Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category
My daughter, Lucy, 23, has been teaching in an urban school for two years. She plans to go to Law School in a year. Not to practice law but because she thinks it will give her the credentials she’ll need to do what she wants to do. And there’s where the story stops. She’s not [...]
Working when you’re in pain
I was interviewed for the blog, “How to cope with pain” – read my top 6 reasons for working. I, of course, used it as a chance to talk about why work is good for your health. Most of my clients live in some type of physical pain and many find it difficult to concentrate [...]
One of our readers asked us this question last week. Though Rosalind answered privately, I thought the question might be of interest to others. To start I might ask a slightly different question. “If I know I’m going to be living with these symptoms for a very long time, what kind of job would be [...]
I got this email today and I have to share it with you. It doesn’t need anymore introduction – it speaks for itself. It’s a lot longer than the usual post but I couldn’t bear to edit it – it’s too good a story. Dear Rosalind, I had to tell you, I think I’m finally [...]
Living with chronic illness can leave you feeling like you just don’t have choice. NO! Wait! That’s not the warrior spirit. If there’s one thing you always have, it is choice. That’s why Johnny Paycheck’s song, Take this Job and Shove it, has always been one of my favorite war cries. Paycheck recognized that each [...]
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 [...]
SSDI or working. What a choice
Fifteen years ago, I was on SSDI for two years and desperate to go back to work. Keeping a job and managing my health has been a huge challenge for me since the MS disagnosis 30 years ago … which is why I devoted a chapter to this in Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! (I [...]
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 [...]
As promised, I’m sharing research (and there’s more in the book!) that I discovered while writing on chapter 2 of Keep Working, Girlfriend! Although it might seem counter intuitive — and it’s certainly not what most people will advise — work is beneficial to your well-being, particularly if you have a chronic illness. Consider this: [...]
You’re a woman with a chronic illness and you’re struggling to keep your career in gear. Is it hard? You bet! Especially when you have an autoimmune disease: which generally have poor treatment options which is usually invisible and means other people haven’t a clue about what you’re going through unless you tell them which [...]
