chronic illness
To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
If there was one thing I had learned over the course of my life, it was that while the romantic love of ballads did not exist, bravery certainly did. People were brave every day, even when they felt like their lives couldn’t go on.
Marius was brave when he woke up every morning, battling the mysterious illness that meant he couldn’t play or run like
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For Remus Lupin is more than just a boy who transforms with the moon; he is a testament to the struggle of existing within a body that often feels like a prison rather than a home.
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This is Friendship by moons-and-mobility-aids
Reese used to live in a snow globe, happy and content and immune from the mean realities of the universe, secure in her own private existence. Getting sick had shattered Reese’s world, and she and Kris were still picking up the jagged pieces of glass. Kris seemed to be immune to the rough edges, but Reese managed to get cut by the jagged bits,... See more
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