by Sara | Jul 23, 2018 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning, Uncategorized
Three years ago today, I got sick. I got sick, and I never got better. I was newly fourteen and looking forward to learning how to drive, to picking summer berries, and learning to salmon fish. But instead, I found myself sick, and not getting better. But I’d...
by Sara | May 14, 2018 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
Dear Mama, I love you so much. You are the best mom in the whole world. You are so amazing. You’re so strong, so wise, so courageous, and an example to all of us of what a woman of God looks like. Especially to me. You’ve been taking care of me ever since...
by Sara | Sep 11, 2017 | Guest Writers, Gut and Food, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
I remember going over my allergy test results with the doctor and staring at the red, green, and yellow bars running all over the paper, like traffic lights telling us “Yes, go ahead and eat that” or “Steer clear of this one!” I remember when my mom came home...
by Sara | Sep 2, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
I have been blessed with an amazing network of family, friends, and prayer warriors. They have encouraged and helped me in so many ways so much throughout my sickness, and I am SO thankful for each and every one of them. But they are human, and sometimes my biggest...
by Sara | Aug 24, 2017 | Gut and Food, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
“I wish I could tell people I have cancer,” he said. “It would just be so much… simpler. It’s something clear and obvious that most people can understand, as opposed to when I tell them that my liver is overloaded, my spleen, gallbladder,...
by Sara | Jul 28, 2017 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
Hello there! Guess what? I’m going to write a book! It’s really thanks to all of you readers (and God most of all!). 🙂 This book is going to be titled “He’s Making Diamonds: A Teen’s Thoughts on Faith in Chronic Illness”. What do...