Candace D.

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Aww thank you!! 🙏

Thank you for sharing! 🖤

Wishing all who are celebrating today a very happy, gentle Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for all the community and solidarity here amongst the chronic illness and disability community. I truly don’t know what I’d do without you all 🙏🦃

I’m chronically ill so I probably can’t jingle all the way. Maybe half way

I don’t expect everyone to automatically just know what living with my chronic illnesses is like. But I so appreciate people who are willing to try. Just listening and believing me is a great start.

A haunted house but it’s just people asking me if I’ve tried yoga

I’m not “lazy”. I’m a motivated person trapped in a sick body.

"Good People" don't spend their Time calling sick people Lazy" [pic of racoon showing off his pretty legs]

I spent a lot of today thinking it was Thursday

25 cone-shaped KN95 masks with black earloops, in assorted colors on a white background Top row: rosy pink, green, cool blue, golden yellow, black 2nd row: olive green, khaki, crimson red, white, gray 3rd row: deep gray, light green, bright blue, teal, dusty orange 4th row: navy blue, deep gray blue, rosy tan, lightest leafy green, warm tan 5th row: light pink, gray blue, sky blue, light gray, deep green

25 assorted colorful KN95 masks by Kind Mask, 5 rows of 5, black ear loops Top row: tan, dusty pink, green, cool blue, yellow 2nd row: denim blue, sky blue, dark green, deep olive green, leafy green 3rd row: bright blue, teal, peach, navy blue, deep gray blue 4th row: gray, wine red, white, light gray, light green 5th row: light peachy pink, light olive green, lightest gray, lightest beige, lightest pink

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I’ve seen several mutuals rocking these respirators and I can’t wait to finally try em out once they arrive in the mail.

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Chronically ill people make Santa’s nice list by default—we literally don’t even have the energy to be naughty! 😈😂

The devil couldn’t reach me so he became my health insurance company…

Have you heard of The Teal Pumpkin Project?

It’s October. Welcome to “October slide” if it hasn’t already started for you… 🫠

✨Hocus Pocus✨brain fog makes it harder to focus

She’s a 10 but on the pain scale.

At what age do you stop searching for an adultier adult? 😀

"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

Being diagnosed with ehlers-danlos syndrome later in life has felt like watching a movie all over again except this time you notice all the foreshadowing.

A hummingbird sitting on the edge of the red feeder.

A gorgeous hummingbird picture from my dad to break up your feed! He said they’ve been coming to his feeder a lot more lately.

I wish I could at least take weekends off from my chronic illnesses.

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome be like:

Ok so…✍️ your symptoms are everything you can possibly think of and a few extra that you’ve never heard of!

My body is like a junk drawer full of diagnoses just rattling around

I hope they listen to you and help you!

Good luck with your appointment!

Doctors believing and treating their patients is a form of suicide prevention.

As a chronically ill person when I’m burnt out it’s actually more like completely charred.

I be like “IDC” or “IDGAF”

And then run fake scenarios in my head for years for how I could’ve responded differently

Remember when BBL meant “be back later”?