I loved this story. I'm really glad you wrote it because no one ever really does think about the way teens who are sick are affected. My Junior year of high school I had the most popular girl in school tell me I needed to donate, saying it was my duty and to think about all the people I could help. I kept trying to tell her I couldn't until finally I told her I have a rare disease and the medication I am taking would literally kill anyone who got my blood. She felt bad, especially since she just got done trying to bully the only girl with cancer in my school into donating blood. I think it's a funny story now. I tell it every once in a while, but at the time I really wished I was able to donate my blood and be like everyone else. Being a teen with a terminal illness is hard and even people who are trying to be nice sometimes say the most insensitive things and they don't even bat an eye, because to them, it isn't bad. Eventually, you have to get used to it and let it go because you know they don't know what it's like and you really hope they never do. Wow, that was a long comment. Sorry. But again, LOVED it!
Yeah, I have pernicious anemia, (And I'm also on medications which would taint the blood supply) and every time there's a local blood drive I hear all the things Kurt heard in this, while people try to coerce me into doing something that I'm medically not supposed to do. It sucks.
I'm glad you liked it!
I've got another fic I wrote for the angst meme in which Kurt has a terminal illness, which is finished (more than 35,000 word, whoa!) and I'm just cleaning it up now. I hope to post it to this comm in a few days, it's called "Down Where the World is Ending."
I'm sorry you've have to go through that. *offers hugs and chocolate and support* I don't know what it's like, personally, to have a terminal illness, but I know what it's like to have chronic problems, and it sucks. *hug*
Being a teen with a terminal illness is hard and even people who are trying to be nice sometimes say the most insensitive things and they don't even bat an eye, because to them, it isn't bad. Eventually, you have to get used to it and let it go because you know they don't know what it's like and you really hope they never do.
Wow, that was a long comment. Sorry. But again, LOVED it!
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I'm glad you liked it!
I've got another fic I wrote for the angst meme in which Kurt has a terminal illness, which is finished (more than 35,000 word, whoa!) and I'm just cleaning it up now. I hope to post it to this comm in a few days, it's called "Down Where the World is Ending."
I'm sorry you've have to go through that. *offers hugs and chocolate and support* I don't know what it's like, personally, to have a terminal illness, but I know what it's like to have chronic problems, and it sucks. *hug*
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