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10 Tried and Tested Tips for Thriving as a Single Parent with Chronic Illness – Mamas Facing Forward

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on April 2, 2019October 17, 2020

Parenting is hard, and single parenting can be even more of a challenge. But when you add in a chronic illness with multiple symptoms, side effects from treatments, and the reality of living with a disability, life just gets even more hectic and overwhelming.

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When Rheumatoid Arthritis Made Things Feel Hopeless, Believing These 3 Principles Changed Everything – Creaky Joints

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on March 12, 2019

Imagine being unable to work at your job because the pain and fatigue you experience on a daily basis makes things you could by rote feel impossible.

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Arthritis Research Canada: Parenting With Arthritis

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on March 5, 2019

Catherine Backman, a senior scientist of rehabilitation at Arthritis Research Canada, has examined the impact of arthritis on motherhood and said Davidson is not alone in her experience of life with rheumatoid arthritis.

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2018; A Year Of Growing Pains

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on December 31, 2018

2018 has been one of the most monumental years of my 32 rotations around the sun. It’s only been 3 years since chronic illness made its impact on my life and also when I started to feel as if I was living in an entirely different world with how the diagnosis impacted my life.

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What It's Like To Be a Single Mother With Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on October 16, 2018

Inside what it is like to face single motherhood, chronic illness and disability all before 30.

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My Original Invisible Pain

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on May 16, 2018

A Story of Adverse Childhood Experience

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Parenting VS Chronic Illness

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on February 15, 2018

Child locks and friendly packaging are unfriendly to Arthritis.

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The Unexpected & Grateful Mother

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on December 3, 2017

I never wanted to be a mother in the first place, but here I am now proudly one while struggling with my biggest fear of losing the ability to Mother full time because of my health.

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15. Reasons Why I Can't Work With My Chronic Illness

  • by Chronic Eileen
  • Posted on August 17, 2017

I live with the #1 cause of long term disability in North America

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Happy #420 to my toker friends! A little history of me and cannabis: I did not start smoking it until I was 30. I was not into it before my #RheumatoidArthritis diagnosis but that diagnosis changed my mind quite quickly. Cannabis helps me with so many parts of living with chronic illness, from medication side effects to symptoms to my mental health and creativity. It has also replaced alcohol as a form of recreation for me. Cannabis is a regular medicine for me on a daily basis now. How about you? How are you celebrating 420 in a pandemic?
Who feels this one? So frustrating. I want to do so much but my body says otherwise. Some days I feel trapped because of this.
How to put yourself in an RA flare: Paint 4 rooms in 3 days! At least my bedroom is a gorgeous jade tone. Soon I will have a beautiful new room to flare in.
My latest on @creaky_joints is about the pesky symptom of #rheumatoidarthritis not talked about enough - Malaise! Do you feel like you have the flu a lot but don't actually? You're not alone.
Took my @urbanpoling to Wreck Beach today!
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