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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The peacock, the dragon and the fire we carry
Published 8 months ago • 2 min read
Hi there, since I'm a day behind I'm going to catch us up with a couple days worth of reading and travel updates. Part 1: The Outer Shell Saturday was great until it wasn't. Daytime pickleball for the pool play was great. Easy visibility, very hot, but I could see. Night session for the bracket play. Dim lights and long shadows made the ball vanish and reappear mid-flight like it was playing a mean joke. I simply couldn't track the ball at all. I could have lost to anyone. Later that evening,...
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