Helping a Friend With a Chronic Illness

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:15:57 +0000

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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Helping a Friend With a Chronic Illness

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (Sept. 10-16)

Kristen King — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:19:26 +0000

Thanks to Kendra at Diabetes Notes and Laura at CFS Squared for the tip off on National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week this week.

What’s an invisible chronic illness? Anything that people won’t know you have just by looking at you. Examples include…

Mental illness
Eating disorders
Endometriosis
Diabetes
Arthritis
Chronic pain
Heart disease
Autism
Migraines
Cancer
Multiple sclerosis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
and anything else you just can’t see

Check out this video for more info, and be sure to visit the site.

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National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (Sept. 10-16)

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Helping a Friend With a Chronic Illness

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (Sept. 10-16)