Sunday, November 21, 2010

Assumptions

It was bound to happen sooner or later, huh?
The word that’s meaning can cause me to cringe.
We all have done it over the years assumed something about somebody.
Or just plain took the giant leap into reacting to what we had assumed!

I am not anymore depressed than anyone else in the world.
We are all naturally affected by what goes on around us in the home on the news or just life in general.
Did I ever tell any of you that I did have a few semesters of psychology?
Well, I did.
And in order for someone to be considered clinically depressed they must be overwhelmingly sad for long periods of time or suicidal or both.
So when we all have that quota of bad days that does not qualify us as being clinically depressed, OK?
Unless you are that way constantly, and for many months in a row with fatalistic thinking that encompasses your daily activities and creates a human being with no ability to change their attitude about life and that has given up.
Sadly, then you are someone who needs immediate intervention before you do harm to yourself or others.

My point is that although I have bad or what I call sad days and I am resilient enough to never ever have more than one or two in a row.
So most of the lovely cheerful notices (forwards) that I get about attitude are singing to the choir when or if it is meant for me to change my frown and turn it upside down! LOL!
You see I am the one who has been doing it for years!
Gotta love the forwards that I receive, some have been around for years and others are just different versions of the same old ones.
I have learned especially now not to forward most since I having all these technical problems, and because most who have been online have seen them all before.
Yesterday I received one of those urban legend ones about MS being not an actual ill but symptomatically caused by artificial sweeteners, and that was sent by a well meaning friend.
I first saw that one way back in 2005 or maybe earlier and quickly asked my well respected Multiple Sclerosis Neurologist about the possibility. He laughed and said no that it had been a joke for years and there was no truth in it.
I only wish that it was true, but the first time I saw it I was so concerned I read my artificial sweetener label and found out that mine didn’t even have the chemical composition of the one in question! Whew.
Then another well meaning person told me that all my medical problems were due to mold, and since we had any of it and all of it removed after the hurricane I was baffled.
Any-who, you gotta love the old wives tales that have come down from history, which in many cases have proven to be fact at some time in our time, interesting, huh?
So one never really knows, does one?

And so over the last several years I always ask the people of that profession for information and never ever assume that what my well meaning laymen friends tell me is true unless I can back it up with factual info from the ones who studied it for years!
Sorry folks, but I do respect your concern.

On the lighter side: On Friday with all my time on my hands I spoke on the phone, cell with all those roll over minutes, to my cousin who also has MS, the one in Ohio. She did not have a very good recent report form her Neuro. Apparently, her latest MRI showed more lesions than before, and she had been off all MS medication for nearly seven months due to her other meds being too dangerous and that is why they were stopped. Her Neuro, who just so happens to be a woman like mine is going to be putting her on the newest medication which for the first time is in pill form and has been approved by the FDA!
She was hopeful and I was too for her, since she had been on so many different ones over her nearly thirty-six year fight with her MS.
We spoke for nearly two hours about our children, relationships, things in general, our common family members, and what we like to do for fun, etc.
We giggled like school girls at times and got as serious as a heart attack at others.
And in the end we promised to call each other whenever, and she being single at this time requested for me if I would try to find her a guy!
If any of you recall she is my cousin that was in her youth a Farah Fawcett look-a-like and even in her older self she still has it.
She is a liberal arts grad, who worked for the airlines as a flight attendant, in those days a STEWARDESS, for eighteen years, and they wanted her to do commercials, but she was too shy and refused.
For any guy she would be a great gal to know.
I’m not much of a matchmaker anymore, although in my youth I did have a success story of one couple that I did introduce and they later married.
But I lost touch and who knows if they still are…
That was quite an honor for her to think I had the ability to find her someone good enough for her, wow is an understatement… who knows what I might turn up.

On that thoughtful idea to maybe try a new profession, HA, I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

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