Diabetic Cyborg Life 01/23: Difficulties & Results Part. 2
The book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon exposes how some approach having disabilities and hardships. I can deal with my impoverished childhood but could deal with not having Progressive multiple sclerosis pancreatitis, type 1 diabetes, chronic kidney disease stage 2, and a neurogenic bladder.
Dealing with these things as I age is abnormal and challenging as it can be. Having a normal childhood could’ve been a death sentence if I had the adult life I have now. That might be hyperbolic, but that is truly how I feel. Take out the lessons of an impoverished childhood and I could’ve not endured my progressive multiple sclerosis and all the symptoms of that.
My case of gaining from my youth and regretting my current state might be a case of nostalgia and prisoner of the moment.
Yet, I still am learning lessons from my issues now.
I could just do without the self-catheterization and issues of my diminishing memory and thought processes