![]() Especially when they’re written by & for sick girls. ![]() It’s why Boot Camp is good for creating troop morale & cohesiveness, right? – People who experience the same sorts of suffering just get it in ways other people don’t.Īnd I’ve previously talked *so many times* about how the same goes for books, so y’all know I have a special place in my heart for books about sick girls. Because there’s nobody who knows the experience except the people who know. Worst, continuous hazing ever, and yet? The (worldwide, online, offline, near, far, complete strangers until the absolute moment they’re not) sorority of sick girls has saved my life, many, many times over. ![]() I’m a long-time member of the chronically ill girls’ club, and boy does the initiation SUCK. ![]() And yet somehow – once you ARE a member – the people in these clubs/groups with you become some of the most important in your whole damn life? Members that save you, and that you save, time and time again? Definitely clubs you do not want to belong to, ever. ![]() Have you ever heard the saying (not the Groucho Marx version, but the earnest one) about becoming a member of a club you don’t want to be a member of? It might just be pretty common in the circles I’ve run in, because I’ve mostly heard people talk about it in relation to loss – How you never want to become &/or welcome a new member to the parents of kids who’ve died club, or the widows’ club. ![]()
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