Last night my sisters, daughter & I attended a free outdoor concert. People (my cousins mate mainly) had been drinking so was obnoxiously annoying & stunk to high hopes plus smoked like a chimney. Now I dont normally complain especially since we were outside in a public place, but it was pissing me off. The whole alcohol thing hits too close to home anyway, but I was also thinking how people who are perfectly healthy (physically at the moment) abuse their bodies & here I am fighting to be healthy enough to even enjoy this concert. It really irked me. Am I becoming too rightchous (sp?) or just too sensitive? I use to do my share of drinking, but I got tired of feeling like crap & I saw how it affected my CF overall not to mention I have epilepsy. I try to remember that most of these people I am referring to are alcoholics & mostly cant help it (my husband is in recovery & has been sober 10 years), but as much as I try to understand I still see it as a choice versus my CF that I was BORN with. Its a shame....a true shame, but it is their choice just like it was mine not to do my treatments or take care of myself properly over the years. Live & learn (hopefully!)
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No Tolerance
- Thread starter JazzysMom
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I can certainly understand where you are coming from. My friends mom has emphysema, and one time when i was telling him i am sick of being sick, and not being able to breathe right when im sick, he said, "well my mom goes thru that too" as if to say "shut up.. you arent the only one". WEll after he said it to me the second time i said to him, "no offense, but.... you mom asked for what she has, she smoked her whiole life knowing darned well she was putting her health at risk, i wasnt given any choice ! " He did agree with me reluctantly. My ex hubby used to use drugs, and smoke anything he could roll up ( and cigarettes also) and it just pissed me off unbelievably, because here i am trying to maintain what i have left of my health, and he was abusing his good health i would give anything to have. I have come to realize that unless you are afflicted with something you have no idea what its like to suffer from it. I can sympathize with someone who has a migraine everytime i have one, but when i dont have one they dont seem so bad. So i think noone has the ability to know how foolish they are to risk ruining their health until its too late, and they have already ruined their health.