This list has been so quiet. I hope that everyone is enjoying the holidays.

 

I have a question, have you dealt with people who thought they were helping, but they really weren't? I was walking into McDonald's the other day. It was raining and slippery and my husband was holding my arm and helping me in. A crew worker saw me and decide to help us. She came out and started pulling my arm. I started resisting because I was worried about falling so she pulled harder. Thank goodness my husband was holding me up.

 

Another incident was at an all you can eat buffet. It was an exercise where I had to show my husband that I could get my own plate and make it back to our table. This was relatively soon after getting out of the hospital. A woman came up and offered to help and I said, no thank you and that I was fine. I almost got into a tug of war with my plate. I had to explain to her the whole thing about the doctor wanting me to do this as an exercise as my husband kept an eye on me close by to prove that I could do it.

 

I know that both of these people were trying to help out of the goodness of their heart, but they really weren't. I can laugh about both of those situations now, but originally they didn't seem so funny. I should have said something to the woman who was trying to help me over the ice, but wasn't sure how to tell her that she was not really being helpful. I was also worried about sounding panicked, which I was. Of course, I would have been more panicked if I had fallen and broken something.