When You are Sick

When you are sick, people naturally worry about what you are facing. However, some people overreact believing that their reaction will make the sick person feel better. Actually it is quite aggravating, especially when the doctors do not know what the matter is and your pain is overwhelming. People call you up and demand that you inform them all the symptoms that you are feeling and then they tell you about remedies which you can try as if they were certified doctors or just simply because they know someone who knows someone  who suffered from the same disease or had a few of your symptoms.

For the person who is going through the pain and suffering of the symptoms and all the needles and dreadful lab work, all these home remedies are sickening. If it were that simple then the sick person wouldn’t be in this situation, would they?

There are other people who are just curious and do not want to feel left out because all the others are worried and asking about you. So, they ask how you are but they really do not have the patience to hear the answers. To those, the answer is short and sweet: much better, thanks. It soothes their conscious and helps them sleep better.

After a while filtering out these two kinds of people becomes easy. The real reason that this is annoying is that you, of all people, the one who is sick, wants to know what the problem is; the reason why you feel so much pain and unfortunately the doctors do not know. Simple as that.

The best kind of person in this situation is the one who simply asks if you want to talk about it, respects you if you don’t and just lets you know that they are available to help you in case you need it.

(April 9, 2014) Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.

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