Scrappy, that is truly excellent news! So happy for you and your mom!
Tep, I'm blown away by people like that. Are they really that clueless or just plain assholey? I'm thinking it's the latter.
Once again I find I'm on a team of morons or lazy people and therefore get stuck with the majority of the work. My boss even told me that "E" is not detailed enough to do X, which is a weekly, beastly, fucking plain HORRIBLE task. So I get to do it every damned week. I thought I hated Mondays before...
Scrappy, SO GOOD, considering. SO GOOD.
Scrappy, so glad she got the best possible news. That sounds really hopeful. So glad.
Yay, mom of Scrappy! That really made my day to read that, Scrappy. I feel like we all punched cancer in the face with that one.
Scrappy, that's great news.
I went to the ENT. He says that he thinks my ear problem is a muscular problem, with the eustachian tubes not opening and closing properly because the muscles around them are too tight, so we're trying various things to relax those muscles. They did some kind of ear pressure test that printed out a graph, and the graph from my left ear was the perfect sort of peak that they want to see, while the one from my right ear was all squiggly. They also tested my hearing, and I can hear better than most people, which might be why noises annoy me so much -- I can just hear more of them than most people can.
Marvelous, Scrappy!
Although now that you mention that, I wonder that it doesn't give *her* the heebie-jeebies to borrow something that *I* might have worn withOUT a shirt underneath.
"I was SO happy to finally get it back that T & I had a whole bunch of reallly sticky sex in it :) 'Fraid its not a loaner anymore :( "
(RAYLAN, inside Scrappy's Mom's Lung, lays a bullet on the table, in front of CANCER)
Next one's coming faster.
Many yays for excellent Mom-of-Scrappy news!
I agree with Beverly and smonster, especially about directing her to an outlet to buy her own. I'd possibly be inclined not even to say you'll need it at that time, but just something like "I'm afraid that won't be possible". That gives her less to engage with, just in case she's the sort who'll try to argue or negotiate with your refusal (which seems possible given that whole "If I can only get it from you for one date" thing). You don't owe her a reason any more than you owe her a corset.