The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey 💜
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 When the Movies Turned Into a Sh!tty Mess—Literally
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 When the Movies Turned Into a Sh!tty Mess—LiterallyThat weekend movie outing turned into a comedy of errors, as Crohn’s decided the real entertainment would begin after the…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 I Haven’t Even Left the House Yet
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 I Haven’t Even Left the House YetEvery morning is a battle between my body’s energy levels and my chronic illnesses. From the shower to the bathroom,…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 Asthma, Crohn’s, Myasthenia Gravis & Perimenopause—OH MY!
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 Asthma, Crohn’s, Myasthenia Gravis & Perimenopause—OH MY!Hurricane Marie’s humidity has turned my body into a battleground with asthma, Crohn’s, MG, and perimenopause. One at a time,…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 You Are Not Too Much
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries: 💜 You Are Not Too MuchLiving with chronic illness can make us feel like our symptoms, needs, and hard days are somehow “too much.” But…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Dear Me, You Don’t Have to Keep Up
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Dear Me, You Don’t Have to Keep Up🌻 A reminder from me, to me: I don’t have to keep up with healthy people—or the person I used…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Apparently, My Roommates Really Did Come to Alaska
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Apparently, My Roommates Really Did Come to AlaskaCrohn’s and MG ignored their eviction notices and came to Alaska anyway. Between bathroom sprints, a human-bobble-head moment, way too…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 The Women I Keep Getting to Know
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 The Women I Keep Getting to KnowSome friendships survive decades not because people stay the same, but because they make room for each other to change.…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 My Coping Toolbox: Baking, Beaches, Pooh, Potter & Punchlines
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 My Coping Toolbox: Baking, Beaches, Pooh, Potter & PunchlinesWe all have coping mechanisms, and mine change depending on what I’m carrying. Baking, music, writing, the ocean, Winnie the…
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The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Sometimes Home Is the Best Medicine
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≻: The Dual Diagnosis Diaries | Kia’s Journey: 🌻 Sometimes Home Is the Best MedicineAfter much-needed rest, I discovered that some of the best medicine isn’t found in a prescription—it’s found in Mom’s house,…