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CHRONIC ILLNESS AND PREJUDICE

 

            
             Thesis: Having a chronic illness; particularly an illness that is not obvious on sight, exposes a person to an array of prejudice that lead them to tap into a dormant well of courage.
             I. Many types of seriously chronic illnesses exist in society today.
             a. Several illnesses are not obvious just by looking at the person.
             b. Examples of types of illnesses not obvious yet chronic.
             1. details of one familiar illness.
             2. tie in courage to this illness.
             II. Often chronically ill people are perceived as lazy even by their own family members.
             a. This is a type of prejudice is rarely directed at the elderly.
             b. Elderly suffer from other types of prejudices.
             c. Examples of other adjectives used to describe chronically ill individuals.
             1. Unapproachable.
             2. Difficult.
             III. Chronically ill people should not have to trade their right to privacy for acceptance in any society.
             a. This type of suffering added insult to illness.
             b. An unusual type of courage must exist in order to survive mentally.
             Conclusion:.
             Prejudice, suffering and courage are all subjective based on several variables.
             a. How a person perceives prejudice.
             b. How a person perceives suffering.
             c. How society vs. an individual's perceives courage.
             d. Courage, like righteousness is something that cannot be measured by the individual experiencing it.
             I do not describe prejudice as something I've suffered; most often the goal is: to cause me suffering and pain. It does not work that way in my life since I look at suffering as an experience for growth and learning.
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             CHRONIC ILLNESS AND PREJUDICE.
             Our lives are affected daily by individuals with chronic illnesses. Several people exist with seriously chronic illnesses that are not obvious by just looking at them. Would you know that a dialysis person has two ways to dialyze (clean their blood)? In one of those procedures the individual is required to be attached to a dialysis machine via size 16 needles that are so big that a special vessel has to be created called a fistula to hold the needle and the flow of blood.


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