Thank you. (sm)

Thank you for such a nice post.  I can especially relate to two of the words:  frustrating and tears.

It must be much worse for your son than it is for me, though, since he's a child, and children can be very cruel.  As for me, I don't go out much, and if I'm home, trying to speak and it starts, I just shut up.  My family understands what that means. 

As far as rehabilitation, it was just a very minor ministroke, and I don't even understand why they kept me in the hospital overnight.  There is absolutely no residual, other than the stuttering, which doesn't happen all the time.  Believe me, with multiple hospitalizations for chronic pancreatitis/cystic fibrosis in the last three years (I stopped counting at 10), my stuttering is the least of my problems.  I was just so frustrated and embarrassed when trying to speak to the person at my doctor's office.  We were discussing medications and dosages, and I needed to straighten out an error she had made when reading something to me.  It was very important (to me) that she understand what I had to say, and I wound up in tears and apologizing, trying to explain the problem with my speech.  She was very nice, of course. 

I appreciate your prayers very much, and I'm sending along my own to you, your son and also to the kids who are being so mean, that they will hopefully grow and become kinder to your son.  It sounds like you're a great mom and that you two are lucky to have each other.  (If I could find a hug icon on here, I'd insert it right here!)

I hope you have a great weekend.

• Stuttering dictators - Going Crazy
  • Are you totally stupid or what? - Offendedmomof stutteringchild
    • She said she had difficult report by a stuttering ESL. Not derogatry. Get over it. - nm
    • I voted to have your post removed - sm - MT
    • I dated a stutterer once... - SAM
    • Hubby has stuttered his way to a 6-figure engineering job...nm - Hang in there, mom.
      • Do you work as a hobby? nm - nm
    • please don't make assumptions - sa
    • OP is making fun of a person's speech? nm - I agree with YOU!
    • You seem a bit hostile. SM - observer
      • Nurse practitioner? - That makes no sense
      • Absolutely I am being hostile - offendedmomofstutteringchild
        • I was not offended by the comment - Have a Stuttering Child, Too
  • When I worked at TransTech, there was a doctor on one of the accounts sm - LTMT
    • I had a dictator like that once. (sm) - Marmann
      • Me, too sm - Jadie
        • That's a beautiful story! (sm) - Marmann
          • thanks for sharing - offendedmomofstutteringchild
            • Thank you. (sm) - Marmann
            • Now I'm offended at your post, where you imply that - janitors are the opposite spectrum of
              • janitor remark - offendedmomofstutteringchild
                • I actually have always hated to be called a typist. I do not just copy type. sm - LTMT
              • Re; Politically correct terms - fatcat
          • He was all that and more (sm) - Jadie
            • Very small world indeed! (sm) - Marmann
    • how about an ESL doc with a stutter? - sa
      • I used to do an ESL doctor that stuttered and sometimes it was really interesting - - anon
      • I do an ESL who stutters sm - He is just FINE
        • would never even think of refusing to - sa
      • Now THAT'S s-s-s-sc-sc-scary! - Eeek!

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