Status Updates From Body Friend

“Pain is incredibly singular. A disease of autoimmunity is you and you, you towards you, you against you, you with you, you upon you, you cannot extricate yourself, you cannot skin yourself off yourself—there is no such aftermath as a bodily divorce”

So many poignant lines I can deeply relate to but this one hits,

“I was almost glad to have some physical manifestation of the pain, as though I wouldn’t have been believed otherwise”.