by Sara | Mar 21, 2017 | Toxic Mold Poisoning, Uncategorized
I rubbed my eyes and stared back down at the word I was tracing. I… I… really? I couldn’t see it! It was all fuzzy, blurry, and shaky! Oh no! What was happening to me? Trying not to panic, I stumbled downstairs to my mom as fast as my painful joints...
by Sara | Mar 18, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning
Multiple people have asked me recently what would be required for them to do to be able to visit me and not make me sick. First off, thank you for asking! However, brace yourself… these are going to be some intense requirements. And I know that they will sound...
by Sara | Mar 14, 2017 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness
I’ve been thinking about this post for a while. I hadn’t written it yet because it was originally targeted to a very small audience: those with chronic illness, who also happen to enjoy the Dragon Keeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul, and who remember one...
by Sara | Mar 11, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Hello friends! A few weeks ago, Sarah over at Inkblots of Hope, invited me to be apart of a collaborative article titled, ‘What Ten Christians Want You to Know About Their Chronic Illness’. Well, today it was published! Go see it here! Did you enjoy it?...
by Sara | Mar 10, 2017 | Gut and Food, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Most things in the AIP diet take a lot of work to make, and eat, and it is always a big to-do to eat anything. Which isn’t always fun, what with lack of spoons (energy), time, etc. I mean, there’s definitely no easy, pre-packaged foods in the Autoimmune...
by Sara | Mar 6, 2017 | Guest Writers, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Hello there! Today, let me introduce my friend, Natalie, who is guest posting! 🙂 She was diagnosed with autism in high school, and today she is sharing what it’s like for her with autism, and particularly, how to help someone handle the anxiety part of...
by Sara | Mar 2, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
“I’m just wondering and wondering and wondering, when will my life begin?” -Rapunzel * Hello there. 🙂 So I’ve been thinking more about Rapunzel-chronic-illness comparisons, after my sister’s observation a few days ago. And something that...
by Sara | Feb 26, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges
A few days ago my sister compared me to the princess, Rapunzel. 🙂 Who doesn’t want to be compared to a princess?! However, there was more to that comparison than you’d first think. She said, “You have long hair, etc., … and you’re stuck...
by Sara | Feb 23, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Even though I spent all day, every day in bed that week, I wasn’t resting. I was still fighting a battle. It appeared that I was resting, and even to myself, it seemed like all I was doing was resting. It seemed to me like what I really needed was to was...
by Sara | Feb 18, 2017 | Joints, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
When I first got sick, I had to learn to sit on the sidelines when my friends played any active games that require working joints, or to not stay very long at birthday parties, when I needed the energy to function. Or- well, really when they acted liked...
