HW #21 Comments I made

To Sarah:
Firstly, thank you for giving me credit. That was very sweet of you. :)

Your post was very clear and organized. I found at least one insightful comment in each paragraph and found your thoughts very deep and made good connections. A line in particular that I liked was, "It does seem sort of strange though how we often become obsessed with the disease within the person, we pull every string to slow down time, to cure them." I strongly agree with that second paragraph and that statement because it's just what people do naturally when their loved ones get ill. We become persistant in making the person live longer, and end up forgetting at times about who they are as an individual.

To Stephanie:
thought your post was very organized and easy to follow; I enjoyed reading it. As Jay mentioned in the above comment, you provided very insightful questions that I did not even think about. One part of the post that caught my attention was, "I found this to be powerful because the "normal" thing is for the guy to work and the women usually stays home and raises the kids, but to hear that the roles were switched gave me some hope that "normal", might not be so normal after all." I liked how this connects back to the overall unit 'normal is weird,' and I found it insightful that you felt a sense of hope that what our society considers to be 'normal' isn't really that normal. I also agree with the statement though, and I think that some of the assumptions of what is taken as 'normal' isn't always right. In a way, Beth proved that it can be normal for the gender roles to switch in families.

To Jay:
Overall, I enojoyed reading your post. One of the insights that caught my attention was, "At some point they need to maintain a distance and fully remove themselves emotionally. Is it better for a doctor to be cold and calculating or emotionally connected?" I thought you raised a question that was not only insightful, but a question people don't like to think about. Personally, I don't have a clear answer to that question. I think a doctor needs to maintain a balance between distance and connection with a patient, but that's easier to say than done.