While no one chooses to experience a chronic illness or disease, it’s important to note that this doesn’t always preclude a life well lived, full of dignity relative to the challenges you go through. Many disabled individuals or people with chronic illnesses take their bad days with grades, and make the most of their good days. These people deserve the highest admiration, and their continual efforts and dignity show we should never complain, but make the most of what we have.
If you’ve become diagnosed with a chronic illness, you may have experienced strange feelings of relief. At least now you have parameters to manage a condition you had suspected for a while, and a treatment pathway opening up to you, which is the least you deserve.
We hope to help you settle into this new scenario with a few tips for helping you manage that chronic illness, making daily living just a little more comfortable for you:
Use A Medical Centre You Trust
A medical center staffed with the friendly medical staff you trust, open seven days a week, willing to field your calls and questions when needed, and helping you to chart all aspects, including the ups and downs of your condition, is priceless.
Moreover, bulk billing doctors or those that can be trusted to offer a helpful speed of treatment can make a massive difference and let you know no matter what, trained professionals will be there to help you.
Focus On What You Can Control
It’s easy to think that a medical condition limits you in life, and if we’re being realistic, in some areas it might. But that doesn’t mean you won’t have a great deal of control over your schedule, over how you practice your wellness each day, and making marginal improvements. From going on small walks to eating healthy, to meditation, to keeping up with light work duties (even remote), exercising the control you have without denigrating your health will help you feel a great deal of autonomy, and that in itself is worthwhile.
Advocate For Your Needs Within Healthcare Systems
Your voice matters ,and if you’re willing to use it, perhaps your experience could help develop change where it is most needed. For example, maybe it’s taken a few diagnoses to properly and accurately verify your issue, and you believe that if only you were listened to correctly first time around, this could have happened much more quickly. These stories are growing in number as of late, and are causing medical services to reckon with how they assist their patients. That’s not to say you have to be antagonistic to health professionals (the vast majority of which are decent, hardworking people who only wish to help), but it also allows your unique experience, which does have value, add to the platform of how conditions are treated.
With this advice, we hope you can manage your chronic illness not only with the medical advice you should follow, but in terms of managing your self-respect, wellbeing, and future.
