title: Learning to fly with broken wings - forcing a reappraisal of time and space.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  When living with a chronic disease, the whole human being is affected and his/her experience of health challenged.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study had a dual aim: to obtain a new understanding of experiences of the body among persons suffering from the chronic neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) and how they come to terms with such experiences.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of ten interviews were re-analysed using a hermeneutic approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The experiences of the body were revealed as 'Learning to fly with broken wings', comprising two themes: 'Getting to know the foreign body' and 'Building a new living space', both requiring reappraisal of time and space.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Living with a chronic disease such as MS means learning to fly with broken wings, which involves subordination to the body leading to a higher level of integration in the process of becoming towards health and well-being.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden.
authors.forename: Gullvi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Flensner
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden.
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rudolfsson
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011788:Quality of Life
keywords: adjusting life; health; hermeneutic; secondary analysis; space; suffering; time; unknown body