I have just been speaking to my aunt, whom I love deeply, but she drives me insane. I am a nurse and I work in theatres. It's quite specialised and I worked hard to do my training. My aunt refuses to believe that I have such a responsible job and even though I have told her a thousand times what I do, acts completely incredulous if eg we are watching a surgical tv programme and there is a scrub nurse, she will say 'oh but that's not like your job Geraldine'.
To make matters worse my brother used to be a nurse, then became a rep, was last registered 15 years ago. Any health prob she has she phones him straight away. I feel like screaming 'BUT IM A NURSE, HERE AND NOW, ASK ME!'. but obviously I never do. I just feel really exasperated by her. It's like she's doing it on purpose. I'm close to her since my mum died and she's lovely in most ways but this one thing is making me unfeasibly angry. Aibu or do other posters ever get this?
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GeraldineAubergine · 26/08/2011 16:29
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