

“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined.”
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“I’m in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth’s thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse.”
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“It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as ‘the career women’s diseaseâ€�. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it”
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“We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?”
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.”
― Arrow's Flight
― Arrow's Flight
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