Hi!  Welcome, I'am April

My disease is chronic, it is life-threatening, and it is fatal…. However no doctor can predicate exactly how my condition will progress...

This I find is one of the very most difficult parts of my journey with chronic illness… this week alone even though I was struggling with...

I think I spent nearly the first 5 years of chronic illness not even shedding a tear… as soon as my health broke-down to the point I had...

Let’s face it… NO ONE has life easy… even that friend/relative who you think has it all together… the great job, great health… loads of...

Often when a chronic illness begins to rear its ugly head family, friends and even medical professionals brush off symptoms as mere...

Chronic illness life is H.A.R.D… there is no way around that… but it is what we choose to do with this life we were given, ill or not...

I wish someone would have told me this when my world was falling apart… I was 28 years old loosing my professional career I had worked...

In my many long years in this perpetual struggle I have found many things to help navigate this difficulty: 1. I work with my family in a...

For many with chronic illness GUILT is as much a daily struggle as is the symptoms of the illness itself. We are plagued with guilt over...

One of the most challenging things in my life with chronic illness is never being able to plan for my next day… I often can’t even plan...

The reality of never getting a day off from health challenges in chronic illness REAL… and HARD! My everyday begins with pills, and each...

One of the Most emotionally challenging things for me over the past 16 years of living with chronic illness is finding the ambition,...

For 12 years, I said nothing to anyone about the sexual misconducted I experienced during a testing procedure at a world-renowned medical...

I n life with chronic illness & disability you quickly learn that so many commonly-accepted life-mantras do NOT apply to this life. One...

When I was diagnosed with a progressive incurable chronic illness which currently has no FDA approved treatment… one of the first things...

One of the things I have wanted most in my life is to have a great long term, committed romantic relationship, and I have been very lucky...

Guess what? It is okay and normal to NOT feel brave all the time… to feel anxiety and self-conscious and jittery over certain things in...

In my now 16 years living with chronic illness since the age of 25 I have met hundreds of young adults with chronic illness/disability...

It is completely NORMAL to be jealous of other’s health as you continue to battle for yours and as your health continues to deteriorate. ...

I have been ill now for 16 years, and in the past 10 years I have had great difficulty in managing normal daily life things like grocery...