Download or read book Surviving Your Spouse s Chronic Illness written by Chris McGonigle and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses her own experiences and those of others who have cared for chronically sick spouses, and describes the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual impact

Download or read book Silent Winter written by Joanna Moore and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Winter is about the silent spread of toxic chemicals in our daily lives and their role in the growing prevalence of illnesses such as cancer, chronic fatigue, diabetes, asthma digestive issues, depression, dementia, and others. The scientific evidence about chronic illness and toxic chemicals is withheld from us through stunningly elaborate efforts so that business can continue as usual. Approximately 45% of the adult US population now has at least one chronic illness, and chronic illness is commonly caused by chronic exposure to toxic chemicals. We are often told that these diseases are a result of our lifestyle or our genes. We rarely hear that chronic illness is on the rise as a result of toxic chemicals in consumer products and throughout our environment. Industry does not want to change, so it is forcing us to change on an evolutionary level to deal with the onslaught of chemicals in our daily lives. When we cannot keep up and get ill, we are sold chemical solutions to make us feel better. But individuals and families dealing with chronic illness often know or suspect that toxic chemicals have played a role in the demise of their health. The author also shows how the problem is covered up at a societal level by obscuring what we know, and how discussion of possible solutions is silenced by manipulating the marketplace. Millions of human lives are being muted as a result of chronic illness. Finally, the author discusses our way out of this mess. In the 1962 book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson dedicated one short chapter to the anticipated human health impacts from toxic chemicals. That chapter seeded the present work, Silent Winter, which was written after sixty additional years of scientific research and widespread human exposure to a variety of toxic chemicals. In Our Stolen Future, 1996, Theo Colborn et al. warned of the potential dangers of hormone disrupting chemicals on human health. Nearly another 25 years have passed since that writing. Silent Winter reveals the observed impacts of these hormone disrupting chemicals on human health.

Download or read book Chronic Illness written by S. Kay Toombs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "…excellent…" -- Choices - Choice on Dying Newsletter "Toombs, Barnard, and Carson have organized and edited a valuable series of papers that provide a rare perspective on the impact of chronic illness. Beginning with the person who is experiencing the chronic condition, they are able to weave an important blend of personal, social, and policy themes." -- Choice "This volume of collected essays is a solid contribution to the medical humanities literature on chronic illness... the contributors have produced a cohesive, systematic, and sensitive examination of issues in chronic illness and disability." -- Medical Humanities Review "Although it may seem to be intended largely for health care providers, this thought-provoking volume has much that will interest a wider lay audience." -- Medical and Health Annual An often moving exploration of the human, moral, and policy aspects of a health issue that affects each of us. Through first-person accounts and the perspectives of literature, medicine, philosophy, and religion, this book explores what it means to live with chronic illness and the implications of this experience for social policy, health care, bioethics, and the professions.

Download or read book Finding a New Normal written by Suzan Linn Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides inspiration, advice on emotional coping, and support on living your best life with chronic illness from someone who's been there. The emphasis in this book is on LIVING your life, not just enduring it.

Download or read book You Can Beat the Odds written by Brenda Stockdale and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in biobehavioral medicine presents a holistic program for enhancing immunity and improving your chances of recovery from serious illness. This guide offers practical, science-based techniques that have been proven to help cancer and chronic disease survivors. You Can Beat the Odds reveals surprising risk factors—greater than smoking, diet, or cholesterol—that can make the difference between robust health and life-threatening illness. Even your genetic inheritance isn’t as fixed as you might have imagined.’ Brenda Stockdale’s mind-body approach addresses the underpinnings of illness, health, and healing. Each technique in her program is designed to improve the way your body responds to viruses, illnesses, and even daily stress. This volume includes exercises to help you personalize your program and integrate insights quickly into your everyday life.

Download or read book Priceless Jewel Walking Together Through Chronic Illness written by John L. Marshall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronically ill woman who never expected to find love meets a well man who never thought he would be married. They discover not only each other but also that God can use them as a

Download or read book When Your Chronic Illness Becomes a Goliath written by Tami Treat-Boyne and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Note to layout: have the top part a larger font than the bottom part with a watermark of David and Goliath behind all the blurb” You have been walking along the beach of life, hearing the surf and seeing the sunsets, when wham, you have been knocked down by the mountain of life and your chronic disease. Your Goliath. Depression oft times hits like a tidal wave, taking us down. Again, our Goliath has raised his ugly head. And we are left standing at five feet, facing our Goliath of nine feet. “Leave this area blank” This book is not for the weak or faint of heart--but if you suffer from any of the plethora of diseases that plague our world today, this book is for you. If you are walking this path, I pray this sixty-day devotional will serve you well. It is not intended to replace your medical regiment but to enhance it. Goliath will try to take away your hope and peace. This book is intended to give you sixty days of joy, encouragement, and uplifting thoughts. Sixty days of giving you a hope and a future in the Lord. Sixty days of helping you revitalize your spirit. Goliath. You. The Lord. Sixty days to find the stone. Come on in and find a way to beat your Goliath. Blessings and gentle hugs, my friends.

Download or read book In the Kingdom of the Sick written by Laurie Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing a high percentage of Americans who live with chronic illness, an urgent call to action draws on scientific research and patient narratives to explore the role of social medial in medical advocacy, arguing that we must change attitudes about the link between health and lifestyle and provide appropriate and compassionate treatments. By the award-winning author of Life Disrupted. 25,000 first printing.

Download or read book What Doesn t Kill You written by Tessa Miller and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart." —The New York Times Named one of BuzzFeed's "Best Books of 2021" What Doesn't Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting to shed light on living with an ailment forever. Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she toughed it out through searing pain, taking sick days from work, unable to leave the bathroom or her bed. But when it became undeniable that something was seriously wrong, Miller gave in to family pressure and went to the hospital—beginning a years-long nightmare of procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. Once she was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, Miller faced another battle: accepting that she will never get better. Today, an astonishing three in five adults in the United States suffer from a chronic disease—a percentage expected to rise post-Covid. Whether the illness is arthritis, asthma, Crohn's, diabetes, endometriosis, multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, or any other incurable illness, and whether the sufferer is a colleague, a loved one, or you, these diseases have an impact on just about every one of us. Yet there remains an air of shame and isolation about the topic of chronic sickness. Millions must endure these disorders not only physically but also emotionally, balancing the stress of relationships and work amid the ever-present threat of health complications. Miller segues seamlessly from her dramatic personal experiences into a frank look at the cultural realities (medical, occupational, social) inherent in receiving a lifetime diagnosis. She offers hard-earned wisdom, solidarity, and an ultimately surprising promise of joy for those trying to make sense of it all.

Download or read book The Lady s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness written by Sarah Ramey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. In her harrowing, darkly funny, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her devastating symptoms were psychological. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions—autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain, and many more. Ramey's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness becomes a page-turning medical mystery that reveals a new understanding of today's chronic illnesses as ecological in nature, driven by modern changes to the basic foundations of health, from the quality of our sleep, diet, and social connections to the state of our microbiomes. Her book will open eyes, change lives, and, ultimately, change medicine. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.

Download or read book Hope Amid the Pain Hanging On to Positive Expectations When Battling Chronic Pain and Illness A 60 Day Devotional Journal written by Leslie L. McKee and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why me? Is God punishing me? Is my faith not strong enough for God to heal me? How can I achieve my dreams? What’s my purpose? If you’re someone living with a chronic illness or chronic pain, these are just a few of the questions you’ve likely asked on more than one occasion. You may feel overlooked or even resentful. You try to stay positive, but some days it’s hard. It’s natural to feel this way and grieve, but it’s still possible to have a hope-filled life. God has a purpose for the pain. Christians aren’t immune from pain and illness, but we don’t have to go through it alone. Jesus promised that He would “never leave you nor forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV). Millions of women suffering from chronic pain and illness want the reassurance they’re not alone. The devotions in Hope Amid the Pain are written by a chronic pain warrior with over twenty-five years’ experience and will point the reader to hope and encouragement. It’s possible to Hang On to Positive Expectations (HOPE) even amid the pain.

Download or read book Inside Chronic Pain written by Lous Heshusius and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise happy endings. Chronic pain is like that. From the rare intersection in this text between patient narrative and physician response, however, readers may construct a dialogue on pain in our time that cannot fail to bring plentiful opportunities for personal insight and professional enlightenment."—from the Foreword by David B. MorrisChronic pain, which affects 70 million people in the United States alone—more than diabetes, cancer, and heart disease combined—is a major public health issue that remains poorly understood both within the health care system and by those closest to the people it afflicts. This book examines the experience of pain in ways that could significantly improve how patients and practitioners deal with pain. It is the first volume of a new collection of titles within the acclaimed Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series called How Patients Think, intended to give voice to the concerns of patients about their own medical care and the formulation of health policy.Since surviving a near-fatal car accident, Lous Heshusius has suffered from chronic pain for more than a decade, forcing her to give up her career as a professor of education. Inside Chronic Pain, based in part on the pain journal Heshusius keeps, is a stunning memoir of a life lived in constant pain as well as an insightful and often critical account of the inadequacies of the health care system—from physicians to hospitals and health insurance companies—to understand chronic pain and treat those who suffer from it. Through her own frequently frustrating experiences, she shows how health care providers often ignore, deny, or incorrectly treat chronic pain at immense cost to both the patient and the health care system. She also offers cogent suggestions on improving the quality and outcome of chronic pain care and management, using her encounters with exceptional medical professionals as models.Inside Chronic Pain deals with pain's dramatic and destructive effects on one's sense of self and identity. It chronicles the chaos that takes place, the paralyzing effect of severe pain, the changes in personality that ensue, and the corrosive effects of severe pain on the ability to attend to day-to-day tasks. It describes how one's social life falls apart and isolation takes over. It also relates moments of happiness and beauty and describes how rooting the self in the present is crucial in managing pain. A unique feature of Inside Chronic Pain is the clinical commentary by Dr. Scott M. Fishman, president of the American Pain Foundation. Fishman has long tried to improve the lives of patients like Heshusius. His medical perspective on her very human narrative will help physicians and other clinicians better understand and treat patients with chronic pain.

Download or read book When Walls Become Doorways written by Tobi Zausner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the lives of artists as inspiration, "When Walls Become Doorways" explores the transformative power of illness and the ability of productivity and creativity to heal the soul.

Download or read book Medical Medium written by Anthony William and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEALING WISDOM THAT’S DECADES AHEAD OF ITS TIME Anthony William, the one and only Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can’t resolve. He’s done this by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to restore their health. His methods achieve spectacular results, even for those who have spent years and many thousands of dollars on all forms of medicine before turning to him. Now, in this revolutionary book, he opens the door to all he has learned in over 25 years of bringing people’s lives back: a massive amount of healing information, much of which science won’t discover for decades, and most of which has never appeared anywhere before. Medical Medium reveals the root causes of diseases and conditions that medical communities either misunderstand or struggle to understand at all. It explores all-natural solutions for dozens of the illnesses that plague us, including: · Lyme disease · Fibromyalgia · Adrenal fatigue · Chronic fatigue syndrome · Hormonal imbalances · Hashimoto’s disease · Multiple sclerosis · Depression · Neurological conditions · Chronic inflammation · Autoimmune disease · Blood sugar imbalances · Colitis and other digestive disorders · And more It also offers solutions for restoring the soul and spirit after illness has torn at our emotional fabric. Whether you’ve been given a diagnosis you don’t understand, or you have symptoms you don’t know how to name, or someone you love is sick, or you want to care for your own patients better, Medical Medium offers the answers you need. It’s also a guidebook for everyone seeking the secrets to living longer, healthier lives. "The truth about the world, ourselves, life, purpose—it all comes down to healing," Anthony William writes. "And the truth about healing is now in your hands."

Download or read book Dear God Bless This Mess written by Amanda Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grocery stores and drive-thru menus are full of quick and convenient options to relieve your hunger. But are your food choices saving you minutes each day while shaving years off of your life? Why can't you eat what you want and just pray that God will fix it? In this book, Dr. Amanda Roberson pulls back the curtain to expose why our food choices are leading to chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer and what to do about it. Recognizing that God is the Great Physician, Dr. Roberson will show you how to take responsibility as a good steward over your body by teaching you: why many of your favorite foods are killing you slowly what you can do to reverse the affects of chronic illnesses and medical conditions spiritual aspects of illness and disease and the power of your words over your health. With so much conflicting information about health - often driven by people who want to increase profits - Dr. Roberson gives you the truth about how to create healthy habits that allow you to enjoy the abundant life God wants you to have."

Download or read book When Chronic Pain Illness Take Everything Away written by Esther Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain, illness, and disability take so much away. Sometimes it seems as though they take everything we have ever loved and held dear. Our physical abilities and our jobs. Our current passions and future dreams. Our finances and our friends. Our sense of community and our ability to engage the world in ways we could before. Chronic pain takes away our sense of self and who we always thought ourselves to be. How in the world are we supposed to deal with this fact? In this book, I hope to teach you how to mourn your losses - everything that pain, illness, and disability has taken away. I hope to teach you what to do when life is empty and filled with grief. I hope to point you to the God who gives us Himself when nothing else in life makes sense.

Download or read book Chronic Disease Notes Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: