{"id":131,"date":"2025-05-19T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anachronist.co\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:47:41","slug":"chronic-illness-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anachronist.co\/?page_id=131","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Illness Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chronic Illness in the Medical System<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Ramey put words to my experiences even better than I can. This truly has been my handbook since it was suggested to me a few months ago. I’m about to start my re-read. If you look closely, you can see some Sarah in this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I see myself in each of these stories. We are all trying to play the same part when we have been dealt a bad hand. The world wants us to be fine and we want the same but those pesky health issues never allow life to be that simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all know that medicine is messed up. But to hear a woman who is working in and a recipient of the system to say that it’s messed up then give us a history lesson to prove it, yeah, that’s so much worse than I thought it’d be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All roads lead to uteruses. Isn’t that the bane of many of our existences? What if, we truly did, ask people about their uteruses? I’m sure we’d learn a lot–about uteruses and ourselves. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faith and Disability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The problem isn’t us; it’s the way the world was built without giving us a second thought. Sadly, the church was built this way too. And it’s a lot easier to pray for disability to be fixed rather than the world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Illness in Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Say what you want about the Emperyan Series but I almost cried reading Fourth Wing. Violet canonically has EDS and POTS and is a total and complete badass. Thank you, Rebecca, for seeing zebras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I want to believe that I could leap across rooftops like the Wraith, but I know in my bones, I have the body of Kaz. A physical disability serves to sharpen your mind. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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