Tag Archives: Weathering difficulties
What Are Your Feelings When Your Good Test Goes Bad?
My feelings? Initially, not good! Just hours after I finished my last post about laughter, a horrendous week of medical surprises began. Including bad medical news received along the way! Condensed version: Two crummy problems. One still unresolved; one that seemed to last forever. Unusual (actually, weird) hearing issues in my left ear started this […]
Continue readingUpcoming supremely important activity? What happens if you can’t?
The scene As Joe and I were preparing to leave for the happy/sad week with my family, we had a major plumbing problem. Since we could not resolve it before leaving, we left on our mini vacation anyway. Friday, we traveled seven hours to our son’s home, which we used as home base. Monday, we […]
Continue readingLet’s Use Planning To Make A Beautiful Christmas!
So, we have a chronic illness – or two – or more! Can people with chronic illness do any planning for Christmas? Will it make any difference? I say emphatically YES! See why we should plan and how to accomplish it. My only planning BL (before limitations) involved the meal for Christmas Day. I knew […]
Continue readingThree Ways I Kept My Sanity While Being a Caregiver
Today’s guest writer is Donna Long who brings information to us about how to successfully care-give in difficult circumstances. She and her two daughters write “Life on Sixth Street,” a Christian family lifestyle website. Emily wrote last month’s post, and her sister will write next month’s article. Donna’s caregiving Her questions Being a caregiver to […]
Continue readingWhen You Can’t Do Life
By that, I mean when you can’t do life like you used to. Or maybe, you just can no longer do what you think you should. That’s me this week - last few weeks, uh, last few months.
Continue readingUnexpected Triple Yuk Prevented Me from Writing!
For the first fifteen minutes, I thought it was just my regular, annoying world-spinning type. It soon progressed to severe and I was unable to do anything for most of the rest of the day.
Continue reading“The Pain Companion” – Why Do You Need It?
Do you live with chronic pain? Maybe it’s off and on again. Or maybe it’s 24/7. Do you have a plan to deal with your pain? I just wish I’d had this book forty years ago, at the start of my journey. Most of what Sarah recommends, I had to learn by trial and error. […]
Continue readingSelf-Care: Not What You Think!
The idea of self-care sounds selfish, doesn’t it? But what if you turn the words around: taking care of yourself. Wait! You’re thinking, “That’s what consumes all my time!” But, do you take time to do something you WANT to do. Or, do you spend all your time doing what you HAVE to do or […]
Continue readingI CAN’T Go Through This! This Is TOO Hard!
Coping with invisible disability flare-ups can be a daunting experience. How do you feel when yet again your problems exacerbate? Do you feel like you just can’t go through it again? Or maybe it’s not a flare. Maybe it’s an all-the-time experience. How do you cope? My 8 year-old granddaughter tripped in front of their […]
Continue readingLife Brings Changes: What Will Your Response Be?
Change is inevitable, but how we react to that change impacts our quality of life. The invisibly disabled respond to changes in a variety of ways -- some good, some not so good. At age 31, I was a happily married mother of two young sons. My husband was a graduate student. I worked at […]
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