This book is about the sh*t. The bad stuff. The things that happen to people with autoimmune disease when no one else is paying attention. This is my follow-up to The Marvelous Transformation: Living Well with Autoimmune Disease (TMT) in which I explored how I've managed to have a happy life despite being ill.
However, I want to be very clear that this is not an extension of The Marvelous Transformation; it is almost its inverse. While still being written with the intent to help you, I want to enlighten you, lighten your load, maybe even to entertain while shedding light on the BS of autoimmune disease.
The problem with, or maybe the beauty of, the passage of time, is that I am not the same person, today, as I was when I wrote TMT. I am irrecoverably changed by my illness, and I don't think this is always for the better. I do not always try to find the "bright side." I do not always try to find the positive way out of my negative thoughts, and I certainly do not hide from the dark thoughts and feelings that accompany chronic illness. This book is the flip side of the TMT coin. It will expose the BS because being sick sucks.