I was reading Real Simple magazine and they had a list of blogs that they recommended, including:
and Working Moms Against Guilt (my favorite title!)
I started exploring other people’s blogs, since I was writing one of my own (such as it is!) I was probably the last person in the blogosphere to have discovered Google Reader but have “subscribed” to a number of blogs using that service. Most of the blogs (except those recommended by Real Simple) have had to do with food; I love to cook and read about cooking. Some great blogs chronicle their author’s adventures with all types of culinary creations, and they seem to have an avid following, with 20 or 30 comments with each post.
I don’t generally enjoy reading about other people’s struggles with chronic disease (I have even had a hard time, on occasion, listening to my friends with scleroderma go on and on about their aches and pains.) I suppose that I feel as though I have enough to worry about with my own crazy life. But this afternoon I tried to find blogs dealing with chronic disease and came up mostly empty-handed. When I searched google for “chronic disease blog”, the number 1 result was this blog, which seems to be some type of advertisement for something called EFT.
Type A with RA (cute name!) is the free-flowing monolgue by a high-energy woman with rheumatoid arthritis.
Chronic Babe is written by a woman with fibromyalgia and anxiety disorder.
Let me know if you’ve found other blogs that relate to living with a chronic disease!
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April 5, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Susan
I’m so glad you discovered us! Thanks for reading and come back often.
Susan at Working Moms Against Guilt
May 3, 2008 at 11:34 pm
typeawithra
First, I want to thank you so much for mentioning my blog. This is the first I read the description: Type A with RA (cute name!) is the free-flowing monolgue by a high-energy woman with rheumatoid arthritis.
I laughed so hard!!! I had never thought of my complaining as a free-flowing monologue but it really is a fair way to describe it. I also wanted to mention that I’ll add your site to my links as I think you might do your blog for a similar reason – to express to the world about living with your disease and it’s not really acceptable to talk about it all the time at work AND to bring a more personalized community together to help you and them cope. Good work! It is working! Thanks. – Sasha.
May 4, 2008 at 9:45 am
bluefingers
Hi Sasha: thanks so much for your comment. I’m glad that you found my blog! I enjoyed reading yours– it was very personal and though you express the difficulties of living with RA you still have a positive attitude. I’m just starting out with the whole blogging thing and have a hard time being as personal as you are, but I hope to bring a little bit more of my personal experiences into it. I hope that you keep reading, I’ll keep reading yours. How are you feeling this days? Do you read anyone else’s blog who has a chronic disease?
Looking forward to keeping in touch with you! Lexa
May 11, 2008 at 1:58 am
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