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COVID-19, a serious new virus, has spread across the world, including Qatar, requiring multiple frontline fighters to be deployed to combat this pandemic, specifically nurses. However, there were no exemptions whether these nurses have to fight their own battles during a pandemic because of their existing chronic diseases. Attaining researchers' aim to capture the lived experiences of nurses with chronic disease during pandemic, three significant concerns were observed namely Work Optimation, Self Preservation, and Social Obligations. Work Optimization describes how nurses perform their work, and can be categorized into Personal Productivity, Radical Adaptability, and Workload Flexibility. Self Preservation, which highlights how nurses with chronic diseases take care of themselves, talked about Endurance Ability, Well-Balanced Priority, and Physical Safety. Social Obligation describes how nurses consider the health of their families as well as the surrounding communities as Mutual Responsibility, Team Reliability, and Work Effectivity. The phenomenological study shows the difficulties that nurses with chronic diseases experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. It demonstrates how having chronic diseases can affect the quality of their work as nurses. Understanding how to manage chronic diseases may help nurses withstand burdens while working.