<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.34818829968571663" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Recently at a visit for a new drug study, I was filling out the routine questionnaire that sponsoring drug company has all participants fill out. Normally, I am a quick read, and I fly through such questionnaires. They are all monotonous, they ask the same thing in three different ways and thankfully, my health for the most part has been stable for the last 10+ years. This time, the question made me pause, I smiled a bit... a smug kind of smile. I didn't expect to have this reaction at all. I continued on with the study visit.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On the car ride home, I was really bothered by my reaction. Why was I so condescending to a question on a piece of paper? It dawned on me that it was the simplicity of such a question, which cannot be answered with a check-box. It's a question which I dare say, cannot even be asked. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Allow me to tangent for a second and make one thing blatantly clear: The amount of respect and admiration I have for everyone in the medical field cannot be underscored enough. These are the people I am depending on to find a cure for my disease. These are the people whom take care of us when we are ill.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Normal. Is living to 100 years old normal? Is not having to take any medication normal? What is a normal height? Weight? Is there a normal attitude? I suppose there are always ends of a spectrum; someone can be extremely energetic, or not have enough energy to get out of bed. Does that mean someone who has energy to walk is normal, but someone who can run is not? Insensitive or over-sensitive? You get the point.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">So yes, I lead a normal life. It is not the same as my neighbors, or my best friend who lives with me, or my other best friend who passed away from cancer at age 27. It is different, but normal. I take medication daily. I do treatments, I've been hospitalized, I run, I work, I get the flu once in a while, I have cystic fibrosis. I have a family which sometimes drives me insane. I watch sports, I have a favorite food. I can't eat all foods. I read, I laugh, I cry and I think about my problems every day. I enjoy life, I don't take it for granted. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yes, I lead a normal life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"></div>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.34818829968571663" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Recently at a visit for a new drug study, I was filling out the routine questionnaire that sponsoring drug company has all participants fill out. Normally, I am a quick read, and I fly through such questionnaires. They are all monotonous, they ask the same thing in three different ways and thankfully, my health for the most part has been stable for the last 10+ years. This time, the question made me pause, I smiled a bit... a smug kind of smile. I didn't expect to have this reaction at all. I continued on with the study visit.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On the car ride home, I was really bothered by my reaction. Why was I so condescending to a question on a piece of paper? It dawned on me that it was the simplicity of such a question, which cannot be answered with a check-box. It's a question which I dare say, cannot even be asked. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Allow me to tangent for a second and make one thing blatantly clear: The amount of respect and admiration I have for everyone in the medical field cannot be underscored enough. These are the people I am depending on to find a cure for my disease. These are the people whom take care of us when we are ill.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Normal. Is living to 100 years old normal? Is not having to take any medication normal? What is a normal height? Weight? Is there a normal attitude? I suppose there are always ends of a spectrum; someone can be extremely energetic, or not have enough energy to get out of bed. Does that mean someone who has energy to walk is normal, but someone who can run is not? Insensitive or over-sensitive? You get the point.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">So yes, I lead a normal life. It is not the same as my neighbors, or my best friend who lives with me, or my other best friend who passed away from cancer at age 27. It is different, but normal. I take medication daily. I do treatments, I've been hospitalized, I run, I work, I get the flu once in a while, I have cystic fibrosis. I have a family which sometimes drives me insane. I watch sports, I have a favorite food. I can't eat all foods. I read, I laugh, I cry and I think about my problems every day. I enjoy life, I don't take it for granted. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yes, I lead a normal life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.34818829968571663" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Recently at a visit for a new drug study, I was filling out the routine questionnaire that sponsoring drug company has all participants fill out. Normally, I am a quick read, and I fly through such questionnaires. They are all monotonous, they ask the same thing in three different ways and thankfully, my health for the most part has been stable for the last 10+ years. This time, the question made me pause, I smiled a bit... a smug kind of smile. I didn't expect to have this reaction at all. I continued on with the study visit.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On the car ride home, I was really bothered by my reaction. Why was I so condescending to a question on a piece of paper? It dawned on me that it was the simplicity of such a question, which cannot be answered with a check-box. It's a question which I dare say, cannot even be asked. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Allow me to tangent for a second and make one thing blatantly clear: The amount of respect and admiration I have for everyone in the medical field cannot be underscored enough. These are the people I am depending on to find a cure for my disease. These are the people whom take care of us when we are ill.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Normal. Is living to 100 years old normal? Is not having to take any medication normal? What is a normal height? Weight? Is there a normal attitude? I suppose there are always ends of a spectrum; someone can be extremely energetic, or not have enough energy to get out of bed. Does that mean someone who has energy to walk is normal, but someone who can run is not? Insensitive or over-sensitive? You get the point.<br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">So yes, I lead a normal life. It is not the same as my neighbors, or my best friend who lives with me, or my other best friend who passed away from cancer at age 27. It is different, but normal. I take medication daily. I do treatments, I've been hospitalized, I run, I work, I get the flu once in a while, I have cystic fibrosis. I have a family which sometimes drives me insane. I watch sports, I have a favorite food. I can't eat all foods. I read, I laugh, I cry and I think about my problems every day. I enjoy life, I don't take it for granted. <br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yes, I lead a normal life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
mamaScarlett
Active member
Exactly, what is normal? I don't think anyone has a 'normal' life in this world, really.<br><br>But per se normal, I think my life is normal. Its certainly my normal. From the outside I think it looks normal to others too. But I know that if another mom had to live my life for a week it would rock their world for sure. They'd probably be shocked! And though I'm used to my life and the daily UGH that is chest pt, I occasionally think 'wow what would it be like to just get up and start your day like all other moms, and not have to sit here on this vest for an hour, and be exhausted afterwards??!' <br><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
mamaScarlett
Active member
Exactly, what is normal? I don't think anyone has a 'normal' life in this world, really.<br><br>But per se normal, I think my life is normal. Its certainly my normal. From the outside I think it looks normal to others too. But I know that if another mom had to live my life for a week it would rock their world for sure. They'd probably be shocked! And though I'm used to my life and the daily UGH that is chest pt, I occasionally think 'wow what would it be like to just get up and start your day like all other moms, and not have to sit here on this vest for an hour, and be exhausted afterwards??!' <br><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
mamaScarlett
Active member
Exactly, what is normal? I don't think anyone has a 'normal' life in this world, really.<br><br>But per se normal, I think my life is normal. Its certainly my normal. From the outside I think it looks normal to others too. But I know that if another mom had to live my life for a week it would rock their world for sure. They'd probably be shocked! And though I'm used to my life and the daily UGH that is chest pt, I occasionally think 'wow what would it be like to just get up and start your day like all other moms, and not have to sit here on this vest for an hour, and be exhausted afterwards??!' <br><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
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tarheel
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Interesting study question. <div>There was an entire chapter in my AP Psychology textbook trying to explain and quantify and sort all the things that can be called "normal" or "abnormal". And it comes down to either no one is normal, or everyone is normal. </div><div>(Out of curiosity- what study was it?)</div>
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tarheel
Guest
Interesting study question.There was an entire chapter in my AP Psychology textbook trying to explain and quantify and sort all the things that can be called "normal" or "abnormal". And it comes down to either no one is normal, or everyone is normal.(Out of curiosity- what study was it?)
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tarheel
Guest
Interesting study question.There was an entire chapter in my AP Psychology textbook trying to explain and quantify and sort all the things that can be called "normal" or "abnormal". And it comes down to either no one is normal, or everyone is normal.(Out of curiosity- what study was it?)
sunshine5637
New member
Hmmm. I agree, what's "normal?"
sunshine5637
New member
Hmmm. I agree, what's "normal?"