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Evening lovelies, I have been having a hard time lately with being empathetic with my friends and family over, what seems to me, such trivial problems. I understand everything is relative to whats g...
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I agree with you as well - SInce our diagnosis, surgery & treatments - Our 'Bullshit Meter Level' has been raised to 'extremely high' - and I don't think we are over reacting to dumb comments!!
Last year, just days after my Rads finished, my sister visited & as I tend to 'put up a front' with visitors/strangers - she went off telling everyone that I was FINE! Nothing wrong with me! Hmmm, As if she knows how deep this whole BC thing really affects us! She hasn't really had ANY health challenges .... yet. We are usually at each other's throats within minutes of getting together and I was trying SO HARD for that not to happen this time - but it did! You'd think after 65 years of it, we'd have worked out the 'triggers'?? Not her! So thank GOD she lives in Qld!!
I am no longer very tolerant of anyone saying anything stupid these days even outside of the BC world - but sadly, you can't cure dumb!! (I've gotten into trouble for using that phrase recently too! LOL) Because of it, I've been 'unfriended' by numerous acquaintances (I wouldn't call them 'friends') on FB because I actually disagreed on FB with a (former) buddy who said that Australians should have the same gun laws as the USA ..... so they can shoot anyone that causes them a threat! HELLO?? (And this was BEFORE the looney went running thru Sydney streets last week with a knife - imagine if he'd had an automatic weapon? It would have been a cold blooded slaughter!) And that wasn't exactly a trivial matter!
I bite my tongue a lot these days and re-read anything that I post in an effort not to offend .... but occasionally I slip up! Ooops! Bad luck.
Last year, just days after my Rads finished, my sister visited & as I tend to 'put up a front' with visitors/strangers - she went off telling everyone that I was FINE! Nothing wrong with me! Hmmm, As if she knows how deep this whole BC thing really affects us! She hasn't really had ANY health challenges .... yet. We are usually at each other's throats within minutes of getting together and I was trying SO HARD for that not to happen this time - but it did! You'd think after 65 years of it, we'd have worked out the 'triggers'?? Not her! So thank GOD she lives in Qld!!
I am no longer very tolerant of anyone saying anything stupid these days even outside of the BC world - but sadly, you can't cure dumb!! (I've gotten into trouble for using that phrase recently too! LOL) Because of it, I've been 'unfriended' by numerous acquaintances (I wouldn't call them 'friends') on FB because I actually disagreed on FB with a (former) buddy who said that Australians should have the same gun laws as the USA ..... so they can shoot anyone that causes them a threat! HELLO?? (And this was BEFORE the looney went running thru Sydney streets last week with a knife - imagine if he'd had an automatic weapon? It would have been a cold blooded slaughter!) And that wasn't exactly a trivial matter!
I bite my tongue a lot these days and re-read anything that I post in an effort not to offend .... but occasionally I slip up! Ooops! Bad luck.