PPS - It’s a Chronic Health Condition
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“I had the strangest thought. I have an illness. I have a chronic health condition that affects every day of my life, hourly, minute by minute, daily, everyday, all month, all week, all year. It dictates my life. Where I go, what I do and what I don’t do because of what I can’t do. It affects my ADLs, my home making chores, my social life and lack of.
Shame, guilt, embarrassment have nothing to do with it although I do have these feelings more often than I want or like. Shame, guilt, fear, emotional turmoil; they provide nothing of what I need. Perhaps I should concentrate on moving away from those always present, always constant, always debilitating, always shameful feelings.
My chronic illness is polio and PPS. I also have Gastroparesis, a bit of arthritis and a somewhat serious back issue.
It’s just the weirdest thing to me. It’s such a new information, discovery, realization. Admission. It seems I have fought so hard against everything all my life. Although old emotions and habits die hard and I am tired of it.
That was hard to say out loud.” Survivor Ryn Daughertry