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Biannual Blogathon Bash Wrap-up

June 24, 2013 by Ashley 1 Comment

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This weekend has been a whirlwind of activity.  I had so much fun and completed so many great tasks on my blog.  If you look up above I created a new header for the blog to make it scream me even more.  This took me about an hour’s time in Photoshop.  I would say that was an hour well spent.  In addition to making that header I also made a Facebook cover that I think looks amazing.  Make sure you head over and check it out.  I did not however get the time to make a Twitter background and cover or a YouTube cover, but that is on my To Do list for the blog.

Biannual Blogathon BashI was about to completely revamp the About Me page on here that I must say looks very slick and sounds a lot more professional.  I also wrote up a new post on the blog about Daily Living Tips With CMT.  In this post I learned and created an image that is Pinterest and Sverve friendly.  I updated the Media Kit on Parsimonious Pash, however I will be posting a nice new clean “pretty” one very soon as well.  If you had also noticed  the disclosure policy was almost a year old, so I tackled that as well; updating it so it fits Parsimonious Pash to a T.

In the end I completed 24 of the mini challenges that were offered for the Biannual Blogathon Bash.  This event is really a spectacular one that I have participated in more than once.  Kathleen has already announced the next Bash as being from January 24th-27th and I will be applauding her the whole time because she will be 9 months pregnant then!  I will be participating in the next one and am so glad that it falls after my boyfriend’s birthday so I do not have to worry about it conflicting with that.

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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: Adobe Photoshop, Blog, Blogathon, Country Music Television, Facebook, pinterest, twitter, YouTube

Pro Basketball Players Can be Disabled Too…

April 13, 2013 by Ashley 1 Comment

basketballI hope that the title really pulled you in because that was what I was trying to do.  This story is pretty old, but that doesn’t make it any less important.  Back in 2003 the Philadelphia 76’ers had a Canadian Basketball player get injured which lead to his diagnosis of Charcot Marie Tooth Disease.  I want you to see that even though in my family where we knew we had it and were diagnosed at a young age that isn’t necessarily how it works.  Todd MacCulloch was diagnosed with it and he never knew he even had it.

The crazy thing about this disease is how much it really varies between individuals.  One person could be “normal” until they hit their 50’s and it all goes down hill for them from there and then there is the opposite side of things where a baby is diagnosed and that child has to struggle their whole life.  The reality of it is that no one knows what it is going to be like for you. You can’t know what it will bring and doctor’s can only speculate and watch as things progress and tell you what they think might happen in the next year or five years based on how things have been for you specifically so far.

I don’t want to scare people into thinking that they have a disability, but there are some things to watch for to see if you have it:

  1. Poor balance which could include flat feet or really high arches.
  2. Weak/shaky hands
  3. Numbness, tingling, burning pain in the hands and feet (if you have these symptoms I suggest you see a neurologist.)

I know that many of these symptoms are ones that also fit for other diseases, but I also want to include two images below.  These are what doctors call the typical CMT hands and feet.  If your hands and feet look like this it is very likely that you have CMT.

English: The foot of a person with Charcot-Mar...

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