I’d rather not have any physically identifying features to remind me and others of the battles I’ve faced and the war I am still fighting daily. I never in a million years imagined that this would become my personal reality.
Read MoreThose Days
Piece by piece, moment by moment, you will pick yourself up off the floor (proverbial, and sometimes literal) and carry on. You will dig deep and rediscover your courage. You will continue to make appointments that you don’t want to make. You will refill medication you wish you didn't have to take. You will swallow your pride, accept help, and get back out there. You will keep on keeping on, someway, somehow. You will learn a lot about yourself, and about the people around you. You will learn the true meaning of friendship and love. You will learn how to be vulnerable, because for you, for us, without vulnerability there is only true isolation.
Read MoreTo the nurse who made me feel guilty for using an elevator:
You see, it's not just your words or this one interaction that bothers me. It's the fact that we, as a society, as a world, and even worse, as medical professionals, fail to recognize that SO many illnesses and disabilities are invisible, with no outward signs or symptoms. I know that this thought never crossed your mind. I'm sure that your brain didn't even think of that as a possibility; and that's where the real problem lies.
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Let the Sea set you free
This frantic way of life doesn’t have to be the only way to live. It doesn't have to be the only way to feel strong and loved and important. There is another choice, another way of living more fully, and it can be found and created outside of the peace and stillness so easily seen here on Maui, too.
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