Invisible Illness Week Sept 8-14th

I wanted to bring awareness to Invisible Illness Week during September 8th -14th, 2008. I will be posting that week here at Take Root and Write either in my Blog in a Blog or in our "On Our Minds' Category.
I am asking any of our writers who deal with any kind of Invisible Illness to make a post that week as well.
Our Women's Community, Christian Women Take Root will also be using our blogs inside the group to share and bring awareness. It would probably shock you to find out how many around you deal with an invisible illness. Let me share some from the Invisible Illness Blog.

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week is held annually in September and is a worldwide effort to bring together people who live with invisible chronic illness and those who love them.

A few ideas to write about:

Remember that not all of your posts have to have the “it’s so not fair” tone. Write your “best advice” to others who feel invalidated.

How have you learned to get past the remarks people have made?
Don’t forget families and what they also cope with when one of their members has an illness.
And how is it being invisible easier/more difficult for them?

For example, if Dad’s illness is invisible, does your son have to cope with his friends wondering why his Dad never participates in the father/son baseball game?

Remember caregivers. Any thanks, thoughts?

Remember all the aspects of living with invisible illness. Being a parent, a spouse, an adult child (who is maybe a caregiver too), a neighbor, etc.

Don’t forget about all the kids who have illness too!

Cancer can be an invisible illness, as are things like eating disorders, mental illness, autoimmune, chronic migraines, and the list goes on. You know if you deal with one.

Got others? Share them!

I pray you will take a moment out to share a post on your blog. I am leaving you the Badge you will use for your actual post and the code that goes with it. The last picture/badge is one you can post on your Blog sidebar to show/ bring awareness before hand. So others can see and then decide to join as well. We will have the Sidebar one up on TRW through Invisible Illness Week.

Code for your Post during that week...
Grab this code and put in your post, it will turn into a Pic like this and link back to the Invisible Illness Blog. Don't forget to go to that page and link YOUR post URL on their site.


<a href="http://invisibleillness.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/are-you-blogging-for-invisible-illness-week-awareness/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn136/TakeRootandWrite/Bloggingforinvis.jpg" /></a>

Code for your sidebar awareness badge is here...

<a href="http://www.restministries.org/invisibleillness/invisibleillnesshome.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn136/TakeRootandWrite/Invisiable.jpg" /></a>

Comments

[Lisa Copen]

Noel, thank you so much for posting this and encouraging people to write some interesting posts too. I am a member of CWO Online group too!

God bless,
Lisa Copen

[Noelle]

Hey Lisa!
I am just happy to participate and help bring awareness! You have done an awesome thing starting this.
I am a member of the Christian Women Online BlogRoll, but the group I mentioned is different. Its a group called Christian Women Take Root. Its a group I created that is connected to TRW, its here... http://www.christianwomentakeroot.com/
I am announcing in there today. Blessings to you Lisa!!