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		<title>Even Heftier Health Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been four years since The Big Fat Medical Update, so I wanted to catch everyone up on the big changes to my health status. I&#8217;m autistic. We don&#8217;t use the term &#8220;Asperger&#8217;s&#8221; anymore. Dr. Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborator who was responsible for telling the Nazis which of his autistic boys could become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Neuropsychology Appointment a Bit of a Letdown</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I’d been waiting essentially a whole year to see a neuropsychologist. The one my primary doc originally referred me to last November had actually just left her job to work in the private sector. It took several months before the office got back to me with the neuropsychologist who thought could best help me. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Big Fat Medical Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been brought to my attention that I have a lot of old health-related posts that I never followed up on, and commenters have been looking for information I haven’t been able to provide for them because they ended up being things that didn’t go anywhere. I only published one post in 2020, and because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ruminations and Memory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been just over a year since I switched from Effexor XR to Cymbalta for my anxiety and depression. To my memory, I had been taking Effexor for nine years at the time of the switch, which went smoothly because both prescription medications are from the same class of drugs, SNRIs. The decision was made primarily to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Complex Medical Problems Too Big for smAlbany</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had my follow-up appointment with my new primary care doctor on Wednesday, and we went over all of my assorted test results. The usual tests were all fine, which was weird. Some of the specialized tests I requested were abnormal, and Dr. B confessed that she doesn’t know how to interpret them. Her recommendation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winning the Primary Care Lottery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent over two hours at my new primary care doctor’s office today, and I couldn’t be happier! Well, maybe a little, but that wasn’t their fault. My previous primary care doctor retired in June. I’d thought I had my replacement set up, but it didn’t work out. The insurance company’s website lied when it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disease Progression Sucks (ME/CFS)</title>
		<link>http://christinagleason.com/disease-progression-sucks-me-cfs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was originally posted on Reddit on July 9, 2017, so add the appropriate number of years to all of the date references. I’m copying it here for ease of reference for my application for disability benefits. 10 years ago, I was an exhausted mother of a toddler who had no idea why I had so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Traveling While Disabled: Invisible Disability Discrimination</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disability discrimination comes in many forms, including the backward sort of discrimination which involves assorted community gatekeepers deciding you’re not disabled enough to receive appropriate accommodations. I read this piece about travelers who are more severely mobility impaired than I am who have had to fight with airlines for replacement of their damaged mobility devices and grew quite angry. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Grandma’s Heart Attack &#038; Strokes…and American Heart Month</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything changed on Friday, February 17, 2017. My husband and I were sleeping in, only to be awakened by the doorbell, where one of my brothers stood to offer to drive me to the hospital to see Grandma because I hadn’t been answering my text messages. One of my uncles had made his daily morning [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Terrifying Weekend I Lost My Mind</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Gleason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crazy is one of those words that those of us who are mentally ill may use to self-describe from time to time, but it’s generally considered offensive if anyone else uses it to describe us. But I only thought I knew what I was talking about any time I used the word before Sunday, November 6, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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