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Can you bake while you're in the healing process?

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Adarobles1513Feb 19, 2014

I am taking a week off of work, but I have a second at home job which requires me to bake cookies for my costumers. What I want to know is if I can still do this job while I am undergoing the healing process of the active fx

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