ChronicBabe’s Jenni Prokopy Talks Shop about Living and Working with Chronic Illness

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 16th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

She is the founding editor of one of the most informative and impressive websites on chronic illness -- including but not limited to chronic pain. Not only is her site geared toward young women like me, but it comes in a candy-striped pink package! Rock on. In this interview, ChronicBabe’s Jenni Prokopy talks shop about living and working with chronic illness. Loolwa Khazzoom: What was your life like before fibromyalgia? Jenni Prokopy: Before my diagnosis, ...
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Top 5 Tips for Writers with Chronic Illness

By: Jenni Prokopy, Editrix, ChronicBabe

July 10th, 2008 • 1 Comment

Here are my top 5 tips for writers with chronic illness: 1. Learn to adapt. Change your schedule, your work patterns, your ergonomics, whatever it takes. 2. Know that change will be continuous. What works today might not work next month, so be flexible! 3. Hunt for ideal clients. Eat Ramen for a few weeks if it means you hold out for a great client -- one who pays you $1 per ...
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ChronicBabe’s Jenni Prokopy Offers Tips on How Disabled Writers Can Work at Home

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 5th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and a host of other conditions make working the 9-to-5 severely distressing if not impossible for disabled writers. But as a freelancer, you can work at home. In your PJs. With really, really bad hair. And nobody will notice. ChronicBabe's Jenni Prokopy offers tips on how disabled writers can work at home -- and succeed big-time. Loolwa Khazzoom: In what ways is ...
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Managing Chronic Daily Headache and a Writing Career: Interview with Paula Kamen

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

June 24th, 2008 • 2 Comments

For going on two decades, Paula Kamen has been managing Chronic Daily Headache and a writing career, which has been a tremendous - yet not impossible -- challenge. Among other accomplishments to date, Paula has authored three published books, one play, and numerous articles - published in periodicals including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post. Here Paula shares her journey writing All in My ...
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Try an Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Natural Pain Relief

By: Brad Lemley, Editorial Director, DrWeil.com

June 8th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

I suggest that people try an anti-inflammatory diet for natural pain relief. A lot of medical science is determining that chronic inflammation is the root cause of virtually all degenerative diseases which are plagues in Western society right now. Everything from coronary disease to Alzheimer's is the result of a chronic inflammatory state, at least partially. So if you can get inflammation under control, you can be healthier as you get older I think that ...
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