Hi!  Welcome, I'am April

Goodness it has taken me soooo many YEARS to learn this hard earned lesson while living and thriving life with chronic illness....

Pride… oh how much we all love our pride! One of the best things you can do for yourself living with chronic illness is learn to not let...

I get it… ‘bad days’ with chronic illness suck… for years I spent my bad days in a misery of despair and frustration, mad at my body, mad...

I do my best to live by God’s Ten Commandments… but I also do my best everyday to live by these chronic illness 10 commandments!...

I admit, this is an exceptionally tough one for me. I am often longing for my body the way it used to be, muscular, fit, steady,...

Trust me I GET IT!! Somedays it feels so defeating… so pointless… so useless when I spend 3-4 hours a day prioritizing healthy food,...

I know 1st-hand the challenges, pain, and trauma of living as a chronic ill person and dealing with a medical system which is broken and...

One of the GREATEST lessons chronic illness life has taught me is to be wildly, massively, insanely vigilant over where I am spending my...

Oh my dear chronic illness/disability warriors… I KNOW this is a truly hard thing to avoid! It is so easy to do, to judge ourselves now...

Being diagnosed with a rare disease is an event that no one ever expects in life and it completely turns your world upside down. In the...

Feeling alone is one of the most painful parts of living with a chronic illness… especially a rare chronic illness as a young/younger...

Being a 75% extrovert, loneliness has been one of the most challenging pieces of my chronic illness journey. Through the years my health...

When I was a younger woman, weekends were especially challenging, knowing that my friends, my previous co-workers, and many others my age...

In one of my many attempts to try to help others in my life understand what it is like to be me living with chronic pain and chronic...

None of us want to be judged, or at least not negatively anyway, we want to be seen for all our positive traits being hard-working,...

Believe me when I say the LAST thing I want is to be shut up in my house all day everyday… I do not do this by choice! Before chronic...

The part-time job you see me working is IN ADDITION to my full-time job of living with chronic illness! My chronic illness is a full-time...

It took me a lot of years to learn this lesson. I learned to quit putting my precious energy into trying to get people in my life to...

The thing about life with chronic illness, especially one as progressed and serious as what I face with mitochondrial disease, is that...

Before I fell acutely ill with the chronic disease I now fight against daily, I had earned my college degree and was working full time as...