Anyway--I read meara's post as "runs three miles a day, eats salad, has heart attack anyway"--whatchya gonna do?
but you've never had a heart attack
and I did say it was a kneejerk response
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Sep 06, 2012 8:22:36 pm PDT #21280 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
meara - Sep 06, 2012 8:37:23 pm PDT #21281 of 30001
this kind of sounds like blaming the cancer patient, even though I know the statistic support it.
Sorry, Lee--totally NOT meant that way. More in a "crap, my mom had breast cancer at 40 and having kids early is supposed to help and I'm TOO LATE FOR THAT and OMG MY FRIEND HAD THEM AND IT DIDN"T HELP BRAIN GOING CRAZY"
Anyway--I read meara's post as "runs three miles a day, eats salad, has heart attack anyway"--whatchya gonna do?
This.
Definitely not trying to be like "Gawd, those cancer patients, why didn't they just have KIDS, like they were SUPPOSED to? Clearly would've prevented it all" (...especially since I'm among the no-kids group!)
Lee - Sep 06, 2012 8:42:25 pm PDT #21282 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
And I get that, I promise I do. You just hit one of my HAI, I HAVE ISSUES, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM buttons.
It's hereditary [link]
billytea - Sep 06, 2012 8:47:21 pm PDT #21283 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
From Lee's link:
If my mother just sent me an email saying that she just found out that one of a work friend's two daughters has breast cancer and that she isn't sure which, but she guess it's the one "who, like you, does not have the protection offered by child bearing", am I allowed to tell her to STFU?
Oh, wow. Suddenly the Republicans' policies on health insurance and reproductive rights make sense!
aurelia - Sep 06, 2012 8:49:12 pm PDT #21284 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Is that where they get their whole "abortion causes cancer" thing? Oy.
Lee - Sep 06, 2012 8:52:33 pm PDT #21285 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
And my mother is a Democratic scientist.
Who totally fails at genetics, and most science.
Burrell - Sep 06, 2012 9:06:18 pm PDT #21286 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My family experience says that childbearing isn't any kind of guarantee against breast cancer. My thoughts go to your friend meara, I hope she's caught it early and her recovery is good.
SuziQ - Sep 06, 2012 10:21:45 pm PDT #21287 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Novocaine wore off half way through dancing tonight. And now it is painfully obvious that my temporary crown fits like crap. I have already left a message at the dentist's that I need to get in there Friday either for the permanent crown or to fix the temp. I really don't care which.
Driving home from dancing, I had a great idea to solve a work problem posed to me by my new PM. I had told him it would take me a while to come up with a workable solution and once I came home tonight, it took me 30 minutes to try out my idea. And it works!!! Yes, I was working after midnight. Silly me. But that is a problem solved!!!
I should be tired and sleepy and not here babbling to myself. And yet I'm just not there yet. Sad.
Cass - Sep 06, 2012 10:58:24 pm PDT #21288 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It's hereditary
Can we tell your mother that? Because I could help...
Calli - Sep 07, 2012 2:13:12 am PDT #21289 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Meara, I'm sorry about your friend. I hope they caught it early and that treatment goes well.