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		<title>Exciting New Research for Chronic Fatigue- It&#8217;s Not All In Your Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an article today stating a study published last week in the journal Science suggested that might be the case, reporting that many patients who had the syndrome were infected with a recently discovered virus.  The new suspect is a xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV, which probably descended from a group of viruses that cause cancer in mice. How or when XMRV found its way into humans is unknown.]]></description>
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		<title>If You Ever Need Someone To Lick Inside Your Ears, I&#8217;d Be Honored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I wouldn’t mind someone saying that to me every once in a while.  I’ve been sick for a while- a long while. In that time I’ve felt my womanly wiles slip away day by day.  It’s easy to do when you are only able to take a bath once a week.  So when I heard the new trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought the trailer was fairly cute, (The male lead issues the immortal words in my blog title…)  and it brought a couple of things home to roost.   The first being that I had become the female equivalent of a eunuch. Not something that a woman who has been married a quarter of a century needs to be hit over the head with.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chronicchicks.com/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Living In A Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People always talk about ‘thinking outside the box’, but what about when you are literally living inside one?  For seven months now, I have been lying in bed, staring at three walls, being waited on like the Queen of Sheba. You would think it would be a grand thing. Breakfast in bed daily. The “Life of Riley” as my Grandmother was fond of saying.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chronicchicks.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Kicking The Bucket List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week a friend of mine came to visit and brought a DVD to help pass the time.  She had picked a comedy and was all ready to while away a few hours.  Of course, it was only a few minutes into the movie until one of the main characters was hugging the toilet from chemotherapy and my friend was appalled that she had brought something like this back into my home. Me? The Bucket List had made me uncomfortable for a few minutes, sure. One, no one likes to be reminded of hospital visits where they, too, were hugging hospital toilets. Two, I couldn’t dream of a hospital visit lasting so long that you could plan a Bucket List and three, I couldn’t imagine beginning to feel well enough to even consider one.  Mostly, I was struck by how movies treated illness and my friend's reaction.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chronicchicks.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>In A Stranger&#8217;s Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When your body turns on you, your world becomes a vast, unfriendly place. A dark room filled with monsters underneath the bed and who lurk in the shadows of the closet. I had visions of Bette Davis in Dark Victory and friends at the bedside.  Instead its been months where after the initial hospitalizations the visitors dropped off and we were left to cope on our own.]]></description>
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		<title>Speedbumps and MS Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning on Fox and Friends Sunday, Janice Dean (their Weather Woman Extraordinaire) came forward to talk about her life dealing with Multiple Sclerosis......  (I'll post the vid here from Fox News because was I smart enough to capture the AM edition??  Ohhhh, nooooo, but then again, it is Sunday morning, so cut me a break, peeps.)]]></description>
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