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Rant- It's all about him!
I need to vent or I will explode. Lately every ailment I get, my hubby more or less says he has the same thing. I remarked a fellow lymphedema sufferer had a paper cut and her arm and hand swelled and...
It is of course the first heart attack that has happened to him! How many of us thought cancer could never happen to us? It's irritating but I agree with @Mira, it's a clumsy, somewhat egotistical form of empathy. My other half is solid commonsense and support when the chips are down (not so much when I really just want sympathy) so I think I still have the better outcome, if one has to choose.