be labeled and/or subjected to awful stigma of the ignorant.

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newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:14:59 -0400

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newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:33 -0400

Donate to American Red Cross by Text Message

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:46 -0400

Donate to American Red Cross by Text Message :

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Grrrrrr

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:29:21 -0400

my-lupus-state-of-mind:

My nose is still sore and I look like Rudolph the red nose reindeer! Stupid internal pimple!! It’s right at the tip of my nose!!

Banana Wild Blueberry Smoothie With Chia Seeds

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:31:28 -0400

Banana Wild Blueberry Smoothie With Chia Seeds:

Using frozen berries eliminates the need for ice.

Vitamin D and Ginger Effective In Reducing Asthma

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:33:52 -0400

Vitamin D and Ginger Effective In Reducing Asthma:

Supplementation with vitamin D or ginger extracts help ease the symptoms of asthma, according to two new early stage research studies.

5 Natural Methods for Relieving PMS Symptoms

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:36:21 -0400

5 Natural Methods for Relieving PMS Symptoms:

PMS, or Premenstrual Syndrome, can cause pain, discomfort, irritability and bloating, and depression. Here are 5 natural methods for relieving PMS.

A Lupus State of Mind: Fair warning - I'm about to complain

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:38:48 -0400

A Lupus State of Mind: Fair warning - I'm about to complain:

my-lupus-state-of-mind:

1) being a woman kinda sucks. I don’t think it ovulation pain but dammit my ovary hurts!

2) my doctor said because I have lupus she would not feel comfortable putting me on the pill but I could get Mirena

3)hell no I don’t want Mirena.
3b) I’m not sexually active
3c) Mirena went through my…

How to Clean Your Liver with 5 Natural Liver-Cleansing Tips

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:41:20 -0400

How to Clean Your Liver with 5 Natural Liver-Cleansing Tips:

Due to massive exposure to toxins, it is important to know how to clean your liver thoroughly and effectively. Here are 5 natural liver-cleansing tips.

Fuck Crohn's: Crohn's Makes You More Awesome

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:43:24 -0400

Fuck Crohn's: Crohn's Makes You More Awesome:

fuckcrohns:

I was doing an exercise where you describe the ideal you as a character in the third person via a list of attributes and descriptions. My character is pretty bad ass, to which my brain pointed out “yeah, but she doesn’t have a chronic disease”. And then in an epiphany I thought “Or does she…?”

So…

"The problem is that you don’t just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and..."

goldenrodrunning — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:48:25 -0400

“The problem is that you don’t just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don’t want to. It’s not a single choice, and it’s not easy.”

- Carrie’s Blog Post (via oddi-tea)

so true

(via webiteback)

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goldenrodrunning — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:53 -0400

beingspartan: Today’s UnFucking: nightstand drawer After...

goldenrodrunning — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:53:17 -0400

beingspartan:

Today’s UnFucking: nightstand drawer

After shoveling up the bedside avalanche, I realized it was time to do something about the top of the nightstand. I wanted to keep things I use a lot on top of the nightstand for easy access, but I find it just becomes another dumping zone, it’s a bitch to dust, and half the shit ends up on the floor anyway when the cat jumps up there.

So today’s question: how hard would it be for me to open the drawer to get a pencil or hair band or hand lotion? I decided, probably not very. But the drawer has become a catch-all for random “little things” I pull out of my pockets or purse. Time to free the drawer.

Essential Tools:

• small cardboard jewelry boxes

• my trusty labeler

How to:

1: Pull out the whole drawer. (for drawers that don’t come out, I pull it all out indiscriminately into a box) Take everything off top of dresser. Add everything from top of nightstand into the mix (so I can REALLY figure out what I ACTUALLY need up top.)

1.5: Have mini anxiety attack over what to do with all this shit. Also feel like an old junkie, looking at all the migraine meds in the drawer.

2: Start making little piles of categories. Here were mine:

• meds

• spare glasses/reading glasses

• random electronics components (earbud covers, old iphone dock, remote control, etc.)

• pens/pencils/highlighters

• cat stuff (her nail clippers, old collar, laser pointer)

• personal care (lip balm, lotion, nail file, hair bands, etc.)

• shit that goes elsewhere

Happy me! I actually only had a few things in the “elsewhere” pile, so I put them away immediately (since I know what “I’ll do it later” means to me.) Spare glasses went in the dresser drawer with the other glasses/sunglasses and things (like swimsuits) I only occasionally wear. All but one pencil and highlighter went into the office where they belong, as did the electronics stuff (since I don’t use them in the bedroom.) Tossed the “just a little left” lip balms and lotions (reminding myself how grossly old they are.) The Beastable’s old collar went into the “nostalgia” box.

3. But the meds…oh the meds… First of all, I used to travel a lot for work, so I’d put a few of this and a few of that into an empty pill bottle for my suitcase. I’d do the same for my purse. Result: lots of bottles of god-knows-what in my nightstand drawer. Meds are expensive and I don’t have insurance, so I don’t like to throw away anything. But can I tell you the expiration dates on any of those unlabeled bottles? No. So I bit the bullet and tossed them all.

And then: Why don’t pharmacies have different sized bottles? Why must tiny sized or small quantity meds be in such big ugly bottles? This is why one of the things I will not part with are small containers and bottles. They’re useful and I’ve learned to keep them all in one gallon sized bin so they don’t add to the clutter. So I’m once again going the “travel-size-refill” method. I put tiny pills in small bottles and pills from large containers into smaller bottles AND LABELED THEM ALL with the name and expiration date. When I run out, I’ll just refill from the “toiletries” bin (kept in the storage closet.) But now my drawer will not be overflowing and I’ll know where my meds are and that they will actually work.

4. Now for the other thing I’ve hoarded and am glad to have done so: little jewelry boxes. They’re awesome for organizing drawers and keeping little things separated. So I grabbed my box o’ boxes and founds ones to fit the categories of items to go back in the drawer. I ended up with:

• meds

• personal care (with a tiny box inside the box for hair bands and bobby pins)

• writing instruments

• cat stuff

• one box in the back for important small random stuff (like mystery keys or a button from “something”)

5. Now the only things on top of my nightstand are the lamp, my UFML (UnFuck My Life) notebook, and a tray to keep the things I positively use every night before bed and every morning upon waking: hand creme, earplugs, meds, a tiny nail file, and space for my glasses so The Beastable doesn’t knock them to the ground in the middle of the night.

Now then…let’s see how long it lasts. ;)

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with...

newstome1 — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:55:21 -0400

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “What’s so stressful about being a greeter?” “Says the person without crippling social anxiety about a job that requires working with people day in and day out.”]