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Friends and family need to be off the clock too, be respectful if anyone chooses to do this.



The flip side is that they sometimes genuinely want to help. As you say, be respectful.

My elderly neighbour (who I saw maybe twice in a decade) had her daughter visiting, and the daughter came by and suggested I might like to change the dressings on her mother’s ulcers because I’m “used to looking at gross stuff.”

I’m a radiographer. I’m pretty much useless in every situation unless someone has a a high field magnets and wants pictures.


Right, I am speaking more about close relationships where they’d offer help without you even having to ask, not some long-lost friend that you only ever bother when you need their medical opinion.




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