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mecfs@lemmy.worldM to Chronic Illness@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

When you have a lifelong illness

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When you have a lifelong illness

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  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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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.”

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    • “So how many sick days you usually take per year?”

    • yes

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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.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    “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)

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      That doesn’t sound legal… Also wouldn’t anyone get fired pretty much the moment they get ill?

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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        America!

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    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.

    • Librarian@lemm.ee
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      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.

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        I understand, my wife has a chronic illness and she gets this stuff often enough too.

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    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.

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    Completely unrelated, is that font from BTD6?

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