Fatigue

by Jennifer Acker

The only way to continue to be a couple was to invest in each other in a more profound way than we ever had before. To carry each other’s pain, to feel the other as an extension of ourselves.

Certainty exists for no one, but suffering from an unknown or little-understood illness is a contingent state in which the future is especially vexed. When is the future? Tomorrow? Three months? Three years? What will the future look like? Paradoxically, foolishly, I hoped it would look like the past. We would know we had progressed when we returned to the selves we once were.

To recover is to restore to health, strength, o...

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to good or proper condition; to rescue from or out of a state. Recovery can happen to a person, a body: “A young lady who faints, mu...