Embracing Your Health Journey
Your health journey is unique and personal. Embrace it with positivity and purpose.
Our bodies are all made different, making our circumstances uniquely owned by us individually. I find it heartbreaking when people tell those who are sick, or injured to follow these steps and you will be healed. That is such a horrible feeling when one tries these things and they experience minimal changes, if any changes at all.
I have found that unless one has experienced the same symptoms, or illness as another person they tend to lack empathy, or understanding of what one goes through. Society has taught most people to be critical, and has made up its own definitions that apply to those with disabilities. If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist at least that’s the delusion that is circling around the judgement minds of those who if they can’t see it, it’s not their reality. It’s very degrading to the person who has a medical condition that isn’t apparent to others. I mean seriously if someone has a back condition known as degenerative and they step out of their vehicle with handicap placard, or license plate with handicap sign. If they step out of their vehicle and walk into the store without a device guiding their steps, or wheeling them in…the judgement is on them by someone who can’t see beyond visual aides to guide them on their journey. Then they write ugly notes, not knowing who you are, how many surgeries you might have experienced, or if an autoimmune disease is wreaking havoc on your internal organs, that was probably hereditary from some ancestor you didn’t ever meet, but you share the same protein imbalance that caused your illness, the energy didn’t quite make it in the cell, and you are out of breath because your dysautonomia is causing the blood not to flow through your veins and make it quite to your heart, and brain so your blood pressure makes you dizzy and you’re trying hard not to pass out…but that one person saw you park in the handicap spot, so by the time you manage to make it to the parking lot, you already are in pain, drained, and now humiliated because someone had a bad day, and felt misery loves company so they rained on your parade.
it’s hard enough dealing with the medication, the symptoms, and all the acceptance of what we have as patients, to add the critical mentality of someone who lacks the understanding. It’s not that they just lack understanding, they lack even the desire to try to understand something they are ignorant towards. Ignorance is not the lack of knowledge, as much as the inability to try to understand. Putting one foot in front of someone else in an effort to trip them, is cruelty.
I don’t know about you, but my health journey has been a long process of testing, tons of diagnosis, and tons of pharmaceutical products that are nearly as horrific, as the diagnosis itself. I have had surgery up and down my entire right side of my body. I live in pain daiLy, and I don’t feel well most days. I don’t feel like doing things like I use to, not bec my mind doesn’t want to, but because my body won’t let me. Getting older and sick isn’t for the faint of heart. I know people more sick than I am yet, How I am, is not having the ability to have the energy necessary to do like I once did. I think the one thing that makes it unique is I try everyday. I hope and I pray
Key Strategies
- Set realistic goals.
- Track your progress.
- Seek community support.
