When you are healthy and suddenly become chronically ill there are a lot of adjustments that we have to make. When we are chronically ill
Category: chronic illness
Don’t melt into invisibility
It is odd having an invisible disability. We are expected to perform like others, but we have some major limitations. But really I feel like
Reflection: Self-imposed self-hate from being disabled
I had made a remark that working with pain and vertigo made me feel like an idiot. And someone I know well and respect said
Losing your career due to chronic illness
I have lost two careers due to chronic illness. My academic career where I was going to go for my Ph.D. but due to unmanaged
Looking into 2019: goals and treatment
To check out my cruddy year: Chronic illness 2018 yearly review But this about looking forward. So it was not the best year. I got more
Chronic illness: 2018 Yearly review
So I saw this on TV as a good idea to practice. Do a yearly review of our year at the end of the year.
When life sucker punches you
So we have chronic pain and illness but it doesn’t exempt us from life stresses that slap us upside the head. If anything, we experience
7 things I use to survive the winter
Winter just amps up the pain and I have no temperature control so I am constantly freezing. Constantly. So I need to manage the pain
What I want for Christmas, seriously
I know there are some we seriously, seriously want for Christmas. I got you covered. This is the perfect list for all of us with
Chronic Voice Prompts: Meeting, Tweaking, Working
Time for November Chronic Voice’s blogger prompts! Meeting Advocating Tweaking Working Curating Meeting: So my father has moved provinces and just recently arrived. My spouse
The story we tell ourselves
You know I have been chronically ill since I was a kid, but, oh, it got worse. But the story I used to tell myself
Chronic illness: purpose in life
I wrote a post about our sense of self with illness and your feeling of having a purpose is part of that. I wish this
Pacing tips for chronic illness
I wrote a few articles on this topic recently: Enhancing our pacing game Chronic illness and the art of pacing Pacing is exceptionally hard in
Book Review: Resilience
I wrote a precursor to this review called Chronic Illness: Resiliency to express my ways of dealing with resiliency. Now. Because I have had some
