Finding Wellness Together
Sure, living with chronic illness can be trying. But it can also give rise to genuinely funny moments! Or even some touching and heartwarming ones. Please share with us your own humorous or sweet stories born from your chronic illness and give us all a smile.
I’ve always had a thing for zebras.
If you want to know the roots, it’s pretty simple. I was born a crazy, obsessive horse lover. Zebras were like the exotic, adventurous versions of horses. My feral, child self adored them.
Things compounded when, at age seven, I was bitten by a zebra.
No really, I have photographic proof.
Twas two days before Christmas, and all through my tummy, not an intestine was digesting, not even a crumb-y. My feeding bags hung on the IV pole with care, in hopes that nutrition soon would be there. With my dogs and I laying a-snug in my bed, and Muppet Christmas carols playing through earbuds in my head, knitting a last-minute Christmas day gift, I smile, content, and my spirits do lift.
Okay, I’m not a poet, and I certainly know it. So here’s a picture of my adorable dogs to make up for it.
But there is a point to my sappy spoonie story-time, and that is a message I want everyone with chronic illness to realize, that I have slowly realized in my past four years with chronic illness. [Read more…]
Hey everyone. So, last February was the end of a very long winter for me. And facing similar struggles was my good friend Catherine Richardson. Catherine and I talk pretty much everyday, because, well, she’s an awesome sauce spoonie and always fun to talk to. We make jokes about our confusing bodies and share our constant poop struggles (true friendship, guys). We’ve never been in the same room, or even the same country, but when you can casually ask somebody, “How’s the poop coming?” that starts to become a lot less important.
I’m spending a lot of this post talking about poop, which actually has nothing to do with what I actually want to talk about. I could blame the brain fog here, but I think we all know by now I’m just a senile old woman stuck in a 25 year old body. [Read more…]