Basically I’ve had a letter from the Hospital today with an appointment for treatment for something minor but could have been major if left untreated and when talking about my concerns to my friends I was told by one that “You’ll be fine” and “I’ve had something similar before so you’ll be ok”. For some reason, and it might be just me, but it has pissed me off a bit. Aibu?
I just can’t stand the “you’ll be fine” because to me it’s like I’m being told not to overreact and that there’a nothing wrong with me where yes it might be an outpatient’s appointment for treatment but it’s been an ongoing thing for a couple of years now and the Dr I have been seeing at my previous appointments is concerned that the issue is recurring and might have to take a bit more of an extreme measure.
I think as well what pisses me off even more is that this friend was also not long ago worrying about something that the Dr’s reassured was nothing to worry about at all but my friend would still worry that it would be the dreaded C word, but what I have could highly likely turn into Cancer if left untreated so I just feel fobbed off of my worries that, I think, is something to worry about, especially when you have a young child and a husband you are terrified to leave.
In my opinion a friend should listen and understand and reassure, not reassure in the sense that it’ll all be ok, but maybe just to listen to my worries to begin with and maybe then reassure if you’re so confident that all will be ok.
Maybe I am being unreasonable, or maybe I’m just fed up of having bad news all the time 🙈🙈