Ashley Jenkins is our final Chronic Resilience contest honoree. We were very moved by Ashley’s tribute which demonstrates how important it is to share our stories and connect. Take it away Ashley… I consider myself an extremely lucky individual; yes, I suffer from a horrible disease known as Gastroparesis, but…
Aimee Ward is one of our Chronic Resilience contest honorees. She has written a touching essay about the power of those that are closest to us to see past our flaws and know exactly what we need. Take it away Aimee… If I had to pick a person who inspires…
Danica Moore is the winner of our Chronic Resilience Essay Contest! She has written a beautiful essay about the ability of a child to celebrate all of the wonderfulness that we are. Take it away Danica… Pigtails By: Danica Moore Everyday I wake up and fight a battle that I…
Getting diagnosed with anything is tough. There are things to learn, appointments to attend, tests to have done, medications to start, family to inform, insurance to deal with and of course, a TON of emotions that can be all over the place. I’ve done getting a new prognosis in two…
By now you’ve met Sarah & Lauren, Charity & Kelly, and Nicole & Sandra. All are strong, driven, amazing women who also happen to cope with an illness. Like you, and me, they have ups and downs, they also have some incredible insights that have been included in Chronic Resilience.…
THANK YOU to everyone that submitted an essay for our Chronic Resilience Essay Contest! You have some amazing, supportive, inspiring people in your lives and we were absolutely touch by your tributes to them! Contest submissions ended July 26th and we have selected our 3 winners!! 1st Place Grand Prize…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been introducing you to the phenomenal women featured in Chronic Resilience. If you haven’t read about Sarah and Lauren or Charity and Kelly, pop back over to their posts, but first meet Nicole (chapter 6) and Sandra (chapter 8). Nicole Lemelle Becoming diagnosed with…
I am now in kidney failure. I found out last Thursday, the same day Chronic Resilience was officially released. Life is wonderfully ironic. It is weird to type that word. Failure. It doesn’t feel like failure; it feels like my kidney worked really hard for more than 34 years and…
I was originally going to call this post, “Find Your Own Miracle.” But then I sat dumbfounded staring at the screen trying to figure out exactly what I meant. My health, at this point, is not trending toward the miraculous. It is headed for the predicted. In my case that…
Chronic Resilience is born, and I am hitting the road…the west coast road. We’ve got fabulous events planned in San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle and Spokane. If you live near one of these cities, I would love to meet you. I’ll be talking about how Chronic Resilience came to be,…