Happy 2015, dear readers!! May this year be easy and happy for you, in any and all ways that 2014 was not. For the past few months, between my level of stress and the urgency of my health concerns, time for blogging has started to seem like a thing of the past. I need a…
This summer has been the summer of medical procedures and surgeries for me. Last Thursday and Friday marked my fifth and sixth minor surgeries of the summer, and since then my body appears to have gone on vacation. No matter what I ask it to do, and no matter how nicely I ask it, my…
In the meantime, you can read this reader-submitted article, about why those living with illness might want to blog about it. And this Toni Bernhard article which is just awesome, The Challenges of Living with Invisible Pain or Illness. Tune back next week for the third installment of the Guidebook for Navigating New Chronic Illness…
The Professional Patient is not feeling well this week. She’s been agonizing all weekend about her commitment to put up a new blog post every Monday. More pressingly, though, she’s simply been in agony. Her pain has been at an all-time high level for over a week. We even went on a midnight ride to…
The Professional Patient 