Comments on: Whatever You Do, Don’t Treat Me Like an Invalid https://livingwithscleroderma.com/whatever-you-do-dont-treat-me-like-an-invalid/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Fri, 18 May 2012 16:26:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Kathy Pulda https://livingwithscleroderma.com/whatever-you-do-dont-treat-me-like-an-invalid/#comment-15 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:29:25 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=134#comment-15 In reply to Evelyn Herwitz.

true but most people with chronic illnesses are older than you are so your struggle is unique in that way.

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/whatever-you-do-dont-treat-me-like-an-invalid/#comment-14 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:12:50 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=134#comment-14 This post reminds me of advice given in the Jewish tradition to those fulfilling the mitzvah of visiting the sick: don’t sit on the bed. Why not? To do so invades the sick person’s space and emphasizes her or his helplessness.

]]> By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/whatever-you-do-dont-treat-me-like-an-invalid/#comment-13 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:53:57 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=134#comment-13 In reply to Kathy Pulda.

Thanks, Kathy. Just expressing my own story of what a lot of people experience, I think.

]]> By: Kathy Pulda https://livingwithscleroderma.com/whatever-you-do-dont-treat-me-like-an-invalid/#comment-12 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:47:24 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=134#comment-12 a lot of soul bearing. You are very brave.
Kathy

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