Here is a blog post by Anne Dean. I want to share it because it describes the horror of an ordinary life gone wrong because of chronic illness when all of a sudden, nothing is ordinary anymore. All this because life hits hard when we least expect it. Adversities stack up and can become (almost) insurmountable. Injustice is added to injustice, hardship to hardship. I hope Anne will be able to create more ‘headroom’, as she calls it, now that she has written this extremely difficult piece and that her blog post will help create more understanding for so-called hardworking people chucked into extraordinary circumstances. Anne, nor anyone else, has asked to be taken ill. But it happens and when it does, many will lose their jobs, loves, lives, money, houses, identities, friends – not necessarily in this order. Sometimes, all there is left are attempts to put into words the disbelief at what is happening to us, hoping against hope someone will hear, understand and maybe even act on it in whichever way they can. Bon courage, everyone, bon courage. Claudia