Book Invisible illness prevention
This book was a page turner It was hard to stop reading as I was invested in the author s journey Although I do not suffer from any of the diagnoses Lauren has received it made me feel for her her strength her pain her love and her disappointment She lost so much due to her illnesses but she continues to endure If you know anyone who has struggled with an invisible illness this book can help you understand what they live with Invisible Illness Coming of Age Chronic Illness and a Mother s Will to Survive
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Invisible illness club 5 million Americans suffer from ME CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia devastating chronic illnesses that to date has no test for diagnosis A lesser known condition hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome considered to be a genetic connective tissue disease affects every system of the body particularly the nervous system These debilitating diseases can be so difficult to properly diagnose that patients often bedridden with pain exhaustion and many other symptoms go through further hell when they are not believed that they re sick Lauren Saikkonen a former high school teacher wife and mother of two struggled through most of her life with pain in one form or another as she tried to fit into a world in which she often felt like an outsider The cruel irony is this As quickly as she began to come into her own she was violently stricken with these catastrophic mysterious illnesses that at every turn have threatened to dismantle her life Prepare to be moved shocked and educated as an average girl poignantly shares her incredible journey through light and darkness in a relentless push for a diagnosis a cure and the courage to endure with dignity what no human should have to go through the debilitating pain of invisible illness that just won t go away Trigger This book contains content that may be disturbing to some readers Discretion is advised Praise for Invisible When healthy we never imagine it could happen to us that we could lose everything to illness that we could try everything possible to get well and not succeed that we could brought to utter and desperation and beyond But it can and it does Lauren s searing riveting story shows just what it s like and what it takes to face this hard reality over and over again Julie Rehmeyer author of Through the A Science Writer s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn t Understand A powerful story to share with others The Solve ME CFS Initiative Invisible Illness Coming of Age Chronic Illness and a Mother s Will to Survive
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