to top

Illness Forces You to Grow Up Fast and Ditch those Training Wheels

  Welcome to the fourth post in the National Health Blog Post Month Challenge hosted by WEGO Health.    Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based upon given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Training Wheels.  Write about a time your health condition forced you to grow up and take the training wheels off (so to speak) As a person who has lived with a chronic...

Continue reading

My condition sends me in a spin!

  Welcome again to the third post for the National Health Blog Post Month hosted by WEGO Health. Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based upon given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: My Mascot! Give your condition, community or self a mascot.  Who is it?  What do they represent?  What is their battle cry? To represent my condition in the form of a mascot, I have...

Continue reading

“I think I can” and “I know I can” – Life with Illness causes doubts and a battle to remain positive

Welcome to the second day of the National Health Blog Post Month hosted by WEGO Health.  Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based upon given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Little Engine Post: Write 3 lines that start with "I think I can...

Continue reading

NHBPM Day 1: “There’s always an app for that…”

      It's November which means only one thing - it's time again for the National Health Blog Post hosted by WEGO Health! And once again I am determined to take part and write a post everyday regarding my experiences with chronic illness. As a member of the Chronically Ill community or a 'spoonie' as we are more commonly referred (see my post regarding spoonies and the spoon theory here) I need a number of different apps for a variety of different reasons...

Continue reading