Giving advice to people with chronic illness

[firecat]

I found this post about chronic illness linked to in computerchix's journal. I thought it was really superb so I am also linking to it.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophy/463955.html

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

my relatives have mostly stopped telling me about wd-40. (extended family. extended mostly able-bodied family.) this keeps me from having to see if applying wd-40 to their brains helps them think better.

[firecat]

wd-40?! what, are you supposed to insert it directly into your knee joints?

anything to keep the violent thoughts down to a dull roar is a good thing :)

[eve-l-incarnata.livejournal.com]

anything to keep the violent thoughts down to a dull roar is a good thing :)

How cruel to make me laugh so hard, what with me being up most of the night coughing my lungs out.

[firecat]

Oh gaah, you have the Creeping Crud™ too?

[eve-l-incarnata.livejournal.com]

I did. Thankfully, it's crept a long now.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

spray it on the outside, where it will absorb via osmosis.

or something.

[firecat]

Well if it were massaging in almond oil or Nutella might work, I can see how that might be worth experimenting with, but certainly not WD40.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i think the way in which nutella would work is that i'd be sooo distracted when my helpful followers licked it off of me. ;)

[firecat]

My thoughts exactly.