Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
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Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
Richard M. Cohen has finally finished his long awaited (by me for sure) book about living with chronic illness in America. My copy is in the mail. More money will be spent for the Iraq "war" in two days than will be spent in a year by the National Health Institute (NIH) for chronic illnesses. Many citizens suffer in silence, wearing their diseases like heavy bricks of shame around their necks. I recall the words of one of my compassion filled doctors, "Multiple Sclerosis won't kill you, you will just wish you were dead." How many of you with a chronic illness feel exactly like that?
Finding our way to some semblance of normalcy and happiness should be our never ending goal. Many conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are without visible symptoms; and without a known cause; so, friends, relatives, employers, lovers and doctors (a staple of psychologist's and psychiatrist's "mad money") often presume sufferers to be mentally unstable.
Just as patients with MS were once exiled to insane asylums, now a diagnosis of CFS or FMS includes a referral to a psychiatrist as per course--as "of course."
To insult injury of health even further our government steps in to declare some conditions simple exaggerations, outright lies, and even figments of imagination---think: Gulf War Syndrome. Ninety-million Americans live with chronic illness.
Richard M. Cohen's new book, "Strong at the Broken Places, Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope" sheds the light of understanding on how a person carries on in a world of healthy people.
Illness is a negative; good health is a positive; these archaic labels are challenged throughout the stories of the five people Cohen interviews for his book.
As our population ages we will all become intimate with illness. To live, to laugh, to love, to enjoy the moments one has on this earthly plain while battling against natures determination to demand otherwise is called living with grace. It is a concept our earlier generations neither understood nor accepted. We must do better. I will do better and I do not plan on doing it alone.
Larry King asked Meredith what it was like to live with someone who has a chronic illness. (Her husband, Richard M. Cohen has had MS for thirty years and is legally blind; he also fought through colon cancer, all chronicled in his previous book, "Blindsided.")
"When you live with chronic illness it just becomes a part of the fabric of your life. There are days that are good and there are days that are bad for each of us...
Richard said, "A lot of dealing with chronic illness is psychological; it's really how you want to see yourself." He added that a mind game is a big part of surviving and having a good life. Chronic illness is not a death sentence, you really must rise above and lead the life you want. He said the downside of what was for him a very positive experience, was knowing that some of the lives of the people he met will probably end too soon.
Ernest Hemingway's " A Farewell To Arms:"
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ch. 34
DEFINITIONS: Syndrome-- a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
Condition--a usually defective state of health
Chronic--marked by long duration, by frequent recurrence over a long time, and often by slowly progressing seriousness
Illness--an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Health--the condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly , freedom from physical disease and pain
Disease--an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors
Doctor--a person who hopefully graduated from a good medical university and attempts to bring health to those having syndromes, conditions, chronic illness or disease, without making you sick to death upon receiving your bill
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