Living in the Shadows: Finding Strength and Hope in Times of Illness
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Living in the Shadows - Silas Henderson
CHAPTER I
Facing Chronic Illness With Faith and Hope
By Daniel R. Grossoehme
Every day as I walk through the hospital where I work, I meet people living with chronic illness. And while no one I’ve met would have wished for their illness, many express gratitude for having learned what is really important in their lives. Their condition has helped them focus and decide where their priorities are in life. Spending time with the people they love takes on a new level of meaning.
Working your way through
A chronic illness is a condition that lasts longer than a year, places limits on what you are able to do, and requires medical or psychiatric care. Some chronic illnesses are rarely life-threatening; others are more serious.
Chronic illness may affect our bodies, or they may be chronic mental-health conditions such as depression or schizophrenia. The good news is, more than at any other time in the past, people today are able to live with a range of chronic illnesses (and sometimes more than one illness) due to advances in medications, physical therapy, and support.
Let yourself have a chronic illness gracefully. As we move through the course of our lives, we change. None of us is the same person we were 10 years ago. Many events in our own lives, and in the lives of others around us, have altered us. Some of those changes are on the inside (how we see ourselves), and some of them may be on the outside, due to things that have happened to our bodies.
Living with a chronic illness changes people. People I have known who work on being whole while living with a chronic illness have some sense of their new identity. A middle-aged woman with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) told me that she felt as if she were a partially finished stone sculpture. She could feel the hammer blows, but because she was the sculpture, she couldn’t see the emerging beauty only the Sculptor saw. Having that image helped her understand the place of pain in her life and her purpose in life, and gave her hope for her future.
Finding a metaphor to describe life can be healing because it gives meaning to our experiences. Having meaningful lives is one reason we have for going on in spite of adversity, even when going on can be a struggle.