When I was sick with my chronic illness for 15 years, doctors tried to give me medication after medication.
They treated the individual symptoms, not the root cause.
Or
They didn’t treat me at all.
They believed I was just depressed
or
a hypochondriac.
They didn’t know that by offering me more medication they were making me sicker.
People didn’t think I looked sick.
They only believed the doctors
and
my doctors didn’t do the right tests
so they said I was fine.
I have a hard time looking back at pictures of when I was sick, even if it was a happier occasion, like these pics of me on vacation.
I see how sick I was.
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