2seaoat wrote:I wish your magic wand could fix cancer, but until then we deal with cancer and mental illness as best we can.
You'll excuse me, please, but I know all about it, Sea. There has been deadly cancer in my family (I'm a breast cancer survivor myself, so far, knock on wood, but not all family members have been so fortunate), plus my only sister has been in mental institutions since age 15 with a horrible, incurable schizophrenia, and my mother's family virtually all succumbed to Alzheimer's disease.
You don't need to tell me.
Obviously I don't have a magic wand, nor have I for one moment pretended to, so I don't know what you're talking about.
Look, if I didn't care two cents about you I wouldn't waste my time writing to ask you and Mrs. Sea to give up trying to help that poor sick woman right now. For her own sake, she needs professional help that neither of you can give. You know this. Meanwhile you waste precious time and energy that...
oh never mind. You know exactly what I mean, whether or not you agree.
I did, however, neglect to say I'm sorry about your son's fall and hope that it's not an indicator of anything seriously amiss.