Health — Chronic Illness

• What is Chronic Pain?

  Pain is a universal human experience. We all know what it is like. Few of us, however, know enervating and debilitating chronic pain

• Migraines: How to Help Someone Live With Them

  It is sometimes difficult to understand something when you have never actually experienced yourself. I think this is especially true of migraines. Those of us who have been lucky enough to have never had one of these crippling headaches have a hard time really wrapping our brains around what they are all about. As someone who rarely gets even mild headaches, much less migraines, I can tell you that when I met my husband and was witness to them through him I was, at once, horrified and moved to take action.

• The Child With A Long-Term Illness

  The child with a serious medical illness is at risk for developing associated emotional problems. Unlike a child with a temporary sickness such as the flu, the child with a chronic illness must cope with knowing that the disease is here to stay and may even get worse.