chronic illness
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Art Journaling: It’s My Body
In January, I signed up for One Little Word, and discovered digital scrapbooking. It's snowballed from there, and now I'm doing digital art journaling. For some reason I am finding it easier to "talk" about being ill in images than in words, and several of the pages I've done are about this. So I may… Continue reading
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Isolation and Shame
There are side effects of long illness. Isolation is one of them. I was lucky, relative to other folk with chronic illness, in many ways. I was lucky to not have a partner who would — or would not — struggle with this burden. Some few may be lucky to have partners who… Continue reading
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Some Suggestions
Those look like mystery tracks, don't they? Those are Lucy's front paws and nose, as she reached up to eat the snow. I was there, so I could read them. The mystery tracks of this illness are not, apparently, so easily deciphered. There they are, for all to see — but what made them? This… Continue reading
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Abide
I’ve posted a new article at Abide: Illness Etiquette II: How to visit a sick friend. I promised this quite some time ago, and the current Probloggers How To group writing project gave me the push I needed to finish it. But it wore me out — so don’t look for anything here until tomorrow. Continue reading
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CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
Today is International CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. I posted about this last year, and dutifully do so again. I am unhappily aware of these conditions every day, but most people aren’t — until they or someone they love falls down with it. Last night, Keith Olbermann made a little joke, not quoted here, but… Continue reading
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