Thank you @BrianP for taking the time to share your experience with your sister in law and for your understanding. It means a lot. Yes, it does sting a bit! I like that phrase. Thinking of you. Willow x
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Hi @BrianP
Sorry to read this and it must be frustrating for you.
Part of me wonders if the way your sister in law responds might be part of her own insecurities and a way of deflecting her own true feelings.
Just a thought. I don’t claim to be an expert in human behaviour
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Hi DuncanB,
Who knows? I try and rise above derogatory comments and put it down to ignorance. Anyone can Google conditions and become so called experts. That’s why I get my information from trusted sources. I hope you are keeping well. Best regards Brian
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Hi @BrianP
I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that—it really does hurt when family brush off what you’re going through.
I can completely relate. My own sister-in-law is much the same. I have lost count of how many times she’s been told I have been treated for and have treatable, but incurable lymphoma.
She was genuinely shocked earlier this year when I ended up admitted back in hospital, for two big surgeries—she’d just assumes 8 years on I am completely fine.
I think people sometimes grab onto words like “treatable” because they don’t know how else to cope with the C word, but that doesn’t make it any easier when you’re the one living with an Myeloproliferative neoplasms ('MPN') day in, day out.
Thank you for sharing. You’re definitely among people here who get it.
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Hi Jules, Thank you for words of comfort, much appreciated. We are the ones that know what we are going through and that’s why we support each other. Take care, Brian
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