This Saturday has become a day or re-sets. So often in my chronic illness journey I long to make some changes. When things get bogged down, my inner drive for order comes alive. There has been no order to my life lately. Being in a flare is tough. These are the times when I let …
May 9 – 15, 2021 is Food Allergy Awareness Week. Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Connection Team (FAACT) is promoting this week. Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is also promoting this important week. We are proud to share our #TealLoveShinesBright Food Allergy Awareness Month campaign again for 2021! FAACT is hoping we can all learn …
We arrived at the Cancer Center yesterday feeling calm. It was a beautiful spring day with cool breezes and blue skies. It felt a little surreal to me as I watched my husband check in at the reception desk. All around us were older folk in various stages of health. Many of them were weak …
Pushing, Stretching, Disciplining, Preserving, Thanking are the prompts for May in the A Chronic Voice Linky. These are helpful ways to share our chronic lives with others. I hope that these continue to be challenging to me and encouraging to you. Pushing I gave up pushing myself a few years ago. Many people who watch …
April is coming to a close and it seems to have been a long month. This month has been filled with stress, because of my husband’s cancer diagnosis. But, I must look back at all the good things that happened this month. Focusing on the blessings is helpful and it’s the right thing to do. …
Those of us with chronic illness know far too well about the frustrating “game” of getting appointments. We wait to get a test. We wait for the results. We wait for the follow-up appointment. We wait 2 weeks – up to one year to see if the treatment works. If it doesn’t, we start the …
