Re: Makes my blood boil! Tammy

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I actually agree with you also. Every parent has difficulties

regardless of how their child's health is. My best friend has

problems with her kids. The same ones I have with mine that are non

CF related. Just typical kids driving their overworked,

underappreciated and under supported moms crazy. I have never and

won't ever think to tell her to just be grateful her kids are

healthy. What she goes through is hard on her. She cries adn gets

angry and for HER it's hard. I don't judge her I just love her and

support her. Yes, my son is in school and I hear parents complain

about ignorant things too. It drives me crazy but what I feel worse

about is that those of us with " sick " kids are able to feel more

blessed than those with " perfect " kids. I don't get angry with them

for that, I feel sorry for them. My life growing up all of us kids

were " healthy " but the environment alcoholism and not so great. My

child may have CF but he's living in an environment that's much more

supportive.

Christy

> Parents will be parents. Regardless how petty it seems to us,

they want

> their child to be safe and free from pain - the same as us. Maybe

a parent

> who has a child who is confined to a wheelchair, can't speak and

can't use

> the bathroom on their own would say the same thing to us - " Live

one day at

> my house " .

>

> Also - keep in mind how blessed we are. My daughter can see me,

she can

> hear me, she can hug me and she can walk and talk with no

limitation....you

> get where I am going. Many do not have that luxury.

>

> As for those who have healthy, happy children - good for them. May

those

> precious kiddos live to be a ripe old age with few issues in life.

>

> , Momma to (Holmes) (4 yow/cf)

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> " Baxter " on 11/16/2002 06:14:51 PM

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> Tammy,

>

> Your so right. I also feel like this. They have no idea how lucky

they

> are. I work in a clinic and have actually lost it with a few

parents

> moaning that " ny hurt his toe, poor ny " . Get a life.

>

> (Australia)

>

> Makes my blood boil!

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>

>

> Good Grief! A parent at school, ranting and raving about her child

> catching head lice! Lady, get the knits out with a comb, and your

> problem is solved! SHUT-UP! Come to my house....for one day! See if

you

> complain about a knit again!

>

> Am I insane? Are we the only parents that can see how petty other

> parents are about head lice, broken arm, the flu! I wish that these

> parents that walk with their noses pointing at the sky could wake

up to

> reality! Realize just how easy they have it! Just makes my blood

boil!

> Was I like that before Brittany was born? GOD! I hope not!

>

> Tammy 7 w/o cf....Brittany 8 w/cf..... 12 w/o cf