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In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
a lived experience that in some ways resists description,
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
To the degree that my quest had an object, that object turned out to be learning to live with uncertainty and incapacity.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
One self disappeared, and a new, more dependent self emerged.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
I hungered for cast-iron certainty even though I realized that I was living in a morass of uncertainty—why
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
this book is about living with, rather than eradicating or defeating, a disease: a story about letting go of the American ethos of overcoming and about confronting our mutual interdependence.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The medical uncertainty compounds patients’ own uncertainty.