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Addressing the psychological impacts of neuropathy
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Hi Ray,
I'm relatively new to Mayo Clinic Connect; therefore, I am not completely familiar how the site works. In other words, how does a "prompt" work and how and where one posts it? It could be a start maybe to see if people might be open to and interested in (and if you are too) somewhat regular get-togethers online video chat about our challenges with neuropathy.
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I am in Akron, Ohio.
Take care
Replies to "Hi Ray, I'm relatively new to Mayo Clinic Connect; therefore, I am not completely familiar how..."
"In other words, how does a 'prompt' work and how and where one posts it?"
A prompt is just a brain kickstarter. I use at least one every morning when I'm doing my crack o' dawn journaling. This morning, for example, one of my prompts was drawn from something writer Jenny Odell was saying last night about the difference between living in 'chronos' time and 'kairos' time. I won't bore us here with explaining what Odell was getting at. Most prompts are simpler; e.g., "The nicest thing anyone ever said to me was ________." You give the prompt a half minute's thunk, then let 'er rip: Write, just write, letting your brain go where it will. A prompt closer to PN might be: "Hearing that my PN was incurable scared the heck out of me … until I learned ________ (or read, or met, or saw)." The fun of responding to prompts, not fussing over correct spelling or punctuation, is seeing what surprising things you'll have written. Often the level of honesty is downright staggering!
Ray (@ray666)
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