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	<title>Working With Chronic Illness</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the problem with hiding illness at work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phyl Rubin is talking but not about furniture. Phyl and Bernie  own a New England furniture store chain.  No, Phyl is talking about a secret she&#8217;s kept for 40 years:  living with multiple sclerosis.
40 years of silence?  Why?  She didn&#8217;t have to worry about losing her job or a demotion.  Did she think it would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/03/whats-the-problem-with-hiding-illness-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Advice you didn&#8217;t ask for. What&#8217;s your response?</title>
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Chronic illness, complicated as it is, leaves many searching for a simple answer.
Lately, a tantalizing headline has gotten much  press in the social media &#8216;disease&#8217; community (yes, I&#8217;m on  twitter and you can tweet me @WorkWithIllness):
 &#8220;Exercise can Quiet Anxiety that Comes With Illness&#8221;.
Help me, please.  What&#8217;s the news here?   That people who live with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/03/advice-you-didnt-ask-for-whats-your-response/</link>
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		<title>Finding opportunity in quicksand</title>
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Being a  career collective blogger gives me a monthly reminder that people living with illness face the same issues as healthy people. This month&#8217;s  questions are  (you can find links to my fellow blogger posts  at the end of this article):

What do you do when you&#8217;re really, really, really discouraged  about your unsuccessful job search?
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/02/finding-opportunity-in-quicksand/</link>
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		<title>Are you receiving SSDI and want to work?</title>
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After many hours spent filling out forms and dotting my &#8221; i&#8217;s&#8221;,  I&#8217;ve  been awarded a contract as a vendor for the Social Security Administration&#8217;s Ticket to Work program.
I tend to do poorly with forms and details (just ask my husband!) and I knew it would be  torture.  Yet another example of the devil is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/02/are-you-receiving-ssdi-and-want-to-work/</link>
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		<title>The skinny on working virtually with chronic illness</title>
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If you live with chronic illness, you&#8217;ve probably realized that:

Symptoms can come and go when you least expect it
The intensity and  how it impacts you can vary
This can wreck havoc on your job

How do you explain the changes?  Yesterday you were able to get to work and do your job just fine. But today you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/02/the-skinny-on-working-virtually-with-chronic-illness/</link>
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		<title>Do you suffer from this syndrome: trying to do too much?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, while preparing our taxes, my husband mentioned that he&#8217;d been paying a credit card  expense.  It was a small monthly fee and he&#8217;d assumed it was a business expense that I&#8217;d mistakenly put on our personal charge card.  The unfortunate truth is, it&#8217;s not unusual that I make such mistakes.
But I didn&#8217;t recognize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/02/do-you-suffer-from-this-syndrome-trying-to-do-too-much/</link>
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		<title>Are you looking for support at work?</title>
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Living with chronic illness can leave even the toughest person feeling vulnerable.  You just wish that other people could &#8220;get it&#8221;, don&#8217;t you?
I know from personal experience how hard this is in a marriage  (How a Marriage Survives When One Person Gets Sick, MORE Magazine) .  And marriage is all about the relationship,  where two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/01/are-you-looking-for-support-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Dogs can do it, can you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the monthly #Career Collective Bloggers post.   Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the list of other bloggers and click on the links to read their valuable thoughts on the following question.

This month&#8217;s question is: What advice do you have to help job seekers transition and make the most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/01/dogs-can-do-it-can-you/</link>
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		<title>Is it &#8220;evident&#8221; that flex is key?</title>
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A reporter was interviewing me about chronic illness and working.  She was very surprised when I said, &#8220;The single most important factor that helps a chronically illl person continue to work is to work in a flexible environment.&#8221; 
She asked me what &#8220;evidence&#8221; I have to support this.   (Have you noticed how popular that word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/01/is-it-evident-that-flex-is-key/</link>
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		<title>3 Traps You Can Avoid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are just too many definitions for chronic illness to list ( google it for yourself) and many contradict each other.
But, no matter what the definition is, there&#8217;s one thing you can count on in unpredictable chronic illness world.
Living with chronic illness will affect your quality of life.
What makes me so sure?  I&#8217;ve seen it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2010/01/3-traps-you-can-avoid/</link>
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