Helping a Friend With a Chronic Illness

Reaction to illness depends on how severe the illness is, how long it lasts, and a variety of other things. Usually, if a good friend is diagnosed with an illness like cancer or has an unexpected surgery, friends come up with plans like helping with meals, transporting kids, and so on. Even the shorter-term illnesses, like pneumonia, are taken care of by people sending chicken soup or bringing you a book to read.

But what happens when someone has a chronic illness, like fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome? When they’re not always in-your-face ill, but they have times when they feel desperately ill or just too ill to face the world?

Since it’s a chronic illness that can literally last a lifetime, what is a well-meaning friend to do?

There’s a great post over at But You Don’t Look Sick. The post offers 36 Easy things that you can do to make the life of your chronically ill friend a bit better .

There are some great suggestions and hopefully you may find something that you feel fits you and your friend just right.

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