Parenting is hard, and single parenting can be even more of a challenge. But when you add in a chronic illness with multiple symptoms, side effects from treatments, and the reality of living with a disability, life just gets even more hectic and overwhelming. We need to remember this is our now, how do we want to keep moving forward? There are many resources out there and in you – you just have to find what works best for you and your little one(s). You’re not making it up. The pain, fatigue, symptoms, and side effects are very real and…
Author: Eileen Davidson
Eileen Davidson
Eileen Davidson is a Vancouver-based invisible illness advocate and an ambassador with the Arthritis Society and patient advisory board member for Arthritis Research Canada. She’s also a single mother and the author of Chronic Eileen.
There are so many resources available to patients online, but hearing from another patient offers a particularly clear window into what life is really like with chronic illness – as well as unique advice earned through experience! The Mamas Facing Forward Featured Advocate series will connect you with real parents who are living with chronic illness – and share all the ways these parents find to keep facing forward! This article originally appeared on Chronic Eileen and is reprinted here with permission. If you have an article you’d like us to consider for this series, please email us at info@mamasfacingforward.com!…