Living life with a chronic disease is difficult for those with it and the people around them; but not unlivable. You or a loved one may be suffering from a chronic disease, and it could be very devastating.
Around 57 percent of people in the US suffer from chronic diseases. A lot of people suffer from these diseases and might not even know. Most of these diseases are genetic, meaning you or a loved one could pass it on to their children.
Someone with a chronic disease life can be hard. Some people might not understand what they are going through. On a first-hand experience with someone who couldn’t comprehend what I was going through. In fifth grade, I was in the hospital for ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis occurs when the body cannot use sugar …show more content…
As a little girl, I would be anti-social. I would cry in terror of just going to school. Why? Because to me, it was not normal. Being sick and sometimes not be able to walk, because I was so weak, scared me. But after a while to me “normal” was abnormal. All this lead to depression, at just the age of nine. Depression is leading complications of chronic illness. About one-third of people with a serious medical condition have symptoms of depression. It feels like you can’t talk to anyone. Because when a doctor asks you “how do you feel?” You try to describe the indescribable. So you try to figure it out all in our head, leading you to your own hell called “your own thoughts.”
Along with the disease, you already have, a common could mean your life. “Random sickness” is what I like to call it. You seem fine one day and then all of a sudden your sick. But, guess what? You're fine, its just a common cold, right? Well, when you have a chronical illness, your immune system is not what it was before. Though the cold might not kill you directly, it complicates your disease. Everything gets out of control. These things just happen unexpectedly. Taking your time and messing up our plans for that trip you were going to take with our family, or that movie you were going to watch with our
Around 57 percent of people in the US suffer from chronic diseases. A lot of people suffer from these diseases and might not even know. Most of these diseases are genetic, meaning you or a loved one could pass it on to their children.
Someone with a chronic disease life can be hard. Some people might not understand what they are going through. On a first-hand experience with someone who couldn’t comprehend what I was going through. In fifth grade, I was in the hospital for ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis occurs when the body cannot use sugar …show more content…
As a little girl, I would be anti-social. I would cry in terror of just going to school. Why? Because to me, it was not normal. Being sick and sometimes not be able to walk, because I was so weak, scared me. But after a while to me “normal” was abnormal. All this lead to depression, at just the age of nine. Depression is leading complications of chronic illness. About one-third of people with a serious medical condition have symptoms of depression. It feels like you can’t talk to anyone. Because when a doctor asks you “how do you feel?” You try to describe the indescribable. So you try to figure it out all in our head, leading you to your own hell called “your own thoughts.”
Along with the disease, you already have, a common could mean your life. “Random sickness” is what I like to call it. You seem fine one day and then all of a sudden your sick. But, guess what? You're fine, its just a common cold, right? Well, when you have a chronical illness, your immune system is not what it was before. Though the cold might not kill you directly, it complicates your disease. Everything gets out of control. These things just happen unexpectedly. Taking your time and messing up our plans for that trip you were going to take with our family, or that movie you were going to watch with our