Serious illness

"I have no idea what you are going through."

Heat exhaustion is characterized by high body temps, muscle cramps, headaches and nausea. If left untreated, it can lead to heat stroke, seizures and fainting.

Can Summer Heat Raise Your Risk of Heart Attack? Summer is the time to go to the beach, tend the garden, or have a picnic in the park. But the hot weather this time of year has a downside. If you aren’t careful, it could set you up for a heart attack or stroke. That’s especially important if you already ... Read More

There are three pieces of advice for living with a serious illness that I wish I'd been given. Nurturing relationships, facing your grief and getting support are critical when you are living with a chronic or serious illness.

What To Say When Someone Is Sick With a Chronic Illness It can be challenging to know what to say when someone is sick with a chronic illness. When you care about someone, it can be hard to put yourself in someone else’s shoes in understanding what their experiencing and how they are feeling. We want to feel understood and you want to show us you care. Here are a few suggestions of thing you can do and say to someone with a chronic illness.

How to support people with illness - whether acute or chronic illness, serious or life-limiting illness, mental illness, trauma or grief. Here are our tips.

Living with a serious or life-changing illness forces us to learn to cope with a constant state of uncertainty. This is the advice I wish I'd been given. #seriousillness #chronicillness #copingchronicillness #justliveforward

If you are writing a card when sending a gift to someone with a serious illness you may want to send a comforting thought with it. Here are some things to think about and some examples of things to say. | Appropriate Words for a Serious Illness Card from #YourDictionary

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"I guess it is really difficult for someone who is healthy to understand how a sick person functions."