The next time you feel sorry for yourself

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Think of the following story I heard today.

There was a couple who had tried for several years to have children. At age 32 the man started to have stiffness in his wrists and fingers and the doctors assumed that it was carpal tunnel syndrome. He then starts to notice a speech problem and the doctor discovered a brain tumor. Then the wife finds out she is pregnant. The man finds that a reason to fight the cancer. His wife gives birth. 3 months later she comes home from her part time job to find he had a seizure and passed out on the child. They just turned of the life support on the child last weekend. I couldn't believe this story today in the teacher's lounge. It really puts things in perspective.

[Deja Q]

1. Emotional disorders can be as crippling than physical ones

Why is one stigmatized as being inferior and unworthy to deserve life's richness ( :eyes: ) while people who struggle with physical ailments are heroes and living legends?

[Droopy]

2. What a horrible story

I imagine the father no longer wants to fight his cancer.

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3. I literally can't imagine

This was so horrible.

[grannylib]

4. Here's the one I think of when I am about to have a one-person pity party

About a year after the death of my daughter I read of a woman who worked the night shift so that she and her husband would be on opposite shifts so as not to pay so much in child care; she went to work as usual one evening and while she was gone, the water heater in her home exploded and killed her husband and all five of her children.
Not to mention, destroyed her home, family pix and other memories of them...
I believe this was in Iowa somewhere, but it stops me cold when I start thinking, poor me...most of the time anyway...

[LuLu550]

5. sounds like something awful that happened in NY

Woman in upstate NY in her 40s also tried for many years to have kids. Gave birth to twins...were about 10 months old both died when her car was washed into a creek by a flash flood last month. She tried to save them but couldn't get them out of their car seats...she lived. I just don't think I could handle such a tragedy.