'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
We have a 4 gen picture from when my great-grandmother was still alive. She died when I was in college, which now strikes me as quite remarkable.
We should also have multiple 4 gen pictures since my nephew and niece were born, as both my grandmother's died after that, but no 5.
That is so awesome Aimee.
DH's grandparents lived with us for a time, so I may have some informal 4 gen pics around somewhere.
I had my dad's parents, my mother's mother and father, though he was estranged, and my mother's grandmother. My mother's father died in 97 or 98, right after I got married- but I never got to meet him. There was some regret, but not really a sense of great loss. My great grandmother died shortly after, which means my mother's mother will live to torture me for a very long time yet. This is the first grandparent I've lost where I really feel a huge hole in my life.
Back from doctor. Verdict: there's a Balrog in my goolie!
Er, wait. Just what my doctor described as a "serious" bladder infection. (I have a Balrog in my bladder!) So I have antibiotics, along with orders to take it easy this weekend, drink a lot of water, and avoid sex. (I must have looked pretty stricken at the last one, because she laughed and said, "Really -- it wouldn't be enjoyable until the infection clears up, I promise!")
So I have antibiotics, along with orders to take it easy this weekend, drink a lot of water, and avoid sex.
Oy. Sorry Tep. At least it's easily treatable. Much cuddling this weekend! Er.
there's a Balrog in my goolie!
Pushing Gandalf up there is *really* gonna hurt.
The 4 and 5 gen pics are cool. We can't have one of those until somebody in my generation has a kid. No prospects for that on the near horizon...
I want my doctor to tell me to avoid sex. I think it would be funny.
We're not here to cause no trouble, we're just here to do the double-post shuffle.
My grandmother lived to see her first great-great grandchild, which was really kind of neat. Her son (the baby's great grandfather) was already dead though, so the generational picture was incomplete.
About the small girl story, I'm not sure what to think of it. But I hate these stories, because people I hardly know are gonna expect me to be a bioethicist now...I'm much better at fake forensics, actually...armchair profiling, that kind of thing. On one hand, it seems like messing with nature's integrity, but nature didn't give a fuck about that when it made nine year old three month olds, did it? Huh. still can't take a side. Grandfathers: I wish I'd gotten to know Mom's dad better...wish he could have seen me grow up. We would have appreciated each other now.
erika, I'm right there with you (except nobody expects me to be a bioethicist about it). I think it's awful, and I'm a little scared a doctor would do it, because I don't see a medical reason for it. And yet, it makes a lot of sense, and that girl is so vulnerable. If she had to be institutionalized, she lacks the capacity to indicate if she's being mistreated.