When "Just Tired" Wasn't Just Tired- My Hypothyroid Wakeup Call

As someone who is constantly battling with blindness, history of cancer and just plain exhaustion, I never actually thought that something that the doctors diagnosed me with when I was a teenager can also be recognized as a chronic illness.

It’s the unspoken elephant in the room that nobody actually has the courage to speak up and name.

It’s like when you’re in the hospital and you might have stage two or three cancer and no one has the heart to tell you what state you’re at. they just say it’s important that we treat the disease, but no one actually says what really is important which is naming something.

I feel that throughout my journey of life. I always wanted to put a name to something so I can understand it more. That’s why I’m happy that I discovered that hypothyroidism is classified as a chronic illness. What makes it this I’m glad you asked the fact that I have to take medicine each and every day for the rest of my life to control or to replace the hormones that my body can’t create.

I thought it was just burnout or just me being lazy but it’s more than that. It’s a chronic illness, invisible even to my own self not only just other people and I’m glad that I know about this now that I can make it visible to me and others. That was my hypothyroid wakeup call!

What are some invisible, chronic illness that you deal with every day that you just realize or the world has not yet realized?

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