In practical terms the diagnosis did little to aid me. Of course, it enabled me to understand my body, my limitations and set me on a course to stabilise my symptoms.
The thing is, keeping fat deposits in your body at the very minimum reveals your muscles and allows the cuts and fibers of your muscles to show through your skin.
Toward the end of his life, he lost control of his body and was abandoned by his dignity, something he remained painfully aware of until his final days.
Her first grandchild had been born recently, she had resumed her hospital work and she was confident that the rigorous anti-TB treatment she followed had rid her body of the debilitating disease.