Join In - How You Doing?

I've noticed that when someone asks me "How You Doing"...my usual response is OK or I'm OK. Perhaps it's always been this way, but I notice it more in retirement idle time.

When a solicitor asks me this, I usually or ignore or gently hang up.

My response has been embellished in the last couple yrs as so much change I more anger comes out but I'm watching that now.

 

Haha. I usually just say, "fine." Just conditioned to that response I suppose. Nothing's more boring than when you ask someone how they're doing and you get their entire health history for the past 8 years.

 

Depends on who is asking and whether you think they really care about how you are doing. If we ask @Beth Gallagher how she is doing, it is because we know her history and really care about how she is doing.

 

One member on another group, who goes on in all directions on posts, went on to say no one really cares blah blah blah and he never even answered -- I callled him on his so called reply, which there was none. For me OK has always been my reply and some people do care and a lot don't.

 

Unless I know the person asking, I don't respond to the question.

 

What a nice thing to say, Don.

I guess this is the correct thread to ask, "how's your wife?" I hope she is continuing to improve.

 

Yep, she is almost back to normal after a short course of prednisone. Thanks for asking. I think most of us care about the others here. Are you recovering or are the lymphatic issues still plaguing you?

 

Glad to hear your wife is better. I'm doing OK, thanks for asking. I still worry about the lymphedema but so far it is mild and not bothersome. If I get some swelling in my arm/hand, it usually resolves itself overnight.

I heard that the House is voting on the Lymphedema Treatment Act this week so I will be calling my representatives again tomorrow. This important legislation adds Medicare coverage for medically necessary compression garments for people suffering with LE. I don't understand how this has not been covered before, considering the number of older Americans suffering with this affliction. (Regular insurance usually covers the compression garments but Medicare does NOT.... and they are expensive.)

If anyone here is so inclined, PLEASE contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to support this important legislation. There is information on this website that will tell you how to contact them, and even provides a template for what to say. The website is LymphedemaTreatmentAct.org.

The legislation is Lymphedema Treatment Act, bill number S.1315 in the Senate and H.R.3630 in the House.

 

It does definitely depend on whom is asking.
Unless I’m feeling otherwise, my normal response is, “I’m doing well, thank you. And you”?
Note: The almost compulsory follow up of “and you” is often omitted at the gym and at a doctor’s office depending on whom I am talking to.

Note 2: There’s a very loquacious fellow who comes in at the gym and going beyond a “howdy” will elicit an in depth response dealing with his brain surgery, his forgetfulness and the fact that his wife drops him off at 0900 and probably won’t pick him up until around 2 PM etc. The one ended conversation could go well into a 5 minute oration so I avoid anything that might give him the idea that I wish to converse.
However, if said fellow does ask me how I am doing I respond with, I’m doing well R……….and thank you for asking.

 

i regard "how you doing" as just a general comment like hello...good morning...or similar

 

If they are wearing an expensive suit with a bulge outlining a gun and asked, "How u doin," with a heavy Jersey accent, I say smiling without hesitation, "I am doin great and thanks for askin kind sir." Then I move along at a hurried pace.

 

We just hang up,if we answer at all.