Showing posts with label chronic condition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chronic condition. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2012

With Chronic Illness Comes An Identity Crisis of Sorts

Writing to a friend with Neurofibromatosis, an excerpt:

I've never been used to the fact of going to do something now and how it wears me out. Never ever was it like that before. Even a family event like you mentioned. It's crazy. Even a day of doctor visits or errands around town puts me in bed! Who am I? With Neurofibromatosis, I am always asking myself this question. Or, more accurately, where did *I* go?



***Readers, can you relate? Do you feel that some of yourself has been lost since diagnosis? What have you done or would like to do to reclaim that sense of you?***


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