Chronic Illness Chat

  Welcome to Chronic Illness Chat. I'm Julie Hamilton. I wanted to talk about a flare. I'm just coming off of one and one of my triggers for flares is weather patterns. Where I live, we've had a weather pattern of rain and storms and things. Weather patterns trigger things in my body. With my fibromyalgia, I have brain fog, brain inflammation, fatigue and body aches. So usually during that time, I just feel really horrible. Sometimes I'll feel really nauseated so all I can do to get rid of it is just sleep through it and wait for that pattern to leave. I'm not really hungry during that time. I want a cool, quiet, dark room. And I don't really feel like socializing or talking to anyone. So during those times, I just kind of like to be left alone to sleep it off. But the other thing that I know during flares are three things that I cannot do. One is I cannot shop on the internet because during one of my flares, I ordered something directly from China. I did

  Welcome to Chronic Illness Chat. I'm Julie Hamilton. Today we're going to talk about the different kinds or the different types of chronic illness, but if you remember what a chronic illness is, it's a health condition or a disease long-lasting in its effects and come with time. And the long lasting, or the chronic part of it comes where it is longer than a couple months, six months to year. Some people say it's six months, some people say it's a year but the duration is long term. And you need to be seeking ongoing medical treatment.   You should be seeing a doctor on a regular basis. Basically, there's four categories that they consider for a chronic illness. The 4 categories are cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory. Then there's chronic illnesses.   Chronic illnesses are heart disease, stroke diabetes, cancer, tobacco related issues, alcohol related issues, Alzheimer's, and arthritis. There are also autoimmune diseases on

  As an HR manager or director, you know how important great employees are and how crucial they are to your business. But chronic illness poses a serious threat to them and their performance. You want your employees to feel comfortable and well cared for at work knowing that they have the tools to succeed despite their chronic illness. You ask yourself, what exactly is a chronic illness? It’s a health condition or disease, long lasting in its effects that come with time. So where does the chronic part come in? Chronic means that it lasts at least three months, six months, a year. It's long term. It's not three weeks, four weeks, six weeks. It’s long in duration. Also, it's ongoing in medical attention. So, you seek medical attention, many doctor's appointments throughout the year, over time. It also limits your daily activities. Daily activities include bathing, showering, grooming, getting dressed, toileting, getting in bed and out of bed, in or out of a chair,