A person reflects on facing multiple serious diagnoses—cancer, vascular issues, MCAS, POTS, and others—and argues these medical labels don't define who they are. They see their hardships as chances to grow and help others, not as their identity.
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And I don't know why I, I never caught that one sentence of experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted. And for him, in his case, I didn't want to be diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, I didn't want to be diagnosed with all these vascular issues, histamine intolerance, neck instability, MCAS, POTS, you name it. Like, I don't want to have these diagnoses, but these diagnoses aren't who I am. They're not my identity. Body Works is not my identity. But all these experiences that, you know, the Lord provides for us in our lifetime, like, that's who I want to be, the summation of those things. And I just hope at the end of the day that that experience is a positive one for not only myself but for the people around me, and I can use those experiences to, you know, be better. Wow. So yeah.