Hon, don't be too hard on yourself. It's been a stressful while.
Why don't you do a walking tour, or a houses tour; something low-key? Take a cooking class; learn how to make a good roux or jambalaya or something fun.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
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Strix - Nov 17, 2011 7:58:31 pm PST #3036 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
omnis_audis - Nov 17, 2011 9:20:00 pm PST #3037 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Dad update. Stint surgery went swell. They postponed today's procedure trying to figure out what caused the mini stroke. Looks like it will happen 8:30am Friday EST. and still playing phone tag with east coast. Text messages are good, but not that good.
Connie Neil - Nov 17, 2011 9:23:26 pm PST #3038 of 30001
brillig
My husband has 4 stents, your dad should come out of this well, barring complications.
NoiseDesign - Nov 17, 2011 9:26:02 pm PST #3039 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
Stents work very well. My Dad had at least two of them more than a decade before he died. They did their job so well that it was cancer that got him, not the high blood pressure and heart disease that dogged him for much of his life.
Atropa - Nov 17, 2011 10:57:26 pm PST #3040 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh G-d, now I remember why I don't drink as much as i may want. 2 shots of Fernet and 1 vodka martin = zomg. I hve not been this tipsy in a long damn time. Typos are beyond my ability to fix.
Pete went to the club with me and the StuntHusband!
Calli - Nov 18, 2011 2:11:51 am PST #3041 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm glad the surgery went well, Omnis. My dad also got a good decade with the help of stents, so I hope your father has at least as good an experience.
sumi - Nov 18, 2011 4:47:51 am PST #3042 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Omnis - glad the surgery went well. I hope that the recovery goes even better.
amyth - Nov 18, 2011 5:04:49 am PST #3043 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
askye, that's a lot to process! But it sounds like it went well, overall.
Omnis, I'm glad the surgery went well.
Hon, don't be too hard on yourself. It's been a stressful while.
What Erin said, Nora. After all the shit that happened last year, I hid from the world for a while. Getting out of bed and going to work was all I could manage. I complained to my therapist that I'm an extrovert, and it wasn't normal for me. He had to remind me that when I was ready to emerge, I would. And I did.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2011 5:22:48 am PST #3044 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Omnis, my dad has at least 4 stents, possibly more, all in the same vein graft. And he's had them for 10-15 years. He's doing very well, active at his church, works as a greeter at the grocery store, does yard work for an elderly lady friend of his (never mind the fact that he's about to turn 70).
They work very well, and will be a great help to your dad.
Fred Pete - Nov 18, 2011 5:52:16 am PST #3045 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Good news about the surgery going well, omnis.