Re: OT OTC cortisone cream

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Do any of these sound familiar?

a. There is nothing really wrong with you.

b. It is all in your head.

c. You just need to get more exercise.

d. Maybe you need an anti-depressant.

e. You're going to kill yourself buying that stuff from

Mexico/Thailand/etc.

f. What makes you think you know more than the doctor?

Getting these from your spouse, friends, family, and those who should

know you better is such a common experience here, it should be a merit

badge in the Thyro Scouts. It's an odd, alice-in-wonderland kind of

experience, being horribly sick, telling people you're not right, and

having nobody believe you. I kept thinking one day they'd find me dead,

and they'd all shrug their shoulders and say, Huh, that's odd, there was

nothing wrong with him.

Of course, NOW, my wife has come back and told me how wrong she was, and

how she should have listened to me, and how she'll never doubt me again.

Perhaps you have detected a certain note of sarcasm in the previous

sentence. The best I get is, on my foggy days, she'll ask me if it's

time to increase my medicine. I guess that's sort of an admission that

it's working. Just like somebody said all along...

If this is happening to you, you're in the right place. Just sew this

badge onto your shirt.

-- prr

" T " artisticgroomer@...> wrote:

>>it's the telephone version of the barely raised eyebrow on an

otherwise perfectly impassive face. It says you can't possibly know what

you're doing, nothing you ever do is worth wasting a smile on, in fact,

you have no value at all.<<

Oh , you have my heart felt sympathies here! I come from a

family of NURSES and I hear it all the time how I am going to kill

myself self-medicating. Don't you know those doctors know SO much more

than I could possibly know? And not feeling like I have any worthwhile

contributions to make to anything.. I am QUEEN of that in my family.

Which is why I talk to none of them except my Grandmother in the nursing

home. To Hell with the rest of them. I know I know what I am doing, I

really don;t care if they like it or not and I no longer wish to hear

it. Yes it takes a thick hide to get where I am but I have grown one

from the callous ways they have treat ed me, so I really understand what

you are saying.