Kath Mahoney

Oh, my God.

Yeah, to cry.

Yeah, I know.

I think particularly as high-functioning women, we try and always put a positive spin on everything, right?

Like, Kath, I would never have thought that before you said it and shared that, and thank you for sharing it.

I think what people, because I'm so high-functioning, I think because I have lupus, and they call it literally the invisible disease, right?

Because you just – it's not symptomatic in the ways that other things are, but you're just always in pain.

Like literally there's not a day I wake up where I'm not in pain.

Yeah, like where I just like – the first like I would say 60 seconds of the day, just like my legs are so sore when I get out of bed.

Like, you know, just like you just have to like get into it.

And, you know –

I mean occasionally I'll say to my husband I'm having a bad day, but for the most part I just don't talk about it because it's boring to me and also because I'm just like one of those people who's like, okay, we'll get on with it, right, or, you know, try and solve it.

But, yeah, it's a hard thing I think to carry all the time and I know a lot of people and I'm sure a lot of our listeners have lots of stuff like chronic pain that is invisible to everyone that they really struggle with and I really have so much empathy for, you know, people.

Who deal with that?

Because it's hard.

And I think you just, you know, you have to go on.

Yeah.

Of course it came from my kid.