Chronic Illness

Think about your senior year of high school. Does prom come to mind? At the start of my senior year, 17-year-old me highly anticipated prom night. When I went dress shopping, I had my best friend with me — along with my physical and occupational therapists — because putting on dresses was my “therapy” that [...]

Living with chronic illness can be lonely, which is why it’s important to find others who understand what you’re going through. When you need to recharge and practice self-care, it often helps to have tools to take your mind away from reality for a little while. But sometimes, looking at reality —and turning to others [...]

An amazing thing happens when you have an incurable, chronic illness: every person you meet happens to have the cure for your illness. Isn’t that incredible? It’s somehow never your doctors, or anybody in medical research, or the dozens of other people you’ve spoken to with the same diagnosis; not even your own decade of [...]