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Don't be too hard on yourself. There is a balance to be had between health negligence and being a hypochondriac. After all, it is very, very seldom that our aches and pains turn out to be something very serious. And when it is very serious you have very little trouble discerning it in both yourself and the people you are close to. I have a friend who had an ectopic pregnancy and it progressed very much the same as your sister's. At first her pains could have been any number of fairly innocuous conditions, but when it became apparent that something was really wrong there was no mistaking it and no mistaking that it was time to get to a doctor. It's good to strike a balance between the two extremes and become at once, not overly reliant on doctors to diagnose our every little ache and pain and good listeners to our bodies.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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