Chronic diseases last three or more months, they can’t be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication and they don’t just disappear.

Some chronic diseases can last years, some can even last decades. Sometimes I wonder why these kind bad things happen to good people. Why the heaviest loads and the darkest nights are given to the ones that bring the most relief and light to our lives. A lot of the times I ask my self how much human strength there can be in a human, how much spirit and soul a body can have. I have seen some of the people I love go through some tough times that I my self don’t ever see myself going through and I wonder how they do it.

All I can say is I admire your physical, emotional and spiritual strength because there is only so much a body can take but nothing that can break your hope. There are better days than others but having a chronical disease equals to instability which means there will always be fear, fear of something happening, something new showing up or just any decompensation. The difference between a chronic disease is that from runs to the ER, consultations and appointments with the doctors, an innumerable amount of medication and different treatments, these are not like a temporary emergency or a one-time incident, it is routine.

The main reason I admire people with chronic conditions is because to live with a chronic disease and get through it, there has to be an overpowering the desire to live. A desire that pushes you and gives you the will that makes you wake up in the morning and saying “I’m not giving up”. A lot of the times we all complain about how work, school, family and other things are being “hard” on us and we don’t realize that we really don’t have it bad at all. Many of us complain even about the smallest things when we don’t realize how tough life is on others. We spend so much time having a battle with ourselves whilst others are battling a real illness.

I know that a lot of the time, it can be hard to understand why things happen. It is also hard to go on every day without receiving answers but whether it is you, or someone in your family that has a chronic disease keep hope and strength in your heart because with every negative aspect, comes a positive one and it might be hard to see it at times but eventually you will see that all your tears, work and effort will pay off.