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Guest Blog Post: Featuring Jacqueline, @ladylivinglyme

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Jacqueline joins the blog today & shares a piece from her own blog about tips to navigate living life with chronic illness. Jacqueline suffers from Lyme disease and others, and shares through her blog and Instagram page how she lives with these conditions.  Navigating Daily Life: Practical Tips for Living with an Incurable Chronic Illness Living with an incurable chronic illness is a journey that demands resilience, adaptability, and a strategic approach to daily life. It involves facing unique challenges that extend beyond the physical symptoms of the illness, impacting various aspects of your routine and overall well-being. In this blog post, we will delve into practical tips and strategies to empower individuals with chronic illnesses to navigate their daily lives with greater ease and effectiveness. Understanding the Unpredictable Terrain Living with an incurable chronic illness is similar to embarking on a journey with an unpredictable terrain. The first crucial step in naviga
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Infertility & heartbreak

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Let's be honest.  There are a lot of days, weeks, months or even years when living with chronic illness that we just don't feel okay.  The journey, the struggle is hard to find answers, to see doctors, to be told heart wrenching things you never thought you'd hear, and then live with your health struggles day in and day out, a seemingly never-ending cycle of shattered dreams and a broken heart. It seems almost impossible to hold onto hope for the future when the future can seem bleak at times. Today I thought it was fitting to write about this because recently my dear husband and I found out we may not be able to have children. This... this is something I wasn't sure I could even write about. The heartbreak that comes with this news is unspeakable.  There are honestly no words to describe the depth of pain my heart and my soul feel after learning this. My dreams growing up, and still are, to be a wife and a mother. To grow old with my husband and watch our children grow
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The fight is exhausting

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Fighting for your health and needs is so exhausting.  Battling with doctors to hear you, see you, understand you, take you seriously, help you and send you to the right people to help you with your health issues just seems like too much to ask sometimes, doesn't it? I know I'm not the only one who goes through this and that's so frustrating and sad to me.  I think our medical system needs a serious reevaluation.  On days like today where I feel I've been brushed off yet again and have to keep fighting and holding onto the end of the thread, I just want to scream. I want to lay down, and sleep it all away.  But, then I snap back to reality and accept this is just part of the process. It shouldn't be, people who struggle with chronic illness shouldn't have to fight so hard, but yet we do. And I think it makes us stronger for it. I have to keep going, we have to keep going even though sometimes we don't see or understand how things will work out. Something that
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Hope & Silver Linings

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We all have our own unique struggles in life. Not one person on this earth is exempt from the pain and the struggle of life. My struggle happens to be with chronic illness. My health issues started when I was a child but progressively got worse and more concerning by the time my 20's came around. Now, I'm a 26 year old with a handful of diagnoses I never thought I'd have at my age. Among them are a connective tissue disease, Fibromyalgia, Raynauds, Endometriosis, & suspected ME/CFS & POTS.  As a child and teen, I had many dreams, aspirations and hopes about my future.  I wanted to do something significant and great with my life, but the most important thing to me was to become a wife and mother and have a garden and a humble little farm to raise a few animals.  Chronic illness completely shattered my hopes, dreams and reality. The last few years led to my reality check, when I finally realized that my body couldn't even handle working a part time job. I didn'
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Introduction post!

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Hey there, my name is Casandra but I go by Cass! If you're seeing this, I just wanted to say thank you for joining me here on my blog. This has been a dream of mine for awhile.  My goal for this is to share many different aspects of life- my love for life and marriage, but also the hard aspects of life with a focus on Christ.  I struggle with many health issues, some of them being chronic illness and that's part of what led me to creating this.  I wanted this to be a safe place where I can share pretty much everything, with the intent of pointing everything back to God and how He gets me through it all, as ugly as life is sometimes.  I also want this to be a place where I can bear my heart to others, in hopes of encouraging and supporting them, especially believers and those who struggle with chronic illness too. And if neither of those things apply to you, I am still thankful you are here :)  Thank you for joining me on my journey, here's to the future and all that it hold
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