"Illness is an event that makes a painful difference in the world we take for granted.  For some people, their lives are irrevocably damaged.  For others, the cracks in their world are patched up.  And there are those for whom a former world falls apart and something new replaces the old."

Blair Justice, A Different Kind of Health--Finding Well-Being Despite Illness; (Houston: PeAk Press, 1998), p.9