Seasonal allergies/asthma, mild arthritis of my left foot/ankle/hip, and anxiety (mainly over an intense fear of death from health issues). Otherwise, I'm extremely healthy.
There's nothing wrong with me happily, but my pancreas refuses to make insulin so I have to inject it myself. I'm aware this strike of one organ will probably cause more healthproblems in a year or 40 but since that's far away and I have no trouble keeping my bloodsugar level right at all I'm all good. Feeling pretty lucky that my sugar level is so easy to keep stabile though! I don't have the slightest problem with it, unlike other diabetics I've heard of (fainting, hypoglecemia's in their sleep, unable to keep sugar level stabile so you have to watch it every hour or so).
I have a pretty bad case of Tourette's syndrome. It's fun to fuck with people about it though. Last night one of my roommates made a joke about tourettes and I kinda "freaked out" and told her that I had it and that I was offended. Told her later I wasn't really offended -but it's kinda fun to watch people squirm for a couple minutes! lol
I have some allergies and a bad disk in my lower back, but it's nothing I can't live with. I would have high blood pressure if I didn't take my meds.
I strongly dislike how some people make a bigger deal of my problems than myself, and of course especially how retardedly they try to deal with it. I hate to see them squirm and although I know it's ment to be polite or sympathetic it's the most annoying part (happily most people I know learned to stop being difficult or a nag about it).
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of people think you're really fucked when you become a diabetic (which I know can be the case) and that kind of becomes annoying cause I'm doing excellent.
I know I'm lucky that it's so easy to control though. It really isn't a bother at all anymore. I'm very adjusted to it after 8 years, so you can imagine how annoying it sometimes can get when relatives or some other nitwits still get oversensitive and polite about it. I'm the kind of person that enjoy (good) cancer and aids jokes though, so perhaps I'm a bit too easily annoyed when they're trying to act so overly correct about my damaged pancreas.
I think it's kind of one of those things. You got delt with it, you're doing the best you can with it, why get touchy about it? But I suppose I do the same thing as your family do sometimes, to people who have cancer, etc.
I'm not. I hate people squirm to act the right way about these things sometimes and I won't do it myself. It's so easy to just 'keep it real' in my opinion, and if they're offended in any way I think it's easier to make clear how I did ment it than take it the subtile way to not try to upset them. With keeping it real I don't ment be as blunt as possible about it of course (although I prefer it myself above the subtile socially correct way).