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In keeping with the tradition of “Bizarre Food Days”, today marks one that Spoonies everywhere can get behind. October 28th, just days before Halloween, is National Chocolate Day. This is the day that all chocolate lovers don’t have to hide wrappers and sneak bites when no one is looking
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Times are tough; everyone is looking for easy ways to make money lately. If you are living with a chronic illness this is even harder to do, since taking on extra hours at work, or doing anything physical is close to impossible or a real threat to your health. Many people look to have garage sales,
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For our Gluten Free readers, or even those who aren't but always wanted to try, To celebrate the bountiful fall harvest, and the delicious dishes created from it, our friends at French Meadow Bakery is offering one lucky winner the chance to receive a one-year supply of organic, Gluten-Free goodi
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As has been well-publicized, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There are reminders everywhere for women to get regular mammograms as this is the best prevention. What is less publicized is what happens when the mammogram shows a lump that needs more investigation. If you rece
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It is the middle of October and you know what that means to us here at Butyoudontlooksick.com and in my family... It is Lupus Awareness month. For this month, I try to post mostly about Lupus or lupus related stories, reviews etc. I also spend a lot of time talking about my efforts with the Lupus Wa
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I have been working at living my life transparently. To live my life transparently means that I live my life openly, that I share what I’m going through, my ups and downs, my successes and failures, my struggles and disappointments as well as my successes and happy moments. To live my life transpa
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Oops, I forgot. For a few moments or what stretched out to a few hours, I thought I was living the life of a normal person. Who was I kidding though, forgetting that living with an auto-immune disease could ever really be normal? Thinking that I had some unlimited source of energy enough to tackle a
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For those of us with Lupus, it is a very definite, consuming and frustrating disease. For those of you who love someone with Lupus, it too can be a very frustrating disease. And as hard as it is for you to try and understand what Lupus is and how it wreaks havoc on our lives, please also try and rem
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Remember when I was thankful my brother didn’t get my illnesses? He’s beginning to get it. After Justin graduated college in May, he moved back in with my parents until he could tie up loose ends and leave the area. My parents live on a lake, so Justin was enjoying a great summer. Until
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The hardest lesson I've had to learn in living with chronic illnesss is that I can't do it all. I'm a overachiever by nature. I want to do it all, have it all, see it all, be the girl who never says no. Letting people down, and of course, myself down, was the horror that I feared more than anything.
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Please take the time to read Christine Miserandino's personal story and analogy of what it is like to live with sickness...
Sometimes you just gotta have a sense of humor! The top ten worst suggestions commonly given to someone with a chronic...
I have an invisible illness. To look at me you would see a short, fat, middle-aged grandmother. Sometimes I walk with a...
Before I even get started with this article, let me state for the record, that for those who have been approved for shor...
Pay no attention to the girl behind the smile... It has been said by many people that I am a very good actress. "But ...
