Is it just me or does anyone else get steamed
when you have others making comments to you such as, "oh, I'm glad you are feeling better" They seem to think because I drag myself and put on a happy face for my kids for Easter
that I'm all better now.
Another one that gets me when discussing my IC is "well, you LOOK good."
As if the fact that I am too vain to go out looking bad means that since I look put together I can't possibly be that sick. Taking the effort to look nice makes me feel better about myself. Just because I don't go around looking like a ragmuffin doesn't mean my condition isn't as bad as I am saying it is.
Not that I really expect people to understand my disease
but these sort of comments don't help at all. It's like they are trying discount the severity of the disease or they see me as a fraud. IC doesn't show on the outside as some other conditions so it's so hard to get people to realize what we are going through. I just had to share my feeling about that. THANKS!
PS. I have read the book- You Don't Look Sick? I just wish everyone I come into contact with would have read it as well.



Another one that gets me when discussing my IC is "well, you LOOK good."


Not that I really expect people to understand my disease

PS. I have read the book- You Don't Look Sick? I just wish everyone I come into contact with would have read it as well.

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