{"id":826,"date":"2008-09-08T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2008-09-08T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:04:15","slug":"invisible-illness-week-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2008\/invisible-illness-week-starts-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Illness Week &#8211; starts today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, today is the first day of <b>Invisible Illness Week<\/b>, uniting people all over the world who deal with chronic illness, like MS, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, migraine (hey! that&#8217;s me!), heart disease, fibromyalgia, etc etc. &nbsp;Let me post this press release so you can find out more about it and be involved&#8230;<font color=\"green\"><\/p>\n<h3>Invisible Illness Week Offers Free Online Seminars Regarding College and Career<\/h3>\n<p>CONTACT: Lisa Copen, 858-486-4685 (voice mail)<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d SEPT 2008 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness it can be easy to assume that your education or career will soon take a nose dive.&nbsp; With the increasing technology, however, and options outside of traditional employment or education, your dreams don&#8217;t have to be put aside.&nbsp; With nearly one in two people living with chronic illness in the USA, millions are learning how to find a professional path, despite their diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week is September 8-14, and Monday through Friday is a live virtual conference, featuring twenty seminars via Blog Talk Radio at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisibleillness.com\">www.invisibleillness.com<\/a>. Special guests will give a 30-minute presentation and then take questions from callers. Leading professionals in the field will speak on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>&quot;College with Chronic Illness: How to Get Help and Respect from Administrators and Faculty&quot;<\/b> will be presented by Dr. Lynn Royster, the Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/snl.depaul.edu\/current\/chronic.asp\">Chronic Illness Initiative at DePaul University&#8217;s School for New Learning<\/a>, a unique program designed to help chronically ill students obtain a college education. Regardless of your age you will want to attend this to also hear about DePaul University&#8217;s program that allows you to attend college from the comfort of your home computer, and earn a real degree.<\/li>\n<li><b>&quot;Assess Yourself:  Find the Job You Desire and Can Do Despite Illness Limitations&quot;<\/b> will be the topic by Rosalind Joffe, author of the new book, Women Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! Rosalind, who has lived over thirty years with various illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, found her career as a coach for people who live with chronic illness. &nbsp;Her business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicoach.com\/\">cicoach.com<\/a>, can do the same for others who want to thrive in their work, despite their illness.<\/li>\n<li><b>&quot;How to Get Paid to Blog&quot;<\/b> will be presented by Connie Roberts.&nbsp; Connie writes three blogs, co-authors two blogs, and works for various companies as a sub-contractor doing paid reviews. &nbsp;One of her blogs is called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mychroniclife.com\/\">My Chronic Life<\/a>.&quot;&nbsp; She will teach people with chronic illness how they can earn an income by working from home as a blogger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See dates and times at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisibleillness.com\/\">www.invisibleillness.com<\/a> for all seminars, which will be recorded and archived. &nbsp;Many guests have donated free items or services, which will be given away in prize drawings.&nbsp; Bloggers are invited to participate by blogging on invisible illness topics September 8, 2008 to kick off the week and to download the &quot;I&#8217;m blogging for Invisible Illness Awareness&quot; badge from <a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleillness.wordpress.com\/\">www.invisbleillnessblog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week was launched in 2002 by Lisa Copen, author of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondcasseroles.com\/\">Beyond Casseroles: 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend<\/a>.&quot;&nbsp; It is held annually in September and is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restministries.org\/\">Rest Ministries, Inc<\/a>. &nbsp;This year&#8217;s co-sponsor for the event is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocacyforpatients.org\/\">Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>A bonus note:<\/strong>  Many missionaries deal with invisible illness.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionary-blogs.com\/200809.html#e193\">these posts from around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, today is the first day of Invisible Illness Week, uniting people all over the world who deal with chronic illness, like MS, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, migraine (hey! that&#8217;s me!), heart disease, fibromyalgia, etc etc. &nbsp;Let me post this press release so you can find out more about it and be involved&#8230; Invisible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-current-issues","tag-invisible-illness-week","tag-lisa-copen","tag-rest-ministries","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Invisible Illness Week - starts today! 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