by Tdarcos » Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:51 am
raecoffey wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:04 pm
I don't know why it didn't post what I wrote. I said that I have Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and SLE. Lupus.
"It's never Lupus."
- Gregory House,
House, M.D.
Having diseases where nobody can figure out what it is, what causes it, how to treat it, or worse, have to deal with something that makes regular living a nightmare, I can't think of anything better to call iy,
sucks.
Like Hansen's Disease. I think renaming it was to get rid of the stigma. "He had to be institutionalized because he contracted Hansen's Disease," sounds better than "He had to be institutionalized because he contracted leprosy." Now, I think they have drugs to make it non-contagious (like dry leprosy), but still, bad or fatal diseases squick people out: AIDS, HIV, Ebola, cancer, leukemia, etc.
Seems like once a disease stops being a death sentence or a lifelong curse, it can become less of a stigma or fear: polio was either a near-fatal disease or crippling lifelong disabilities; now it's just another thing to get your kids vaccinated against, or (as I discovered when I signed up for city college in Texas, that you either have to get vaccinated or show you had it. I had, years earlier, but since I didn't have any records, I just went to the Midland County Health Department and got the innoculation.)
Same thing for syphilis: originally it was a death sentence, killing horribly in weeks. Then there was a treatment, but it was unpleasant and/or painful, used mercury, and it's hard to say if the cure was better than the disease. Now, if you're stupid enough to catch it (or someone you're in a relationship with did), a simple antibiotic regimen should take care of it.
But if you have something they can't fix, ut sucks.
[quote=raecoffey post_id=134592 time=1675303479 user_id=2754]
I don't know why it didn't post what I wrote. I said that I have Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and SLE. Lupus.
[/quote]
"It's never Lupus."
- Gregory House, [i]House, M.D.[/i]
Having diseases where nobody can figure out what it is, what causes it, how to treat it, or worse, have to deal with something that makes regular living a nightmare, I can't think of anything better to call iy, [i]sucks[/i].
Like Hansen's Disease. I think renaming it was to get rid of the stigma. "He had to be institutionalized because he contracted Hansen's Disease," sounds better than "He had to be institutionalized because he contracted leprosy." Now, I think they have drugs to make it non-contagious (like dry leprosy), but still, bad or fatal diseases squick people out: AIDS, HIV, Ebola, cancer, leukemia, etc.
Seems like once a disease stops being a death sentence or a lifelong curse, it can become less of a stigma or fear: polio was either a near-fatal disease or crippling lifelong disabilities; now it's just another thing to get your kids vaccinated against, or (as I discovered when I signed up for city college in Texas, that you either have to get vaccinated or show you had it. I had, years earlier, but since I didn't have any records, I just went to the Midland County Health Department and got the innoculation.)
Same thing for syphilis: originally it was a death sentence, killing horribly in weeks. Then there was a treatment, but it was unpleasant and/or painful, used mercury, and it's hard to say if the cure was better than the disease. Now, if you're stupid enough to catch it (or someone you're in a relationship with did), a simple antibiotic regimen should take care of it.
But if you have something they can't fix, ut sucks.