30/07/2026
Some of you have already decided you are the exception. Too many years in, too many diagnoses deep, too far down for any of this to reach you.
I want to talk to that specific belief, because it is the most dangerous one I know.
It is also the one I held the longest.
A doctor once looked at me and said I would not make it past 40.
And for a while I believed him more than I believed myself.
I organised my whole life around being someone whose body had already run out of chances.
So when I say I know this feeling, I am not guessing.
I planned for an early death.
I made peace with it before I ever made peace with healing.
Then something in me refused to sign off on that story.
Here is what I know now that I could not see then.
Being sick for a long time feels like proof that your window has closed.
It is not proof of anything. It is just a long chapter, not the ending you keep assuming it is.
I am past 40. I have two kids. That doctor has not seen me in years.
The years you have lost did not use up your chance to heal. They are just the part of the story you were stuck in before this one.
Being sick for years does not mean you missed your chance to heal.
It means you have not reached it yet. Your body still knows the way back.
What have you already decided about your body that might not actually be true.