Since we’re sharing and there’s so much ignorance about what is a disability or isn’t...
Crapping a pint of blood a week, adult diaper rash, using moist toilet tissue to clean raw, inflamed skin.
Dextran iron injections for anaemia.
8 pills and a suppository of mesalazine, three times a day.
Laying on the floor of a filthy public restroom for 20 mins trying to get your stomach cramps to subside several times a day.
A wheelchair because you collapsed on the floor of arrivals when the dehydration and corticosteroids (prednisone) an extremely unpleasant drug, makes your calves cramp into a rock solid ball.
Ecoli and Salmonella from taking imunosuppressants (azathioprene and methotrexate), Staph in your chest and an emergency mammogram, norovirus all in one Christmas fortnight.
GERD and throwing up one of the four handfuls of pills you take a day because you can’t stomach the 2 antibiotics for the opportunistic infections on top of the 40 other pills on an empty stomach and a can of Sprite for dinner.
Headaches, fatigue and tiredness, Skin rashes and joint pain from inflammation spreading, sweating and fevers from drug interactions, blood tests, colonoscopy, more blood tests, discussing ‘surgical options,’ depression and psychological effects...
Many thanks for sharing, sadly I’m starting to find iut about much of that already.