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Someone asked me this question today...

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and it was so hard to answer. If you could choose for your LO to either be completely healthy OR completely happy for the rest of their life which would you choose? I honestly didn't know which one  would choose. On the one hand, it would break my heart to see my child suffer through illness. However, at the same time it would also break my heart for my child to be healthy but unhappy and suffering through a miserable existence. I dunno, I think I might be leaning more towards happy. Which would you choose?
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  • Mrslove78Mrslove78 member
    I'm hormonal, so the thought of one or the other for DS makes me sad.  I don't want to think about that.
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  • mieuxmieuxmieuxmieux member
    There is no real answer for a question like that. I couldn't choose.
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  • joraejorae

    It's questions like these that tie my stomach in knots. Healthy and NEVER happy or illness and sometimes happy?

    Too hard to choose, can't do it. 

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  • BabyCakes3BabyCakes3
    Yikes. What a choice. I agree. Probably happy. Healthy doesn't mean much if your unhappy, right?
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  • Alex26Alex26 member
    I dont like these types of questions.  It's like asking if you would like to know the day in which you will die.  I just dont want to think about it.
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  • AFC921AFC921
    It was a co-worker who asked me this today (one without children I might add). She was asking me how Riley was doing and then just randomly came out with this question. She is kind of the philosophical type lol. But anyway, yeah it kinda creeped me out. I don't think anyone who does not have children really understand the weight of a question like that.
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  • susanmosleysusanmosley member

    I think that question is kind of dumb.

    Can't you just lump "mental health" into health and thus happy is included in health?

    Again, that is a ridiculous question.   

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  • kyfirewifekyfirewife member
    Happy.

    If they're able to be happy thru the poor health, I'd rather they were happy.

    One of the reasons health issues are so difficult for us to see in our loved ones is because they are suffering. So if DD was completely happy, she wouldn't be suffering, right? Even if she was suffering from an illness or other health concern. So I pick happy.
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  • kyfirewifekyfirewife member
    Happy.

    If they're able to be happy thru the poor health, I'd rather they were happy.

    One of the reasons health issues are so difficult for us to see in our loved ones is because they are suffering. So if DD was completely happy, she wouldn't be suffering, right? Even if she was suffering from an illness or other health concern. So I pick happy.

    I can take the weight of worrying and stressing about my DD's health, if it meant she would be happy.
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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member
    I'd choose "completely healthy", because I'd lump in mental health and get both healthy and happy. But, I'm sure that's cheating.
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  • jsugrinjsugrin member
    Happy all the way!  If one of my DS had an illness yet was happy and positive with it then I see their lives as being so much more rich and full than to be healthy yet unhappy.  I may be a bit biased as I've lived with uncurable cancer since the age of 12 and really it's not anywhere near as big of a deal as is sounds.
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