bitchslapped wrote:We have other threads on what not to say to a cancer patient, but pretty much nonexistent on what TO say, if anything @ all.
mobrouser wrote:
I learned over the chemo period that 2 of my clients were using my cancer card on their clients as an excuse for stuff that they should have dealt with. That pissed me off.
mob
Maggie Nell wrote:mobrouser wrote:
I learned over the chemo period that 2 of my clients were using my cancer card on their clients as an excuse for stuff that they should have dealt with. That pissed me off.
mob
I gotta ask, as an aussie, what does this mean about using your cancer card as an excuse for not dealing with their stuff?
Last week, during a discussion, with a social worker, I just mentioned that my unexpected medical emergency with colon cancer took
priority over attending to some documentation at the time or within the 6-month window. The woman didn't even look me in the face
when she sniped; "Rolling over and playing dead is no excuse". Senior management are in damage control but I've lost that forgiving
feeling.....
Maggie Nell wrote:mobrouser wrote:
I learned over the chemo period that 2 of my clients were using my cancer card on their clients as an excuse for stuff that they should have dealt with. That pissed me off.
mob
I gotta ask, as an aussie, what does this mean about using your cancer card as an excuse for not dealing with their stuff?....
juliej wrote:ownplaying: I know I'm better off than a child dying from starvation in Ethiopia, but don't underrate the significance of my illness.
bitchslapped wrote:...We have other threads on what not to say to a cancer patient, but pretty much nonexistent on what TO say, if anything @ all...
Cancer can bring out the best in your friends and the worst. I dropped a friendship with one of my supposedly best friends when I was going through treatment. I realized she was dragging me down. She was not there for me, clueless to what i was going through, and made too many rude comments.
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