Happy Holidays from ButYouDontLookSick.com

Happy Holidays from ButYouDontLookSick.com

Wishing you Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year! We hope your new year is filled with friends, family, hope, happiness, good health, and most of all Spoons! (We will continue to provide you great new content daily starting in the new year!)

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Happy Hanukkah!

Happy Hanukkah!

May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. ~Author Unknown Wishing all of our butyoudontlooksick.com readers, friends and family celebrating Hanukkah a very happy holiday!     Just for fun, for those crafty moms check out this spoon menorah craft.

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5 Tech Features To Make Life Easier

5 Tech Features To Make Life Easier

1. PC Sticky Notes – I keep a relatively icon and uncluttered desktop with one exception: PC Sticky Notes which came with Windows 7. On my ipad, I use Infinote. These come in handy to keep track of appointments, write down book titles or website names, homework assignment, to do lists, or random n

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Assistive Devices: An Emotional and Physical Journey

Assistive Devices: An Emotional and Physical Journey

Disability. Disability is an evil, nasty word that many people cringe at, because it means that you may not be able to do something you possibly once loved, either at all, or possibly unassisted. For me, it took a decade to emotionally and mentally accept that I’m partially disabled. Only a mon

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Android Epic is truly EPIC!

Android Epic is truly EPIC!

Nearly everyone carries a cell phone and while for some it’s just something they use everyday, for me it has been my sanity saver. My husband surprised me with an Android Epic two weeks after my shoulder surgery and I will never go back to another kind of phone. Since we use Sprint the Epic came t

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Sick Humor: Information Overload:

Sick Humor: Information Overload: “Suggestions” We’d Rather Not Hear Ever Again

I know they mean well. I mean, it may not seem that way at the time to them. I may roll my eyes, dramatically sigh and wince at the friendly “suggestions” that innocent friends and family members offer up to me at random intervals of my life. I am learning as the years go by to smile and let the

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The Story Behind the Giant Spoon: A Letter from a Mother Who Met Christine

The Story Behind the Giant Spoon: A Letter from a Mother Who Met Christine

It was a dream come true for me to personally meet Christine after reading “The Spoon Theory” a little over a year ago. It was one Sunday morning when my adult daughter, Carly carried in her laptop to the kitchen table where I was reading the Sunday paper and told me to read “The Spoon Theory.

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We Love Our ButYouDontLookSick.com Readers!!

We Love Our ButYouDontLookSick.com Readers!!

I am so honored to hear from the readers of butyoudontlooksick.com. When I write, or share I never really know how people feel. I don't know if my articles or essays effect them. When I write I put my emotions, passion and my heart on paper. When our readers, or "spoonies" as we like to call each

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Lupus in the sky with diamonds

Lupus in the sky with diamonds

Julian Lennon has released a new single called Lucy which is a tribute to his childhood friend who was the inspiration for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamond" by the Beatles. As the legend goes, John Lennon was inspired to write the classic song after seeing a drawing that Julian did with that famous tit

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Long Island Business News Honors Christine Miserandino Donato as a

Long Island Business News Honors Christine Miserandino Donato as a “Heathcare Hero”

Long Island Business News and Hofstra University have recognized Christine Miserandino Donato for her work on ButYouDontLookSick.com and with the Lupus Alliance of America - Long Island/ Queens affiliate. Christine Miserandino Donato was honored as a finalist with the “Volunteer Hero” award w

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