Archive for the 'Musings on LIfe with Chronic Illness' Category
I don’t know how many times I’ve written the words, “Chronic illness is unpredictable in how and when it will show up”. Each time I’m reminded of it, I shake my head in amazement. Because it’s so true. I just celebrated my 60th birthday and a client (I’ll call her Laurie) was asking what I [...]
Why I write
Why do I write these posts? It’s time consuming and there’s the pressure to post consistently to keep readers engaged. Every so often, someone asks me why I do it — and every so often I ask myself. After all when you have limited energy, you have to be strategic and use it wisely. Isn’t [...]
Can You Heal Me?
If you’ve been reading this blog for the past 9 months, you know that I had a bad health setback. Last August, I had a bad fall left me with broken ribs and a banged up shoulder. It took months to figure out the cause/treatment of on-going pain which turned out was a torn rotator [...]
Is this Duo Doable?
Recently I was asked: Do you really believe that continuing to work is really harder when you live with a chronic illness? I answered, Yes, naturally. Soon after, several times during our call, a client asked if other people struggle as she does at working with an illness. That’s when I realized that my knee [...]
Where is the change?
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” Victor E Frankl. Victor Frankl survived Nazi death camps and lived to write about his experience (Man’s Search For Meaning ). I’ve been fascinated by his ideas for decades. But when I came across this quote recently, I [...]
Are you living with chronic illness and looking for a job? No doubt, chronic illness makes many things more difficult and looking for a job is rarely uplifting. Do you notice that you’re feeling stale and sluggish? This might be the time to consider “sharpening” your approach. Here are some things to consider: Behave like [...]
How do you adjust to new normal?
Following several performance cancellations, James Levine, maestro conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is “…looking very carefully at his work schedule to stay healthier.” . I wish him luck with that. Maestro Levine is 67 years old and has survived two bouts with cancer. In the past few [...]
Are You Wishing You Could?
Since becoming chronically ill over 30 years ago, I’ve held the idea that wishing for better health wasn’t a good place to go. It seemed like a slippery slope that could land me face down in the self-pity mud. Instead, I’ve put my energy toward using distraction to keep me out of the pit and [...]
Managing health takes up time
Have you noticed how big chunks of time, weeks and even months, become a blur because of chronic illness? It’s easy to see how living with pain, severe fatigue or body parts that don’t work is draining. Even healthy people can understand that. But there’s another aspect of living this life that gets overlooked [...]
Are you feeling that you’re done with the holidays? Do you feel like you’re a bah humbug, out of step with all those cheerful faces around you? Do you tell yourself that you’re this way because of chronic illness? But you wish you weren’t? I understand. I find that I approach this time of year [...]
