I know people with terminal cancer. I know people who are addicts. I know people with serious heart disease. I know people who suffer from obesity. I know people with debilitating arthritis. I know people coping with severe clinical depression. I know people who are blind. And on, and on, and on.
Yah, but so what! Get on with it!
After all, I had a life threatening illness and I got over it!
Recently I made a connection with someone who has multiple health challenges, who is also an acknowledged hypochondriac.
That shut me up!!
Think about that? To have real pain from real illnesses, and then on top of that to suffer the anxiety that must come from imagined ones as well.
So all sarcasm aside, I am very grateful for my health, and my heart truly goes out to those who don't have the same good fortune.
Case in point. Yesterday I ran 35 kms. Today my body doesn't even know it. It's easy to forget how the other half lives. All I can say is, please tell me if there is anything I can do.
Basement ride, 1 1/2 hours.
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."---Hippocrates
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Peter
It's funny how an encounter with someone else's crap can make you look at your own differently.
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gail
I think we all know someone who would be considered to be a 'Hypochondriac'. I know at least two...One who calls herself 'my mother' and the other one just does not want to get off is ass and go to work.... :)
ReplyDeleteI love this! Now print yourself a copy and hang it where you will see it when you struggle! Love the quote too
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