This one goes out to o_a's dad, and anyone else... with a pancreas. [link]
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Sep 16, 2009 4:21:20 pm PDT #23467 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Barb - Sep 16, 2009 4:25:02 pm PDT #23468 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oh omnis... parents is so weird.
And yes, I know my kids will be saying that about me some day. Actually, who am I kidding? They say that now. To my face. I love my kids. So I won't pull whacked out shit like not telling them if I've totaled my car or am having major surgery.
Cashmere - Sep 16, 2009 4:25:53 pm PDT #23469 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Believe it or not, there is ANOTHER Pancreas Song.
Cass - Sep 16, 2009 4:36:03 pm PDT #23470 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Argh! We keep talking about calling our parents and I keep reading and forgetting to CALL MY PARENTS. I am calling my parents now.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2009 4:37:08 pm PDT #23471 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I asked my sister why my mother wasn't replying to my emails, and then my mother replied to my emails. That was so much simpler than calling her or asking her myself.
Of course, that reminds me that I need to reply to her email now.
StuntHusband - Sep 16, 2009 4:51:58 pm PDT #23472 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
My mom did that with her double mastectomy 4 years ago.
There's distance between my mom's partner and me; there was a while when 6 months or more would go between contact, to avoid making mom's partner lose her temper with me (she hates children in a way that makes me look like the Best! Parent! Ever!, and she has trouble seeing my sister and I as adults instead of my mom's kids...anyway)
After one of those long silences, my sister says, casually, "Mom's physical therapy is going well."
?!?
"Physical therapy?"
And she looked at me and went perfectly white. "Oh. They didn't tell you. The doctor found unusual tissue, mom had both breasts removed, she's in PT to help make sure the scars don't pull her into a bad posture."
?!!?!!??!?!!?!?!?
And so on.
Barb - Sep 16, 2009 5:04:31 pm PDT #23473 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oh sweet zombie Jesus, SH. That's how you found out? How unbelievably sucktastic.
Atropa - Sep 16, 2009 5:08:02 pm PDT #23474 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Barb, that neighborhood is close-ish to us.
Calling parents, right. I will do that once I am done eating dinner.
erin_obscure - Sep 16, 2009 5:09:23 pm PDT #23475 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Why do parents not want to share these things with us? I found out my father was in the hospital when his ex wife called me to check in and see how i was handling the news. *sigh* "I didn't want to bother you". Right? Wrong! It's usually worse to hear it from a third party.
Barb - Sep 16, 2009 5:12:46 pm PDT #23476 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
With me it was because I was the "baby." Younger by nine years than the Prince of Darkness and fourteen years than my sister. Never mind that my sister tells me everything and well does Mom know it. I think, actually, she depends on that, to spare herself of having to tell me anything.
The other reason is because my mother has some freakish privacy issues along the lines of "it's none of anyone's goddamned business."