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“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined.”
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
“the daily effort it took to appear normal was so great that it left energy for little else.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.”
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
“If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.”
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