Here’s the solution to a word-search puzzle I created for November 6th; the 2017 awareness-raising day for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS.
It’s a rare and usually invisible disease, and to make it even harder to pin down, many physicians seem to use its old name; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, or RSD.
Adding to the general confusion surrounding this disease, the date of CRPS Day changes each year! It’s the first Monday of November. This year, it fell on November 6th, so that’s the day I posted the puzzle I’d created ‘-)
How rare is CRPS? Well, it’s so rare that ‘CRPS Awareness Day’ isn’t even officially recognized – not in Canada at any rate. So everything done in Canada, to raise awareness of CRPS, is done at an individual grass-roots level. Just like my puzzle!
For information about CRPS, you can read my posts from the last two CRPS awareness days, in 2017 and 2016. Rather than repeating the same information this year, I opted to do something more fun – for you! – and create a puzzle.
If you haven’t done the puzzle yet, you can print, save, or view it here – before you look at the solution!
It’s a truly home-made creation. I develop my puzzles with paper and pencil, so there’s no fancy dynamic on-line version of either the puzzle or the solution. If you opt to share it, please credit me with the link in this paragraph (or send a link to my post containing the puzzle). Thanks ‘-)
You can print this post, if you want a hard copy of the solution. Depending on which system you use on your computer, you may not be able to download the image.
Let me know if you’d like to see more of these kinds of puzzles on the blog; I create them as a fun challenge to myself, from time to time. I’ve had to disable the comments function on the blog, but you can find me over on Twitter or Instagram.