treilly123 wrote:Here's another thought: maybe those of us who are working things a bit differently may, by mere virtue of the fact that we are working it differently, bring something worthwhile to the table for all of us.
treilly123 wrote:Why the super-argumentative responses? I got them, too, for my very first posting, and I very nearly let them turn me away from here until a couple of kind souls PM'd me. (thank you, kind souls)
treilly123 wrote:Here is the final part of my rant/plea: if you don't want to discuss statistics, why in the world go to a post clearly labeled "statistics", and then post how you don't want to see statistics? Do you really mean those of us that do aren't supposed to be posting? Sure seems that way. Just don't go there!
We are all on a hard journey, especially we mCRC'ers. The odds are stacked way against us; our friends and families all too often don't understand what we are going through; the treatments are brutal, the after-effects no less so. Let's make more room in this circle, please, by being gentle with each other. We can still differ, it is constructive to do so, yet let's do it with compassion.
treilly123 wrote:I started thinking about some of the responses to Laurettas' recent post and the one Breezy posted about what she would have done differently if she knew "then" what she knew "now", and I am deeply saddened. Breezy's post, for example, got turned into a battleground over alternative vs. standard therapies instead of remaining a thread where we could share what we've learned the hard way in the time since we've been dx'd; how helpful that could have been to all the newbies (and some of us oldsters, too.)
Why the super-argumentative responses?
treilly123 wrote:FIRST mirror the message with compassionate understanding; THEN state how and why we differ in our outlook, if we do; and, FINALLY, thank the poster for sharing their thoughts?
treilly123 wrote:We are all on a hard journey, especially us mCRC'ers. The odds are stacked way against us; our friends and families all too often don't understand what we are going through; the treatments are brutal, the after-effects no less so. Let's make more room in this circle, please, by being gentle with each other. We can still differ, it is constructive to do so, yet let's do it with compassion.
Theresa
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