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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The Bridge of Understanding
Published 7 months ago • 1 min read
Hi friend, I read a story this morning that hit a little deeper than expected. It's about a young man in Sichuan Province named Li Wei, known for his work ethic but lacking in patience and compassion. In a dream, he stood on one side of a wide chasm. On the other side were people in pain. Children, the elderly, the sick. And there was no bridge. The old man from his village appeared and told him, “You already have all the tools you need.” The tools were compassion and understanding....
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