This Christmas family gathering was especially dysfuncional. My aunt suffers from a bad case of Rheumatoid Arthritis (I hope I got the h´s in the right places with these words!). What I first witnessed was that she arrived with watery, reddish eyes. Soon she was telling to my mother how MMS has failed and the doctor has confirmed her bones are worse and she has submitted to his allopathic treatment which she hates (because of the so called side effects). Telling her that she wont be able to work soon.
My aunt has developed large patches of dark skin and he is CONSTANTLY scratching her skin, when not rubbing her extrememities. These patches look awful. I always wonder how she looks naked and how are they are doing in their marriage. She got the illness young and is around the 35´s now.
In the middle of the Christmas dinner my aunt left the table and lied down in the same room than us in a sofa, covered herself with a blanket and waited for the drugs to make a dent on her rheumatic fever. I felt bad because I didn´t say anything and it felt like I wasn´t being empathic with my chronically ill relative, but everyone in the table also ignored her and I didn´t know what to do. Eventually her husband went there and they had a brief and louder than normal exchange. My grandmother and my mother told her that she had to be "optimistic" about this new treatment (which is just immune supression as you would imagine, although some people say it helped them). She was still crying then but stopped and recovered enough to be around and fake normality in less than an hour.
Just something that happened in our Christmas dinner. The ambient overall wasn´t especially unpleasant (our family reunions usually suck anyway, although this time my uncle put a video of a comedian on the TV that made us laugh genuinely). But since I know I have autoimmunity brewing inside and after all she is my aunt (we have never been close or anything) it is a tragic sight. I would like to help but I haven´t even cured myself yet so I don´t feel confident at all to talk to her about it and I feel like she does not respect me much anyway. Maybe that is just an assumption though...
My aunt has developed large patches of dark skin and he is CONSTANTLY scratching her skin, when not rubbing her extrememities. These patches look awful. I always wonder how she looks naked and how are they are doing in their marriage. She got the illness young and is around the 35´s now.
In the middle of the Christmas dinner my aunt left the table and lied down in the same room than us in a sofa, covered herself with a blanket and waited for the drugs to make a dent on her rheumatic fever. I felt bad because I didn´t say anything and it felt like I wasn´t being empathic with my chronically ill relative, but everyone in the table also ignored her and I didn´t know what to do. Eventually her husband went there and they had a brief and louder than normal exchange. My grandmother and my mother told her that she had to be "optimistic" about this new treatment (which is just immune supression as you would imagine, although some people say it helped them). She was still crying then but stopped and recovered enough to be around and fake normality in less than an hour.
Just something that happened in our Christmas dinner. The ambient overall wasn´t especially unpleasant (our family reunions usually suck anyway, although this time my uncle put a video of a comedian on the TV that made us laugh genuinely). But since I know I have autoimmunity brewing inside and after all she is my aunt (we have never been close or anything) it is a tragic sight. I would like to help but I haven´t even cured myself yet so I don´t feel confident at all to talk to her about it and I feel like she does not respect me much anyway. Maybe that is just an assumption though...
