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What Resources Do you Use?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge was created by @cfs_zombie.  I learned about it when someone reblogged it onto my Tumblr dashboard.  Each day, there is a new writing prompt that focuses on chronic illness.

Day 21: What networks or websites have you used for support or information about your illness?

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Have you Met Someone with your Illness?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge gives you one brand new writing prompt each day.  All topics relate to chronic illness and/or living with a chronic illness.  The Challenge was created by @cfs_zombie, and I learned about it from Tumblr.  This post is for Day 20, which means I am now, officially, two-thirds of the way through the Challenge!

I’m pretty excited about hitting that mark because I’m growing tired of writing about my chronic illnesses.  I’ve done NaPodPoMo a few times (which is a challenge where you do 30 podcasts in 30 days). I’ve learned that I get tired of doing anything at or around Day 20 of a 30 day project.

Day 20: Have you met anyone with the same illness?  Did it help?

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Covered California Saved Us Money

In a previous blog, I wrote that Shawn and I got our health insurance coverage through Covered California. It is the health insurance marketplace for the state of California. We ended up with a health plan that covered both me and Shawn. It cost only a few more dollars than the health plan that covered only me.

Right away, it was obvious that we were saving money by purchasing a health insurance plan through Covered California. Part of the reason was because we qualified for a subsidy. The only way to use your subsidy is to go through the Marketplace (which, for us, is Covered California).

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How do you Feel About the Future?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge was created by @cfs_zombie. I learned about it through Tumblr. Each day, there is a brand new writing prompt that focuses on something that has to do with chronic illness (and/or living with one).

Day 19: How do you feel about the future?

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Has Being Ill Made you a Better Person?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge was created by @cfs_zombie.  I first learned about it through Tumblr.  It sounded like an interesting challenge, with plenty of topics that I thought would lead to introspective and/or useful blog posts.  Every day, there is a new writing prompt that focuses on chronic illness.

Day 18: Do you think you have become a better person through being ill?  Explain.

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How Would Things be Different if you Weren’t Ill?

This blog is part of the series I am writing for the 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge.   Each day, there is a brand new writing prompt that focuses on the topic of chronic illness and/or living with a chronic illness.  It was created by #cfs_zombie and I learned about it through Tumblr.  I’m writing this one after experiencing really bad allergies for two days in a row.  Let’s see how this turns out!

Day 17: How would things be different if you weren’t ill?

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What is your Favorite Inspirational Quote?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge is made up of a series of writing prompts that focus on chronic illness and what it is like to live with one. It was created by @cfs_zombie. I first learned about it when someone reblogged it onto my Tumblr dashboard. I am now working on the second half of the project. There have been some days when the most difficult part of the Challenge was coming up with enough energy to write about it.

Day 16: What is your favorite inspirational quote?

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What Would you Say to Those Newly Diagnosed?

The 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge was created by @cfs_zombie.  Every day, there is a brand new writing prompt that focuses on chronic illness and/or what it is like to life with one (or with many).

I first learned about this Challenge when someone reblogged information about it onto my Tumblr dashboard.  Today is Day 15, which means that when I post this blog I will have officially completed 1/2 of the 30 Day Chronic Illness Challenge!

Day 15: What would you say to people newly diagnosed with this illness?

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