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That’s great to hear, Jenny, thank you much for sharing!

Since no cf-patiënts (known) were included in the trial groups, it’s very important to hear feedback from those with cf who have recently been vaccinated.

Glad to hear your body took the Moderna vaccine well. No fever, no airway problems?
In your situation it must be a relief for your…[Read more]

Any clear or rigid body boundaries? Not really. Like Paul mentioned, my body generally tells me what my boundaries are. They are ever changing and illusive, but as long as I really listen to my body, I can generally find that boundary without crossing it.

Boundaries to protect my health have been easier for me to define and set during this…[Read more]

Yes, get out of this spiral!

But you don’t need to think of boundaries for your body.
Your body IS the boundary. Just listen to it. It’s really that simple. Let your body call the shots. Don’t bother trying to figure it out with your mind, it has a different and conflicting agenda and is not to be trusted. Listening to your mind is what got you…[Read more]

The part of my personality that makes health and healing the hardest for me is twofold: I am a great procrastinator and a great perfectionist. Of the 2, procrastination is the worse personality trait, especially now that I no longer work. When I worked full time (until age 51) and then part time (until age 58), I was much better at doing airway…[Read more]

Hi All,
More psychology. I will start with this quote that comes from an author named David on the website Raptitude:
“The real pain of many tasks is psychological, arising from the way the mind processes them, not so much from the actions that constitute the tasks themselves. The general rule seems to be this: the more abstract we make an…[Read more]

Ah yes, Bailey, thinking is by far the worst symptom of personality. And personality is the worst symptom of identification. And identification is the worst symptom of the mind.

And medicine IS a often a guessing game, to a far larger extend than doctors will want to admit. And guessing is the favorite activity of the mind (the mind however…[Read more]

My best and worst trait are the same – I am extremely agreeable. (On the big 5 OCEAN personality test, I score extremely high agreeableness.) I hate the feeling of causing someone to go out of their way for me or create extra stress. I never want to hurt someone’s feelings. I’ll go with the flow until I start to drown, then apologize for the…[Read more]

It all depends on your feeling of “doing”.

If you think that all of your actions and reactions (or the lack of those) are fully yours, if you try to own all of them, make yourself the source, then you create a lot to answer for. Especially if you think they all happened out of your own free will and with an understood intention. Because many of…[Read more]

Thanks, Jenny!
Still many questions are not answered (for instance those that were not asked), but informative nevertheless.
Things will probably clear up as more and more people get their vaccination.

The Six degrees of separation-theory (actually it is only a hypothesis) of course only suggests that we can connect with anyone in the entire world with on average of six intermediary persons. When we limit our scope to those in our direct vicinity, or those with a specific property (such as persons having covid), the number of steps will be much…[Read more]

Thanks for mentioning these things, Bailey. It does feel strange to post about everything BUT current events. However, many of our members aren’t from the US and I haven’t wanted to bring political/social issues onto the discussion table if others didn’t want that to happen here. So again, I thank you sincerely for being the one to do so. It’s…[Read more]

In short: no, not anymore.

We did not have to change much lately because we started of early, in December 2019 when the virus was only active in China. Looking at what happened there, most Western governments thought it would stay in China. We were more cautious and bought some FFP2 masks and hand alcohol that we still value having today, when…[Read more]