When you have a chronic illness you can go one of two ways with it. Either you embrace being sick and make it part of who you are, or you fight it — nearly going into denial regarding your health status.
Neither place is especially good for you. As in all things balance is the best policy, but humans tend to live in extremes. With my asthma, I am a fighter, a denier of the highest order. I didn’t even go to a doctor for it…
