Reddit reviews Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies

I was reading Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies last week and ran into a passage where the authors said something along the lines of: "You can have MS and still be healthy." In context of the chapter on keeping up with your health outside of the MS, it made perfect sense ... but it still struck me as odd, because MS is a disease. Keeping yourself otherwise healthy when you have MS means, at best, that you are healthy except for the fact that you have MS.

It comes down to the context, I suppose. Healthy and ill are very context-heavy words in normal usage. It sounds like your team member wanted to know if you were okay - another very context heavy word. :)