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Hi, I’m Evelyn, a mom of two, grandmother of six, who became an advocate for those of us living with invisible illness and chronic pain in order to bring hope; to bring support; to bring a face to the struggle; to bring kickass fierceness when what is often expected from the chronic illness community is submission.

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Hi, I’m Evelyn. I was born with a congenital birth defect of my pancreatic duct and a gene mutation which led to chronic pancreatitis in 2005 and the removal of my pancreas and much of my GI tract in 2011 at the age of 52. Read more

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Chronic illness is not a choice, but how you live with it is.

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I became an advocate for those of us with invisible illness and chronic pain in order to bring kickass fierceness when what is often expected from the chronic illness community is submission.

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Every chronic illness patient knows that one of the hardest parts of our day is the moment we open our eyes and waken into the reality of our bodies, stirred from dreams of ourselves as we used to be, and the futures we imagined we’d have.