Life Happens – Unexpected Changes – What Now?
My apologies for this abbreviated post. My planned post was in production when life happened. I will post it, though, sometime in May. Meanwhile, how do we chronically ill people adapt our plans when they change unexpectedly? When problems of life intervened in my plans, I realized we will be leaving next week for two […]
Continue readingHow to Love Someone with Chronic Pain
Sallie Belle Howell’s guest post talks about caring for a person living with chronic illness using love, acceptance, communication, and self-care. And she points us to a way to achieve that love. Visit Sallie Belle’s website, Mourning the Pain, for more info. Watching someone you love live with chronic illness can be difficult. At times, […]
Continue readingGeese Working Together — Excellent Example Helps Invisibly Disabled People
Geese? Teamwork? Say what? Yes, geese use teamwork to improve their quality of life. And that teamwork by the geese provides an example for observers to efficiently help chronically ill people. So we can see how geese teamwork helps invisibly disabled people. I first heard about the way geese cooperate decades ago. Our church’s bulletin […]
Continue readingWhat Do You Know about Geese?
“Many people stop during the autumn to take in the spectacle of geese migrating in flocks, high in the sky. They fly in a distinctive V formation. We enjoy the natural beauty of that, but have you ever wondered about its functionality? The V is more efficient than flying in a line or randomly. The […]
Continue readingMedical gaslighting – A Sad, Big, and Real Problem!
Is medical gaslighting even real? Does it affect invisibly disabled people? What is it? Painscale.com describes it thus: “Medical gaslighting occurs when a physician or other medical professional dismisses or trivializes a person’s symptoms. They may mistakenly determine that pain or other symptoms are not real or simply a result of stress or depression. When […]
Continue readingI’m The Biggest Helper With Momma’s Autoimmune Disease
In today’s guest post I interview Heather Yaskiw Foisy about her excellent children’s book. Today I want to take a moment to introduce Heather Yaskiw Foisy who is a chronic illness patient, advocate, and author. Heather and I recently connected via an online chronic illness bloggers group. Like me, Heather aims to help bring knowledge […]
Continue readingInformational video now available for Sunbreaks in Unending Storms
Yay! After months of working, we have finally finished the video trailer for our book, Sunbreaks in Unending Storms! We have uploaded it to YouTube and Vimeo. We hope you will check it out soon! This video is what has consumed so much of my available time to be up. Not only did I have […]
Continue readingTest Your Knowledge of Valentine’s Day Tidbits
I know Valentine’s Day has passed for this year, but I thought it would be entertaining to test your knowledge about this fun day. A Quiz about Valentine’s Day If you missed celebrating Valentine’s Day, it’s never too late! Use some of these ideas, or make up your own! If you’re wondering, Joe and I […]
Continue readingFJ and Carole Griffitts’ Love Story – 55 Years and Counting
FJ and Carole Griffitts’ love story. Okay. This sounds different than one of my usual posts. You’re right. It is. Valentine’s Day is coming, so I thought I would write about love — one that continues in spite of great difficulties. We celebrate 56 years on July 15. My disabling difficulties began 12 years into […]
Continue readingCheck Out These Cartoons by Vicki Novinsky
Smile. Laugh. Cry. Why do I say that about these cartoons which our friend Vicki Novinsky spent hours drawing? If you have any invisible disability, you will smile at some, laugh at others, and even cry at some. Cry you ask? Because we are too familiar with these feelings. Yes, this is a different type […]
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