and Sonja

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Dear Sonja and ,

I just read your post and I was the one who wrote pain,

nausea, depressed. After reading a reply from my wonderful husband as

well as , and then I read yours.

I didn't tell my husband how bad I was feeling because after a while

you just get tired of complaining all the time. He also knows when I

can no longer handle the pain and nausea and it begins to handle me,

I will tell him I need to go to the E.R.

I just wish all of you had such a wonderful friend and husband like I

do. After reading your letter I felt a little guilty because I have

such a fine man, who is as understanding as he is. Your letter made

me feel better because it made me realize that there are people out

there who always have problems worse than your own. Its kind of a

saying I heard about a man complaining about having to walk too far

until he met a man who had no legs. If I were there by your side I

would hold you in my arms to let you know how much we love and care

about you and not let go until you realized that. We do from time to

time feel sorry for ourselves and that's okay and when I feel like

that I mostly take the time to cry and pray that God will take this

burden from me. I've prayed for you and Sonja and hope you

are feeling better. Thanks to all of you I do. We all know some of

the so- called specialist really don't understand the daily pain our

bodies go through every day. They should walk a day in our shoes and

I guarantee they would never treat their patient the same from then

on. Before I started seeing my pancreatic specialist the last

hospital I had to go to after going there for years where my counts

were sky high they had the nerve to flag my chart. Because I was

coming into the hospital every two months with attacks and my counts

were not up. My doctor told me my counts don't have to be up to have

an attack I come from a large family, there are nine of us, and they

don't call or visit and there were times the doctors didn't think I

would make it and my husband would call the family and still no

visits. I hope both of you are feeling better now.

All my love,

Janet