Ariane’s Reviews > My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney > Status Update

I relate SO much to this right now: "I realize...that I just need to take care of myself. It doesn't matter if I finish my courses at school, it [or] if I have to put off plans for another year. For right now, all my focus just needs to be about me -- gradually nurturing myself back to health...This is the body I have, this is the environment I live in, so what can I do for myself to make it easier to be here?"

Scary + familiar. "I'm feeling increasingly tired, depressed, out of sorts...I start reading [about] the conditions for adrenal failure...when your adrenal glands stop producing cortisol, your body doesn't register this until you are 90 percent depleted...you just think you're a bit tired, a bit dizzy, a bit nauseated...[but] the resource we use to deal with stress...has very slowly disappeared. And then you die."