I have come to realize that some friends and family will either research my illnesses or will listen to me when I try to explain what I'm going through. Then I have one friend who seems to believe that all I have is a bad cold and I just need to buck it up and have a better attitude. It is obvious that she has never taken a minute to research my illness or listen to me explain what I am going through. But she has breast cancer and has melanoma and that is much worse than what I'm going through.

It's very frustrating to get someone to understand if they think they know it all. I try to distance myself from those people because dealing with my life in my own way is the only thing that matters.

Best of luck dealing with the uneducated.

Becky
Southern Bell