World Scleroderma Day Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/world-scleroderma-day/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Tue, 30 Jun 2015 01:20:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 31053421 Plant a Seed https://livingwithscleroderma.com/plant-a-seed/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/plant-a-seed/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:00:32 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3388 In Australia, the sunflower has become the symbol of scleroderma awareness—because those of us with the disease feel better in the warmth of the sun. I like this idea a lot. Enough, in fact, to consider trying my hand at planting some sunflowers, if not this summer, then next. Yesterday, on June 29, scleroderma associations […]

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