Posted by Dinah on December 13, 2007, at 19:57:52
In reply to Healing versus Curing, posted by lovelorn on December 13, 2007, at 18:22:03
Is it like the difference between taking antibiotics for a bone infection versus setting a broken bone? In the first case the infection would go away as if it were never there, and in the second, you'd always have a broken bone. Just a healed broken bone. It would be in xrays. If it's whacked again it might break easier?
I'm guessing cause is also a factor. Healing implies trauma and recovery?
Are there any other choices?
I never really think of myself as in need of healing. Or eligible for a cure. I see education being helpful for me. And I see myself as having a flaw, like along tectonic cracks. It's not something you heal or cure. It's more something you manage.
Like you manage a chronic long term illness. I have diabetes. I will never be cured or healed, but with luck and hard work (which would take a miracle I confess) I can learn to manage it.
So healing versus curing versus managing?
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