Masking symptoms and hiding battles

Is a sick body a nuisance to be subdued and enslaved or a friend to be honored and listened to? That's the question addressed by Tonia at Study in Brown in her current post (written in November).

Once upon a time people recovered from illness in long, slow chunks of bed-ridden time. That was before we were so busy that we couldn’t be inconvenienced by our bodies. A time before we invented pills to mask symptoms and hide the battle waged by our hard-working immune systems.

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