Finding Strength in Weakness: Help and Hope for Families Battling Chronic Fatigue SyndromeZondervan, 1995 - 288 páginas Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS) is not the 'Yuppie flu.' It is a debilitating, incurable illness that hijacks the body's immune system and drains the life out of its victims, often leaving them incapacitated for years. While researchers around the globe explore the causes of treatments for CFIDS, the men, women and children who suffer with the illness grapple with questions like: -Will I ever be normal again? -Of what value am I now that I can't work or go to school anymore? -How will CFIDS affect my marriage and my family? How will CFIDS affect my ability even to consider marriage or having children? -How do I glorify God in the midst of a debilitating illness and pain? Lynn Vanderzalm and her teenage daughter, Alisa, have battled CFIDS for over seven years. In Finding Strength in Weakness, Vanderzalm shares her family's struggles and questions-along with those of 70 other men, women, and children-while offering direction, encouragement, and hope to the countless families who battle with the 'mystery illness of the nineties.' |
Contenido
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Redefine Life | 69 |
Find Emotional Balance | 87 |
Accept Changing Relationships | 109 |
Find Strength in Weakness | 133 |
Maintain Spiritual Health | 147 |
Voices from the Valley | 171 |
Understand Children with CFIDS | 209 |
Help and Advocate for CFIDS Children | 235 |
Epilogue | 263 |
Notes | 281 |
Términos y frases comunes
ability able accept activities Alisa anger Barbara Masoner became ill become believe body Calen CFIDS sufferers child children with CFIDS choose Christ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome chronic illness church comfort couch daughter Dave Masoner David Bell debilitated depression diagnosis doctor Elisabeth Elliot emotional energy emotionally faith feel felt Fibromyalgia Find the Help friends frustration gift give God's Gregg hard healing healthy Help You Need husband ill with CFIDS immune dysfunction immune system involved J. B. Phillips Jorge Estrada kids knew learned limits Linda Moore living with CFIDS look Lord marriage Nancy never pain parents person physical pray questions realize redefine relapse relationships remember response rience Running on Empty says Sharon sick spiritual spouses strength stress struggle with CFIDS symptoms talk tape Terry Waite things trust understand valley walk Walter Wangerin week wife