Joanne expresses frustration for not being able to do household chores like she used to.
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Around the house it just gets frustrating because you can’t do the things, simple things. Simple things like vacuuming. Now to do the vacuuming I find, I get, I have to take a break because just even now to this day the sweat will be pouring down my face and it’s just … it’s any exertion you know that you can’t do it 100% again. So yes, it has changed my life that way. I try and do what I could before but now again with the limitations, so going at my pace, my speed.
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