Identity through chronic illness
Identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. In different seasons of my life I have gone through several identities, Gymnast, sick, Chronic pain, daughter, student, Rock climber, Wife, divorce, Vascular compression warrior, Dog mom, Doctor. When you deal with chronic conditions, it often can feel so overarching that the condition takes over your identity. When I was 19, I was in a car accident just weeks after my father died. Due to my biology of #hEDS and th