Welcome to Salt, Spoons, and Syncope!
Hi, I’m Lyn. Welcome to a blog about the real version of living with chronic illness. From POTS and dysautonomia to Small Fiber Neuropathy and Gastroparesis, I cover the messy, unfiltered truth of dealing with a trouble-making body.
POTS & Dysautonomia
The Diagnostic Journey
The Emotional Reality
What it is, what it actually feels like to live inside it, and how to manage when the medical system hands you a diagnosis and not much else.
Navigating a system that wasn’t built for people like us. Building your paper trail and learning to advocate for yourself when advocating is the last thing you have energy for.
The grief, the isolation, and the identity shifts nobody warns you about — plus the dark humor that threads through all of it and keeps things livable.
Fresh From the Blog
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The Document Trail Nobody Tells You to Start
Nobody hands you a binder on the way out of the ER. Here’s the document trail you’ll wish you’d started sooner — and exactly how to build it now.
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The High Price of “I’m Fine” (and Other Retired Phrases in the Chronic Illness Vocabulary)
Some phrases stopped working the moment my body did. Here’s the vocabulary I’ve quietly retired — and what I actually mean now.
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Beyond “Just Coping”: A Better Way to Manage Chronic Illness Stress
If you live with chronic illness, you’ve probably been told to “just cope” more times than you can count. The SMART program — Stress Management and Resiliency Training — is an evidence-based approach that actually works with your physiology instead of ignoring it. Here’s what it is, what I got out of it, and whether it might be worth exploring.
