Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category

Joan Friedlander and I were interviewed on Disability News Radio (you have to scroll down under the May schedule to find the link to the interview) about our book, Women Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend!
You can click here to read more about our experience being interviewed …
I’ve been affiliated with an amazing […]

 

How do you know when it’s time to tell your boss about your chronic illness?
I got this question in my email today (I added the bold):
“At what point, if ever, do I need to tell my employer I have a chronic illness? In the past, I’ve always gone with the philosophy of not mentioning […]

 

If I had a dime for every time someone said to me,”I’d like to be self employed”, I’d be rich (well maybe my pockets would jingle). You don’t have to have a chronic illness to dream about self employment. But I can tell you from personal experience, it […]

 

How hard is it for you to regulate your own environment? How well do manage your resources? Forget it - you can’t look to the United States government or most of the developing countries of the world for a role model - they stink at it. Why?
My theory is because it’s just […]

 

If Andy Warhol was right, I’ve used up my 15 minutes of fame.
That’s how long it took for me to read this article “Working While Chronically Ill” , forward it to my family and take a breath to revel in the press!   It’s in the “Shifting Careers” column of the […]

 

Several emails asked me to post a picture from my trip to Argentina. This was Iguazu Falls. Impressed that a sign indicated wheelchair accessibility — but disappointed no rating for “people with bad balance that gets worse in intense heat!” But we know that chronic illness symptoms […]

 

I recently discovered the website, celebrating uc success where I read about Joshua Reineke who is doing remarkable things — while living with a chronic illness, ulcerative colitis (UC) . I wrote Josh and asked him if I could interview him so you could hear his story.
By the way, Josh is a […]

 

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I sat down to write my usual post — about chronic illness, career, issues that move me.   But,  I’m distracted by my  “to do” list:  Work (did I email […]

 

For the first 20 years of my career life, I worked for others, outside my home and loved it. No matter how sick I felt, getting dressed for work, walking into my office and seeing my co workers, distracted me and cheered me.
Now I spend my days alone - talking with clients or […]

 

Do you think about being self employed but are worried about the health insurance? A reporter recently asked me if that’s a stumbling block for people with chronic illness. You can read more about health insurance for the chronically ill in the Small Business Column, The New York Times, Finding […]

 
 

    Contrary to popular opinion, work can be GOOD for your health ~ when you live with chronic illness

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