Re: Manners/stress, etc.

[Guest guest]

(Lara)

> > . i am pissed off most the time at how others didn't have the

> choices i

> > had, and stand up the way i did and let doctors' stupid choices

> run things for

> > them. bad sentence structure, but i have TED and my eyes can't

> take any more

> > of pressure for the day.>>

>

(Terri)

> I normally let things like this go, because I have more than enough

> going on

> already. However, the above quoted statement I find hard to let go.

> I make

> my own choices, Lara, whether you think they are stupid or not. But

> since you

> know nothing about most of us, I find your above statement a little

> strange

> to say the least. " Pissed off " at those of us who make our own

> choices as to

> our treatment???? How would you know what we have done? How would

> you know

> what choices we made or how much thought went into those choices or

> what is best

> in our own special circumstances.

WHOA! I too am mightily peeved at the system that denies people

information to make good choices. That's how I understood this.

I must confess to not having the whole thread available to parse every

sentence. I know in this case how easy it is to take offense at what Lara

said since I do still have that original post. Yes the phrase standing up

for herself, etc. MIGHT be incendiary. But it just might easily NOT be.

She apologized in advance for any misunderstandings, " bad sentence

structure " due to her discomfort from TED.

I don't want to get involved in this particular thread. I'm only

commenting here because I had this particular letter (independent of any

history so please no one dredge it up for me) in front of me and could

see how easily it could be read both ways. For some reason I choose to

read it differently than everyone else. Maybe, in a discussion of

choices, THAT'S a good choice to make.

Take care, Fay

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