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From Fibromyalgia: Livng with Others by Deborah A. Barrett, under the heading "Communicate Clearly":

Why is this one so hard? We need to express our needs to others in ways that are simple, direct and polite. Often people who care about us want to help but do not know what to do. However, asking for help is not a neutral act. By asking, we acknowledge weakness and dependence. Therefore physical discomfort is not the only factor in a decision to seek help or special treatment. As I see it, we suffer not only from physical discomfort. We also mourn for the things we can no longer do, and we fear standing out, calling attention to ourselves because we cannot keep up with others.

From Fibromyalgia: Livng with Others by Deborah A. Barrett, under the heading "Communicate Clearly":

Why is this one so hard? We need to express our needs to others in ways that are simple, direct and polite. Often people who care about us want to help but do not know what to do. However, asking for help is not a neutral act. By asking, we acknowledge weakness and dependence. Therefore physical discomfort is not the only factor in a decision to seek help or special treatment. As I see it, we suffer not only from physical discomfort. We also mourn for the things we can no longer do, and we fear standing out, calling attention to ourselves because we cannot keep up with others.

Something I forgot to post about... A couple of days ago I heard a radio commercial with a long setup, where the punch line amounted to, "When you can do what D'Glenn has been doing for the past three years, that's the business side of mLife."

It was basicallly, "You're on your way to a meeting, already a couple of miles from your computer, and email comes in saying that the meeting location has changed. When your computer automatically forwards that email to your phone..."

On the "neener neener so there" side, I've been having my email -- after the filters that sort out the most obvious spam and sort list mail into a different folder for each mailing list -- copied to my phone since I got a cell phone. At first, it was just the first 110 bytes of each message, using Short Message Service. (I had the whole message forwarded, but the phone could only display that much of it.) A year or so ago, when I got a phone with wireless-web capabiltes, I changed it so that the entire message gets forwarded to my web-based, phone-accessible email address, and just the sender and subject lines get sent via SMS. (Why send it both ways? Because the web-based email only works when the phone is already in data mode, and SMS works when it's in voice mode. So the phone beeps to tell me I have new email, and I can switch to browser mode to read it ifwhen I feel like it.) What's my point? Only that doing this is not that hard, and I thought it was a just plain obvious thing to do.

On the whiny/grumbly side, it doesn't seem to be working today -- I get "network not responding" when I try to connect in browser mode, so ether AT&T is having network problems with PocketNet, or they've screwed up my account Yet Again and customer support will have to turn things back on again. It was working fine as of last night.