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7 Challenging Daily Decisions When You Live With Chronic Illness
Not to sound like clickbait, but you truly might be surprised by some of these.
Before I got sick with long COVID, I never really struggled with decision-making. My day job as a technical program manager means that I’m constantly making judgment calls and decisions for myself and others and that always came easily to me.
We all make thousands of microdecisions every day, and much of that likely goes completely unnoticed.
When you pick up your toothbrush and dispense toothpaste on top, you’re probably not really thinking about it. It’s habit.
You’re probably thinking about that awkward thing you said five years ago that is suddenly haunting you for some reason.
What, just me? Anyway…
Until I began living with POTS, fibromyalgia, et al., I took for granted how much time and energy I truly had. I could just… do things.
And unless I made a stupid decision like eating an entire bag of Lesser Evil popcorn in one sitting, I didn’t really have to endure the consequences of typical daily activities.
Now that I’m living with chronic illness, I have to put serious consideration into much of what I choose to do…
