I warn you now this is a bit of a rant. Continue at your own peril(okay it won't really be that perilous). So I was on facebook chatting with a friend, this evening. I mentioned that I kinda felt like curling in a ball. said friend is a mild intermittent(like really intermittent I think he's had about 3 asthma flares in the 5 years I've known him). He's like "asthma isn't sick". I really wanted to jump through my computer and just smack him. It's like look I feel like shit you don't need to tell me I'm not sick you can come over here and listen to me cough and watch me curl up in a little ball and take a nap. Yes I'm not contagious but I'm also not "well".
/Rant
The lungs are touchy as of late I think it's a combo of coming off the rag and the allergies have my nose running like a faucet. Had a nice 70% today, they responded to ventolin though. School has been keeping me pretty busy as has my job in the IT department. So that's what's up here. :)
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Okay. I hope this doesn't earn me a smack through the computer too... but...
In my mind asthma doesn't = sick either. It's some weird other universe. In my mind sick is something contagious, something you catch, and something that will go away. In uni I was part of a Language and Thought seminar, where I wrote a paper about the difference in meaning between "chronic illness" and "chronic condition". I then pointed out how Hebrew doesn't have this distinction and hypothesized that Hebrew speakers with chronic conditions have a worse outlook on their health than English speakers dealing with the same stuff.
Like your friend, I'm mild intermittent at this point in life. But I wasn't always. Asthma can make you feel like complete crap. I tend to describe horribly bad days as feeling stuck inside my own body. There are things I want to do but I can't because my lungs can't keep up. But I never called it sick. Cuz sick is something with germs that you can get rid of. At least that's how it is in my mind. Otherwise I'd be "sick" a lot more than I am now with my definition.
Feel better, Kat.
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