spoonie-isms:

anxious-and-in-pain:

I do not like comparing suffering. We can both be in pain and both be valid even if someone perceived one pain worse than the other. We are a social species and crave comfort and it’s not an Olympic battle for “who is suffering the worst,” and only that person gets care. No, we care for one another. We sympathize, we empathize, we are kind to each other

Especially because you never know what’s going on. I’ve gotten paper cuts that basically rendered me useless because it was the straw that broke my back.