Comments | rredhead: Invisible Illness Week

rredhead

Invisible Illness Week

Sep 01, 2009 00:24

Apparently, it's Invisible Illness Week. Who knew? Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about CRPS and its side effects recently, so this meme seemed timely regardless. I'm going to try to be brief. Really.

http://invisibleillnessweek.com/?p=2301

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Comments 6

ex_absentees659 September 1 2009, 12:10:31 UTC

But digital scrapbooking is quicker, cheaper and so much more fun! ;)

This was interesting. Thank you.

rredhead September 3 2009, 04:31:11 UTC

Yes, and digital scrapbooking can be done from the couch. :0)

Thanks for reading!

moominmama September 1 2009, 12:52:20 UTC

Thanks for filling that out. I feel like I have a better understanding of the particulars of your illness.

rredhead September 3 2009, 04:31:19 UTC

Thanks Dawn!

dr4b September 2 2009, 15:49:39 UTC

It got me thinking about the question whether you'd rather have a visible or invisible illness... I think, all things considered, I'd rather have visible, depending on HOW visible. Because there are other ramifications of it being invisible... like if you really can't exercise and get very heavy, people will just think "What a lazy fat person". Or if you were in an area with public transportation and wanted to use the priority seats, people would be like "Why is this young woman who is not obviously handicapped or pregnant wanting to use this seat?" Things like that. When I got hit by a truck two years ago, I didn't LIKE having a huge scar running down my right leg and a gigantic bruise up my right arm, but it WAS really nice that people didn't even question me when I'd sit down in the priority seats on the train, or ask to use the handicapped lift instead of climbing stairs from the subway, etc... they'd take one look at my leg and gasp in horror and let me be a gimp. (Nothing was broken, just bruised, though ( ... )

rredhead September 3 2009, 04:30:36 UTC

Yeah, I really thought about this. I have a handicap placard for my car. I rarely need it anymore, but it's good to have. When I do use it, I always feel like people are staring at me, because it's not obvious from how I walk that I have the knee thing. For about 6 months or more, I walked with a cane. I got a lot of double-takes, being 20-something and walking with a cane. I hated that.