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Day Twenty, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
And today, we talk about pink jeeps and ziplines… How in the world did we get here in a Cushing’s Challenge? I’m sliding these in because earlier I linked (possibly!) my growth hormone use as a cause...
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Day Twenty-one, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
Since I’m posting this on April 21, I had a built-in topic. The image above is from our first local meeting – note the 6 Cushing St. sign behind us. Natalie was the one in the middle. Today is the...
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Day Twenty-two, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
Over the years, we went on several Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. We liked them because they were small, casual and were fairly easy on the wallet. They sailed around the Caribbean to a variety of...
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Day Twenty-three, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
This is a tough one. Sometimes I’m in “why me” mode. Why Cushing’s? Why cancer? Unfortunately, there’s not a thing I can do about either. Cushing’s, who knows the risk factors? For kidney...
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Day Twenty-four, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
Cushie Crusader, that’s me…and many others. I think we all have an opportunity to be Cushie Crusaders every time we tell others about our illness, share our story on or offline, post about our...
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Day Twenty-five, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
I carry a print out of this everywhere I go because I find it very soothing. This print out is in a plastic page saver. On the other side there is a Psalm 116, part of the post from Day Nineteen....
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Day Twenty-six, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
It’s Sunday again, so this is another semi-religious post so feel free to skip it :) I’m sure that many would think that this is a semi-odd choice for all-time favorite hymn. My dad was a...
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Day Twenty-seven, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
So often during the diagnosis phase of Cushing’s I felt like this picture – I was walking alone to an unknown place with an unknown future. My diagnosis was pre-Internet which meant that any...
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Day Twenty-eight, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
I first saw a similar image to this one with the saying Life. Be in it at a recreation center when my son was little. At the time, it was “Duh, of course I’m in it”. The original image was one a...
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Day Thirty, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
Today is the final day of the Cushing’s Awareness Challenge and I wanted to leave you with this word of advice… To that end, I’m saving some of what I know for future blog posts, maybe even another...
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Day 10, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2016
This is one of the suggestions from the Cushing’s Awareness Challenge post: What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick? This one is so easy. I’ve said it a thousand...
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