She put a tick or a cross against various recipes in the leaflet.
She then verbally explained to DH what a tick or a cross means, then she also wrote it down on the leaflet.
Of course crosses alone can be interpreted as meaning ‘yes, opt for this.’
But in a context where there are ticks and crosses, I think most people would interpret the tick as positive, and the cross as negative.
It’s interesting how many people are urging me to see her p.o.v.
and I can. I imagine she deals with all sorts people and that there is arse covering. But does that really stop her using judgment and relating to the people actually in front of her?
I think she meant well but it betrayed an unconscious assumption that patients and carers need to be treated as if we are pre-schoolers, not as functional adults who happen to have cancer.
And surely cancer professionals should try to see things from the point of view of the patient and the carer.... isn’t that the aim?
Eg - don’t patronise but treat people with respect as normal adults....
Yes, you do get chemo brain and radiotherapy brain - but it doesn’t wipe out your entire basic understanding to such infantile levels that you stop knowing what ticks and crosses mean, or what does red and green mean at the traffic lights, or being able to count to ten - though I realise someone will come on and say yes it does!