I took advantage of being on disability last year by growing a beard. You see, due to the Crohn’s, I’ve always had to work at larger corporate jobs for the insurance. These jobs have all come with dress codes and a required level of personal appearance that led me to believe that it wouldn’t be ok to go through the scraggly phase. So, since I was off indefinitely, I thought it was time.
As you see in the comic, the beard served two purposes. First, it was fun. All men secretly want to try to grow out their facial hair just to see what it would be like. The scraggly phase is just so gross though that most of us get self conscious and give up. Secondly, I was still on a lot of prednisone at the time and that bloats the heck out of my face. The beard provided a nice cover so I didn’t have to be embarrassed.
It actually really was fun aside from the whole vomiting thing.
The worst is chicken or fish chunks!🤢