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Originally Posted by TabulaRasa
It didn't have to be, though. I was lucky, but I could have been signing on for long-term treatment, surgeries, mastectomies, disease spreading to other systems of the body...my fiance and I had no way of knowing that on the day I came home from a checkup and said, "My new doc scheduled a mammogram for me, seems like she thinks something's up with that cyst."
A guy who was very "I can't be with somebody WHO IS SICKLY," wouldn't have stuck around.
The OP seems to have a lot of experiences and viewpoints that are counter to what most of us experience on a daily basis, I guess it doesn't surprise me that he seems to run into a disproportionate number of women who are chronically ill (or that that is his perception).
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I've mentioned it a few times, but for a while I got my IV infusions in a cancer treatment center (they didn't know where else to put me) so I became friends with quite a few of the patients who floated in and out. It was always shocking to me the amount of women whose partners up and left when they got diagnosed. I mean... it was a lot more than I would have guessed. I didn't notice it as much with the men whose wives/girlfriends were often present during treatment. Maybe women are a bit more nurturing in that respect. It always broke my heart when a woman would tell me her husband/boyfriend refused to be involved because 'hospitals/doctors' were frightening or that he got 'bored' during the chemo treatment. I rarely heard a complaint out of the girlfriends/wives though.
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