Chronic Illness Effect

Illness can harm but not in the way you might expect. It can attack in ways other than causing pain or death. A chronic illness is more damaging than the worst of plagues as it will attack the quality of life of its victim. Ironically you need not hurt for the illness to do damage. The illness only need make you dependent on medication and it will eat away at your money and will ruin you by making it just that bit harder to make ends meet, just that bit harder to be happy. As time goes on the illness' effect are more pronounced as the money that you worked for and sweated over bleeds away to keep you alive. Chronic illness hurts but not necessarily physically; it makes its sufferers dependent on expensive medicine and eats away at their quality of life. I learned this through experience. …show more content…
Luckily, unlike many of these stories my mother survived and is alive and is now married. After a round of radiation and a surgery to remove the troublesome organ she came out alright. The removal of the thyroid had other effects though. The hormonal changes aggravated an existing heart condition, made her existing nerve pain much worse, and may have inadvertently paralyzed the bottom half of her stomach. The medication my mother needs is very expensive and for a long time was one of the biggest financial issues my mother had. I didn't realize the impact that they were having until later as I was too young; now however, I see the effects of overpriced medication everywhere. Anyone old or young or in between that has a chronic condition is dependent on the companies that produce their medication. An under competitive market has driven up prices of insulin, antibiotics and other life-sustaining compounds to absurd levels harming the people who rely on them. This is irresponsible and must not