Am I overreacting?
I know this isn't going to be the typical post for this subreddit, but I don't know where else to talk about it.
To keep it short, this is what just happened to me and I’m not sure if I overreacted...
I’ve had growth hormone deficiency since I was a kid. Between the ages of 8 or 9 (I don’t remember exactly), I started synthetic growth hormone treatment until I was about 17. At that time, they told me I wouldn’t need it anymore and my doctor stopped it.
The next 4 years were pretty bad… and the years after that were even worse. At 26, purely by chance, I ended up with a doctor who actually ordered all the tests no one had bothered to run in years. Turns out the nightmare I’d been living since I was 17 was because I still needed GH. I’ve been back on the injections for the last 20 years.
The whole time I was off treatment, to make a long story short, it wasn’t easy socially. A lot of people distanced themselves from me, and the ones who stayed… honestly, sometimes I wish they hadn’t.
Today I had a fight with my partner. We don’t fight much, and she knows all about this — in pretty good detail. Today I had to do my injection. I wasn’t having a good day because of it. It doesn’t always happen, but today was particularly rough. Between doses, it’s not uncommon for me to have one or two bad days due to the overlap.
I told her that, but she either didn’t want to understand or whatever… She ended up yelling at me about things that happened more than 6 months ago. And eventually sayed I should set up a shared calendar to let her know when I have to do my injection.
I got angry...
Didn’t yell (I never do), I just told her that what she was suggesting was as humiliating as me asking her to set up a calendar to notify me when she’s on her period… and then I went to the bedroom.
Now I’m lying in bed, furious, humiliated, degraded, and hurt. Am I exaggerating? Or what she said was too much? I’m listening...
Sorry for my bad writing. I’m not a native English speaker. I would really appreciate any opinions on the matter
Thank you for reading me.