Living with any chronic illness can sometimes seem hopeless.  You lay in bed in pain, sickness, depression – hour after hour, day after day.  It’s only a matter of time before you start to think “this is it – this is life – forever”.  

You stop seeing a path forward. Especially when so many steps have taken you backwards.  

But it’s in those very moments that the biggest steps forward can happen.  

2 years ago, I spent 2 weeks at the Hansa Center for Optimal Wellness in Wichita, KS.  I did well there and for several months after, I was pretty stable. But the stability slowly slipped away and I found myself back in bed, not seeing a path forward. 

Through the most bizarrely beautiful circumstances, I have the opportunity to return to Hansa for another 2 weeks.  I’m taking that path forward. 

I don’t know what the steps are beyond that.  But any time there is a path forward, there is hope.