I had this whole long post written about this Wego prompt, “you think you know, but you have no idea”. No, really, I did. But who wants to read about me going on and on after you’ve already read Jackie’s. (SPOILER ALERT: She talks about stomas and puppies in the same post. Freak.)
So open thread. Post your “you think you know, but you have no idea” stories below. Best one gets a digital high five. I’ll start with mine.
GJP
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Anyone who has fought the good fight for any decent length of time knows you just come to accept that everyone around you thinks they’re a doctor, and that they’re going to tell you some magical thing to “cure” you. My father once read in the local newspaper that caraway seeds, like the kind you find in sausage, were some miracle help for irritable bowel syndrome. Funny huh? Despite the fact he couldn’t understand that I didn’t have IBS, I had IBD. He would try and try and try to sneak them on my food.
Maybe this is a good point out that seeds do not like me. In fact, they hate me. They make me sick. Violently. (Thanks Dad!)
May 9, 2012 at 11:33 am
In the prompt of you think you know, but you have no idea….I suppose I’d have to give a resounding STFU to a couple über mobile people that advise me, or other wheelchair bound folk, to ‘move on, get over it, find the positives, make due with what you got, etc…’
I cannot speak on behalf of all cripples, but personally, that is what I do. I do move on, I do get over it, I do find positives, and I definitely make due with what I’ve got…and etc.
Maybe I am echoing Jackie here, kinda, with the whole people thinking they’re a doctor….maybe in my post, they think they’re shrinks, or life coaches.
Either way….(and to think I was encouraging this woman to have a fig newton)….
May 9, 2012 at 12:45 pm
My mother-in-law, who should no better! She is lactose intolerant, one of her sons is cealiac, and her mother has crohns (2 resections) But sometimes these people think they no better and it is harder to argue back! She would expect me to travel long distances on a train but ‘nanna’ couldn’t because of her crohns, but mine was apparently nothing compared to what they were going through! I never got any sympathy from her, the one person I thought would understand! When i told her I was having surgery, her response was ‘you are wrong! you must have it all wrong! your probably confused and having a hysterectomy, or at most a resection because that is all nanna has had and her crohns is a lot wore than yours!’ so she thinks she knows, but has no idea!!!!!!! never seen her since surgery, wonder if she is still in denial?