chronic-illness

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing sneakers too. You are in a suit, I am comfortable. So when she explained to me that this was the first event really of its kind, it floored me. So I called my daughter who is in her 30s now and I said __o you know what endometriosis is?_ She said, __hat? Have to pack the pack the busters.__ said __o man, you have never heard of it?_ No she said. I do not know what it is, and it occurred to me that my 30-year-old daughter who I told about endometriosis and it didn__ stick. If she didn__ know, and she is one of the hippest people I know, and her daughter doesn__ know, she has 19-year-old and she is a 13-year-old. The boy, we don__ care much about if he knows about it so much. There is other stuff for him to learn. Like how to roll a condom, things like that.You know, and it occurred to me that if they didn__ know that there were hundreds of thousands girls out there that don__ know. It is not because their mothers don__ want to tell them, because it__ not religion, it__ pure ignorance. We don__ know, we don__ have the information, we have it now, and so now is why this very first gathering is happening. Now is why we__e all sitting here looking really fabulous as you are...[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]

We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a duty tonight. You only have to tell one other person what you heard. Just tell them what you heard, or ask them have you ever heard of this? If the answer is no, share what you learn tonight.That__ all. You don__ have to do anything else. You just have to tell somebody else. You have to take whatever stigma people think that is there. You have to take it. It__ not male or female. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, here__ a disease you don__ know about and you need to know about it. It__ that simple. It__ not rocket science.[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]

My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

I wanted to relay a first hand experience to an audience possibly struggling to understand just what living with an autoimmune condition means,_ Connery says. __t's a difficult journey and very much misunderstood by our friends and family _ I hope this book can help to change that.

That__ the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I__ in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I can__ enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we__e going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death.

Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.

All parents set out with expectations, hopes and dreams for their child. When a child is diagnosed with a health problem, these aspirations are altered. While one parent is hoping to see their child graduate from university, another is praying that they can live pain free

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.