this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
125 points (98.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43968 readers
1302 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] w00@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Chroma disease, people don't get that when I'm burned out for the day it won't help to take a short break. Immunosuppressants are a bitch.

Edit: shitty Phone. Yes Crohn's

[โ€“] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Crohns? That's what I have and "invisible disability" is an apt description.

[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My Dad lived with diagnosed Crohns for 25 years. We covered for him as a family however we could. But you just don't get how debilitating it can be unless you're intimate with it.

As a kid I thought my dad was lame and a bore for not doing a lot of things I wanted. As an adult and having cared for him for most of the last 10 years, I realized he was a warrior that achieved more than any other in his body could've.

[โ€“] netburnr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There's threes of us here!