I caught this segment about chronic illness...

[tiredmommy]

on the Today Show and thought of many of our members/difficult children:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=ddf35765-e1ef-42a6-86f7-40a045a44066&f=05&fg=email

 

[totoro]

Thanks TM- I sent this to my mother in law she is in Chicago at one of the big hopsitals as we speak with her and her husband best friend who has non-operable lung cancer that has spead... and her mother's Alzheimer's is getting worse, She has her own family junk going on as well- lots of stress.

 

[tiredmommy]

I liked that the young doctors were being trained to think of the patient as a person first and not just a diagnosis. Also, I felt heartened that a man with bipolar was included as a sufferer of a chronic illness. Every little bit helps create better awareness.