Al, it sounds like you are surrounded by the same people as me.
Let me add a few more of their thoughts:

(This one was actually said to my face) "Being put in the hospital for IVIG will be a nice break for you, like a small vacation"
I'm not kidding, this was actually said to me as I was fighting to stay alive with desperate measures.

-- He used to be so ambitious but he's gotten lazy in recent times. He just sleeps alot instead of doing something useful.
-- He sure seems to worry about his health. He learns all the names of his medications and reads about procedures being done to him like he thinks he is a doctor or something.
-- I don't like doctors so I don't go (this one has been said to me. As if I ENJOY going , wasting my time, my life, my money on this illness.)