Oh totally. I can remember feeling that way when someone was trying for number 2 or beyond was upset. But, hindsight being 20/20 and all, they both hurt really really a lot and is horrible and I wish so many women didn't have to go through it.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Aims - Oct 09, 2009 12:56:21 pm PDT #25909 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
javachik - Oct 09, 2009 1:01:06 pm PDT #25910 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My best friend from high school, with whom I am still very close, had a baby after many miscarriages. He was born looking healthy and beautiful but had a rare genetic disorder and died a few months later, having never left the hospital save for his last weekend, during which my friend and her husband chose to take him home (the docs thought he'd last for hours but they got to have him for an entire weekend).
Later that year, when her mother in law was introducing my friend to someone at a wedding party, and the subject of motherhood came up, my friend's m-i-l said, "Well, I had a grandson, for a few minutes. It didn't take."
I am not making this shit up.
Barb - Oct 09, 2009 1:01:09 pm PDT #25911 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
It's a seriously visceral kind of pain, with no logic or reason to it.
Yeah, it really is. It's visceral and extremely personal from the standpoint of everyone experiences it differently, so to pull a compare and contrast and "My misery sucks bigger donkey balls than your misery," is monumentally unfair to everyone involved.
Scrappy - Oct 09, 2009 1:02:49 pm PDT #25912 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
my friend's m-i-l said, "Well, I had a grandson, for a few minutes. It didn't take."
That is one of the most horrible things I have ever read.
erikaj - Oct 09, 2009 1:03:03 pm PDT #25913 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
But what comfort is it to get pregnant, if you're not bearing anything(anyone?) This is reminding me too much of the bioethics debates in the disability rights movement, but also reminds me I was probably never meant to breed anything but discontent. although I might have liked the opportunity, but I'm 36 now, you know? And without so much as a coffee date.
Dana - Oct 09, 2009 1:03:13 pm PDT #25914 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
my friend's m-i-l said
Did someone punch her in the face? (I can't even quote what she said.)
Aims - Oct 09, 2009 1:03:25 pm PDT #25915 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Well, I had a grandson, for a few minutes. It didn't take."
Tell me this woman is still alive so I can go there where she is and fucking kill her. Srsly. Smite my ass. This bitch deserves a flat-out face punch and then some.
t starts packing brass knuckles
P.M. Marc - Oct 09, 2009 1:04:30 pm PDT #25916 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, it really is. It's visceral and extremely personal from the standpoint of everyone experiences it differently, so to pull a compare and contrast and "My misery sucks bigger donkey balls than your misery," is monumentally unfair to everyone involved.
Yeah, but honestly, that's asking for logical reactions, which you're never going to get when the starting point is that personal. And I think PI and SI people should keep themselves separated for just that reason.
Barb - Oct 09, 2009 1:05:04 pm PDT #25917 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
::tucks Bertha into suitcase and hitches a ride with Empress::
Aims - Oct 09, 2009 1:05:40 pm PDT #25918 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Call Deb and see if I can borrow the cross-bow, would ya? Mine is all janky.