Re: My tigger - same here - what gives with these family members anyhow?

[Guest guest]

Tigger, I'm so sorry you were treated badly in a family setting, where

we are supposed to be able to be ourselves. Stinks, how well I know.

I don't have much to say to comfort you. The evening after my heart

cath, I was resting at home and my spouse lit into me. He was saying

things like I'm a hypochondriac. He thinks I love attention and that's

why I had the heart cath. Yeah, right. I'm glad for the good news, but

does he really think I just got a heart cath because I wanted one?!

Like I didn't have to have symptoms or something in order for health

insurance to even approve it?! I mean, can a person fake high blood

pressure? If so, where do those numbers come from? Maybe I could fake

lower blood pressure?! Or can a person fake high cholesterol? How about

this one - Do ya think I can fake the ground glass haziness on the ct

scan of my lungs? Or do ya think it's possible to fake a hiatal hernia,

during a barium swallow test in the hospital? Is it possible I just

dreamed up the pocketing in my intestines because I think having

diverticulosis is glamorous? Or maybe I think wearing my bipap mask is

sexy in bed?! I guess he thinks I dreamed up the hip pain from

bilateral congenital hip dysplaysia so I could have 3 hip surgeries

thus far, like I think it's neat to learn to walk again three times in

only five years?!

Yepperz, I know all about families being no support at all. I'm a

strong woman, and capable of just handling the emotional part of this

without any support on the home front. In fact, I kicked my own spouse

out of the hospital because he was being such an arse! I just don't

want him accompanying me to anything medical if I can help it. When he

was riding me so hard that night, I asked him to go along with me to

the doc to hear what she has to say about the tests...that got me a

whole nuther tirade, so I just walked out of the room and took to my

bed.

girlsaylor