A Cheerful Heart – Cat Video

When all humor seems to disappear, we can always rely on cat jokes. This one says, “No, it’s not that bad yet. So far it’s just raining cats.”

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How Can I Help Rest Ministries This Week?

Head on over to the Invisible Illness Week blog and check out the categories for Resources for Online Networking . By taking a survey, you help us create news for press releases. By commenting on a blog somewhere about illness and mentioning II Week, you could potentially send hundreds of people are way!

Poll Responses – What’s the Hardest Part About Living with Illness?

“What’s the hardest part of living with a chronic illness?” we asked and you answered…
We’ll share more soon!

My own perceptions of myself. Some days I feel almost normal and then I think maybe I am getting well. I look in the mirror and expect more of myself even
though I am well aware of how I feel on many other days. I have a hard time balancing fighting for my health and leading as normal a life as possible. -Sheryl

The hardest part of living with an invisible chronic illness is that people don’t believe that you are as sick as you say you are. -Carrie

Is to be left behind from my family. (Especially during the summer trips!). I am unable to travel or enjoy most activities, so my hubby takes the kids out to enjoy their summer.” -Kelley

“One thing that’s really bothering me right now is the looks I get when I pull into a handicap parking spot with my state-issued PH plates and get out with my three kids and walk into a store. I do NOT LOOK SICK in any way and I feel like people are judging me, thinking I’m abusing the plates, maybe questioning if they are even mine.” -Jennifer

“Missing out on so many activities because of your illness. Your healthy friends say to you let me know what I can do for you, but you don’t hear from them. You make the most of the days that you have because you know it is a gift from God and it is to be treasured and you do not when it will be gone.” -Carla

“Being able to do the same things other people your age are doing. I’m only 24 and have had this illness since I was born. I’ve never been able to run and play sports like the other kids my age. I always had to sit on the sidelines and watch.” -Erin

“Having more dreams than I have physical ability. I’m learning how to chase my dreams in different ways.” -Kathy

“Unrealistic expectations of me. My current family and extended family “angry” that I can’t do the things I used to do.” – Mary Ellen

Poll – Send in your “illness & work” questions

Ask Rosalind Joffe, author of a new book and chronic illness coach on careers, a question! What do you tell a potential boss during an interview? What is you can no longer work full-time but want to ask you boss about working part time at home?

Send them in!

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Take a Past Survey!

You can still answer our past surveys! It helps us a lot as we use your comments, suggestions, etc. to write
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Inspirational Quotation – Purpose of Life

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived
well.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson