10/24/2025
I live with chronic illness. I have a neurological disorder, a gastrointestinal disorder, and a respiratory disorder. Most of the time I’m totally okay, sometimes I’m struggling but can still rally, other times I completely crash.
Chronic illness is hard. It interrupts my life. I’ve had to cancel on friends and family multiple times because I’m not feeling well. I’ve had to cancel on clients because I can’t work, which means I lose income. I’ve had clients fire me over it, because they found me to be “unreliable”, which is fair and absolutely their prerogative and it still hurts when it’s because of something outside of my control. (Most of my clients are incredibly empathic and understanding about this, though!)
I know I’m not alone in this. Many of my clients also live with chronic illness. They have also lost relationships, jobs, and opportunities due to their illness.
Something that I continue to remind myself and others
YOU are not unreliable. Your CHRONIC ILLNESS is unreliable. Chronic illness is unpredictable, uncooperative, and often under researched, and therefore still misunderstood by the medical community on how to treat it (especially for women).
I see you. I honor you.
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