I have a physical disability that makes a lot of things hard to do. I can’t really have hobbies or a job if my brain declines. That’s one of the biggest reasons I still care about covid prevention. That and death (immunocompromised).
I have a physical disability that makes a lot of things hard to do. I can’t really have hobbies or a job if my brain declines. That’s one of the biggest reasons I still care about covid prevention. That and death (immunocompromised).
I totally feel you. I’m sick, immunosuppressed, and not willing to take the risk that Covid would wipe out the little remaining joy I take from my body and the experience of living in it.
I’m literally more afraid of Covid making me more disabled than I am of it killing me. I have faced my own mortality enough to accept it. What I struggle with is living this broken body.
Neuroinflammation After COVID-19 With Persistent Depressive and Cognitive Symptoms Whats really cool is that they don’t seem to know if the damage is ongoing even after infection is over, wheeee
One of my tabletop game members is a cancer survivor that is immunocompromised. We started doing online tabletop games so he could continue participating.
The biggest asshole in the group whined and dragged his feet for months and tried to drag the group down because “it was not the saaaaame.”
Yeah, when that asshole finally ragequit because the group was more on the side of the cancer survivor, it was not the same. It was better.
Same. I have bipolar and if my brain gets any worse i’ll lose what little quality of life I have left. But try to explain that to able people is like trying to teach philosophy to a brick wall. I’m glad hexbear and some of my friends are generally pro mask still.
“Before he got sick, he pictured the world this way. There are the people who are healthy, like him, and people who are sick, other people. And unconsciously, as we all do, he drew a line between the two groups, the two countries. Then when Paul Cowan was diagnosed with leukemia in 1987, he was struck with the fact that these are not, of course, two different populations, the sick and the healthy. Instead he wrote, “The world is composed of the sick and the not yet sick.” -Ira Glass (the real one)
I feel like those of us with chronic illness experience come to this conclusion more often than not. Stay safe
You too, friend. We’ll muddle through this somehow.