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Don’t Overuse Exclamation Points

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The Grammar Mistake Almost Everyone Makes

Holiday Cards & Grammar

About My New Book

Commas vs. Semicolons

Misplaced Modifiers: What They Are And How To Place Them Correctly

5 Reasons Why Everyone Should Review Grammar

On Grammar Variety in Your Writing

How To Use Apostrophes Correctly

Rules of English Grammar: Capitalization (Part 2)

Rules of English Grammar: Capitalization (Part 1)

Rules of English Grammar: Commonly Confused Words

Comma Rules Part 3

How to Use Semicolons

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Kate the (Almost) Great

Chronic health lifestyle blog

If you’re new to my page, be sure to check out m

If you’re new to my page, be sure to check out my blog at the link in my bio or by going to katethealmostgreat.com

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Video: a time lapse of Kate typing on her computer. She’s a brunette white woman wearing a gray t-shirt, gray compression gloves, and round tortoiseshell glasses. Audio reads “What makes you happy?” White text reads that and then:
“1. Helping patients live better lives
2. Helping healthy people understand chronic illness
3. Helping people avoid what I’ve experienced”

#AlmostGreatBlog #AlmostGreatHealth #ChronicallyIll

It's tiiiiiiiime!⁣ ⁣ My first gift guide of th

It's tiiiiiiiime!⁣
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My first gift guide of the year is now published. As always, it's full of personalized gifts. I always do that one first because they can take longer to arrive, and, as always, I had a lot of fun pulling together fun gift ideas.⁣
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There are a few more that I'm working on for the upcoming weeks, including a gift guide for chronic pain patients. ⁣
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As always, you check it out at the link in my bio or go to kate the almost great .com. That post also has links to the archive of my gift guides, as I've published some every year since 2015 (or earlier). ⁣
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JOY WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS ⁣ ⁣ When you live wit

JOY WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS ⁣
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When you live with constant illness(es), it can be easy to only look at the negatives. But having a chronic illness doesn't mean that you can't still have joy. ⁣
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I find joy in coffee, in reading good books. I find it in attending mass and hanging out with a friend. ⁣
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I find joy in trying new recipes and searching for good brownie recipes. I find it in trying (and often failing) to keep plants alive. ⁣
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I find joy in talking to other patients and explaining my tips for getting through subtalar fusion surgery recovery. ⁣
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Joy is not impossible with chronic illness. ⁣
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Where do you find joy?⁣
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PS - This is not meant as a form of toxic positivity. I know that chronic illness is often negative. I'm just saying that having chronic illness doesn't mean that you can never feel joy. ⁣
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ID: Kate smiles for the camera while holding a coffee mug. She is a redheaded white woman wearing a blue t-shirt and round tortoiseshell glasses. A white text box reads "Joy with Chronic Illness".

Sometimes all you can do is pour another cup of co

Sometimes all you can do is pour another cup of coffee and power through to the other side

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Video: Kate pours a cute of coffee. All you can see of her is a green sweatshirt. The text from above the lines is in white. The intro to Taylor Swift’s Ready for It plays.

#AlmostGreatLife #motivatingquotes

There are some new faces around here, so I figured

There are some new faces around here, so I figured this is as good a time as ever to reintroduce myself. ⁣
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Hi, I'm Kate! I'm a millennial from Maine and living in the Boston area. I work for a nonprofit and in my spare time I run a blog and do advocacy work for other chronic illness patients. ⁣
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I live with 7+ chronic illnesses and miscellaneous conditions. I've been in pain since 2001 and have had what feels like a gazillion surgeries and procedures. Almost all of my health issues go back to my rheumatoid arthritis, which took 9 years to get diagnosed. ⁣
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I help other patients live their best lives and their loved ones better understand what they're going through. I've talked to plenty of you directly in my DMs and emails, and while I'm not always timely in my responses, I'm so glad that I've been able to talk you guys through tricky situations. ⁣
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I also read a lot of historical fiction and fantasy, watch a lot of crime procedurals, and do a lot of cooking and baking. I spend as much time as possible home in Maine. ⁣
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Please introduce (or reintroduce) yourself in the comments!⁣
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ID: Kate smiles at the camera. She's a redheaded white woman wearing a navy and beige striped sweater, silver Claddagh necklace, and round tortoiseshell glasses.

One of the things I've been working on the last mo

One of the things I've been working on the last month is increasing my stamina, which is freeing and difficult and painful and wonderful. ⁣
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Before my September infusion, my previous one was in December 2023. Combine missing my infusion with getting COVID this summer and I lost a lot of the stamina I had been building up after my surgery in May 2023. ⁣
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But now I'm working on rebuilding it again. ⁣
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As you can gather from the beginning of this post - and your own experience with chronic illness - it has been a mixed bag. I'm trying to push myself enough that I can increase my stamina while not pushing myself so much that I hurt myself. ⁣
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One of the key parts of doing this is going on walks, which is how I took this picture. ⁣
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It gets me out of the house, provides me a controlled way to work on my stamina, helps me work though an audiobook, and see some beautiful sights. ⁣
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How do you rebuild your stamina, especially after a difficult health time?⁣
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AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN MY

AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN MY SYMPTOMS STARTED ⁣
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Like many Americans, I'm stressed about today's el

Like many Americans, I'm stressed about today's elections. ⁣
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My anxiety has been high for the last week, especially after I mailed in my ballot, because after that point, there really wasn't anything I could do. ⁣
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But since it the day has finally come, I'm trying to make it through today and tomorrow. I'm mostly trying to manage expectations so I don't feel too big of emotional swings. ⁣
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For a lot of people with chronic illness, high stress can cause flares. It could be a break-up, a death, losing a job, getting a job after a long period without it, defending your thesis, getting married, a loved one having a health scare, buying a house ... or, you know, a potentially world-changing election. ⁣
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Personally, I scheduled therapy for Thursday. I didn't want to schedule it for before the election because I didn't know how my emotionally different I would feel. Would the whole session be about keeping calm before the election only for that to not matter afterwards? ⁣
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For everyone in a similar position, I'm sending you calm emotions and no flares 💖⁣
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ID: Kate stands in front of a bookshelf with visible fake ivy. She's a redheaded white woman wearing a navy sweater, silver Claddagh necklace, and pink acrylic glasses.

I can’t “positive think” my way out of chron

I can’t “positive think” my way out of chronic illness. I can stay positive while dealing with chronic illness, but that won’t stop the fact that I am chronically ill.

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Video: a lake through some trees. White text reads what’s above the line. The intro to Birds of a Feather plays.

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