A Voice in the Dark

The reason I started this blog was primarily to look for people like me. And find them, I did! Haha!


Living with Idiopathic Anaphylaxis has made me feel many times, as though I am in the shoes of Luke Skywalker when he crashed into Yoda's swamp planet, Dagobah. IA tends to wear one's patience and aptitude out. Aptitude for persevering and fighting on and on with no end in sight. Yoda had to break the young Skywalker to build and train where Luke's patience was concerned and the-never-give-up attitude. That is how I felt and still feel, forever being tested where my patience is concerned. And also where the 'fighting-spirit' is concerned. The never-give-up attitude. And to fight the best that I can and come out alive, in one piece.


No one will ever understand what we people with anaphylaxis go through. We can explain till the cows come home but they will never fully understand until and unless they step into our shoes and live our lives. The best that they can do is to encourage, sympathize and empathize with us.


So fellow 'Anaphylaxis-ians', I am glad that we have found each other. Though we are hundreds of miles apart, I am glad that we can share our stories, learn from each other new ways to survive or cope, and just to listen to each others' rants and frustrations!


Anaphylaxis is still not well-known by the mass out there. Let's join forces and spread the word out. Let's be the 'force' that will educate people of this condition. That there ARE people who are living with this condition, who have had to give up their jobs, their lives and their passion (and sometimes, even put their family life on hold) or even re-locate because anaphylaxis came along and turned their lives upside-down and inside-out. They are NOT demented people, not 'craving-and-crying-for-attention' people, not 'joy-suckers' people, not 'faithless-backslidden' people, and certainly NOT people of 'great-IMAGINATION-that-manifests-and-results-in-trips-to-the-ER!' I mean, if someone wanted attention, they would have joined some reality TV show to the likes of The Kardashians or 19 and Counting. Or maybe even Hell's Kitchen? Jersey Shore?


So let's be a voice in the dark until there comes a time, that we are no longer in the dark. That doctors will acknowledge that what we have and go through is REAL! And the scales will fall off the peoples' eyes.


Let's keep on fighting! What say you?


Like Yoda said, 'Do or do not. There Is No Try.'