My good friend’s “baby”, Jimmy, got a diagnosis today of ulcerative colitis.   Jimmy has always been a strong guy — and he’s lost 15 pounds in the past month!  He told his mother that for the first time in his life, he felt like he was drowning.
The “good news” is […]

Occasionally, I’ll be bringing in experts to give some concrete ideas that you can literally put into action. They’re called GUEST POSTS.

How to Cope with Pain is a website and blog written by a psychiatrist who specializes in treating chronic pain.  This GUEST POST is Part I of a 2-part series on […]

A few weeks ago, I moved all the posts from my blog, Keep Working Girlfriend: Navigating the workplace with an autoimmune disease, to this new blog, Working With Chronic Illness. Now, why would I bother? Well, we’re going into the publshing phase of  KeepWorkingGirlfriend (the book) and the blog will go back  to it’s […]

Forbes magazine columnist, Tara Weiss, predicts that “…job seekers will be in their glory in 2008.”

You read it here. Here’s my prediction: a good job market for “regular citizens” is great news for “employees with chronic illness” (estimates range between 1 in 4 and […]