Life with chronic illness | The parts people don’t see
I’m Rob Nunnery. I’ve won 19 pro pickleball titles and I also live with Crohn’s and a colostomy. The newsletter gets sent 3x per week. Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Chronic illness shrinks people quietly. Plans change. Energy disappears. Bodies stop cooperating. Most of us carry it alone. This newsletter is a record of what it looks like to keep living anyway.
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Almost a Year Later
Published 21 days ago • 1 min read
Hi there,We’re coming up on almost a year since my colostomy surgery. A year since I made the choice to fundamentally change my body because the pain had become unbearable. A year since I thought, “this will help.” And here’s where I’m at: the pain is back at pre-colostomy levels. Even though I’m not having bowel movements. Even though the thing that was supposed to help, helped for a while, and now doesn’t. It’s not trending in the right direction. That’s the clinical way to say it. The real...
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