[November 1999 journal entry]
I have again been reflecting on how defining my first wife’s experience with multiple sclerosis was personally and symbolically for me. This experience was existentially intensified by our being newly married and in our 20s facing a chronic illness during my university and then graduate education. This experience was symbolic for me in that being with her as truly/genuinely as possible opened my eyes to so many other ‘untouchables’ who are dismembered from societal spheres (including but not limited to the ‘religious’ sphere).
I have again been reflecting on how defining my first wife’s experience with multiple sclerosis was personally and symbolically for me. This experience was existentially intensified by our being newly married and in our 20s facing a chronic illness during my university and then graduate education. This experience was symbolic for me in that being with her as truly/genuinely as possible opened my eyes to so many other ‘untouchables’ who are dismembered from societal spheres (including but not limited to the ‘religious’ sphere).
