Something to think about.....in our society we tend to equate disabilty with being sick/chronic illness, or wanting to get well. Yet there's a HUGE difference betweeen someone who uses a wheelchair but is otherwise healthy and someone who has cancer or something that causes chronic pain or something else that causes sickness. Sure someone who has a disabilty does spend a lot of time with the medical establishment, just as people with chronic illnesses do, but there's just something different about that.
Yeah, they both go for treatment, but one can function perfectly well as a disabled person (with some adaptations) but someone can't function as a sick person...does that make any sense?