Since we are thinking pink, make food pink! Just because we are chronically ill does not mean we cannot enjoy the delicacies of rich food. Adding color, like pink, adds a reason to enjoy delicious food.
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Can you even imagine someone bringing you coffee in bed for Valentine’s Day? Make it fun and nonreactive. While we are ill, even coffee can make us react and take the fun out of a kind gesture. An chronically ill Valentine does not mean a deprived Valentine.
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If you still have not picked out your Valentine’s cards, you still can. Keeping it FREE and easy makes it affordable and doable through the years of chronic illness.
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We are a society that cares about our weight. It is a big deal to us whether our weight is too high or too low. I have been on both ends of the spectrum and did not like either extreme. So how do we deal with it? How do we get past our own thoughts, the
When was the last time you could declare a “good day?” Good days are a joke when we are chronically ill. I have gone several years without ONE “good day.” Are y’all having any “good days” through your illness?
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Instead of focusing on what we don’t have, let’s have a ball during Valentine’s Day with what we do have. Come on… we can make this fun. We can Think Pink!!!! Enjoy a guide to making Valentine’s Day fun, healthy and relaxing for the chronically ill. You can be all alone, ill, and broke… and you can still use this Valentine’s Guide.
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Whether it is Valentines Day or any special day, think pink. Make something special out of anything that we can during chronic illness, add a bit of color.
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I feel so bad, hurt so much, am so discouraged, have so many obstacles, that I can’t be kind. Well, I beg to differ. We can always try to be kind, even while we are ill. It might not always come across kindly to others but we sure can try. We can think before we speak or maybe just not speak sometimes. I do believe kindness is a choice, for the most part.
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An idea is not good unless we use it. Let’s get down to details, how are we going to get our beds made while being chronically ill?
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We can get so ill that we feel imprisoned in our own bedrooms and stuck in the yuck of our sheets. How in the world do we make our own beds when we are in them all the time and we don’t have the energy or the strength to make them? We cheat the sheets! Chronic illness can keep us from doing a lot of things but there are usually ways around the necessities of life, like clean sheets.
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