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My turn to vent....
one day this week a co-worker started making suggestions of things I should do so I would feel better. I politely said "I appreciate your suggestions. I've tried everything my doctors have suggested. Those things really don't help."
Her reply "You shouldn't have to feel this way."
To which I replied, "I prefer not to think about it that way. It leads to me sitting on the pity pot."
Her reply "You don't have to be grumpy. I was only trying to help."
Honest to pete, I was not cranky. I was not short. I was not "grumpy". I answered her in a level, pleasant tone of voice. Had I been grumpy, cranky or short I most likely would've said something like
"You're dammed straight I don't deserve to feel like this! There are days I rage internally against the unfairness of it. But you know what??? Life at fair!!! This sucks! I hate it! But now of the hare brained ideas you are suggesting are going to do the first dammed bit of good so shut up and leave me alone!!!!!!"
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