Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 7
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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 7

For the final day of the Spoonful of Gratitude challenge, I'm channeling my inner Fraulein Maria and ask you to share a few of your favorite things! I've chosen: music, microbiology, animals, writing, and tea!

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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 6
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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 6

I couldn't have a challenge without music! For day 6, post a song that makes you want to dance every time you hear it! For me, it's “Now or Never” by Halsey.

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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 5
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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 5

Day 5 challenges you to post a picture of something or someone who always makes you laugh. I'm going a little bit off script for this one by picking a genre of pictures - animal memes.

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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 3
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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 3

For day 3, I've asked you to post something or someone who changed your life for the better. This is going to be a bit meta - but this blog has changed my life for the better.

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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 2
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Spoonful of Gratitude - Day 2

For day two, I've challenged you to post pictures of 3 people who always support you. I've selected two of my closest friends, Emeryl and Sloan, as well as my mom.

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Chronic SOS - November 7, 2023
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Chronic SOS - November 7, 2023

Though I do enjoy the occasional political joke and disability advocacy often gets into political territory, I know the upcoming year will be full with so much campaigning and politics so I'm going to stay away from that. Instead, I'll be sharing facts about some small towns - with a twist.

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Spoonful of Gratitude challenge!
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Spoonful of Gratitude challenge!

This year has been rough for a lot of people, and so, I hope you will join me in the "Spoonful of Gratitude" challenge. Starting November 16 and ending November 22 (the day before Thanksgiving), there will be specific instructions of what to post online in order to intentionally make you focus on the positives!

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4 Unexpected changes after my injuries (and 5 ways I've adapted to them!)
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4 Unexpected changes after my injuries (and 5 ways I've adapted to them!)

The brain controls everything, so of course when there's a brain (or spinal cord) injury, the entire body is affected. I've lived with this for nearly eight years now and some adaptations are fairly obvious: using a wheelchair, for example; some of them were unexpected and took some time to figure out how to adjust and adapt to. Here are [#] of unexpected changes and how I adapted to them.

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Chronic SOS - October 31, 2023
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Chronic SOS - October 31, 2023

Like many holidays celebrated now, Halloween is rooted in celebrations related to the season and the harvesting of crops. Also like many holidays celebrated in Western cultures today, it is a conglomeration of a pagan (Celtic in this case) holiday and a Christian holiday.

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Ask Aunt Lori - Death
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Ask Aunt Lori - Death

There are two things every person, regardless of race, wealth, gender, or anything else will do: be born and die. The latter of the two creates a wide variety of emotions and reactions. Sometimes it's tragic and unexpected but sometimes it's just someone's time.

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Lethal allergies aren't your punchline
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Lethal allergies aren't your punchline

TW: ableism, bullying, anaphylaxis

The fact that that has to be said is sad. The covid-19 pandemic unfortunately showed just how many people don't care about their fellow humans, and that number goes down when you throw in disabled people or something that might slightly inconvenience them.

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