Yeah I had people visiting and, and that, and people are quite understanding they don't, well, they don't, no-one's ever been, they just ask a few questions and then they just like oh well I'm, poorly [laughs] but they'll, you know, that I've got support and that it's not, it's just, I don't think they sort of just treat it as that I'm ill and, and, you know, and try and cheer me up [laughs]. But generally they're quite supportive, they're not…
Were there people that you chose not to tell that you had RA, that you had been diagnosed?
Yeah I tell, I'd not, I wouldn't tell just anybody you, I do, I tell sort of people at work and I tell, I wouldn't tell [sighs] I tell close friends but I wouldn't tell necessarily friends that weren't close.
Why?
Well it's just that, it's, it's not something you tell people I don't think because then, you know, they, they at the end of the day I don't want people sort of asking questions and then you just go through the whole thing and then they're like, and the, the first reaction people, give you, “Oh that's for old people.” And, you know, and being so young that's the, the first thing people say and they say, “Oh you're too young to get, you can't possibly have it you're too young.” And then, then they don't realise how ill you can get and, because, at the moment I look quite healthy and, but I wasn't so healthy when it was really bad so, they don't, they don't realise actually how ill you are and I'd rather not go into that anyway [laughs] 'cause it's you just don't do you? |
