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Old People Are The Primary Targets Of Disease

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I was young when it happened. I was not terribly young-not young enough to garner the same sympathy that a child would receive if that situation would occur, but it was horrible regardless of my age. All I knew- all that I could comprehend at that moment in time, was that I was young. Far too young to get anything dangerous if left untreated; thought I was too young to get anything that was permanent. While, according to the Healthy Caribbean Coalition, almost half of chronic disease deaths occur in people under 70 years of age and a quarter under 60, the myth that old people were the primary targets of disease regardless of lethality is present to this day. The myth that old people are the primary targets of disease is still prevalent to this day; as such, I had this mentality as well. Although my disease affects my age bracket on average, as it affects those that are between 15 and 30 (often peaking later between 50 and 60), the numbers gave little comfort at the time. When you are sick- even for the duration as I was, averages mean less than nothing. The small nature of this average is less than worthless when you are busy thinking about the situation as it plays on repeat. As the situation unfolds, all anyone, at least- all I thought about, was a simple question: “Why?” The wait was unbearable- the thoughts that drilled into my head were remarkable in nature; they were static races that almost contradictorily played slowly as if they wanted to make a bigger impact than

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