When you have a lifelong illness

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 18 pts · 2y

My wife was so glad the other day when she told someone about me and they responded with: "Damn that sucks."

graphito@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
  • "So how many sick days you usually take per year?"

  • yes

OpenStars@discuss.online · 7 pts · 2y

Oh just die already and stop bothering me with your problems...

is what I presume they are saying, whether they are aware of that or not.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Well, they are wishing that to/for you, which is technically nice; but otoh I am also very aware that many people are just dropping it to get out asap. So hm.

Librarian@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Well when you have a lifelong illness, it gets tiring real fast.

Imagine telling someone with an amputated arm “get better soon”. Same situation with telling someone with an incurable lifelong disease.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I understand, my wife has a chronic illness and she gets this stuff often enough too.

Tobberone@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

"When do you plan on getting a 'real job'?"

When I won't be fired for taking "too many sick days", thanks.

(Hint: "too many sick days" = 3 - 4 max per year or so)

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That doesn't sound legal... Also wouldn't anyone get fired pretty much the moment they get ill?

SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

America!

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

It is of course possible that it just disappeares overnight but you have to be the luckiest jumble of atoms in the entire universe and likely more.

Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Completely unrelated, is that font from BTD6?