Hi!  Welcome, I'am April

if a new health care provider right off the bat seems incompetent when it comes to my condition, does not make me feel comfortable, talks...

Whether I am with my family, my friends, a visit with my physician, going to church, talking with the neighbors, or even on a call with...

SAD TRUTH - big pharma wants you sick! Big pharma is a big business and in order to keep business flourishing they need people to...

I find fatigue is the most challenging dynamic of my chronic illness for others to understand. As busy adults in the modern world most...

I get it, I have BEEN THERE!!! You are living with chronic illness, perhaps it is progressive like mine, and you are even told it will...

Life with chronic illness, especially a progressive, life-threatening illness like mitochondrial disease can be very challenging for...

Forget the pain of chronic illness, and the suffering of all the physical symptoms… it is the FRUSTRATION which is often the most...

Chronic illness grief is also what is considered a ‘dis-enfranchised grief’ because unlike the grief in the loss of a job, a lover, a...

another HARD earned chronic illness journey lesson I have learned over my many years living while sick is that as much as we wish it...

There are MANY challenging things to navigate in life with chronic illness… one of them is understanding who in your life you share...

Having a lasting committed, healthy, romantic relationship can be a challenge for anyone, but there can be a whole new world of...

I reflect sometimes how much my chronic illness struggles go completely unseen. Even by those close to my life like my mother, my...

I had NO IDEA… I lived with and suffered daily form PTSD due to long-term extreme stress caused by my multiple s erious medical...

When living with chronic illness it can be hard to not get to a place where you feel like you are your illness. When illness truly does...

A life with a progressive disease or chronic illness is a life full of grief… and a very particular kind of continual grief. Grief of any...

I have missed everything from holidays, birthdays, family reunions, baby showers, weddings, and the hardest of all was being too sick to...

My chronic illness was not the way I wanted to LEARN… and these were not the lessons I wanted learn… but after 16 years of living with...

I get it… it is hard AF… but the hard truth and reality is that sometimes our dreams can not come true… no matter how badly we want for...

I have noticed through my years with chronic illness that when someone is a younger person with chronic illness society approaches them...

If all you could do today was get out of bed, get dressed and go to the grocery store… then perhaps the groceries all sat on the counter...