At the beginning of 2018, reflecting on 2017 and the year that I wanted to live, I chose resilience as my Word of the Year. Choosing a word, or theme for the year ahead is much less rigid than making New Year's Resolutions. Resolutions are difficult when living with a chronic illness as they are so unpredictable. Symptoms can flare at any time. Even with extreme effort, resolutions are hard to keep, especially when we are too sick or in too...
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Again, we have just bared witness as tour diaries turned the page over into a brand new year. And as such, we begin to reflect on the previous year and make plans for the next. With the best intentions, people make resolutions only to break them before the end of January. When living with a chronic illness, however, life becomes unpredictable. Every day we wake up, never knowing how our bodies are going to behave that minute, hour or day. We...
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