I have been living with my chronic conditions for ten years now. It’s been challenging, painful, scary, and enlightening sometimes all at the same time. While reading Lisa A. Sniderman’s E-Book A Light in the Darkness I felt like we are kindred spirits.
One way we are kindred spirits is starting over or starting again. In the summer of 2010 I had to spend one month in the hospital where I had to learn to walk, talk, swallow, and live again. It was tough. It was scary. I lost two weeks of my life because I was in an induced coma because of having a larynx spasm during one of my dilation surgeries, a similar experience as Sniderman. I also had to learn to live with a trach tube and live as a chronically ill person. This would not be the only time I had to learn life all over again and to heal. Healing is painful, it isn’t pretty. Many people imagine that healing and living well is this beautiful, peaceful rainbow, it isn’t. It’s ugly. It is painful. It is scary. It even sometimes doesn’t heal properly the first time and has to be cut open and let to bleed again in order to heal right again.
I love that Sniderman focuses on her own creative side despite her painful chronic condition. Although, she probably feels shame and guilt she does her passionate pursuits anyway. I admire that about her. I wish I could do that.
I felt inspired reading this book and I feel any chronic babe would also feel inspired and ready to get her art on.
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I was given a copy from Lisa A. Sniderman. The opinions I express are my own and I was not influenced.
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