tamnonlinear has an excellent essay on how chronic illness is much like having a second job.

While I’ve read the spoon theory of chronic illness and think it makes some valid points, I’m finding the second-job analogy more useful in understanding what others are going through when dealing with health issues–and what we all go through from time to time, in dealing with any sort of major life upheavals.

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