Things are good right now for me, so I'm not really struggling on my own behalf these days. But many of the people I love have run the services gauntlet with an invisible disability.
Before my Girl was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, we thought she had chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Same symptoms, different diagnosis: voila, disability payments! It was bleakly funny. We lost her many years ago now, but I'll never forget that CFS and FM can feel like metastatic cancer.
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Re: the joy of life on disability
Date: 2010-09-08 05:07 pm (UTC)Before my Girl was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, we thought she had chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Same symptoms, different diagnosis: voila, disability payments! It was bleakly funny. We lost her many years ago now, but I'll never forget that CFS and FM can feel like metastatic cancer.