This is part question, part rant, but my mother had breast cancer surgery a few months ago and just completed radiation therapy. She has to take a medication for five years. She has red hair and is fair skinned and freckled. She announced to me she wanted to come to my pool today (96 degrees and not a cloud in the sky!) but couldn't reach me and so now she wants to come down and get in my tanning bed. I politely asked her if she was out of her mind. She then started carrying on about how it doesn't matter and they (the doctors) want her to get some sun, etc. And when I didn't go along with her, she started saying it didn't matter if she lives or dies anyway, so what's the difference. I finally told her, "You are irrational, and I cannot have this conversation with you. I have to hang up. Goodbye." I'm sure I will never hear the end of this. Please tell me I'm not nuts. Is she in any position to be getting in a tanning bed or sitting in the blistering sun?!
2006-07-16
13:08:59
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