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. 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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Kneeling in airplane lavatories
Published about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hi there, It’s 4:25am in Seoul. I got an earlier flight out after an utterly disappointing Newport tournament. I’m in the airport lounge watching people drink draft beer and eat boxed noodles under fluorescent lights. I haven’t slept much. I’m on my way to Manila and don’t really know why. I just… don’t know. This trip was booked and plans shifted, dates changed, events were altered, but I'm still going. It's probably a good time to try to take some of my ostomy belts to factories to see if I...
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