Re: Train Wreck

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:09:48 -0500, "sharon" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>How did she look any different that she ever does?
Let me put it this way: when I was in college I partook in
alot of alcohol.   Some of the dead giveaways would be
the inability to walk a straight line, worhsiping at the
base of the ****celain God (the toilet), hangovers, 
etc.  
>I don't think doctors are particularly good at diagnosing problems in the

>people they love.  My mother complained to me about the 'arthritis' in
her 
>legs when she walked on several occasions and I just told her she needed
to 
>take some ibuprofen and get more exercise.  It wasn't until she went to
her 
>doctor and told him about it that she was diagnosed with claudication
from 
>vascular disease.  Weirdly enough, just a few months earlier, my sister
had 
>mentioned that her landlord had virtually the same symptoms and I
diagnosed 
>him over the phone.  He went to his doctor the day after I told my sister
it 
>sounded like he was claudicating due to vascular disease and had surgery 
>just a few days later.  How come I could figure it out in the landlord
but 
>missed it in my mom? 
Not wanting to admit you're mom is vulnerable to the ailments humans
suffer from?