They’re not just medical tools.
They’re artifacts of resilience.
She lived with a chronic illness in silence
No support groups, no CGMs, no online communities
Every injection was an act of self-care
In an era when women were taught to put others first
She never let it define her
She gardened, cooked, loved — fully, fiercely
She saved the vials — maybe as proof she survived
A quiet archive of her strength
“I kept them,” she once told me, “so I’d remember I made it through.”
The Hidden Cost of Chronic Illness
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We talk about disease in terms of medicine and symptoms.
But rarely about:
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