I hope you don't focus too much on how it COULD sap your life span and focus instead on your bodies amazing ability to heal itself! You do have a great attitude though!
I was diagnosed with "?????" And I'm also working on keeping s good attitude and letting my body heal and trusting in it!
What is the ???? please heal. Yes , i will focus aright too even moreso with this comment. Thank you for awesomeness. What are you doing?
I'm quite sure a tendon or ligament was moved out of place for many years in my shoulder OR my injured rib when I was young healed incorrectly and it eventually influenced my spine and my shoulders , putting them a bit out of balance after so long. The doctors are just like "30? You just look 50 inside" and I tell them something is out of place and I feel it clearly but since they can't find it in scans, they think I'm making it up. My muscles and tendons always feel like hey are pulling on each other, sometimes thing a go numb or Stiff so it sounds hard to move. The Chinese doctor said believe it but often exaggerate the problem to keep me coming in. I've learned a lot about eastern medicine and physical therapy on my own though and I'm working on it, mostly by myself. I've gotten much better than I ever imagined in the beginning and I'm quite sure I'll be at least 95% better some day soon, hopefully by the summer.
What am I doing? Haha I'm asking people what they are doing! I write stories (which I share at steemit) and songs (which I do not...yet). And I teach and translate.