SOMETIMES...'donating' our disease, on a temporary basis, would be ... instructive.

But I read the headline and was grinning about something--(forgot what).

Tell your mom that WORK gave me AS! I NEVER had this until I began working. Ergo.

All seriousness aside, ask your mother to "THINK: Who knows me better than you, and have you ever known me to be a slacker? SUDDENLY at the age of 26 (or 30 or whenever) I decided that I'm sick? Does that make sense or did you never really know ME after all?!" That is something like I would say to a mother so out of touch.

Hope that she, like Mark Twain's father, wises up rapidly,
John