Chronic Healing

How to live despite and beyond chronic illness

Notes From The Infusion Room

The day wore on in silence and solitude. The only distractions were the images and ideas that played across my brain's white screen of blankness. I imagined a life where I was just as sick but one in which I belonged to a family. I dreamt I had two children. These fantasies and dreams were seemingly involuntary but were destructive nonetheless. Read More

These notes pierce my heart

I learn so much from you, being myself a newcomer to this life of chronic illness and only having had it descend on me after my children were grown and in good marriages of their own. I had to stop reading at your comment that your mother lived to 101, probably still waiting for you to get better. I cried for her and for me who lost a parent while still so young. I have so much to learn from you. It's such a cliché to say I admire you, but I do. I just do. To have gone through so much all your life and still have such a strong spirit just fills my heart with admiration...and love. Toni

Hoping for you

That your treatments bring as much success as possible.

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Alida Brill is an award-winning writer, social critic, and women's advocate. Her most recent book is Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness.

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