by Jamie Holloway | Oct 18, 2025 | Auto-immune, Supporting Each Other, The Magnificent Journey
I have been living with a damaged lung for three years. My lower left lung is collapsed and my upper left lung where my windpipe meets the lung is narrowing just like my trachea has been for the last 16 years. With my trachea, my ENT and I have been...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 27, 2025 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
The voice, a powerful instrument that is used to get your thoughts, your emotions, your opinions, and most important to express who you are to everyone. What happens when you lose the capability to talk? What happens when your voice becomes weak and not able to...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 15, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
One of the ways I cope with living with chronic illness is getting lost inside a good book. This last week has been rough, several doctor appointments and getting a CT scan and starting Prednisone. By Thursday I was on the verge of collapse. Thursday afternoon,...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 22, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I first heard about Anne Frank in 8th grade in my English class. We read “The Diary of Anne Frank”, and I was enthralled with her journey. So, when I heard Alice Hoffman, who is one of my favorite writers, wrote a fiction book on Anne Frank before she...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 18, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
My health became super important to me when I first experienced not being able to breathe well. At first I thought it was because I was out of shape. When that was not it, I went and saw my doctor. It turned out my trachea was closing up and if you read my blog you...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 23, 2025 | Books/Music
What is the difference between happy and Joy? I did not have a clue until I read Joyspan. Dr. Kerry Burnight explains the difference in her book Joyspan. According to Dr. Burnight. Joyspan is the psychological well-being and satisfaction in your entire life. It...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 14, 2025 | Auto-immune, Supporting Each Other
I have been on respite from blogging. I didn’t plan it. It just happened. Two years ago, as I have written before, I had sepsis from an infection from a wound on my leg. Two years is what it took for my leg wound to heal. I still have three small spots healing...
by Jamie Holloway | May 23, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I apologize for not writing for a long time. I am going through emotional and physical changes that have me in a quiet zone. My dad used to call it the silence of the soul. In silence we can listen to God speak to us. I am working to find my way back to myself. It has...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 12, 2025 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Caregiving is an intimate job, especially when it involves a family member or close friend. I was a caregiver for ten years for someone that I love. One of my older sisters was one for our mom until she passed away in October. It is intimidating, challenging,...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 20, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Living with chronic illness you learn alot about endurance and managing the pain and doing the impossible. I live with chronic illness and I know what endurance is. So, when I first received Iron Hope by James Lawrence I was not that inspired to read it....
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