@fromthehill Personally, I take it as a challenge to keep myself healthy. Healthy eating, mindfulness for creating an emotionally and mentally healthy life, too! Yep, that word got used three times!

I am a creative person, doing a lot of writing and different crafts. So, using those mediums help me deal with the challenges. It's okay to be thinking how to move forward given our own individual circumstances. What could be crippling is to focus only on that. Friends and families often do not understand the seriousness of our health situation, so we can use that as a platform to educate them.

Taking care of ourselves will let us focus on what else we want to accomplish. For me, and perhaps for others, watching my diet, my stress levels, moderate exercise, being medication compliant is part of the big picture. Why take away part of that because we don't want to deal with it? Isn't that like a tire with a flat spot?
Ginger