Excellent thread to start Minnie!
Bill---why try and understand dorks??? I now 'tell it how it is'
My previous, carefully ordered, politically-correct life is totally out of the window!
If I spend a day in night-clothes--so what??
If I bump into an ex-pupil in town on way back from hospital, I smile and say 'Don't feel too good' and move on--instead of spending 10 mins chatting, asking them how they are and boosting their ego. I might, or might not , have made a difference to them whilst I was teaching/counselling them--nowadays I CAN'T! I'm not God!
The expression 'Life is too short.....' definitely kicks in!
(Actually, have NEVER stuffed a mushroom for those who know what I'm talking about!)
Brenda

Brenda in UK--Diagnosis 30/5/07--undifferentiated carcinoma in right jawbone and muscles. Stage 4
6/7/07--new diagnosis primary is in lung. Finished 4cycles of palliative carboplatin/gemcitabine
therapy September 07
Now dying to live!