Having a Great Name: Pam versus Edie (E.D., ED)

Welcome to Chronic-Illness.org. My work on the things you'll find on this site began in 1999, when I originally hosted this information at RiceHahn.com. After a year as the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Guide on About.com, in October 2005 I acquired Chronic-Illness.org and set it up as the place to host my updated content that I moved from RiceHahn.com and About.com. It's now three years later. In my ongoing efforts to continue to add timely information and make it easier for you to find the stuff I have here, I am in the process of transitioning the existing content to a new database-driven, WordPress system.

I thank you in advance for your patience as I complete this transition. Old links to previously existing pages will automatically update to the new page location. However, until everything is moved into the new system, you may need to rely on your browser's back button to return to an original menu.

In addition to the chronic illness- and chronic condition-related t-shirt and gift idea designs, information, and articles on this site, Chronic-Illness.org is also the home of the Chronic Illness Realities comic strips.

Pammy is the main character in two comic strips by Pamela Rice Hahn, the first of which is the Writing Woes comic strip. Pammy is a writer who is also disabled because of chronic illness and chronic conditions, so she also appears in the Chronic Illness Realities comic strip. When Pammy dons her gray suit and assumes her counter identity as Thera Pist, you can be assured that something's inspired her to go to work as an Observational Therapist. Those observations are often political, so that's when Thera Pist hangs out at The Observational Therapist comic strip; in addition to the other political cartoons, the other pages at The Observational Therapist host Christian conservative blog observations and commentary that are too wordy for a comic strip.