by Chronic Joy® | Oct 31, 2018 | Pamela Piquette, Prayer
Giving Thanks Gratitude can be a challenging word when chronic illness is our constant companion. Preparing for and being with family and friends is a gift, but it is also a drain on already low energy reserves. Inevitably, I will be more unwell or in a flare during...
by Chronic Joy® | Oct 23, 2018 | Chronic illness, Pamela Piquette, StepRepPray
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back I’m a fan of technology, especially fitness trackers. I’ve tried several different trackers over the years, landing on one I especially liked, one with a heart rate monitor. It’s not a top end model, but it gives me a general...
by Chronic Joy® | Oct 18, 2018 | Adriana Hayes, Chronic illness
Last Resort Two years ago I agreed … actually sought out … to have a surgery that I had always considered as a “last resort.” However, my health had reached a point where it now sounded like a dream. Since my second spine surgery in 1995, I had lived with severe...
by Chronic Joy® | Oct 9, 2018 | Caregivers, Shelly Esser
Ken Tada knows what it means to be a caregiver. For the last 34 years he has been taking care of his quadriplegic wife, Joni Eaerckson Tada, who has not only been bound to a wheelchair for the last 50 years, but who has suffered from terrible chronic pain in the only...
by Chronic Joy® | Oct 2, 2018 | Chronic illness
I was recently the victim of identify theft. No, not through an online transaction or a lost checkbook. The unlikely location for identity theft was the high school guidance counselor’s office. My son, a rising tenth grader, and I visited the high school for a...
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