Posted by Dinah on January 6, 2007, at 10:31:06
In reply to Re: I'm sure it's nothing » Dinah, posted by mair on January 5, 2007, at 22:42:31
I'm glad it was benign after all that anxiety Mair.
I'm one of those people who use worrying as a positive thing on occasion. It's only when I get stuck in a loop that it becomes a problem. I figure if I plan for the worst possible contingencies, then nothing looks really all that scary.
And I won't be as frozen with surprise as I was with the awful hair stylist, or for that matter with the gynecologist. I was so certain (and really am still so certain) that my lymph node is just swollen because I've had that longstanding infection that's now hiding out in my body somewhere (I still have been running a low grade fever fairly continuously), that she shocked me silly when she didn't pat me on the head and send me away. I left with the same fixed smile on my face that I entered with, muttering, I'm sure it's an infected lymph node.
I'm much better off if my brain is primed to different possibilities, however remote.
I was kind of surprised that my therapist understood that, but he never fails to surprise me from time to time, as well as I think I know him.
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