There is not much a difference in the physical illness between these three faces.
While any amount of energy is a positive day - especially days I can move and practice yoga or go on a lunch date - that does not necessarily mean that I 'feel better'.
The photo on the left is the day before our wedding day when deep in my chest I had swelling that began to obstruct my airway. It affected my ability to breathe properly, to speak, and being unable to breathe normally tends to have a domino effect in the body.
The bottom right photo, however, I was very close to the exact same experience.
We had gone on a lunch date and the simple excitement of that set of a throat swell that - very luckily - did not worsen to the point of requiring a hospital visit.
The point is - the pain is the same in all three photos. The nausea is the same in all three photos. The energy happens to be the same in all three photos.
There are two differences:
1. Stridor breathing
2. Makeup
Looking well rarely feeling well in the faces of chronic illness.
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