Suzanne Stewart’s Story – Living Beyond Your Illness
IF you haven’t read any of my blog before, you won’t know that I always start out my blog with “Hello Luvs”. I had meant to write this long ago, but time gets away from all of us, so today the phone was on mute and the kitty was lying in her spot with me in the same room and it seemed a good time to write about this.
We can all get down and sad sometimes, even depressed. I mean, having a chronic illness, or a list of chronic pain illnesses can get pretty monotonous to say the least! If you let yourself get in a “rut”, then you will panic and be sad and “down” and things only get worse from there.
You can try to join a support group or make friends that share some of your illnesses. But you really must be careful in that as well. All things are good in moderation, is what someone used to say, right? I cannot for the life of me, remember who said that originally, but I know my mother said it to me many times. She said “we need water to survive, but even too much water can kill you”.
She was right.
Sometimes when we join groups and make friends who have the same or similar issues or illnesses as we have, things can get a bit “strange” at times. It may be a good thing but you just need to be careful as some people try to compare themselves to each other, see who is the sicker one, who is worse or better? Things like that! It is sad but true.
The more and more that I work with groups for the past 7 years and with awareness events, projects and people in pain, like myself, I have seem it all. Sometimes the people do the things they do to make themselves feel better, and that’s not all bad either! It’s great to make yourself feel better by doing something to help others. But when you do it for accolades, applause, gifts, patting yourself on the back or for someone patting you on the back, then it becomes a bad “game” of people hurting people instead of people helping people.
Please CLICK HERE to read the rest of Suzanne’s story “Living Beyond Your Illness”.
Suzanne also runs a local support group up in Michigan! Despite having CRPS and other illnesses many people out there, many WARRIORS, put themselves in even more pain because they want to help others. They want to try and stop others from being in any more pain, physically/emotionally if possible. These are some of the unsung hero’s in this country (along with public servants such as TEACHERS! POLICE! FIREMEN AND WOMEN! YEAH!)
