Be Careful What You Teach Your Children, Haunted by their Learning
My old auntie would attack her medically trained children when they offered health suggestions, showed concern for her, wanted to help her. "Stay out of my life, I decide everything about my body," she said and attacked them when saying it. They became intimidated over the years. She had a bowel obstruction for ten days before she casually mentioned it to her gathered children and my mom and sister at her birthday party in California. Her strong and mildly alienated daughter, the one who feared... Sign in to see full entry.