Archive for the 'Musings on Life with Chronic Illness' Category
According to Jay Cutler’s business manager, the Denver Bronco’s Quarterback is, “managing his disease {type 1 Diabetes diagnosed two weeks ago} and in no way is his football career jeopardized.” Wow. He accomplished a lot with these few words. 1. We’re told unequivocally that the 25 year old athlete, who until two weeks ago knew [...]
Have you heard about The Last Lecture? I had but because it sounded like another one of those “media” hypes — you know the ones where some guy gets his “Andy Warhol 10 seconds (or was it minutes …) of fame” — I ignored it. But when a client sent me the links to Pausch’s [...]
We got mail – an email, in fact. I’m not including everything the writer said and, of course, I’ve kept it anonymous. I share this because I have a hunch that her voice isn’t alone and I think that voice should be heard. And in the spirit of creating conversation and getting your thoughts. Please – [...]
I’ve been spending this past few weeks writing about and thinking about the value of vacations to self-employed professionals, and reading pathetic statistics about how so many people – employees and business owners – are failing to take them with much regularity. I’m even running a free tele-seminar program about taking vacations, as it’s a [...]
Upon reading Rosalind’s post in her last blog entry for Working with Chronic Illness I was so impressed with her commitment to do what she wanted as often as possible, and to manage all the symptoms of her various body issues. It reminded me of how easy it can be to be stopped by our [...]
Have you noticed the wave of blogging going on among women with chronic illness? Do you find it helpful? New York Times blogger, Paula Kamen, writes: “The basic message of the growing number of young women blogging about chronic illness – who have just become a significant force only in the past three years or [...]
Today the sun was shining (hey, I live in Southern California), and I was in my front yard planting flowers in my garden. So, I wondered could I have done this back in the day when I wasn’t feeling as well? At my very worst no way, but with a some return of energy and [...]
This morning I was reading another chapter of Think and Grow Rich. I’m working through the chapter about the quality of persistence, and its role in success. I was reminded of how important persistence is to the woman (or man) who must figure out how to get well enough to work, and how to work [...]
Living with a chronic illness requires that you continually examine your priorities. Career or health? Hide and seek with children or health? Partying or health? Social life or health? Favorite foods or health? Movie or bed? Important business deadline or health? In a new and revised edition of Think and Grow Rich, revised and updated [...]
Today I can work in my office, and plod along for hours without much concern for my body. I could probably even hold down a job again, but I won’t give up the freedom of being able to work in a comfortable environment. Being self-employed made it easier for me to work when in the [...]
