Work Matters

By Rosalind Joffe
This column was originally published on the Literary Mama website.
I was 29 years old and had been married for two months when I lost vision in one eye and was bedridden. The diagnosis was multiple sclerosis (MS). At first I didn’t have a clue what that meant. I spent the next four months [...]

Invisible Illness Awareness Week

As a mother, the most painful part of my ‘illness invisibility’ is how it affects my children. When I sat down to think about what to write on this topic (there were so many ideas that came to mind!) I knew I had to write about how my kids don’t know, and can’t see, when [...]

Invisible Awareness Week