Fact #2- Lupus Awareness Month
Hey guys, So I was not able to do a video last night because I got so incredibly sick and lost my voice like one hour after making the first video! Seriously, I don’t know if this is a very common thing among my fellow Chronically Awesome’s, but when I get sick I go from zero to plague in .08 seconds!
Anyway I’m starting to feel better so, as long as I still feel this way after work, I’m going to make a second video tonight. In the meantime, here’s what should have been yesterdays video broken down into a description.
[Crappy picture captured by iSight camera of me in a brown rocking chair, the loud hum of my macbook’s fan dominating the sound, while my senile cat meows insistently in the background. I’ve used iMovie to cleverly edit a non-related song into the background. Then I start to talk, trying really really hard not to overuse my hands (and slowly forgetting as the video goes along) and my giant anime eyes struggle to look at the iSight camera instead of the tiny box on the screen with my face in it. I say:
“Hey guys! So, here’s fact number two for May 2nd, day two of Lupus Awareness Month! Ok…so it’s less of a fact and more of an analyzed observation and some advice…but still! For those of you who do not have Lupus but know someone with Lupus, it can be easy to assume that if they are not currently in bed surrounded by a box of tissues or a vomit bucket that they are not sick. Sick, by the average healthy person’s definition is usually one of two things. Either a temporary sickness, like the flu or a virus. Or, an acute sickness, like Cancer or AIDS.
“Chronic Illness presents a different kind of illness to our understanding, wherein a person is constantly ill, with fluctuating degrees of symptoms, who will never fully recover, while death is not an immediate danger. So for those of you with friends who have Lupus- or any other Chronic Illness as well- be mindful that while they may act healthy on most days, they may just be feeling a lower gradient of symptoms in comparison to a worse day.
“I’m not suggesting that you treat your friend as though they are sick even when they are feeling relatively good, but, to keep it in mind that if your friend looks/acts fine but declines an invitation or suddenly seems disinterested in what you’re doing, it may not be because they don’t want to be around you or that they are actually disinterested.
“So I guess what I’m saying is, next time your friend, relative or significant other with Lupus or Chronic Illness seems healthy but acts otherwise, don’t jump to conclusions and maybe ask how they’re feeling.”
So then I’ll remind everyone about donating through the Lupus Foundation of America again and cut to some crappy image loosely associated with Lupus that I found on google images and fade out.]
