Archive for February, 2009
Got Illness? Got Music? Listen Up!
We recently discovered Christian artist Natalie Grant has a new single out called “Our Hope Endures.” And it’s about someone with an illness! Well, Hope Endures happens to be the name of our new radio podcast – and I named it over two years ago. Ironic, huh? Or a God-thing.
You can even write to Natalie [...]
Book Review–Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer In Your 20’s and 30’s
This is a blog post by Laurie Edwards, my friend and author of Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties . I asked her if I could reprint it here since is related so much to the article I just wrote about “You’re too Young to be that That Sick!”
Book Review
Everything [...]
One Person’s Response to Fibromyalgia Assumptions
I just read this Letter to the Editor of a Jacksonville paper in response to the article,–that I couldn’t locate! But that said, here it the response to the article (Maybe it’s best we didn‘t have the article to read-it just would have made us angry!)
I know when you read something unpleasant about your illness, [...]
You’re Too Young to Be That Sick!
This article is free to be reprinted, but it must be left “as is” including the footer at the end. Thank you for sharing it!
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You’re Too Young to Be That Sick!
By Lisa Copen
I was twenty-four years old, enthusiastically living in new city, finding my independence, careers, and following my heart when I became disabled in [...]
