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 you’re running on empty.
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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Toxic Positivity in Chronic Illness: Hope Without the Lies
Toxic positivity in chronic illness asks you to fake being fine. You can be hopeful and honest at the same time — and honesty is the only thing that makes hope believable.
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Why Support Matters When Chronic Illness Shrinks Your World (Understanding the Deep Impact of Chronic Illness Grief)
Chronic illness grief isn’t failure. You don’t have to wait until your life is unrecognizable to reach for support.
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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.
