You should be aware of how negatively and hyperbolically you exaggerated what I said - these words are not what you said they were:
“You are going to have to be a lot more emotionally intelligent than stating you can't handle waiting 6 months.”
“If you can't stand up to this, perhaps the DS is more surgery than you can handle.”
“Many of us think that access to the DS should require an IQ test and an Emotional Intelligence test.”
Nobody said that you are “stupid and retarded emotionally.” You could read it that way, by marinating it in your own stew of issues, but that’s NOT what was said.
But whatever it takes to get your loins girded for the battle with the insurance company, and the many fights you’re going to have to engage to keep yourself healthy living with the DS for the rest of your life. It’s not fair or right for people to go into this surgery without an appreciation and commitment forcwhat is going to be required of them.
But the vast majority of us would tell you it is very much worth it.
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Grilled marinated lamb chop and seasoned buttery roasted potatoes for dinner. I might steam some yellow squash and drown them in butter and salt too. There’s 5/6ths of a key lime pie in the fridge, but I’m not feeling like having pie tonight. Maybe I’ll slice and lightly sugar the strawberries, whip up some fresh whipped cream and put some of each into one of the premade shortbread shells I bought. Depends on how I feel in 3 hours or so. I still eat multiple small meals per day at 15 years out.
“You are going to have to be a lot more emotionally intelligent than stating you can't handle waiting 6 months.”
“If you can't stand up to this, perhaps the DS is more surgery than you can handle.”
“Many of us think that access to the DS should require an IQ test and an Emotional Intelligence test.”
Nobody said that you are “stupid and retarded emotionally.” You could read it that way, by marinating it in your own stew of issues, but that’s NOT what was said.
But whatever it takes to get your loins girded for the battle with the insurance company, and the many fights you’re going to have to engage to keep yourself healthy living with the DS for the rest of your life. It’s not fair or right for people to go into this surgery without an appreciation and commitment forcwhat is going to be required of them.
But the vast majority of us would tell you it is very much worth it.
~~~~~~~~~
Grilled marinated lamb chop and seasoned buttery roasted potatoes for dinner. I might steam some yellow squash and drown them in butter and salt too. There’s 5/6ths of a key lime pie in the fridge, but I’m not feeling like having pie tonight. Maybe I’ll slice and lightly sugar the strawberries, whip up some fresh whipped cream and put some of each into one of the premade shortbread shells I bought. Depends on how I feel in 3 hours or so. I still eat multiple small meals per day at 15 years out.