For years I have been explaining to people during my pharmacy assistant hours, that we are all really like cars.
For the first part of our life we are like a brand new sports car, we drive it around, thrash it, know we look good, and dont have too much go wrong. Then in the later, we are like second hand cars, we need lots of maintenance, and cant be left out side or mishandled as much. Well something like that.
Some poor bugga's have Diabetes from birth, some have arthritis early, really, I just was happy to have been healthy until I hit 46, and had my first speed hump turn up!
I am healthy still, no medication, and thats how I look at it. Obviously my immune system said "I've had enough!" and let me down, but other than than, I dont think about it now Ive had all the treatment.
Mentally I treat as being all over!