Chronicles a patient's true life stories and her physician's compassionate commentary as they take a journey through the three stages of chronic illness. Getting sick, being sick and living well.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Excellent and realistic:
This book was exceptionally helpful. It does not start out all starry eyed about keeping a stiff upper lip. She acknowledges that getting a chronic illness is hard on you and your life, your family, your friends. Then she describes the grief phases through which you can progress to reach some type of realistic adjustment to the whole thing. It was easy to identify with her and feel that she is talking to you, not a fantasy person who always makes lemonade. This makes it refreshingly readable.
A nice help:
I have an auto-immune disease and often have trouble with folks not understanding that I am ill or how ill I am .... because "I don't look sick" , I don't have a cast on my leg, bandages... this book helps me deal with my internal dialogue and my process of dealing with some of these emotions. It has helped me deal with what to say to others as well.
You Don't Look Sick: Living Well With Invisible Chronic Illness:
This book is very helpful to one with a chronic illness and for someone trying to cope. I highly recommend that patients, doctors and family read it and be enlightened.
You Don't Look Sick: Living Well With Invisible Chronic Illness:
You don't look sick. Although our stories may vary, this is the one phrase that all of us living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and other invisible chronic illnesses have experienced, dread, and fear the most. It's hard enough to live in pain, fight through fibrofog, and deal with lost independence but this simply utterance makes us feel like we have to explain ourselves and frankly the explanation is never quite good enough. We leave the conversation with a feeling that getting sick was... more info
