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January 1, 2019 By Ashley

Guest Post by Patrick Davis Culture: a property of society and bacteria. Both have rules and laws, much of them the same, dictated by environment, principles more brutal and draconian than we care to contemplate. Its subjects are born into a  setting cultivated for the growth of a select few organisms which benefit its current […]

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I Have EDS: When Should I Get a Mobility Aid?

July 22, 2018 By Ashley

I got a great question from a reader: Question: “I have EDS: When should I get a mobility aid? I feel like it’s my ankles and feet that hurt so bad. I can almost not move after a day of walking. If I got a walker that I could use to sit whenever I need […]

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How to be a Power Patient

March 22, 2018 By Ashley

Most chronically ill people don’t know how to be a power patient – it’s not instinctive, or it’s been beaten out of us from years of depressing results. For us, the experience of going to doctors for answers is usually the same: we stumble our way through our origin story, trying to piece together the […]

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Guest Post: Meet B!

February 15, 2018 By Ashley

It’s time to meet another member of our community! We are all different, and yet, so many of us are the same. See if you can find a piece of your story reflected in “B’s,” a Canadian living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). The Malleable Mom: Tell us a little bit about yourself! B: I am […]

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What Causes Constipation in EDS?

January 22, 2018 By Ashley

I’ve had shit for brains lately. Not just from the chronic Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) brain fog and Mom-brain of raising two teens (and teens with EDS at that), but “I am sick and tired of dealing with all of our chronic constipation and I need to get to the bottom of why” brains. I was […]

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Happy New Year!

December 31, 2017 By Ashley

Happy New Year, from The Flexible Family

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Guest Post: Meet Bella!

December 14, 2017 By Ashley

From time to time I like to interview people in our tribe, so that you can learn more about what it’s like for other people living with chronic illness or disability. Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bella, a military wife and mother living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. The Malleable Mom: Can you tell us […]

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Fascia: The Key to Understanding Chronic Pain

December 8, 2017 By Ashley

Have you ever flipped through the channels, and stopped dead at something? This woman was lecturing on my local PBS station, and what she was saying about fascia caught my attention so quickly, I nearly got whiplash. Fascia is a web of connective tissue that runs throughout our body, and until very recently, we didn’t […]

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Why We Heart Our Posture Pump®

October 6, 2017 By Ashley

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in with you. Mostly because I’m miserably sitting here typing with one hand, and it’s hard. Shoulder surgery suuuuuucks.  I can say that with some authority, because in the last 24 months, I’ve had both brain and spine surgery, and they were cake walks compared to this. The […]

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What is a Sleep Study Like?

August 22, 2017 By Ashley

Let’s talk about sleep studies: have you ever had one? I did a sleep study about 20 years ago, and it showed that I had very limited amounts of restorative sleep, which they attributed at the time to my having “fibromyalgia” and trying to put me on a number of low dose antidepressants to get […]

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