So I have something that I’d like to ask the good people of Tumblr (Tumblrites? Tumblronians?) about, because I’m wondering where I stand with something and if anyone else feels this way sometimes.
For those of you who don’t know, aka nobody because this is the first time I’m mentioning this on Tumblr, I have severe asthma (chronic) and chronic hip pain in both hips that has slowly gotten worse over the past six months, with the pain in my right hip more sensitive than the left since the right one popped out of socket a little while ago. I have an inhaler for my asthma and I get out of breath really easy, like walking up the stairs easy, and I do physical therapy for my hip/pelvic pain.
My question is this: because both conditions are chronic and they affect my day to day life (walking, sitting, and sometimes laying down all cause my hips to hurt and walking, both up and downstairs and just regularly cause me to lose my breath, it takes me like five tries to take a deep breath, and I constantly feel short of breath) do I count in the chronic pain/illness community? Because my chronic hip pain isn’t caused by anything other than extremely poor hip strength, and I’m so used to having asthma that I wonder if me and my pain count among others even though it’s not due to an underlying cause and isn’t as extreme as someone else’s.
