It doesn't sound like your acquaintance respects your time. I can most certainly understand that she's busy with all those kids, and I can even understand the occasional last minute cancellation (emergencies do come up), but not every single time. That's just ridiculous. I bet if you ever cancelled on her at the last minute, she'd be upset.

I had labrynthitis for 2 weeks back in 2001. A couple ENT's think it did permanent damage to the nerves in my ears because ever since then my balance has been off. I can't even walk up and down stairs without needing to hold onto a railing, and I'll occasionally wake up feeling dizzy, then it goes away after a day. I don't know what article she read on vertigo, but she told me it was rare for people to get dizzy at 3D movies. I was like really?? Because I've read many articles that say it's very common. I think because dramamine is associated with motion sickness, she figured you're not moving in a theater, but that's how you get dizzy. The 3D motion is moving, but you're not, so it messes your brain up.

I feel like this group of friends only has sympathy for illnesses they know about, like cancer or the flu. If you have anything out of the ordinary they've never heard of, they think you're either making it up or they don't care. I have hypothyroidism, which is very common, but because it's not cancer, they don't want to hear about it. I've had to push myself so many times to stay up late or go out when I didn't feel well and act like nothing was wrong just so I could have friends. But now I know that true friends would never make you do that to yourself. My own parents called me a hypochondriac for years even though everything that's wrong with me is genetic. So it doesn't surprise me that I found friends who were just as cold hearted and unsympathetic.