I am so embarrassed.

dmd77
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:19:29 +0000

MDMom: in my family (where my husband has had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (now in remission) since 1999 and I had a bone cancer treated successfully five years ago), we call that “playing the cancer card.” The cancer card is pretty much a trump ;)

EK4: I’m sorry your arthritis is so bad. It must make it difficult for you to garden, too, and I know you enjoy that. Is there any possibility of knee/hip replacement? You can whine all you want AFTER you’ve made sure you’ve done everything possible to get back to a relatively normal life…

And JustAMom: I hope your husband heals soon. How hard for both of you.

All sympathy aside, we all have complaints–I think it’s important to remember that no one has a perfect life. Even Mitt Romney’s millions haven’t kept his wife’s MS away (although I expect the money makes it a lot easy to cope). I think it’s perfectly reasonable to spend some time every day wishing things were different–but (and I know this sounds terribly Pollyanna-ish), limit the time you spend wanting things to change and spend some time working toward what you want.