How many times a day does a person exchange simple pleasantries with someone they see? “How are you?”, “How are things?”, “What’s going on?” The greetings are endless, and when you have one or more chronic illness, they are more weighted than people realize.
Our responses will often be “I’m
When people hear you’re chronically ill and unable to work, they will often say things like “Lucky! I wish I could stay home and do nothing all day!”, as if we’re just sitting home relaxing all day, having the time of our lives. What people don’t realize though is we
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, often called EDS for short, was not something I was familiar with until after I got my POTS diagnosis. I first heard about it when I saw people talking about EDS in the POTS support groups, and from reading about it, I learned that a lot of people