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Old 05-20-2008, 07:55 PM
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Great post Dale.... reminded me of something that's relevant here.

After one of my trips to Germany with clients for their surgeries (not yours!), I was laying in bed with Diane and I said, "I hope that I wasn't bitchy and nasty to you the way that some of the spineys I see are."

She clearly did not understand the question or read the script. The correct reply was... "no dear, you were wonderful." Instead, she said, "you were pretty tough to be around at times... " We talked about it further.

I wish I could say that I was stoic and that I did not let my years of chronic pain, disability, frustration, etc... make me a curmudgeon that was not nice to be around... but at times it got the best of me. I'd like to think that those times were short and infrequent... but this topic would not exist if that was true.

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