My birthday just past, and while I used to love birthdays, I’ve come to hate them since getting sick. Maybe it’s because I’m at a “certain age”, maybe it’s because I’m chronically ill, but I just want to skip over it. It was my 37th birthday the other day, and
How many times a day does a person exchange simple pleasantries with someone they see? “How are you?”, “How are things?”, “What’s going on?” The greetings are endless, and when you have one or more chronic illness, they are more weighted than people realize.
Our responses will often be “I’m
People who suffer with chronic illnesses have so much to deal with on a daily basis, and on top of it all, so many people don’t even believe us when we say we’re sick. On top of everything, trolling exists, and people think it’s necessary to bring down people who
When people hear you’re chronically ill and unable to work, they will often say things like “Lucky! I wish I could stay home and do nothing all day!”, as if we’re just sitting home relaxing all day, having the time of our lives. What people don’t realize though is we
It’s so hard to find good products that actually work for the symptoms of our chronic illnesses and chronic pain. With little money and less patience, I never know what essentials I could possibly buy that might relieve some of my symptoms, or at least give me some comfort on
The first time I heard of the five stages of grief was on an episode of one of my all-time favorite shows, Frasier. In the episode, titled a punny “Good Grief” (Season 6, Episode 1), Frasier deals with the loss of his job as if it were the loss of
As if actually getting a chronic illness (or like in my case, multiple) isn’t bad enough, there are things that make getting sick even worse than it has to be. No one is prepared to get sick, and no one is prepared for the absolute devastation of losing the life
Before getting chronically ill, I had never heard of The Spoon Theory. I used to make jewelry and I had seen spoon jewelry associated with chronic illness, but I had no idea how the two were connected. After diagnosis, I had seen people calling themselves “Spoonies” in the chronic illness
You’ve been having debilitating symptoms for a while now, and either someone told you about dysautonomia and POTS, you’ve come across it in your Google searching, or your doctor has just diagnosed you with it. Your first question may be what to do next. That’s an important question, and one
