Stop wishing, start doing...or stop wishing!

Yep a rant. This is a rant directed at people who are perfectly healthy, capable and intelligent wishing for things that they can easily have and don't have the desire to work for.

Perfectly Healthy Person (PHP): "I wish I could X" X being a certain physical accomplishment/

Me, Woman with Chronic Diseases (WCD): "Why can't you? All you'd have to do is try."

PHP: "Well, I don't want to try."

WCD to herself: "Sheesh, stop wishing for things you're perfectly capable of doing if you'd just try!"

Here's my beef. In order for me to do the things I do, I have to try really hard, I have to plan very far ahead, I have to work out EARLY in the morning (cause that's when I have energy), I have to research, study and confer with my other WCD's, I have to carry pills, an injection kit and wear a Medic Alert bracelet. I have to tell friends, acquaintances and race directors my freaking health history and show them where my meds and Emergency Injection kit are. I have to risk dehydration if I don't take my pills right. I have to risk going to the hospital if I start throwing up. Through trial and lots of error, I have to take pills the whole time I'm working out. I go to bed early and don't socialize in the evening because I want to accomplish the things I wish for.

Please, if you wish for something and you CAN do it. Just DO IT or don't mention it!

If you wish for something and you don't want to try to do it even if you can, keep your wishes to yourself. It's a insult and taunt to me for a person to be fully capable of easily doing something and saying they wish they could do it but paying no attention to what it took me to accomplish the same thing.

A "simple" goal for me and many of us with Addison's is not so simple. Running (or any physical activity) is not just putting on shoes and going out the door, there's so much more to it than that. Just the logistics can be intimidating and exhausting let alone accomplishing the actual physical goal.

End rant.