ATTENDING A LECTURE
Shortly after my mother was diagnosed with diabetes, she decided to attend a lecture on understanding type 1 and 2 diabetes at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She had read about the presentation in the paper, and decided that it would be a good idea for her to go. She sat and listened to the hour and a half long presentation, and said that she was utterly bored by most of it. She said that there was not any information that the doctors had not told her or that she had read on the Internet. What she did find helpful though, was talking to other people at the lecture that had been suffering from diabetes. She said it is one thing to be able to read about it, but to be able to talk to people that had gone through or were going through the same exact things that she was struggling through made her feel better. People traded advice, and talked about the different things they had done and tried. When she got home, she joked that it would have been a more productive use of her time to skip the presentation all together and just show up at the end to talk to all of the people there.
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