• Be Flare Prepared: How to Make a Flare Kit for ‘Bad’ Days

    That moment when you wake up and the pain hits you over the head with a hammer? Flare day. The time when you can’t sleep at.all because of pain/fever/anxiety/all of the above? Flare day. When the difficulties you deal with day to day just mushroom into impossibility? Flare day. When living with chronic illness, disability, mental or physical, visible or invisible, we have days that are worse than others. The ‘bad’ days, the days when symptoms are stronger and strength is sapped. We all experience them, but how do we handle them? What’s a Flare Kit? We want so much to be well that we often don’t prep, so a…