Dear chronic illness, i should feel better and stronger after i exercise, not feel even more pain and weakness.
Dear chronic illness, i should be grateful for having youthful health, not be in constant pain and sickness.
Deae chronic illness, i should be making plans for working on my next degree, not search for yet another new doctor and health program.
Dear chronic illness, i should be annoyed with a classmate or professor, not with insurance denying me importsnt medicine.
Dear chronic illness, i should be in an internship and be ready to graduate in the class of 2021, not struggle to take a single online class at a time and watch my former classmates graduate college without me.
Dear chronic illness, i should be spending time cramming for finals and working on projects, not trying to research drug interactions to avoid hospitalization.
Dear chronic illness, i should be making an income and living in apartment with a few roommates, not be too fatigued to work and be dependent on my parents' health insurance.
Dear chronic illness, i should be excited about having saved enough money for a new car, not about my doctor helping me with a discount for a particular medicine.
Dear chronic illness, i should be driving for regular errands and meeting up with friends, not only to numerous doctors' offices and the pharmacy.
Dear chronic illness, i should be tired from studying and working and spending time with people i love, not from enduring another static day of exhaustion and pain.
Dear chronic illness, i should not have an immune system that fights itself.
Dear chronic illness, i should be overcoming my mental illness, not have it even worse than before you came along.
Dear chronic illness, my relationship with God should be growing, not faltering because you overpower my faith.
Dear chronic illness, i should not be hyperfixated on random subjects to escape the reality you have trapped me in.
Dear chronic illness, i should not take more medication than my grandparents combined.
Dear chronic illness, i want to fall in love with a person, not with a fantasy of a regular life that i will never have.
Dear chronic illness, you have ruined me.
