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bruceb keeps turning up with great links I see nowhere else.

Today, he linked to a great essay on what it's like to be chronically ill, using spoons as a metaphor.

At that moment, the spoon theory was born. I quickly grabbed every spoon on the table; hell I grabbed spoons off of the other tables. I looked at her in the eyes and said "Jenni, here you go, you have Lupus." She looked at me slightly confused, as anyone would when they are being handed a bouquet of spoons. The cold metal spoons clanked in my hands, as I grouped them together and shoved them into her hands. I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices, or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn't have to.

Since bruceb himself suffers from chronic illness, I take his recommendation of it quite seriously.