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All posts from my Instagram, where I share tips for living your best life with chronic illness.

🍞 Week 6 of 2026 Weekly 🍞

1️⃣ I’ve been making bread for ~10ish years and this is the best loaf I have ever made in that time. I’m very proud of it!
2️⃣ Current embroidery project is basically doodling, which is fun!
3️⃣ Ended the week with reading for fun ☺️

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I’m Kate, a chronic illness patient and advocate sharing what my life is like with 10+ chronic illnesses. Follow me for more and check out my blog at katethealmostgreat.com⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

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1️⃣ A loaf of bread in a bread pan on a stove
2️⃣ An in-progress embroidery project on a blue bedspread. There’s a box of embroidery floss and another with embroidery supplies.
3️⃣ Kate takes a selfie lying on her bed. She’s a redheaded white woman wearing a green sweatshirt and pink glasses and she’s holding a Kindle.

#GlutenFreeBaking #PunchNeedle #RheumatoidArthritis #Fibromyalgia

#LTKselfcare #LTKfoodie

The Internet is great for a lot of things, but one of them is the fact that when I wanted to try crafting again, I was able to find more accessible options. ⁣
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Growing up and through college, I loved crafting. I was on crutches a lot in high school, and I would paint them. I tried all sorts of crafting, and I was able to do it a lot longer than I was playing instruments. But my RA - or rather my difficulty in properly pacing - caught up eventually, and when I had my physical breakdown and moved back to New England, I stopped. ⁣
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I wanted to get back into crafting, and I've always wanted to do embroidery, so when the Internet introduced me to punch needling, I was sold. Honestly, my biggest motivator for not overdoing it on my new hobby is the fact that I enjoy it so much and I would be upset if I overdid it and had to stop. ⁣
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It still hurts that playing instruments - any of the ones I played for years - hurts me. I'm determined that the only reason I will stop a hobby is if I get bored of it, and not that RA or any of my other illnesses gets in the way. ⁣
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⁣I’m Kate, a chronic illness patient and advocate. Follow me for more content for chronic illness patients and their loved ones!⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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ID: An in-progress embroidery project on a blue bed next to open container of yarn and embroidery floss. ⁣
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#AlmostGreatHealth #AlmostGreatLife #rheumatoidarthritis #RA #rheum #rheumatoiddisease #arthritis #curearthritis #chronicillness #chronicpain #spoonielife #autoimmune #autoimmunedisease #autoimmunearthritis #arthritiswarrior #arthritisawareness #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior

Week 44 of #2025Weekly ⁣
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1️⃣ Started the week with refilling my pill boxes ⁣
2️⃣ My meal prepping is often not pretty in a picture, but sometimes it is⁣
3️⃣ IVIG! There’s a lot I can’t show because my personal medical information is allll over it but just know that there is a lot of this ⁣
4️⃣ Ended the week with more tests 🫀⁣
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1️⃣ 3 pill boxes stacked on top of each other⁣
2️⃣ A bowl of food. It's kale, quinoa, sweet potatoes, and sundried tomatoes.⁣
3️⃣ A bunch of medical supplies in plastic on a gauze underpanel. There are some drawings over parts of it for privacy.⁣
4️⃣ A hospital wall with an art installation of anatomical heart scultupres.⁣
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#AlmostGreatHealth #AlmostGreatLife #ChronicallyIll #RheumatoidArthritis #RheumatoidDisease #Autoimmune #ButYouDontLookSick #AutoimmuneDisease #SpoonieLife #InvisibleIllness #Fibromyalgia #SjogrensSyndrome #POTS #CoronaryArteryDisease #HeartDisease

CHRONIC ILLNESS TO-DO LIST⁣⁣
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Living with chronic illness is more than "just" the symptoms and the appointments. Here are the things I have to do to feel just sort of not awful: ⁣⁣⁣
▪ Drink 80-120 oz of water⁣⁣⁣
▪ Consume 5-8 grams of sodium (sadly not an exaggeration)⁣
⁣⁣▪ Take pills 4+ times a day⁣
⁣⁣▪ Take an inhaled medication 2x a day⁣⁣⁣
▪ Don't miss a dose or a day⁣⁣⁣
▪ Sleep 8-12 hours a night⁣
⁣⁣▪ Move a little bit each day⁣
⁣⁣▪ Eat healthy (without gluten, dairy, corn, soy, or egg)⁣⁣⁣
⁣⁣▪ Keep an eye on my mental health (and manage it as possible)⁣⁣⁣
▪ Stay on top of my doctor's appointments ⁣
⁣▪ Work 30-36 hours a week to have health insurance⁣
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It's no wonder I get overwhelmed sometimes! ⁣⁣What's on your chronic illness to-do list?⁣⁣⁣
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ID: Kate and Harley the golden retriever hugging. Kate is a redheaded white woman wearing a black dress, pink sweater, and round pink glasses.

Week 1 of #2026Weekly - a bit delayed because of high pain over the weekend⁣
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1️⃣ First appointment of the year! Got an iron infusion AND my veins cooperated for the IV - a great way to start the year⁣
2️⃣ Iron infusion 2; IV did not cooperate as much but still a success ⁣
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1️⃣ Kate in an infusion chair. She’s a redheaded white woman wearing a shirt with the old Maine flag on it, a blue mask, pink glasses, and blue headphones. ⁣
2️⃣ The Boston skyline at evening ⁣
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#ChronicallyIll #AutoimmuneDisease #Boston

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