We are stronger than the disease

It comes in cycles.

The cycles look kind of like triangles.

Or trapezoids.

You go up this slight slope of feeling good.

You plateau for a bit. Feeling good.

Thinking life is going okay.

Then all of a sudden the decline.

The drop.

The cycle looks like one of those awkward square trapezoids you learned about in 3rd grade.

A Right Trapezoid (go look it up (Google images))

It's a very sudden drop.

You have no time to prepare for it.

BOOM you're down at the bottom of that trapezoid.

Just chillin'

Your mind doesn't quite know what hit you.

All you can think about is how well you were doing.

How good things were.

That's what this disease does.

Makes you constantly think about your past.

Makes you think it was so much better then.

That nothing will ever be like it was then.

It will just be worse...

It's like you keep getting stuck in the rip tide.

Unable to free yourself.

Unable to escape.

There's always that little hope though.

That maybe I will escape from this sickening trick.

These types of diseases are like cancer...

There is always that chance that it may come back.

 It's always got a small wrap around you.

You're always fighting.

That's something I've learned.

Like a cancer patient,

I can never give up.

If I give up the disease wins.

And I'm screwed.

I am not going to be screwed over by a stupid disease.

A stupid illness.

I am stronger than that.

We are stronger than that.

We are stronger than the disease.

Godspeed <3