But what about the smaller parts of living with chronic disease?
So what is a small inconvenience of daily life with chronic illness that you just-as-soon never want to do again?
For me, it's the constant documentation. It's the bathroom and food diaries. It's the pain-scale monitoring. The medication allergies, current medications, and medication refill schedules. It's the scheduling of appointments. The documentation of every single new, worsened, or improved symptom or side effect. The careful recollection of every single medical appointment. Not to mention all the paperwork that comes with new appointments, working with insurance, any social programs, and the lengthy phone calls.
Being chronically ill is a full-time commitment, filled with tedious tasks, stressful appointments, painful treatments, and a lot of unanswered questions.
If I miraculously was cured of all ailments, I would be so happy to never have to sit and jot down anything in a medical diary ever again... you know, along with being cured.
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