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Thanks Marling, you put it better than I could have, especially when it your family. Leta The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphrey ---Marling McReynolds <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Leta, > Doesn't it feel strange to have people seemingly looking through > you and talking to others around you as if you were already dead? > I remember a couple of weeks after my diagnosis I went to the > board meeting for the non-profit corp I was director of. When I > announced my problem, it was as if I had already died. They said > things like, "We won't have Marling with us much longer" and "We > need to learn to get along without her now." > I wanted to scream I am still alive, but I didn't. I just kept plugging > at the job until I could not do it any more. > What a condition to have, but we will muddle through. > > Marling McReynolds > [log in to unmask] > http://www.humboldt.net/~marling > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4895 > http://members.tripod.com/~marling > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com