SURVIVING AND THRIVING WITH AN INVISIBLE CHRONIC ILLNESS

¦ Nearly 1 in 2 Americans (133 million people) has a chronic
condition. And for 96 percent of the people who live with
an illness, the condition is invisible.
¦ Jacqueline is author of the award-winning blog, Let's Feel
Better, which receives over 6,000 unique visitors a month. She
uses her blog to discuss her own chronic autoimmune diseases.

People living with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition may feel isolated, out of step, judged, lonely, or misunderstood—and that's on top of dealing with the symptoms of the actual illness.
Written by a blogger who suffers from two autoimmune diseases, Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness offers peer-to-peer support to help readers stay sane, be their own advocate, and get back to living their life. This smart, compelling guide is written for anyone suffering with an illness no one can see—such
as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), Lyme disease, lupus, dysautonomia, or even multiple sclerosis (MS). This book presents advice and practical tips—everything readers need to know about living with a complicated,
invisible condition—from how to balance sex, dating, and relationships to handling work and school with unavoidable absences. They'll also learn to navigate judgmental or skeptical relatives and strangers and—most importantly—manage their medical care.

Ilana Jacqueline is author of the award-winning blog Let's Feel Better, which she started to share her humbling, hilarious, and heartfelt experiences of coping with chronic illness (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a form of dysautonomia, and primary immune deficiency disease). She is a columnist for the patient-centered immunodeficiency magazine IG Living, and managing editor of The RARE Daily, for the international rare and genetic disease nonprofit Global Genes. Her work has been published in the Sun Sentinel, The Boca Raton Observer, and others. Jacqueline recently created a nonprofit organization called Chronic Connect to help patients who have ongoing disease with support, career guidance, and financial planning. She resides in Boca Raton, FL.