Archive for April, 2009
Do chronic illness symptoms – -multiple sclerosis, colitis, fibromylagia or cancer, fill in the blank — crop up when you least expect them? Doesn’t it always seem to happen when there’s that big presentation at work or a major meeting requiring a plane flight and overnight stay? Or maybe it’s a regular day at work [...]
Are you wondering/worrying/even obsessing about your job because of unpredictable chronic illness? Or maybe you’re just ignoring illness symptoms and hoping it will all go away. Either way, you’re spending too much time not doing what you should be doing. Which is making concrete plans for your career keeping your illness in mind but not [...]
Calling for Your Voice
It’s way easy to feel lonely and isolated when you live with a chronic illness. Even if you’re working full time in a job, surrounded by hundreds, you can feel like you’re on your own little island. And it’s especially true if you become disabled and unable to work. That’s what I love about the [...]
Walk for disclosure
Recently, my daughter, Lucy, a legislative aide to a New York City Council Member, contacted another Council member’s legislative counsel, Q. When Lucy didn’t hear back after a few days, she contacted another member of his office. Not long after, Lucy got an email from Q explaining why he had been unavailable. He had been [...]
In this virtual world so many of us live in, I “met” fellow traveler, Bernard Farrell, through the vibrant virtual diabetes community. Recently he mentioned on twitter (@BernardF) that he’d gotten a new job. I didn’t know he was unemployed but saw an opportunity to share his perspective. So, I sent him some questions and [...]
