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Originally Posted by cyclelops
Mere,
I DO hear your feeling that you will 'check out'. I have said that a million times in the last 10 years....but...I am still here! I guess that merits a hooray!
The huge KEY to living with this condition is an acceptance that I indeed MAY check out, and not much I can do about it! I would so love to be 'normal' for one day. (On the other hand, if that happened, I would bemoan not being normal for yet another day.)
Yes, it is depressing...but it is what we have been dealt. At times I want to bop some healthy person on the head, just for being healthy!  |
Yeah, me too... I am still here. After the flare passes, I feel like such a hypochondriac. Also, to top things off, I look perfectly healthy. And I mean healthy. For most of my life, I was athletic, very thin and youngish looking. Now I have that belly bloat, have aged more than my share and am about 30 pounds overweight.
You are right, we just have to learn to accept it. Though, I still feel bitter about it...and feel jealous of those who are fit, healthy, have a job, and never have to feel bad every day. I wonder how most would feel if they felt like they were going to 'check-out' now and again?
Just smack me now...
mere