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April 6, 2017
What You Can Do Right Now to Feel Better
Dealing with a chronic illness is not easy. Instead, it is something that is hard to cope with and understand. With an illness, people sometimes get stuck in the past. They start thinking about getting back to their previous lives or wish they were just ‘normal’ again. Alternatively, people will start to future trip or worry extensively. However, what happens,... Read morePosted in Chronic Life, Gratitude | By Stacey Philpot
April 3, 2017
The Beauty of the Story Your Life Is Telling
My oldest offspring is seventeen, at the cusp of adulthood. He has strong passions and gifting’s, an uncanny ability to cultivate puns and an emotional maturity, which still catches me off guard with frightening regularity. Perhaps, it is because the man he’ll soon be now stands before me with far more frequency than the boy he once was. Scarier still,... Read morePosted in Chronic Life, Faith | By Stacey Philpot
March 30, 2017
But I Want What You Have- the Compassion Quandary
MS, TN & chronic migraines cause me a wide variety of symptoms. Like, I could be here all day listing them. Among my symptoms are: numbness, tingling, facial pain, muscle spasms, limb weakness, dizziness and fainting. This is every day. As in multiple parts of my body can have all kinds of chaos going on, all at once, even. Try... Read morePosted in Anger, Chronic illness and relationships, Chronic Life | By Stacey Philpot
March 26, 2017
The Five Most Fabulous Moments in France and England
The Side Eye– Meet Andrea. Andrea made my entire trip across the pond possible by opening her beautiful home up to me. She even sanitized everything for me prior to my arrival to minimize sickness and infection. She never stopped asking, “Do you have everything you need?” Upon my arrival, I found products for disinfecting on the shelf in my... Read morePosted in Chronic Life, Travel, Travel and Chronic Illness | By Stacey Philpot
March 16, 2017
What Lent Taught Me About Chronic Illness
I grew up in a church that didn’t celebrate Lent. We were big on Christmas. BIG. Like, goody-bags-for-all-the-kids-and-real-animals-in-the-Christmas-pageant big. Lent was something my Catholic grandmother participated in, and to be honest, we all thought she was kinda weird. She’d fast and pray and take extra time after mass to kneel and light a candle. As a young girl, I couldn’t... Read morePosted in Chronic Life, Faith | By Stacey Philpot
March 6, 2017
What to do when Chronic Illness Leaves You Feeling Lost, Alone, & Confused
As a four-year-old girl, I once peed my pants while hiding inside a circular rounder of clothing at our local Wal-Mart store. Having been somehow separated from my mom for what felt like an eternity, I’d become increasingly afraid of all the unknowns around me. Everything felt foreign, menacing, and overwhelming. As time passed, the idea that I had been... Read morePosted in Chronic Life | By Stacey Philpot
February 27, 2017
Love Is Blind and Fabulous
I’ve long since considered myself defective. I picture my body as something purchased from the bottom of a clearance bin at your local Dollar Store. Somewhat like the twenty-five-cent toy you buy your child as a form of bribery to get them quietly through the check-out line, knowing full well it will break into a thousand tiny pieces before it’s... Read morePosted in Chronic Life, Love, Relationships | By Stacey Philpot
February 23, 2017
Twenty More Brunette Strands {On Redefining Best}
Twenty more brunette strands. The white of the pillowcase was speaking an unwelcome truth. Though the official word was that this cocktail administered this time in this way probably wouldn’t cause the hair loss of rounds one or two….the proof was on the cotton percale. Here we go again. Disappointment was knocking and once again would require emotional energy to answer.... Read morePosted in Cancer, Chronic Life | By Stacey Philpot
February 16, 2017
The Warrior’s Crown
Fight I’m a fighter. At least, that’s what I’ve told myself over the years. I fight in the sense that I won’t let you down or I will not buckle under the external pressures of life. I will not be deterred. I will do what needs to be done, what must be done. But would that persona translate to battlefields... Read morePosted in Caregivers, Chronic Life, Love | By Stacey Philpot
January 30, 2017
The Dangers of Love on the Wildwood Exit
You hear a lot about happiness on your wedding day. He just seems to make her so happy. The bride was beaming with happiness. I hope you two live happily ever after. And whether she realizes it or not, every blushing bride prances down the aisle with her own vision of what her happily ever after... Read morePosted in Autism, Chronic Illness and Diagnosis, Chronic Life, CVID, Lyme Disease, Marriage | By Stacey Philpot