Comments on: Illness as Metaphor, or Befriending the Enemy http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:03:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: metaphorical http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-160 metaphorical Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:10:39 +0000 http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-160 For the theme of illness of as metaphor, there's Joan Didion's little classic, "In Bed." I shouldn't mention it, because it shouldn't be there, but a copy can be found <a href="http://www.wits.ac.za/humanities/lls/holistic/didion1.htm" rel="nofollow">here </a>. (You might want to cut and paste it off of that background, because it seems designed to create the headache the essay is about.) It's also in Leonard Lopate's great collection, <i>The Art of the Personal Essay,</i> which is well worth having. For the theme of illness of as metaphor, there’s Joan Didion’s little classic, “In Bed.” I shouldn’t mention it, because it shouldn’t be there, but a copy can be found here
. (You might want to cut and paste it off of that background, because it seems designed to create the headache the essay is about.)

It’s also in Leonard Lopate’s great collection, The Art of the Personal Essay, which is well worth having.

]]> By: fibrodenial http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-135 fibrodenial Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:05:11 +0000 http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-135 As compelling as your post is, I just can't find acceptance yet. Maybe there is a pattern people with FMS follow like with the many stages of grief? FibroDenial might be more than just an interesting username in my case. I think I keep it in the back of my mind that, worst case scenario, I will eventually come to accept a "new life" and find contentment somehow, but that time isn't on my horizon at the moment. As compelling as your post is, I just can’t find acceptance yet. Maybe there is a pattern people with FMS follow like with the many stages of grief? FibroDenial might be more than just an interesting username in my case. I think I keep it in the back of my mind that, worst case scenario, I will eventually come to accept a “new life” and find contentment somehow, but that time isn’t on my horizon at the moment.

]]> By: some guy http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-133 some guy Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:11:12 +0000 http://hannahb.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/illness-as-metaphor-or-befriending-the-enemy/#comment-133 I'm proud of who you were when I met, and who you are now. You are strong, like an Amazon, and I get strength from you. I’m proud of who you were when I met, and who you are now. You are strong, like an Amazon, and I get strength from you.

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