Near the end of his life, Andy Warhol often repeated the line: “Health is wealth.” It might sound quite obvious, yet it actually demonstrated a deep understanding of what it means to live in a body that can no longer be taken for granted. Indeed, Warhol recognized that when the body fails, the entire world changes. Illness removes the illusion that life is predictable or that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
While healthy individuals are currently experiencing a huge amount of uncertainty and even hardship as a result of the Corona virus, their lives will eventually get back to some kind of normal - maybe even a new normal - but with far less uncertainty. Most will eventually re-establish their routines and feel some sense of control over their lives. However, for those of us with a chronic illness, that sense of future uncertainty was always there and continues to cause havoc wh
