These days when people ask me how I feel, on most days I can honestly say “I’m fine, thanks”. Sometimes I add a few words, depending on who I talk to and what they know about me and the chronic illness I have: “considering the circumstances”. If I don’t add this it’s because I don’t feel like explaining myself. What ‘good’ means in my situation. Because ‘good’ will mean something different today than it does tomorrow and than it did yesterday. [Lees meer…] over“I’m fine” (not really, but let’s not get into that now)