by Chronic Joy® | Feb 26, 2020 | Amy Simpson, Anxiety, Mental Illness
Summer Camp and the Unexpected When I was about 8 years old, I went to summer camp for the first time. I wanted to bring a friend, so I invited a girl from school, and she came with me. I thought it would be great to have a buddy around, and I just knew...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 24, 2020 | Newsletter
The teen and young adult years are filled with change. Chronic illness complicates all of it – independence, education, employment, social activities, dating, and relationships with family and friends. But it can also cultivate both strength and...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 17, 2020 | Mental Illness, Young Adults
A Scorched-Earth Wasteland As I sit in my comfortable, over-stuffed, pink-patterned rocker chair, I find myself at a loss for words. As you may guess from my abundant use of adjectives in the previous sentence, this “loss of words” does not pertain to my...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 16, 2020 | Chronic illness, Fibromyalgia
Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia I’m convinced the princess didn’t feel the pea under that stack of mattresses because she had some princess “spidey” skills or keen princess detection abilities, but because she had Fibromyalgia. She wouldn’t have been...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 13, 2020 | Lament, Pamela Piquette, Prayer
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning;my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. I am the utter...
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