It's complicated

You don't just fall into patient advocacy or wake up one day thinking this is what you feel like doing with your life. It is something you learn to do when the system fails you. As a child I was regularly sick with something or the other, nothing big but still noticeable and every day i would sprain my ankle. Eventually I started getting chronic infections, my heart was doing all sorts, I was struggling with my breathing, I would faint from time to time, had surgery, missed a