Date: 2010-11-16 09:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] yukie
I think my dad's vision is a tad better than yours but - yeah.

Degrees of disability something makes me go HNNNNGHRRGH because while some days I may have it easier than others, there are other days when it's just like "HURP, NO" and the good days don't erase the days when everything goes wrong and sucks. You have a right to be upset and frustrated when your body does something three-butted-Martian in scope and dealing with everyday shit becomes a chore.

You're not taking attention and sympathy from people any more than me. The condition I have runs the gamut from 'mild' to '....FUCK' with regard to respiratory and digestive effects, and while my lungs are about on par with those of your average 30-year-old (said the navelgazer), my pancreas is extremely stupid and only knows how to do insulin. Lipase is right out. Compare and contrast this with friends of mine who've had lung transplants or have pissy kidneys from harsh antibiotics (thank the fuck these are not used too much any more - and when they are they're used in a weird, better way that doesn't hurt your kidneys)...or the people who just are simply not here any more. I am a lucky little bitch in many, MANY ways, but I still have to drag umpty-bump kinds of pills around and explain to airport security WTF that little air pump is for and I've known since I was eight that I'm finite.

I have to tell myself over and over that yeah, this is a pain, it counts as a disability, I'm not doing anyone a disservice by calling it what it is.

And I dunno if it helps for me to say that to you - to say 'fuck anyone who claims you shouldn't be allowed to claim you have a disability and fuck, too, the jerks who say you are taking something from more-impaired people' - but I want to anyhow because damn it you're awesome and what you deal with is no less 'real' than the stuff my dad does (his eyes are really gwah and he's had glasses since he was three - so have I but I'm just farsighted) or my friend Rav does or - yeah.

My capacity to be coherent has explod. But yeah.

Re: lay-zurs - my uncle Erik had LASIK surgery, which probably isn't quite the same process as you'd be undergoing, but he said apart from being annoyingly photosensitive for a while and his eyes feeling strange while it all healed, there was very little pain (nothing unmanageable, he said) and the results amazed him. Again IDK how helpful that testimony is. XD;;
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