JeanneS: This year I did NOT send a form letter. I started to write about the thing that absorbs my whole life -- dialysis -- and then I suddenly remembered all the medical detail of my grandparents' letters and then my parents' letters and I thought to myself, o hell, that is so boring!!!! So this year I mostly wrote “no news is good news” thinking that would satisfy everyone without killing them off. But NOOOOO, I have gotten repeated calls asking if I am ok. Evidently, no news is NOT good news. And they aren't sending a card since they took the time to call me (better than a card they say).

Question: Are you receptive to listening to someone tell about their medical problems?