Jeanne’s Endo Blog morphs into new blog called Chronic Healing.
Jeanne
Jeanne, who blogged at Jeanne’s Endo Blog for a year and is a regular here at The Canary Report, upgraded her site to a whole new format and name: Chronic Healing. Jeanne has several chronic conditions that include endometriosis, fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity, interstitial cystitis, Reynaud’s, irritable bowel syndrome, neuropathy and vulvodynia/vulvar vestibulitis. Though her old blog focused mostly on endometriosis, she now blogs about all her conditions and on chronic illness in general, and since infertility is so common in endometriosis patients, she also writes a lot about that.
Jeanne has become a good friend over the past year, and we email or “tweet” to each other almost daily. I admire her greatly for her enthusiasm and stamina in the face of so many chronic illnesses, many of which cause her immense pain. I also find her a role model for creating a sense of community among her readers and for supporting fellow bloggers.
Jeanne has strong sense of medical justice that permeates her insight on chronic illness, and she never fails to lift my spirits no matter no tightly I am sitting on the pity pot.
In Jeanne’s words about her new blog Chronic Healing:
In a former life, this was known as “Jeanne’s Endo Blog.” What began as primarily an endometriosis blog, that occasionally discussed conditions found to co-exist with endometriosis, has really morphed into a blog about a number of chronic conditions.
With Chronic Healing, my goal is to help patients and their loved ones find (and give) support, information, and resources in regard to chronic conditions. By networking with one another, we can learn so much. We can help each other with ideas to support one another, cope with our conditions, and maximize our quality of life.
There is so much we can learn from fellow patients. In addition to Traditional Western Medicine, there are wonderful alternative medicine options available. These options are not often discussed by Traditional Western medical doctors. Integrative medicine (taking the best Traditional Western Medicine has to offer and the best alternative medicine has to offer) has worked best for me. Drugs and surgery have their place but they are not always the answer.
Cover of Jannie's album.
I had the pleasure to win Jeanne’s first giveaway at the launch of Chronic Healing: a CD by Jannie Funster. YAY! Thanks! Always fun to win something. A cute story about that: Jannie wrote to tell me she was packing up the CD for mailing, and wanted to know if I wanted it scented with jasmine moonbeams, lemon verbena, or chocolate macadamia nuts. I thought, “Oh great, I win something and now I’ll never be able to listen to it because it’s scented!” I had just read an article about the publishing industry starting to put scent in books, so the idea of scented CDs was not too much of a stretch. Come to find out, Jannie was offering imaginary scent! Ooooo, we MCSers LUVS imaginary scent! I picked moonbeams, YUM.
Also, Jeanne went way over board on a post highlighting yours truly. I am truly humbled. It’s very kind of Jeanne to include me in her “posse” and say such nice things about The Canary Report and my work. Thank you, Jeanne, for the kind and generous words, the feeling is mutual!
Keep up the good work, Jeanne!
Link to Chronic Healing.
Link to follow Jeanne on Twitter.
Link to follow Jannie on Twitter.
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