by Sara | Jul 20, 2017 | Guest Writers, Living With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
So often, it’s easy to feel like we can’t do anything when we’re chronically ill, right? That we’re stuck in bed, can’t pursue our dreams, or accomplish anything? That our whole point right now is to just get through? Sometimes it is all...
by Sara | Jul 17, 2017 | Guest Writers, Living With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
When I first started looking for Christian blogs about faith in chronic illness, I was a bit disappointed. I couldn’t find any! So I broadened my search. I finally found a few, and I quickly came to realize that there while there were many more Spoonie bloggers...
by Sara | Jul 10, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
When you are sick for long periods of time, be it months, or years, often dreams either die, or seem like they have to die. Maybe you miss out on things you really want, or things that everyone else is doing. Maybe it’s learning to drive, or even as simple as going to...
by Sara | Jun 30, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
Having to personally deal with multiple long-term sicknesses has predictably taught me a lot about compassion. God has worked on my heart through it all to be able to be aware of other people’s deep hurts around me and to help them. I’m now able to...
by Sara | Jun 27, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges
HOW TO GUIDEBOOK: Good and easy patient. Why? Because we all know that there is definitely a way to be a bad patient. And since we love our caretakers so dearly and want to make things easy (ahem, easier) for them, we would like to strive to be good little patients,...
by Sara | Jun 24, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Hello there. Last you saw me was sometime in the middle of May, and now it’s approaching the end of June. Well… first let me say, I’m very sorry. Unfortunately, life happens. Or, more accurately for my current situation, illness happens. 🙂 However,...