Chronically ill Steve Rogers

claudiapriscus:

youdonthaveoneofthosedoyou:

(The images in this should be collapsed to begin with because, well, one of them is a plate of raw meat that Steve is presumably eating for breakfast. The last image is a gif. Contains discussion of illness, treatments, ableism and eugenics. I should point out…

The one thing I think I would argue differently would be to view a lot of those things as connected rather than separate. E.g, scarlet fever that developed into rheumatic fever, which then caused the heart problems (rather than heart problems PLUS scarlet fever and rheumatic fever separately). My grandfather was kept out of WWII for just that reason (heart problems resulting from scarlet fever/rheumatic fever) and it definitely contributed to his early death at the age of 62.

The other thing is that I don’t know about the expanded list- the only thing I ever paid close attention to was the doctor’s form in CA1, because I was writing a fic about it. Wherever it came from, I am side-eying the prop department because they’re kind of gilding the lily. Probably a product of not being used to how incredibly fragile life prior to antibiotics was (and so many of the other things they enable, like modern surgery).

Reblogging with this comment, because while the original meta is very good this comment is important because it highlights what tends to get overlooked about complex multiple medical conditions – they interact, they cascade, they cause other problems. So you have Steve taking asprin for one condition which causes/exacerbates ulcers, which then leads to the aenemia. You have the asthma leaving him open for respiratory infections. You have immune and vitamin deficiencies leaving him vulnerable to everything going around, and you have his body working double time trying to fix all the leaks. He’d be sick, and sicker than most, all the time. He’d be tired all the time. He’d be in pain, all the time. He’d have a poor appetite, and a temperamental gut as for what foods he could tolerate when he could eat. And that’s not even touching on the half of it.

Chronically ill Steve Rogers