... mind: unconditional love.)As I wrote in an older post, it isn't easy being the healthy one in a marriage with chronic illness, and it obviously isn't easy being the sick one, either. I won't repeat what I wrote in that post, but no one likes ... know, the Q&A portion will be a lot more interesting if there are questions!)I'll also be blogging for Invisible Illness Week this coming week, so stay tuned.

... . I've stopped in most cases trying to explain that the whole point of an invisible illness is that it's invisible. Which means if I'm making an effort to conceal my fatigue, as ... I look perfectly healthy. It does not mean I feel perfectly healthy. Anyway, if you have an invisible chronic illness, or you know someone who does, take a little time next week to visit InvisibleIllnessConference.com and ...

Reprinted with permission of Lisa Copen, Copyright 2007, National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, know you have a chronic illness when:* You understand all the medical terminology discussed on the T.V. show Grey's Anatomy.* Your medical records have to be transported on a cart.* To entertain people at parties ...

Chronic illness is pretty depressing - lots of pain, fatigue, mobility impairment and unpleasant medical tests. Your social life becomes non-existent and you mourn for the life you used to have.  However, there is a funny side to chronic illness as you find yourself in strange situations that you would have never imagined when you [...]

In addition to living with the symptoms of headache disorders or migraine, having an illness others can't see can be extraordinarily frustrating. Rest Ministries is raising awareness of life with invisible illness this week during National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. Check out the following press release for information on the week. Nearly 1 in 2 [...]

... Again, Sister O'Neal! Thanks for answering my questions [about a vocation to chronic illness] with more of your own story. You said, "Especially, I am no victim!" Are you familiar with the idea of "victim ... or some sort of punisher. What I CAN do is sit with the person through the pain of their illness and dying, and share in that. I CAN and SHOULD bring Christ to her in whatever ways possible. Sin ...