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Advice on chronic illness
Recently some people have asked me: why did my blog change with the release of my book? Why did I stop telling personal stories about my day-to-day experience with chronic illness? Where were my posts about dealing with doctors who thought I was faking my disease and why wasn’t I posting more in-depth about my…
The first thing I learned about publishing a book about my patient story was that nobody wants to hear your sob story. Sorry. But that’s the truth. If you’re writing a book for people who are going through adversity—the last thing they need is to cry for you. People don’t want to read a depressing…
REAL ADVICE TIME. WARNING: The following post is not self-help garbage on making a best-friend doctor. It’s the real stuff no one else is going to tell you. Sorry for the impending heartbreak and eye-openers, but if you didn’t hear it from me—who else would set you straight? I recently had a wonderful breakup! It…
(As originally published for my column in this month’s IG LIVING) THERE’S NO shortage of chronic illness patients who are willing to share their real lives on Instagram. There are hashtags for every disease under the sun — even #HospitalGlam for girls looking to prove that even on their worst day, they can still…
Why should patients with chronic illness pay closer attention to their teeth? You are at an increased risk of dental problems. This is cautionary tale! When you have a chronic illness—it acutely impacts so many different areas of our bodies, our teeth most often come last in line for treatment. Conditions which cause chronic dehydration,…
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. I promise (well, I’ll strongly attempt) to stick to number 8. Follow me on Instagram here if you dare. Need more helpful advice in your life? Pre-order Surviving and Thriving with a Chronic Invisible Illness for more fun, inspirational, brutally honest and passive-aggressive wisdom…
Welcome to the Let’s Feel Better 2017 Chronic Illness Gift Guide Post! I’m Ilana. I have a chronic illness and an incurable Amazon addiction! All of these items are vetted by me after buying them to deal with my own disease. I wanted to keep all of the items affordable and something that I’d have…
I sometimes describe my chronic illness as a three-year-old child on meth that only I can see. But as I’m sure many mothers would tell you (even of those whose toddlers are not addicted to meth) you do eventually become immune to constantly being distracted by something whose well-being you are entirely responsible for every…
(as featured in IG Living Magazine) Growing up with a chronic illness made becoming “independent” a bit of a pipe dream for me. I was 19 and still yelling for my mom in the middle of the night to help get me to the emergency room. How was I going to live on my own…
How do you take inventory when it comes to managing your chronic illness? Limbs all still attached? No blood coming from your eyeballs? No thoughts of engaging in cannibalism? Guess the meds are working! But seriously, when your life is filled with the daily frustrations of a chronic disease, it can be difficult to gage whether…
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