These posts are soooo funny!

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem; a lot of my in laws could care less what I have. All they know is that I'm a "leech of the system". Then when one of them has a minor surgery it's as if the end of the world has come and I could not possibly understand the pain they are in. What?

Try this: one of my children needed to do a research paper for her high school physiology class. She decided to do it on RSD. After two weeks of research and questioning my pm doctor, she had an epiphany. She came up to me one night, wrapped her arms around my neck and said, "daddy, I had no idea. I'm so sorry for not understanding for so long", and then gave me a great big kiss. That made up for a lot of time spent in quite desperation as my family went along, not noticing the suffering.