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Feeling Useless?

On It — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:27:21 GMT

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On It — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:28:38 GMT

While watching this year's swimming events, my new game will be "find the lifeguard."

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cheriere — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:13:03 GMT

@On It wrote:
While watching this year's swimming events, my new game will be "find the lifeguard."

lol, I really never thought about there being a lifeguard at the Olympics.😃

Re: Feeling Useless?

PhilaLady1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:30:31 GMT

This reminds me of when my doctor asks me if I am feeling stressed (more than the usual amount that we all have). I think whatever stress is going on, mine can't be any more than her job of a doctor. People's lives in her hands, on call day and night. I am always reluctant to say "yes I'm stressed".

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Still Raining — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:40:18 GMT

😂😂😂

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wagirl — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:41:50 GMT

Did a belly laugh over that one!!!!

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millieshops — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:59:08 GMT

@PhilaLady1 What stresses one person might energize someone else. I actually thought of 2 times I noticed that. Once long ago when my brother announced he was taking on a huge additional territory in his business, my mother worried it would be too much stress. His response, "Mom, it's not stress for me."

In a more recent conversation among 5 women talking around a table, the oldest woman at the table asked the youngest who was learning to perform abdominal surgery if the TV versions we see are accurate. While we might think cutting into a patient would be scary, that young woman came alive as she explained the details of making the cut and reaching in to feel the target of that surgery! Not something I could watch let alone do, but if it stressed this future doctor, it certainly seem that way. If I need a surgery, I want a doctor like her!

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on the bay — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:33:40 GMT

@millieshops,

This sounds like a dinner conversation when my niece, nephew, and one daughter is there. They start talking about detailed things of hearts and insides with gleeful sparkling eyes! At the dinner table!

My sister and I have no idea how these 3 came from us- we are the least likely to pursue a career as a dr, paramedic, or nurse!

I say, "Didn't your mother (me) teach you what is an appropriate conversation at the table?!"

They laugh and continue quietly resuming their tales of rescue.

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millieshops — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:40:15 GMT

@on the bay By the time that medical question was asked and answered, we were long past lunch -- and I'm glad. Maybe my brain once worked well enough to think of a career in medicine. but I knew better than to try that because I don't even look at the process when I go for blood tests!

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Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:59:28 GMT

@millieshops I'm with you. I can't look at injections or bloodtests either.

When my daughter was young, I went into the Dentist's office with her , so she woudn't be nervous.

I fainted, when they gave her a shot of novacaine. They had to put me in another Dentist's chair.