mchronicillness·Chronic Illnessbymecfs When you have a lifelong illnessView original on lemmy.world225Comments10Reply
Björn swg-empire.deMy wife was so glad the other day when she told someone about me and they responded with: "Damn that sucks."18Reply
OpenStars discuss.onlineOh just die already and stop bothering me with your problems... is what I presume they are saying, whether they are aware of that or not.7Reply
SharkEatingBreakfast sopuli.xyz2Hide 2 replies"When do you plan on getting a 'real job'?" When I won't be fired for taking "too many sick days", thanks. (Hint: "too many sick days" = 3 - 4 max per year or so)5Reply
ZZiglin (it/they) replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyThat doesn't sound legal... Also wouldn't anyone get fired pretty much the moment they get ill?4Reply
NNightwatch Admin feddit.nl3Hide 3 repliesWell, they are wishing that to/for you, which is technically nice; but otoh I am also very aware that many people are just dropping it to get out asap. So hm.5Reply
LLibrarian replylemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesWell when you have a lifelong illness, it gets tiring real fast. Imagine telling someone with an amputated arm “get better soon”. Same situation with telling someone with an incurable lifelong disease.10Reply
NNightwatch Admin replyfeddit.nl1Hide 1 replyI understand, my wife has a chronic illness and she gets this stuff often enough too.1Reply
ZZiglin (it/they) lemmy.worldIt is of course possible that it just disappeares overnight but you have to be the luckiest jumble of atoms in the entire universe and likely more.4Reply
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My wife was so glad the other day when she told someone about me and they responded with: "Damn that sucks."
"So how many sick days you usually take per year?"
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Oh just die already and stop bothering me with your problems...
is what I presume they are saying, whether they are aware of that or not.
"When do you plan on getting a 'real job'?"
When I won't be fired for taking "too many sick days", thanks.
(Hint: "too many sick days" = 3 - 4 max per year or so)
That doesn't sound legal... Also wouldn't anyone get fired pretty much the moment they get ill?
America!
Well, they are wishing that to/for you, which is technically nice; but otoh I am also very aware that many people are just dropping it to get out asap. So hm.
Well when you have a lifelong illness, it gets tiring real fast.
Imagine telling someone with an amputated arm “get better soon”. Same situation with telling someone with an incurable lifelong disease.
I understand, my wife has a chronic illness and she gets this stuff often enough too.
It is of course possible that it just disappeares overnight but you have to be the luckiest jumble of atoms in the entire universe and likely more.