I hope this helps..I used to be a firefighter. It's what got me all screwed up. One fire changed my life. Anyhoo, we used to go to car wrecks all the time. Some of the wreck's would be nothing. Hardly a scratch and the people would be crying and scared. It took me awhile to figure out,that, to them this was a major ordeal. I mean after you see wreck's so unimaginable, a fender bender has no effect on you.
The point I am trying to make is...It really doesn't matter how your illness stacks up to others( really who wants to be the most sick) in this forum. What matter's is how you feel and how you are dealing with thing's. If this is the worst you have had to deal with,then you are in uncharted water's, so to speak, and you have to learn how to cope just like someone w/a "worser" illness.