Diary of A Sick Chick; A Year In The Life of A Chronically Ill Woman eBook Sonya Dickerson
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A year in the life of a woman dealing with a chronic illness. Diagnosed with Lupus March 3, 2011, my life totally went into a different direction than intended. Read along with my journey as I take you through the gut splitting highs and lows of what happens after being diagnosed.
Chronic illness hit me in the face during a time in my life when I was not expecting. I was dating, working, taking care of my daughter, and trying to sell a television series I wrote about the afterlife. The answer came on the third largest blizzard in Chicago history.
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FEAR OF THE CHRONICALLY ILL
For all the chronically ill out there, I salute you.
What some of us go through in a week, most people don’t experience in a year, a decade, or even a lifetime.
Surviving, remaining strong, and resolute is not an easy thing to do.
Even when sometimes you just want to give up.
I’ve experienced people giving up on me. It’s like I’m already six feet under.
The ignored and unreturned phone calls. The sad pitiful looks. The downward glances. The yearning for yesterday when you were normal.
“I don’t understand. There must be something that can be done!” They yell. They look at you as if there was something you ate, someplace you went, and something YOU did to make yourself THAT WAY.
“I can’t see you like this. I can’t bear to see you in pain.”
So they don’t. You’re “lucky” if you get a “Hey how-ya doin',’” message on Facebook and your answer better be a firm solid, “Fine.” They can’t tolerate anything else.
What does all this mean?
People look for life to make sense. Things have to be rationalized and analyzed.
The mere thought that people can get sick all random and willy-nilly is just absolute nonsense. Which is why they comb through your diet and environment...looking for answers to why YOU got sick and they are not.
It all boils down to FEAR.
That’s right. Fear of the Chronically Ill. Because of this fear most sick people are blamed for their conditions. If only you stopped with red meat, took vitamins, drank more water, didn’t live in the Midwest, took even more vitamins and took better care of yourself.
Because if you did all those things, you wouldn't be sick.
They have to repeat those lies in their head because their minds cannot possibly contemplate that THIS could just as easily be THEM.
They can’t imagine a life of getting infusions, injections, dialysis, medicine cocktails, unbearable pain, mobility aides, organ transplants, extreme fatigue, etc. because life doesn’t do this to people if they did the right thing.
But alas my chronically ill friends you already know that life does not work this way.
I’m sure some of you were even healthier than some of these people that I speak of before you got sick.
The fear that random things can happen to people scares the crap out of them. The fear that one day you can be totally fine and have your life turned upside down with a diagnosis can be devastating and life changing.
Welcome to the life of a chronically ill person.
If you think its scary thinking about waking up sick one day, how do you think it feels to wake up sick every day?
Diary of A Sick Chick; A Year In The Life of A Chronically Ill Woman eBook Sonya Dickerson
I absolutely must give this book 5 stars. Sonya's writing style is one that I've not often come across because this type of book is not a genre I would typically read, but she tells her story, pulling no punches, and she tells it well. For those who are unaware of the auto-immune disease called Lupus, it is severely debilitating, and among the most painful illnesses a person can live with. Sonya effectively communicates this with her unabashed, unapologetic, honest prose. While we can never fully appreciate the disappointments, pain, uncertainty, the judgmental stares and baseless assumptions that sufferers of this disease must constantly endure, Ms. Abarcar does an excellent job of placing you vicariously in the driver's seat of her bus, as well as her wheelchair.Also, the contributions from her future husband, friend, sister, and mother are also well-written and allow us to see firsthand the helplessness and despair that her loved ones must also endure, as they watch their Sonya struggle with this disease.
If you are a fan of self-help, sci-fi, fantasy, or suspense, you won't get any of that here, but what you will get is an upclose and personal glimpse into the life of an incredibly strong woman who is doing the best she can to cope with a disease that can literally bring people to their knees. Read this book. You will not be disappointed.
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Diary of A Sick Chick; A Year In The Life of A Chronically Ill Woman eBook Sonya Dickerson Reviews
As a person with a handful of autoimmune diseases I like to read about the experiences other's have with them. Sonya writes in a humorous and non self pitying way about being diagnosed and living with Lupus. She chronicles that all important first year of suddenly becoming ill. My only complaint with this book was that it was too short. But then my trusty showed she had written a second book, also reasonably priced. I am looking forward to starting it right after I finish this review!
As a person with rheumatoid arthritis- an autoimmune disease - I was wow'd with this insightful book. So many of the author's feelings mirrored my own exactly. Her take on the way many 'so called' close friends abandon the chronically ill when they need them the most is very true, terribly cruel, and sadly accurate. The average healthy person does not believe that this sort of thing can happen to them; they often believe that we somehow must have brought it upon ourselves - they don't 'get it' unless they wake up one day with it, then it's too late.
The honest reality, that is found in this book, of what it is like to live with a serious, debilitating, incurable disease needs to be shared far and wide. I am sick and tired of the usual 'positive spin' that permeates the world of autoimmunity. It is because of happy/fluffy articles by the media that say we can 'take vitamins and exercise to prevent(name that autoimmune disease)' that these diseases are underfunded, undertreated, and often invalid in the public eye.
I related to Sonja's journey so well as I have had many experiences she had during her year of journal writing through this book. The days when you feel like you just want to die, the days you wish you could die, than battle another day of Lupus related illness.
The thing that resonated so much with me was the fact that the medical profession looked at her as if she was a hypochondriac and this has happened so often with my journey through the lupus maze!
Absolutely loved this book. My husband is currently reading it as well. It shines a light on the terrible struggle all suffers of this revolting disease face. The chronic pain; the wide ranging symptoms and worst still the variance of being able and then not able to engage in life.
A beautifully written story and one that really details the life of a lupus sufferer..... No matter where you live on this planet....
Thank you Sonja for your beautiful words of faith and bravery! - Joanne from New Zealand.
In December of 2013 I was diagnosed with Lupus Cerebritis. I was not a
happy camper when I found out, but in some ways it was a relief to know
finally where all of the fatigue, vertigo and other such less-than-
lovely feelings were coming from. In fact, even as I write this I
reflect back on two previous days when I felt fairly well and then this
morning when it started out well and got worse as the day wore on. I'm
realizing lupus may have started creeping up on me as much as 15 years
ago, but nobody had ever thought of testing me for it.
I identified closely with Sonya, the author. Granted, there are
differences in our circumstances -- I'm a semi-retired teacher and Sonya
is a bus driver. I am older than Sonya and firmly entrenched in senior
citizenship, and I think my lupus condition is not as severe as hers.
But no matter what, lupus is miserable to put up with, it's
unpredictable and takes so many forms that it's possible to get lost
just trying to remember all of the symptoms. It affects women more than
men and Afro-Americans, Asians and darker-skinned people. However,
as a white female, I can tell you that we get it, too, and so do men.
I appreciated Sonya's stories about the emotional and mental anguish as
well as the physical problems that go with Lupus. I won't outline the
whole story here, because it's more interesting to read it for yourself.
But she went through, and probably still is, going through a lot of pain,
fatigue and sickness. I was deeply touched when I relized that in
her 30's Sonya was having to use a cane and a wheel chair.
However, I recall the many days when I couldn't do my job because the entire
room was treating me to a merry-go-round ride in my head as well as the
pain and draining fatigue.
It was good to know that Sonya had a caring family and a good fiancé
to prop her up emotionally when things got bad. But it still isn't
easy to put up with, even if you do have people who love and support you.
There were some things that she said that I could have written as well
SONYA "You should have a small bag packed with essential things for those days
that you get admitted to the hospital... Toothbrush, toothpaste,
mouthwash, soap, shampoo and conditioner, footies or house shoes,
underwear, lotion, headscarves, comb and brush, phone charger, crossword
puzzles, books, socks, feminine items, list of all your medications,
ponytail holders, powder, chapstick, eye masks, and any other essential
item that is important to you."
ME Uh huh. I found that out myself.
SONYA"No I DON'T WANT TO BE SICK for those that aren't getting the
gist of this by now. I'd rather be healthy. But the thought of not
being diagnosed with anything and living in agony the way I was,
was far more scarier than Lupus could ever be."
ME This was my reaction, too, when I finally found out whattheheck was
wrong with me.
"I felt like a hypochondriac, complaining to all who would listen. I
felt like if I got diagnosed with SOMETHING then I could treat it."
Sometimes I still feel like a hypochondriac, and then I push myself to
do more and the next day, I end up regretting it.
She explains Lupus well. It's good information for Lupus-and
non-Lupus sufferers alike. Lupus can be treated, even if it can't be
"cured." It isn't necesarrily a death sentence, either. I am trusting
that old age will take me before Lupus does.
Sonya, if you're reading this, I wish you the best! You've done a
valuable service to write this. I'm probably old enough to be your mother,
but it did me a lot of good to read this.
I absolutely must give this book 5 stars. Sonya's writing style is one that I've not often come across because this type of book is not a genre I would typically read, but she tells her story, pulling no punches, and she tells it well. For those who are unaware of the auto-immune disease called Lupus, it is severely debilitating, and among the most painful illnesses a person can live with. Sonya effectively communicates this with her unabashed, unapologetic, honest prose. While we can never fully appreciate the disappointments, pain, uncertainty, the judgmental stares and baseless assumptions that sufferers of this disease must constantly endure, Ms. Abarcar does an excellent job of placing you vicariously in the driver's seat of her bus, as well as her wheelchair.
Also, the contributions from her future husband, friend, sister, and mother are also well-written and allow us to see firsthand the helplessness and despair that her loved ones must also endure, as they watch their Sonya struggle with this disease.
If you are a fan of self-help, sci-fi, fantasy, or suspense, you won't get any of that here, but what you will get is an upclose and personal glimpse into the life of an incredibly strong woman who is doing the best she can to cope with a disease that can literally bring people to their knees. Read this book. You will not be disappointed.
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