Why can't we all take our own advice?

[Puller]

wrdsilly - yes, i too worry that i'm creating some self-fulfilling prophecy by worrying about it too much. So, you can't win. can you? don't worry enough and you get the dreaded disease - worry to much, you get the dreaded disease. UGH.

I just remembered another situation similar to my breast cancer one. This one may actually be the BIGGER reason i freak over anything to do with my son.
last year my son had a mole on his butt. he's only 6.  i thought it was a weird color but let it go. about 6 months later i happen to see it again and it was larger.  i took him to the dermatologist. i admit i was a little nervous about it but i can't remember being freaky over it. i just took him to the dr.  the dr told me that she didn't think it was anything. but she removed it.
a week later they called to say it was atypical and he would have to have the rest of the mole removed. because of where it was, he would have to have general athesthesia and outpatient surgery.  thankfully it all went well and they removed it.
but now, that leaves me with this feeling. what if i hadn't been on top of it? what if I had just let it go again? would that little mole have become something else?  so, now i'm on high alert. i stay that way.

reece

If it makes you feel better your not going to give yourself the disease your worried about but you can by thinking about the symptoms manifest them.

[mommy_2_4_babies]

First of all I would just like to say  I would love to be able to take my own word I think I would feel at least 90% better