Forum: Parenting with an illness.

Besides rest.. need some new strategies - Advil isn't quite cutting it.. Has anyone tried Amygdala retraining? I really want to keep exercising - and I find myself fighting to get up the driveway, much less walk my whole hour.. I want to make it to my class this weekend - but don't know if...

OK.. living less than 20 miles from the epicenter of the Virginia Earthquake and taking a nice little hit from Irene, i am really feeling like crud.. I know that stress impacts Fibro.. but good grief.. now I am just plain sick.. Back is really hurting, some kind of respiratory infection and it...

Let's try a little bit of a game... As a Fibromyalgia patient - I've spent a great many years fearing the pain and fatigue of fibro.. A couple of months ago - I decided that I could not let this rule my life any more.. So I started moving more. I started walking just to the end of the...

As a fibromyalgia mom - My first strategy is to prevent a flare up - the pain I can manage through - it's the part of the flare up where I am so tired I can barely move that gets me.. Before we dig into strategies for self-care, it’s important to acknowledge that children are resilient...

First off I would like to thank Dave for fixing this board. :) I have lymphoma and a 19 month old. I hope to be in remission completely by the end of the summer though I am having some unexpected issues that keep moving that date back. Anyone else here?

when your having a bad day and your feeling awful its sometimes hard to hide it from your kids.. when your kids pick up on it what do they do for you?? bethany always knows when im not feeling well she will take my hand and fold back my comforter for me and tell me to lay down..she will say momma i...

Hi I hope others do come to this site.. I would love to know how many others handle the challenges of raising a child(ren) and coping with an illness. I have cancer now for 3rd time and also on dialysis for kidney failure ..most days we cope but every now and then I just need to lay down..That is...

Ok I know this is a new section under parenting but figure I will still write and hopefully others will join :) Husband and I had stilborn twins from a surprise pregnancy..after that I found out cancer returned and my kidneys were failing so we used a surrogate. With the surrogate we lost a set of...