“It could be worse. Imagine if you broke both legs.”  We have some odd ways of cheering each other up, don’t we?  Most of our bone-headed comments to suffering people are offered with passable intentions, and most of those comments are judged by their recipients as misguided rather than malicious, but it sure would be nice to improve our record of encouragement in the midst of pain.  Read the full blog here.

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