Maybe Amber was in a dream and later awoke after she started the thread? Maybe she is having an off day and wanted to take on the world? Maybe it is the innocence and ignorance of youth that allows her to ponder these thoughts? Maybe she just returned from a 3rd world environment and her CF isn't so bad right now, and she thought for a fraction of a second, "boy am I glad I'm not that poor ole' schmuck!??
I like to think after she experienced this epiphany from her cathartic moment, she took a deep breath with those CF lungs and heard "snap, crackle, pop, whizzz!", coughed up half a cup of blood, then found herself too tired and weak with her fever, which she had from here current Staff Resistant and Pseudomonas Resistant infections, to take another step, while she carried her Oxygen pump. That she was able to appreciate the sent of that 3rd world country because her CF gas has a striking familiar odor. Or that the she realized that in time, once she leaves the nest and comfort of her parents financial support and protection that her CF will make her financially impoverished one day, but right now she can hold her self up high and say, "I ain't got it so bad!"
I don't know what prompts such arrogant ignorance to the point of losing all sense of apathy for the pain and suffering of others, at least enough to criticize the siren sounds of the ill and dying.
I am thankful that today she lives in a place and moment in time where she can say such things with the arrogance of good health. I think there was a brief time where I felt strong enough to think I had this disease beat. I reflect on that time now as almost the dream of another man. A very good dream indeed. Unfortunately, I am awake now, as will she be one day. When she awakens, she will then realize that the pain of one is as valuable as the pain of another regardless of the quality of pain. Pain can't be quantified or qualified or even criticized by anyone other than the one who is suffering.
Too bad WinAce couldn't reply to this thread. Maybe if Amber knew this (what it meant for WinAce to comment and why he can't now) and had some understanding of the world she would have commented as she had.
I like to think after she experienced this epiphany from her cathartic moment, she took a deep breath with those CF lungs and heard "snap, crackle, pop, whizzz!", coughed up half a cup of blood, then found herself too tired and weak with her fever, which she had from here current Staff Resistant and Pseudomonas Resistant infections, to take another step, while she carried her Oxygen pump. That she was able to appreciate the sent of that 3rd world country because her CF gas has a striking familiar odor. Or that the she realized that in time, once she leaves the nest and comfort of her parents financial support and protection that her CF will make her financially impoverished one day, but right now she can hold her self up high and say, "I ain't got it so bad!"
I don't know what prompts such arrogant ignorance to the point of losing all sense of apathy for the pain and suffering of others, at least enough to criticize the siren sounds of the ill and dying.
I am thankful that today she lives in a place and moment in time where she can say such things with the arrogance of good health. I think there was a brief time where I felt strong enough to think I had this disease beat. I reflect on that time now as almost the dream of another man. A very good dream indeed. Unfortunately, I am awake now, as will she be one day. When she awakens, she will then realize that the pain of one is as valuable as the pain of another regardless of the quality of pain. Pain can't be quantified or qualified or even criticized by anyone other than the one who is suffering.
Too bad WinAce couldn't reply to this thread. Maybe if Amber knew this (what it meant for WinAce to comment and why he can't now) and had some understanding of the world she would have commented as she had.