My LUPUS is…
Well, the end of National Chronic Illness Awareness Week and it hasn’t been easy to broadcast the details of what I think and feel about being ill. As sick as some of you are in reading about chronic illness, imagine that sick feeling tenfold for those of us who have to tell you about it.
Yet, its been encouraging for us to have read so many stories from others. Its been a good challenge for us to step beyond the secrets and away from being invisible.
It is up to us to take action. To learn all we can about informational and emotional support. To seek out those around us, organizations, programs and services to help make our lives better. It is up to us to believe in ourselves, to be our own best friends and to recognize the fact that approximately 25 million or 1 out of ten of us Americans now live with a chronic illness (Source: CDC website)
If you missed any of the week’s guest bloggers, you can find them at Rest Ministries Invisible Illness Week Blog. If you missed or want to listen again to the week’s speakers, they are archived there also.
Now that you’ve been introduced to some great bloggers, continue visiting them. Even though the ‘official’ week is over, living goes on ~ so take some of the encouragement, strength, humor and all else that was shared right along with you into tomorrow with a new sense of visibility.
I know there will still be days where I’ll choose to stay under the radar. That’s okay, too, because this week wasn’t just about being visible to others – it was also for me to see that living with lupus involves having others Let me define it on my terms, see Underneath it all both physically and emotionally, to meet and know some Pretty amazing people and to celebrate in the community – the US that this whole experience offers me.
Have a great week everyone~
