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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Seeing in the dark
Published 11 months ago • 1 min read
Hi friend, Today’s read was about a rabbit named Tashi, terrified of the dark, who eventually builds up the nerve to ask a wise old owl named Klacki for help. The owl doesn’t give him a flashlight or teach him how to fight shadows. She just walks with him into the forest until his eyes adjust. That was it. The darkness didn’t change. He did, his perspective did. It reminded me that most of life doesn’t actually get “figured out.” The fog never fully lifts. You just build up your tolerance for...
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