To Balance Out.. Things That Annoy You About CFers

Emily65Roses

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Just to clarify, this is also a LIGHT-HEARTED POST. Let's have some laughs, hmm? (Mind you, these complaints about me haven't actually been made. People in my life are very understanding and don't really care... I just imagine, if I try to think outside the box, think as if I was just the friend of a CFer... this stuff might annoy me.. lol).

I am a CFer, but I'll start it off going from what I notice other people might finding annoying about me.
1). Constant really loud belching
2). Ditto on that, except change belching to farting (and add a foul smell)
3). I'm always coughing and interrupting movies and TV shows, forcing people to rewind and watch again to hear what the characters have said
4). Sometimes I forget to cover my mouth when I'm coughing, and some green will fly out and that usually grosses people out.
5). Hogging the bathroom for hours at a time, though not due to vanity reasons. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">
6). I walk slower than people I'm with... not only because of breathing.. but because I'm short!!
7). When sharing dinner with people... I always hog the food and take more than everyone else! lol
8). I force other families to dig out the salt shaker, even if they never use it. (Example: at Thanksgiving, my boyfriend's mother made a big deal of presenting me with my very own salt shaker. It was quite amusing hehehehe).

CFer or not, feel free to add on. Let's have some more laughs and balance out the other post for people who find it offensive. In truth, I don't care if people find the other one offensive... I find it highly amusing. But this one could be really funny too, I think. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
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anonymous

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I LOVE THIS THREAD

Ditto on the farting.. and foul smell! LOL

Constant bodily functions, Peeing constantly
Vest being louder than the tv... When I'm doing my vest , and my husband is talking to me, the tv is so loud, and we are yelling over it, the vest and each other... "WHAT???" "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" "WHAT?"


Jenna, 25 w/ CF
 

anonymous

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My very small son (4 years old) - is just discovering himself (maybe you'll get my drift, but I am not elaborating any further than that). Sometimes he enjoys his vest treatments just a little too much.

Embarrassing around company!
 

ClashPunk82

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<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Anonymous</b></i><br>My very small son (4 years old) - is just discovering himself (maybe you'll get my drift, but I am not elaborating any further than that). Sometimes he enjoys his vest treatments just a little too much.



Embarrassing around company!<hr></blockquote>

LOL, that's too funny but I can see how it might be embarassing! I thought kids did that way earlier but I guess I was wrong. I am sure he will grow out of it soon though.

Nicole 22 CF
 

Zacarus

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To balance it out, Things that annoy me about (some) "CFers":

1) Lack of ambition / energy, general apathy.

2) Nihilistic complex or constant depression / self-destructive behavior.

3)<blockquote>Quote<br><hr>Sometimes I forget to cover my mouth when I'm coughing, and some green will fly out and that usually grosses people out.<hr></blockquote>

Note that #3 isn't to be helped with some of us, though numbers 1 and 2 are curable (however difficult it can sometimes be.)

Sorry if that wasn't very light-hearted...
 

Starfall99

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I always think about the cough interrupting things issue, I think it must be so annoying for people around me! Especially when I'm in class and it's all quiet and I feel like I keep drowning out what the professor is saying, I just want to stand up and apologize to everyone for disrupting their learning!

Aside from smelly bodily functions issues, how about smelly medications? Like making the whole room reek of TOBI, or Mucomyst -- or even just filling the room with a haze of nebulizer mist.

And for those on diets, it must REALLY stink to be around us CFers who just scarf down whatever we want without caring about calories or fat or whatever -- or actually, caring about it in the opposite direction! I know I drive some of my friends crazy because I'll be sitting around eating whatever junk food they're trying to avoid, so of course they end up having some too, I go around wrecking everyone's diets. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">
 

anonymous

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<blockquote>Quote<br><hr>I always think about the cough interrupting things issue, I think it must be so annoying for people around me! Especially when I'm in class and it's all quiet and I feel like I keep drowning out what the professor is saying, I just want to stand up and apologize to everyone for disrupting their learning!<hr></blockquote>

I believe there is a quote that reads something like:

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

If someone was constantly coughing while I was in class, I would eventually ignore it and generally tune it out, though perhaps I would worry occasionally as to his or her health: no considerate person would feel animosity towards you for such actions, but rather compassion (though this can become irritating as well, of course...)

-Zachary D.
 
1. I feel bad for my fiancee when he has to jump out of bed in the wee hours of the morning because I forgot to put my "booger bowl" by the side of the bed and I'm about to spew green stuff all over the bed during a coughing fit.
2. i come back from the grocery store with a trunk full of junk food - and it's all for me!
3. the fact that my a*s can clear a room - and keep it clear for a good 10 minutes!
4. i'm always the party pooper who has to go home early to get some quality sleep time
5. I will never win at that stupid game played at bridal showers where you get points for what's in your purse...unless they start putting things on the list like inhalers, medicine bottles, glucose meters and insulin needles!
 

anonymous

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You have all overlooked an "annoyance" with our disease, reality game shows. I could never do survivor because there is no where in the bush to plug in my neb, or what if on fear factor I had the stop the competition after chowing down on some raw cow testicle to take my enzymes. Oh well, another thing that seperates me from the masses!



Luke 29/cf and a reality tv flunkie
 

anonymous

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LOL Luke!!! I know what y0u mean, i love watching reality tv. I think they have soemone like us on Big Brother! (but i guess it could be kind of weird having a camera on us in the bathroom!) Nayway did you see the Survivor episode where they won a coffee pot??They screwed up and showed it was plugged into the tree stump. I guess we could do our nebs and vest from their but would need some really good shelter for it since these machines aren't cheap!!!

Sorry i hijacked this thread!

Caren 32 w/cf
 

Mockingbird

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He, He. The farting one, definetly. I used to be embarassed when I could clear a room, but now I just accept it as part of my life. Still, it must be annoying for all the others! =-) And always needing the salt shaker, I always do that too!

Another thing that must annoy my friends is my mood swings. Even though I'm on Zoloft I still have them, so i can be kind of unpredictable. I'm sure I ruin a lot of happy moods that way.

Also, when I go to the doctor, and the people who care about me call to see how it went, and I say "Fine," and give no details what-so-ever! =-) They always have to drag it out of me, which must be super-annoying.

Oh, and my little sweating issue I have. It doesn't matter which deoderant I use, by the end of the day, I'm always very sweaty, and it smells a bit worse than B.O. =-) That's got to be a bit annoying. =-)

Oh, and my nasaly voice that comes from sinusitis, I know that annoys the hell out of some people! He, he. I don't know why I'm so delighted I'm so annoying, but I'm laughing my head off! I guess it really is a good idea to have a healthy sense of humor about these things. I used to be embarassed all the time, but then I got out of high-school and stopped caring. This was a really good idea to start this thead, Emily!

Oh, I just thought of another one, the smell of TOBI. That's got to be pretty annoying, too. =-)

Jarod
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cfgirl38

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How about when your getting all your meds refilled at the dr office and mine always says gosh your on alot of meds. I absolutly can't stand that. I love the reality tv thing. How funny would it be to go on extreme makeovers hacking your head off, trying to body build, doing your nebs. Very attractive eh. Hee Hee. The nasouly voice I'm told when I order Pizza, they want to talk to mom or dad. Or when telemarketers call and want mom or dad I'm like, their not here. So I don't have to talk to them. Ha Ha.
When my boyfriend gets home and I forget to turn the tv down after my nebulizer. He just smiles and shakes his head. The things they put up with is incredible. Eva
 

anonymous

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I know one that annoys so many non-cfers. We cfers are all so darn handsome and beautiful! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Jake
 

Emily65Roses

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*nods* My mother was told by my very first CF doc when I was born that CF children are all smarter and prettier. So yesss that's a good one, Jake. LOL <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
 

shamrock

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1). Constant really loud belching

2). Ditto on that, except change belching to farting (and add a foul smell)

Yeah me too except I'm the silent (and deadly) type! Also I am a HUGE HUGE fan of survivor and know I would kick some serious butt if I could go on it! We should get a long term illness survivor started.... who's with me??!
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Jo20784

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hmmm i dont think i fart or burp alot my then anyone with out CF LOL and me taking up the bathroom is vanity reasons LOL but i like the point about us being smarter and prettier <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
the thing that annoys me is that i alzy due to the fact i have no energy argh!
 

anonymous

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I hardly ever burp, but I can blow ass with the best of them. I wasn't diagnosed unitl I was 22, but before then when I was in college it god so bad that some people didn't want to sit next to me. The worst part about it was other people would pollute the air and I would get blamed.

I always thought the farting was hilarious, one time my wife and I were lying in bed on a Saturday morning and she was talking on the phone and I let one rip that was so loud that the person on the phone heard it clear as day.

Dave 30 w/cf
 
Thats hillarious Dave!!

I got a good one too...it was early in the morning and I let one go. It was seriously one of the biggest I can remember. My fiancee just opened his eyes and stared at me for a good 15 seconds before saying "That vibrated my foot!" I of course started laughing, which led to coughing, which led to throwing up, etc, etc, etc. Typical day in the life of me!
 

anonymous

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my boyfriend has cf, and when we go shopping, he likes to let one right by me, then hurry up and go to the next isle. the stares i get because of the loud bangs and the smell. and when i find him hes laughing his but off, and then i start, especially if its someone old.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
 
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