Miranda Marie Mills

If you touch a surface that happens to have coronavirus on it and then touch your hand to your face, the virus can attach to your mucus membrane cells. However, if you touch a surface and wash your hands properly before touching your face, the virus cannot make contact. Likewise, if you touch the surface and then never touch your face or any other mucus membranes (yes, this does include your groin), then the virus cannot attach. With ‘normal’ viruses, we are instructed to wash our hands, avoid touching our faces, and keep away from sick people in general.

I enjoy looking up things I want to know or completing tasks that need to be done while I’m waiting for something at work. I don’t yell at myself, but I do get frustrated when it seems like I’m not doing anything right or making enough progress. The point I want to make with future plans is that it’s okay to change your mind, and it’s okay to try different things. Of course, if you are dealing with a chronic illness, you have to consider whether or not the work environment is in line with what you want in a position beyond your actual job expectations.

I always shuffle between feeling bad because I’m too sick to feeling guilty because I’m not as sick as others are. Fake support is letting the sick person pretend that they aren’t sick every single day. Fake support is never trying to understand the sick person’s situation but still continuing to make them feel bad when their situation affects yours. Many people think that this condition is simply an excuse, and others think that it means nothing unless you’re trying to get pregnant.

Many people don’t know what a chronic illness is, but the truth is that more than half of American adults have a chronic disease of some sort (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). Some of the most common chronic illnesses are hypertension, high cholesterol, arthritis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, depression, Alzheimer’s disease (dementia), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (National Council on Aging, 2017). This list is full of mainly those chronic illnesses pertaining to the senior population in America, but chronic illness can and do affect young people. To wrap this long introduction up, I want to say a few statements that will let you know if you really want to stick around and listen to some random girl talk about random experiences that she has had with random diseases.