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 13, 2017 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning
The funny thing was, I actually did eventually turn purple! 😀 But let me back up a bit. One of my least favorite jobs early in this process was having to ‘smell’ or ‘test’ things to see if they were safe. Safe from mold contamination initially,...
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 | Jul 5, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness
“Wow.” I whispered. When you have chronic illness you get to have a very special peek at a depth of unconditional love that few get to see. I’ve always been taught about undeserved love- Jesus! All humans have sinned and deserve death. Yep, I got...
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,...
by Sara | May 19, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Mental Struggles
Often I think they are the worst parts of toxic black mold and/or Lyme disease. I mean, the mental battles: brain fog, anxiety, depression, etc. At least, in my opinion they’re the worst. 😉 And they mess up a lot of things in normal day to day life. Especially...
by Sara | May 15, 2017 | Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Poetry and I haven’t spent much time together. We get along okay, but generally as acquaintances, rather than the ‘friends’ that most other writing and I are. I enjoy reading other people’s poetry but haven’t ever done much myself. One...
