Drama is defined as "an exciting, emotional, unexpected series of events or set of circumstances".
The term usually carries a certain negative connotation with it, and most people discern 'drama' as being mostly concerned with people.
The drama in my life - which, unfortunately, is extensive - is not so much concerned with people as it is with everything else. I mean, there are people involved when I am dealing with doctors and nurses and fellow patients, but rarely does anything 'exciting' happen because of an actual person-to-person interaction.
No... Where the drama comes in is in every day life. Sometimes it can be good, sometimes it can be bad. It stems from this whole idea of unpredictability.
Every single day is different. I never truly know how I am going to feel on a minute to minute basis, let alone day to day. This makes it very hard to plan anything into the future (as much as I try). For instance - tonight I was exhausted and went to bed around 6:30pm. By 9pm I had had a panic attack and couldn't sleep anymore. Watched a couple of movies, feeling not great but okay. I was literally lying in bed, in virtually the same position for a couple of hours, no change in posture, mood, or position, and all of a sudden I get this stabbing, excruciating pain in my stomach. Why? Couldn't tell ya. It will subside, then maybe it will come back. I don't know.
I have to make the best educated guess that I can in order to plan anything into the future. So although I don't like to admit it, my life is FULL of drama. Add to that the fact that I am on immunosuppressants, it means that I catch random little infections all the time. I get random new pains, new symptoms, the return of old symptoms, the disappearance of others, with no notice and not always an obvious reason for it.
The biggest and most frustrating part about *this* type of drama is that there really is nothing that I can do to change it. Drama with people can often be avoided or diminished based on actions and words and simply how one treats people. I mean, I can control my diet, my activity, my medications, but chronic illnesses are so unpredictable that even if I ate the exact same thing every day, did the exact same activities every day, took the exact same medications at the exact same times on a daily basis, it still wouldn't make the diseases any more predictable. There are too many varying factors, and the body is changing all the time.
Drama is the reason why I go to between three and ten doctors' appointments per week. There is always something new that has come up - be it good or bad. There is always a new question....
I can't get away from all of the drama, so I might as well embrace it. At least something new happens to me every day! :)