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Monday, May 22, 2017

The unpopular notion of chronic illness

Chronic illness does not fit the popular notion of how illness proceeds:
you get sick, you go to the doctor and get some medicine, and wait to get better. 

Cheri Register - Living with Chronic Illness


To get me started on my few days in hospital this thought might be an appropriate one

Page from Into the Light 





Illnesses 
without a clear 
beginning
    middle    
          end

dragging on for years
without clear diagnosis
or streamlined treatment plan 
challenges the health care system 
and society in general


Symptoms
may be experienced 
as unreal
even by the patients 
themselves 



Further reading, with other hospital-related-thoughts:


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