This is Day 87 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.

The beautiful thing about life is that it is filled with choices. You can choose who you want to be and how you want to live. You can choose how you see the world. You can choose to be happy. You can choose to see the glass as half full.

I choose to be positive. I choose to have hope. I choose to love life.

When I was diagnosed, I made a choice to own my body, and not be owned by by the CRPS.

What do you choose to be? Share your answer on social media with the hashtag #100positivedays on Twitter, Instagram and Google+.