Chronic Illness
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for healthy people to share their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Respect the Group’s Purpose. It’s a support forum for people with chronic illness to vent and share and talk together. It’s not a place for healthy people to come and give their opinions.
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I live in an populous area, I have 6 grocery stores within 3 miles off the top of my head(walmart, target, Tom thumb, krogers, whole foods, heb) that probably helps. Typically I do delivery through doordash and can specify what is acceptable substitions and what is not and should just be refunded. My main issue is drivers can always find my apartment complex but can't find my specific building. That's mostly due to the building numbers having no logical sense in ordering at this complex though.
Man I would love to be able to specify specific substitutions. That sounds so good.
I usually use the official Coles app for delivery because they have refrigerated trucks. I've had bad experiences in the past where e.g. uber delivery does my order last; by then the dairy and frozen foods have been out of the fridge for 2 hours. The nearest shopping centre is a bit over 6km away (3.7 miles) so it gets a bit awkward sometimes. Feels like managing groceries and medications is a full time stocktake job.
It comes in handy, for example I like mini apple stroudle and berry stroudle is ok but I don't like for the cherry ones. I can specify buy Apple, if sold out buy berry, otherwise refund. It also let's me specify like buy a gallon of milk, if unavailable buy 2 half gallons.
For an additional fee I can request "direct to me" so I'm the only or atleast first delivery for that driver, typically it's like $2.99.
I'm lucky I don't have a physical chronic illness(only mental) but my kid has multiple physical illness so having to include him with groceries would be an ordeal. I get you with medication though, he takes 4 in morning, 1 in afternoon, 5 in evening and 1 at night. Yeah... Practically a full time Job