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JMCKUSICK

(3,171 posts)
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 11:45 PM Sunday

Please exercise caution when making flippant comments re:

trumps issues with Edema or how this means he's ready to die etc.....

There are many of us who only recently have been diagnosed with chronic health conditions that will add uncertainty, anxiety, pain and confusion to our medical future. The fear that comes with a diagnosis like CHF, COPD, kidney disease, or issues with blood clots as examples is bad enough.
To happen on a post that encourages his demise due to imagined diagnosis that may be similar to our own, especially with the predictions or wishes of imminent death can and will have the unintended consequence of traumatizing the reader who just learned about their own issue.
Please just keep in mind whether for him or our fellow readers, our words have the power to hurt or heal. let's choose wisely.
Thank you,
John

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Please exercise caution when making flippant comments re: (Original Post) JMCKUSICK Sunday OP
Absolutely right, my dear JMCKUSICK . . . CaliforniaPeggy Sunday #1
if Trump was diagnosed with kidney stones Skittles Yesterday #2
Of course not Skittles, JMCKUSICK Yesterday #4
agreed. FoxNewsSucks Yesterday #5
I've had kidney stones and I wish Trump would have kidney stones the size of golf balls with razors embedded in them. skylucy Yesterday #7
you get it Skittles Yesterday #9
Wish I could rec that post 500 times. Orrex Yesterday #10
Thank you! CBHagman Yesterday #3
Understood. I was taken aback seeing the edema in BOTH ankles. calimary Yesterday #6
I stronly encourage everyone.... Think. Again. Yesterday #8
Agreed Think. Again JMCKUSICK 19 hrs ago #13
I wish him well enough to feel regret IbogaProject Yesterday #11
The big lesson, which will be extremely painful for any plutocrat to learn Warpy Yesterday #12

Skittles

(166,087 posts)
2. if Trump was diagnosed with kidney stones
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:11 AM
Yesterday

I would hope they had antlers

that doesn't mean I wish that for everyone with kidney stones

JMCKUSICK

(3,171 posts)
4. Of course not Skittles,
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:17 AM
Yesterday

What I intended to try to address is the seemingly innocuous comments that have the unintended consequence of creating anxiety or fear in someone who isn't yet completely familiar with their own condition or has recently recognized that very edema in their own ankles and are waiting to see a Dr.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,217 posts)
5. agreed.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:18 AM
Yesterday

I don't know why some individuals can't distinguish the specific tRump-related wishes.

I wish he'd fucking died decades ago. Doesn't mean I wish that on everyone.

skylucy

(3,955 posts)
7. I've had kidney stones and I wish Trump would have kidney stones the size of golf balls with razors embedded in them.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:39 AM
Yesterday

CBHagman

(17,317 posts)
3. Thank you!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:15 AM
Yesterday

I've never been comfortable with the armchair diagnosis approach, full stop, and I hate the way people take a ghoulish interest in Trump's conditions. The way he treats people, the Constitution, and the law is the only issue I care about.

And yes, anyone reading a thread could be under severe pressure from a recent diagnosis or a family member's condition.

calimary

(87,086 posts)
6. Understood. I was taken aback seeing the edema in BOTH ankles.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:20 AM
Yesterday

I have seen swelling after injuries and illness, but THAT photo looked really uncomfortable.

Think. Again.

(22,412 posts)
8. I stronly encourage everyone....
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:41 AM
Yesterday

...who faces any type of health issue to inform themselves on their specific health situation , and to pay no attention to any chatter about anyone else's condition.

When trump's spokesperson claimed his edema was no big deal, was 'normal', and that he is in the best of health, I immediately worried for people who might then believe that signs of their own edema is nothing to be concerned about and that they might not take the appropriate steps to care for their health.

Each individual's various health concerns are different, no one should be thinking that another person's situation is the same as theirs just because they share a similar issue, and no one should be concerned about, or pay any attention to, what anyone says about anyone else's condition. We should only care about what our doctors say about our own conditions.

IbogaProject

(4,663 posts)
11. I wish him well enough to feel regret
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:10 AM
Yesterday

But I would love for him to be disabled enough to be unable to continue public speaking. I have been hoping he goes out unable to speak clearly w phycical limits as a karmic justice for mocking that disabled reporter back in 16.

Warpy

(113,703 posts)
12. The big lesson, which will be extremely painful for any plutocrat to learn
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:42 AM
Yesterday

is that no matter how much wealth and power he has amassed, it won't stop his body from aging and deteriorating right out from under him. Then he'll die and rot and there is nothing he can do about that. Even the kings of antiquity who tried to take it all with them couldn't escape their fate.

It's universal and vast sums of money sunk into embalming and cryo storage will only delay it a little.

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