The Elevator of Grief and Acceptance

When you’re first diagnosed with a chronic illness, there is, quite understandably, a period of adjustment. There are the physical changes that are now an undeniable part of your life. There are treatments, doctors’ appointments and medications. You are likely to be more tired (if not thoroughly exhausted); whether it is from the side effects of medication or from the inevitable toll that illness takes on your body as it tries toheal itself. But perhaps the hardest adjustment is the mental pr...