Christian Woman’s Story About Medical Malpractice on Sale

What would you do if after 15 years of suffering from 10 surgeries through your youth and young-adulthood, one of your surgeons admitted an error had been made during the first surgery? And all of the subsequent surgeries were an attempt to fix/hid the medical mistake?
That’s the situation Janet Lynn Mitchell faced and her story, [...]

If You’ve Ever Wondered About a Home Elevator

By Jared Gage
With the modern construction of two and three story homes one always faces the daily routine of going up and down stairs. As time goes on and people grow older, they often find it is more and more difficulty to make this climb. When this becomes a problem it is time to think [...]

Taking a Stand – Janet Lynn Mitchell Discovers Her Doctors Lied for 15 Years

I have known Janet Lynn Mitchell since I met her about five years ago. We don’t see each other   often, but we recently had the chance to catch up at a women’s writers conference and I remembered just how amazing this woman’s story of medical malpractice is. But just as important is the story she [...]

Writing Brings Healing to the Soul

By Lisa Saunders, Special Guest Writer

The moment I gave birth to my daughter Elizabeth in December of 1989, I felt a stab of fear—her head was so small, so deformed. Within 12 hours, I was told she had been profoundly disabled by congenital CMV (cytomegalovirus). The neonatologist said, “If she lives, she will never roll [...]

Do Psalms Before Surgery Help?

During our 2009 Invisible Illness Week workshops we had a special guest, Curtis Dean Hall. He is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Kansas. Over the years his practice has moved toward helping those who live with chronic pain, anxiety and trauma issues. And his sub-specialty has become surgery preparation. This was [...]

Caregivers Come in All Sizes

“For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.” Matt. 16:27
Being a HopeKeepers Facilitator I found out quickly that caregivers don’t receive enough praise and thanks for all they do and have to go [...]

Devotion – Being There For Others When You Are Ill And Also The Caregiver

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God,” (Psalm 20:7)
Here I am sitting in a hospital waiting room while a close relative has surgery. Even though we have our own illnesses to deal with, at times it is someone in our family.
This sort of [...]

Cancer: 7 Things You Need to Know to Help

By Georgia Shaffer
Sara sat looking totally overwhelmed. At the age of thirty-five, she had learned she had breast cancer. “I feel like I just got hit by a Mack truck,” Sara said.
As a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and a cancer survivor who, 18 years ago, was given a 2 percent chance to [...]

Do You Have a Teen With a Chronic Illness?

If your teenager lives with a chronic illness HopeLab is a nonprofit organization that you will want to check out and browse their website. It can also be encouraging to share with your teenager about what is going on in the world of science that is specifically geared towards improving the lives of teenagers who [...]

Our Stories – Don’t Want to Lose My Parents

By Virginia D.
I am going to share with you about my mom, she has recently been diagnosed with a brain disease. It is a long name in the medical field, but basically it is hardening of the arteries in the brain. Part of her brain is already dead on the left side so she doesn’t [...]

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