Some people have no sense

[Guest guest]

We were at a banquet this weekend and I was taking a pain pill and

an acquaintance of ours asked me what I was taking. I told her it

was a pain pill and told her about the RA and that I was seeing a

rheumy on the 5th. She said, and I quote: " Oh My Gawd...my friend

and her brother have that disease, of course he DIED from it, but

she is alive and says that it is just excrutiatingly painful. She

says she can barely move some days! " OK, is it just me or is this

the most insensitive response???? I couldn't believe she would tell

me all that. Especially since I haven't been to the Rheumy yet, and

she didn't know how much I have researched. If I hadn't been

researching it, I would have never known how bad it can be, and I

would have heard it for the first time from her. I just smiled and

said, " Yes I know, I have heard it can be very painful (DUH I JUST

TOOK A PAIN PILL YOU MORON!) I told my husband about it in the car

on the way home and he couldn't believe she said it either! I don't

know what is worse, that response, or my best friends response when

I told her. She laughed and said, " Join the club " and I said, " RA

is different than normal arthritus " she just changed the subject

and hasn't mentioned it again--that was 3 weeks ago and we talk

everyday! We are 33 and I highly doubt she even has regular

arthritus and she certainly doesn't have RA.

Anyway, I'm done complaining...for now that is!

Bobbi