Globally, the amount of...

...people with my disability, in all its forms, including third world countries, is about 624 million sufferers in the entire globe from all of the causes of my disability combined which is roughly the size of the population of the EU but considerably less than the population of places like India and China which have almost 1.5 billion residents each, so it's no wonder that it took 5.5 years and me to be at deaths door and spending 4.5 months in hospital to be diagnosed!