Cathy talks about grief (especially denial), The Spoon Theory, parenting with chronic illness, how her condition has affected her music career, and what it’s like to be “one of the lucky ones,” by having definitive disease markers in her blood. Cara makes an impassioned plea for you to get a flu shot this year, and Cathy shares two songs that she wrote while processing the grief of her illness.
She lives with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjögren’s Syndrome, POTS, complex chronic headaches, and Interstitial Cystitis.
Links
The Spoon Theory: http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
More info on Rhematoid Arthritis: http://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/rheumatoid-arthritis/
More info on Sjogren’s: https://www.sjogrens.org/home/about-sjogrens
More info on dysautonomia: http://www.dysautonomiainternational.org/page.php?ID=34
More info on chronic headaches: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/centers_clinics/headache/conditions/chronic_daily_headache.html
More info on Interstitial Cystitis: http://www.ichelp.org/about-ic/
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