Saturday, 17 March 2018. Issue #101.
In this issue: When you give your best, it’s 100% effort counted on your part as well. When painkillers don’t get you high, but help you to function as close to normal as is possible. Gaining a heightened sensitivity to your body when you live with chronic illness. Suicide isn’t always all or nothing, it can be a grey area. Wanting genuine concern and empathy, not sympathy. When your endometriosis pain is finally believed by a doctor. Blogging with a chronic illness requires pacing, too. Multiple Sclerosis can affect anyone, and we mean something to other people, too. When clutter affects you through your brain fog. Why the world of illness shouldn’t be a competition of ‘who has it worse’.
[New Post] “If you’re #suffering so much, then shouldn’t it be 100% #effort counted on your part, too?”: https://t.co/47fvFMwoUL #spoonie #chronicillness #chroniclife
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 12, 2018
"I don’t get high, I get #normal. I take those #meds to feel as good as you feel when you have a cold. They are the reason I can work, cook and do all the other things you see me doing every day": https://t.co/snkresK3TB @TheMightySite #spoonie #chronicillness #chronicpain
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 10, 2018
[Archives] "If there’s one thing I’ve become with my body due to illness, it is #intimate. Many #healthy people aren’t fully aware of changes happening within themselves, but I’ve gained a heightened #sensitivity to it": https://t.co/QDdoAdkfoV #chronicillness #spoonie
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 15, 2018
“I’m #suicidal. And no, it’s not what you think. I am safe. I am not harming myself. I do not have a plan, and I do not plan on doing anything. But I’m suicidal”: https://t.co/bdLwe18PDS @TheMightySite #SuicideAwareness #suicideideation #mentalhealth #chronicpain
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 13, 2018
“I don’t want your #sympathy. I want your #empathy. I want you to reach out and see how I’m doing, because you genuinely care”: https://t.co/qMLRvC6fY8 @nataliesparacio #chronicillness #humanity #caregivers
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 14, 2018
“It was only six years ago, the first time I got relief in a #hospital. The first time a #doctor knew my pain was real. I will never ever forget the sympathy in her eyes”: https://t.co/P08oXtVZu5 @iamwellandgood #endometriosis #periodproblems #chronicpain
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 10, 2018
“Like every other aspect of life with #MECFS, the only way to approach #blogging is by #pacing myself…Each post usually has to be written in small instalments”: https://t.co/QZmpTNhrX3 @Not_Just_Tired #spoonie #chroniclife
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 10, 2018
“Aware…that we are the same as you. People diagnosed with #MS are wives, parents, boyfriends, children… anyone can be #diagnosed”: https://t.co/eHYwORpgna @TrippingTreacle #multiplesclerosis #chronicillness #health
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 14, 2018
“One of the things I have found that bothers me most is #clutter! My foggy mind recognizes what each pile, stack, etc., represents, but I cannot just pick one and work on it”: https://t.co/pj01UsJQpv @mcrysup #spoonieproblems #brainfog #fibrofog #chronicillness
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 9, 2018
“The world of illness and disease should not have to be a competition of “‘who has it worse’”: https://t.co/Te5mIKmqW4 @TheMightySite #cancer #spoonieproblems #chronicpain #chronicillness #awareness
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) March 10, 2018
