I feel like having a rant! It annoys me no end that you're not allowed to forget your status - or in this case, my husband's status. How helpful is it when, at the weekly doctor's appointment before chemotherapy, the nice woman doctor inquires what my husband has been doing, then says, 'well, you have to make good use of the time we're gaining for you'. They are gaining? I keep getting the feeling they want to have you safely in your place, nicely afraid. Practically every week there's something similar - big print saying 'palliative treatment' on his papers, nice hints like 'you'll find it difficult to get travel insurance'. Oh, well. End of rant. Makes me want to sharpen my teeth.
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Thanks for your understanding, friends! Nice to see you're still on here at times! Today I feel better and not so sensitive, but still ready to take on the world!
Hope you all have a good week.
Sorry I won't be able to see anyone this timne over (only 2 days to look at the caravan) but we'll be over at Easter all being well. Can't wait!
Are you kidding me? I would be LIVID! Don't get me started on some of the stupid things doctors and nurses say. With Dave its all been fairly good. With my mom however, it was INSANE. She called me crying one day because the disability insurance person called and wanted to know when she would be "cured" and able to go back to work! I was so outraged I called her right back on the phone and said, "Hi, you just spoke to my mother, so and so, right? - Ok good. I need to speak to your boss right now - thank you. No, no, we aren't going to ever talk to you again, just wanted to make sure I had the right person and the right boss, please put them on the phone for me...thank you." I was very calm and polite, but firm and focused. The boss gets on the phone and I'm a little less cordial, and tell her what happened and then say, "so I don't know what kind of insensitive imbeciles you have working for your company, but I expect that you will change my mother's case manager and we will never, ever have this kind of nonsense happen again? Right?" Haha. Jerks! People can just be so flip. Its just awful. Anyway, I'm glad you ranted. Sometimes, it makes me feel better to realize, I'm not alone in how I feel sometimes, wanting to go outside on a hill top somewhere and just SCREAM! Reminds me of when my hubby was in college at Cornell, in the early 80's and there was the group of students that created a nationwide stir, they were called the Primal Screamers! It was hilarious. All over the entire campus at precisely 11 pm, every night, you would hear students screaming at the top of their lungs. They were hanging out their windows and just screaming. The national news was running around the campus asking students, "Are you a Primal Screamer? - could you give me a demonstration?" We just cracked up. I would bet they had less suicides that year! Maybe we could have a cyber group of Primal Screamers!!!! Ha ha
Right, Lori, you're on. I've often got into the car and driven somewhere and screamed as loud as I could as ! was driving to let out some of the frustration. Let's do some cyber screaming! AAAAAHHHGGGGG!
