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Hi! I'm Becca Pava, a freelance published author

I am terminally ill but determined to get my writing out into the world. I will: 1. Instill hope, validation & inspiration 2. Break down stigma 3. Raise awareness and compassion

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Newly Released Blog Post, "My Dad and Unconditional Love"

Nothing compares to the relationship between a father and his only daughter. Especially when the daughter is the first one. Until I was nine years old I basked in the beauty of that relationship. Then I got sick. My dad went into a deep denial and insisted everything was in my head. He couldn't even look at my face months my NJ tube was in. I felt so rejected. I still loved him unconditionally, but he made me feel like I was disgusting to look at. My second to last post, "My Dad and...

I have created a new option for to enjoy. It's The Newsletter Option. For a meager $6.50 a month you can receive a Newsletter from me. What will the Newsletter contain? The Newsletter will contain a free chapter of the first book of "How To Save Our Daughter", a complete book that I am currently searching for a literary agent. To mix things up it may contain one of the first three chapters of Mindful Chapters, a book that a literary agent has picked up. It may include excerpts from my novel...

Bonnie holding Destiny after The Incident

Hi Guys, I have an amazing sale going on at the Chronically Alive Store: www.chronicallyalive.org/store Not only has the price of my full-length novel been lowered to $13.99 for the whole E-book. I'm also having a major sale on the audiobooks of "How to Save Our Daughter" which in alternating viewpoints of Bonnie a thirty-five-year-old woman with PTSD from childhood sexual abuse, and Destiny, who is schizophrenic, terminally ill, autistic, and a physical and psychological developmental delay,...

Hi Guys, I am trying to send you the best possible entertainment and knowledge that I can, but I don't know exactly what you enjoy reading about the most. Can you tell me what kind of things you want to see more or less of? To help point me in the right direction can you look in the footer of this email and click on "Updated Preferences"? Then click the tags of the topics you enjoy reading most about. This way I know how to gear my emails more toward your interests. I would really appreciate...

me in my hospital gown in the hospital

Hey Guys, I just released a new blog post, Low Blood Pressure, Shock, and the First Adult Doctor. For years I struggled with low blood pressure and a high heart rate. This always ended with me in the hospital with hypovolemic shock. Then the year I turned eighteen something crazy happened. My always-too-low blood pressure shot up into the 190s/120s. A normal mom might have taken me to the ER for that, but my mom of course chalked it up to anxiety and not tolerating enough tube feed. It didn't...

Hey guys, I have some really exciting news for you! My third full-length novel which was originally called "Saving Destiny" and was selling as individual chapters on my store page: https://chronicallyalive.org/store/ Is now available on my website as a full-length novel called Changing Destiny's Destiny You can find it here: https://chronicallyalive.org/store/Changing-Destinys-Destiny-p554552843 Destiny at The Jackson Center One of Bonnie’s biggest fears is having her daughter Destiny become...

After my last extremely traumatic hospital experience, and the almost equally traumatic one before that, I have done a lot of thinking. Every single hospitalization I have had, starting at age ten, has involved extreme pain, late pain meds, messed up medication orders, and extreme anxiety at some point. On top of that, lately, almost all of my hospitalizations have involved extreme amounts of anxiety to the point where I have been worked up into hysteria. That is not okay. As my disease...

Hi guys! Hope everyone's new year is turning out better than last year's! I started off my new year by redesigning my home page on Chronically Alive Version 2.0. I wanted to give it a more welcoming view and show that it's not just an-in-your-face-shop, forcing you to buy e-book chapters from me. Chronically Alive is a whole new way of living whether you are terminally ill or healthy as a farmhand Now my home page of my blog reflects that. Check it out at the hyperlink above and see what you...

What is Medical PTSD? Everyone suffers from a degree of medical PTSD You walk into a doctor's office, and it triggers sense memories. You sit down and hold out your arm for the nurse to take your blood pressure and the number comes back twice as high as it does when you take it at home. What caused that? The stress of the sense memories, or even possibly regular memories of being in a medical setting. That's medical PTSD. Not everyone has the same degree of medical PTSD because not everyone...

Version 2.0 of Chronically Alive was just launched on Wednesday. it's everything the original Chronically Alive was, just better. I have a whole bunch of blog entries about life with Jeff. Another one of my pages on the site is all the videos I've ever posted so far of myself dramatically reading chapters1-23 of both Saving Destiny and Was I Ever Normal (my most recently published novel). Chronically Alive 2.0 keeps up a page listing and describing all my upcoming events as well. It also has...