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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Firstly on behalf of your mother I've got to say, wrist injuries are notoriously difficult to fix, sometimes they are literally unfixable, despite surgery, PT etc. And you can live in pain for a very long time.

As for the complaining, my mother complained to me for about 20 years about her various surgeries and discomforts. I once asked her outright "why do you only ever complain? there's nothing I can do to fix this for you and Im' tired of hearing about it, can we not just find something else to discuss?" - and she was a woman with advanced degrees and a career who was not a teenage bride limited by her world experience.

Her answer at that time was [b]this "I suppose the discomfort is just always at the front of my mind and it upsets me"
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she was obsessive and never stopped, right up until she died. And then I enjoyed the silence of that.[/quote]

It's really sad that she was in so much pain that it's all she can think about. I have a close friend with arthritis. She's often in pain and tries to hide it and still be active, but sometimes she just breaks down because the pain is too much.[/quote]

yes that is true (PP you're responding to)[/quote]

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