The music with its combination of notes, melody and lyrics can influence our feelings reviving different emotions from peace to anger. For good or bad, here it is 10 songs that give me chills since I have a chronic illness.

I don’t have much energy and is it fair to use it doing something that I really don’t want to do? And what happen with my life? With my real life? I want to see my friends for a coffee, I want to go to the cinema with my husband, I want to read, I want to learn French, but how? [...]

For quite some time I’ve been trying to introduce to my life some healthy habits. I have Lupus and Avascular Necrosis but even if I follow my treatment and take my medicine religiously, I’m still feeling weak and tired most of the time. That’s why I decided that what I have to do is fight inflammation, the origin of most of my symptoms [...]

I’ve suffered from chronic pain for about a year now. Probably when my ankles started collapsing a couple of months before my Osteonecrosis diagnosis. To be fair, I always felt joint pain, manageable pain, but this last year has been torturing. I take meds for the pain, the most effective one is anti-inflammatories, so Read more →

I would never give this to anyone, but sometimes, I would like them to have it for just one week, so they could understand me better after, and there are some things in particular that I would like them to know and feel what is like to live with a chronic illness...

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For quite some time I’ve been trying to introduce to my life some healthy habits. I have Lupus and AVN but even if I follow my treatment and take my medicine, I’m feeling weak and tired most of the time. The diagnosis of AVN really put me down. I can’t help but imagine my joints rotten from the inside until they are destroyed. My worries are worst when I see my joints get really swollen.That’s why I decided I have to fight inflammation, the origin of most of my symptoms.[...]

Tragic moments can become funny if you try to keep your sense of humour. At the moment this happened nothing was fun, but after some time you can have some perspective and see that actually some of them look like if your chronic illness is playing you a joke. Here are some moments in Read more →

A veces sientes que esto nunca va a terminar. ¿Acaso no ha sido suficiente? No puedes evitar preguntarte: “¿Por qué me está pasando esto a mí?” Te sientes sin esperanzas. Te sientes derrotada. Últimamente me he sentido de esta manera, siento que esto nunca terminará.

No soy Paris Hilton o Kim Kardashian, ni nunca lo he sido, pero decir que no a algunas cosas que me gustaría hacer no es muy agradable. No es agradable para mí y definitivamente no es agradable para las personas que reciben mi rechazo una y otra vez.

Living with a chronic illness is a battle and an adventure every day. Come on in and read short stories about a chronic survivor.

So finally you get that diagnosis that you’ve been waiting for months.You feel relieve, even if you just found out that you have a chronic illness, at least now that you know what it is doctors can treat it, right? Well, soon you notice that is not as easy as when you get a virus, and things are not getting better as fast as you thought. Your body needs time to show an improvement after you start your treatment plan. Days, weeks and months passed by and you are still in your bed. You are…

Dear Future Child: I have a Chronic Illness, but please, don´t be worry. Since the beginning, it won’t be easy and sometimes we will be scared, but please, never stop believing in me. I’m stronger than I look, I’ve been in rough battles and I always win; and I’m sure that with you by my side, I’ll become even stronger.

When you become “Chronically ill”, everything changes. You need to change your habits, drop hobbies and adjust to this body that is not the same anymore. But you know that the biggest damage is not in your body. It’s not in your kidneys, or in your lungs, or in your liver like the doctors are saying. It’s something more important to you, but sometimes your doctors and even your family forget.[...]

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