Vent about peoples lack of understanding......

This isn't about lupus but I'm many of you can relate. My daughter,12, was planning on staying at her friends house tomorrow tonight for a sleepover and she mentioned yesterday that her friend had a nasty cold at school and she didn't think she should go. My daughter has kidney disease. She is and has been on immuno suppressants since she was two. I agreed with my daughter that we should probably hold off on the sleepover . I called the other mom and said as much. Her response was " its just a cold whats the big deal" I calmly explained that a cold can be a very big deal to someone like my kid and how and why. The other mom seemed really annoyed . I offered to have the sleepover at our house as soon as her kid was better. I just don't get why its so hard for people to understand. what a cold means to a healthy person is generally a minor thing but to someone with a chronic illness it can be a severe set back.

I've been staying at my sister's house a lot last year and this year tending to her due to illness. Her husband has put in CF and florescent lights everywhere in the house. Now they both know they make me sicker, but they haven't made any attempt to change them over to LED.

My sister needs me here right now, but I'm in such pain right now.

I just had a friend come down with the flu. Her husband is out of town for work and she has twin 9 year olds. She asked me to take her son for the 3 day weekend so she can rest. She got annoyed when I said no. Besides my condition, my husband is fighting a gi/fibro thing.