[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “try new meds. vomit for 8 hours straight”]

well, a lot of good that one did me.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Nurse knows orders by heart without chart (even the as needed meds) not sure if that’s a good thing or bad”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Coworkers complain about being sick/ Never join in lest they think you’re trying to one-up them”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Receptionists at the doctor’s office know your name before looking you up”]

I’ve started saying “see ya soon” on the way out, haha.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Top Text reads: “REGULAR PEOPLE SICK?” Bottom Text reads: “MORE LIKE HARDCORE MODE”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “’You must have really sinned to be so sick’. No, but I’m about to.”]

People are unbelievable.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “’It’s only across town.  We can walk there.’ Can we, now?”]

I can walk for about half an hour tops on my best days.  On my worst days you better plan on carrying me or dragging me in a wagon if you intend to walk.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Go for walk.  Stop half way through to sit in snow and numb joint pain.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Can swallow over five large pills at once.  No big deal”]

Five, six, seven…

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Only barely limping today.  Gets excited.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Longterm GP gives controlled substances” Under “Over phone”]

I <3 you doctor Paul.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “First half of decade playing down illness to seem normal” Bottom: “Second half of decade playing up symptoms just to be taken seriously”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Vomit so regularly” Bottom: “Begin to worry about throat lining”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Chronic mono? Oh I have that” “I get tired all the time”]

Seriously, the amount of time people have told me that “they think they have chronic mono too” because “they get tired all the time” is absolutely insane. I facepalm so hard.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Treatment” Bottom: “Makes you feel worse than disease”]