'Mum is a very anxious lady...

[emkana]

... who has e/mailed me repeatedly.' it said in the referral letter the consultant has written about my ds. Thanks for that, I thought, when I was sneaking a look at ds's file while having him checked out yet again for his chest infection at the hospital.

I'm supposed to see the consultant in 10 days' time, I wonder if she'll tell me off....

fiofio....you've said in two words what i managed 200 about.

oh this is something my friend is livid about- she has been described on several occasions as "anxious" (severely disabled child, anopther child, husband who works away and told she's not going to get any help- I'd be bloody anxious too).

I had someone who had never met me telling the school SENCO that I was well known for not being able to acccept my son's diagnosis (that would be the dx I had to push a year and half for before receiving would it?) Idiots.

I can't stand being referred to as "mum" or "lady" really - and then both those terms in the same sentence!

You're absolutely right, sophable - it would be a totally different thing if she had written "emkana is very anxious".

All the e/mails I've written to her have been short and to the point IMO, so I don't really understand where she gets those anxiety vibes from anyway - apart from the fact that I keep bothering her with e/mails in the first place, which is clearly not a popular move!

don't get me started emkana...i'll get flamed. put it this way, the healthcare professionals that have treated people with respect both within and out of their earshot are very few. they are fantastic. i honestly think there is a culture of dehumanising patients and their relatives. maybe it is a defence against all the suffering that these people come up against every day, but it still sucks.

fio x posted!

I think one can decide whether to get irate about a patronisation from the medical profession

or one can take the higher ground and actually consider what the true definition of anxious means .. and then 'cock a snoot' at the stupid consultant for trying to demean you by using a word that actually does etymologically define your feelings

which is the only reason I posted the true definition of 'anxious' earlier

(and yes I am skirting the issue of patronising consultants .. because I have found after the years of medical school and subsequent years training to their consultants there is no way around their patronisation)

Is it just me or is it tempting to see their 'anxious' and raise them? I wonder what you have to do to become 'very anxious' ... humm, maybe putting post-its on the windshield every morning. Soooo tempting....

pmsl