The Chronic Illness Experience

Based on the author’s experience with liver disease and interviews with 25 others who are ‘interminably ill,’ The Chronic Illness Experience traces the impact of illness on self-image, relationships, work habits and aspirations, parenthood, spirituality, and more. It affirms the basic human need to give life meaning no matter what hardships are imposed upon it. One reader wrote, “I just finished reading your book. I feel as if I had eaten my first home-cooked meal after subsisting on snack food on a long, long journey.” This book was originally published as Living with Chronic Illness: Days of Patience and Passion. Nancy Mairs wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “What rescues this book from the pitfalls of Pollyannaism is Ms. Register’s scrupulous intelligence and moral vigor.”

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