Nide, boy do I identify with some of what you wrote... I was putting together some cheap book shelves just before I got tetanus, and I hit my thumb with the hammer...

But... ha ha! it barely hurt even though it got very black and blue.

So, I was like, well, there's a little benefit...

but then of course I didn't feel the bit of darning needle in my toe, either, and that's how I got tetanus.


My family just does not get it. at all. My cousin, though not a nurse, acts like the nurses written about here...

She often writes along the lines that it's my attitude... not my physical condition...

have to laugh...

(can't afford the tissue to cry all the time)