Some people are very private -- about their lives, their thoughts, their hope, their desires. My sister Linda is such a person. She also does not tolerate fools nor rough handling easily -- whether it is by a doctor, or a boss, or a friend.
Now Linda is fighting a group of physical conditions which is continually sapping her strength and obstructing her life. She must become angry with her condition(s) and really struggle to defeat them. It is not the doctors nor the nurses (nor the physical therapists, specialists, whatever) -- but the condition(s) she has due to her ongoing illness. "Cellulitis" is the enemy -- the infections that caused that condition are the "hidden enemy" -- and most importantly Linda's own complacence is the "real enemy." She cannot let this happen to her again -- no staph or strep infection can exist in her body unnoticed. The enemy lurks within the common cold -- or not enough sleep -- or even just a tired body. Health has to be earned; it is not given easily -- to any of us. It's a hard lesson to have to learn.
Resist; resist; resist!
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