Hi all! I am free from the hospital for tonight. Sister is probably going to be discharged tomorrow and will go to a friend's house, close enough for me to come often and help out. That's all good. Diagnosis awaits final biopsy results, which will take 2 weeks. Oy. According to my other sister (the doctor) neither diagnosis is good, so I guess there's that. Still processing. It all seems very hard.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Burrell - Jul 21, 2013 5:21:22 pm PDT #29899 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
-t - Jul 21, 2013 5:24:08 pm PDT #29900 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That does sound hard, Burrell. Good thoughts for all of you.
WindSparrow - Jul 21, 2013 5:29:53 pm PDT #29901 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Sorry to hear that, Burrell.
Burrell - Jul 21, 2013 5:29:54 pm PDT #29902 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks, ~t and WS. For now it's first things first, get her home from the hospital and help her recover from the surgery.
sarameg - Jul 21, 2013 5:34:11 pm PDT #29903 of 30001
I dunno if this counts, but I hang ~95% of my laundry fresh from the dryer and cart it up to the closets. If it goes in the folded pile, it is folded, but that's only shorts, jeans and weekend pj shirts. And towels. It all gets put away fresh from the dyer.
When I had to laundrmat, I dry cleaned the pants and hung everything as soon as I got home after folding/rolling them to minimize wrinkles.
Ginger - Jul 21, 2013 5:51:42 pm PDT #29904 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Best possible outcome for your sister, Burrell. I'm always available to talk about cancer and chemo and I have a lot of experience translating cancer jargon.
-t - Jul 21, 2013 6:02:33 pm PDT #29905 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm glad you can be there to help her, Burrell.
When I used to go to laundromats I'd fold there, partially because they had nice big tables to fold on. Now my washer and dryer are in the garage and I fold the clean clothes in the living room and don't check "Laundry" off of my To Do list until it's all put away. Sometimes this means I have a basket full of clean clothes sitting unfolded in the living room for days, but in general it's an okay system.
Amy - Jul 21, 2013 6:13:39 pm PDT #29906 of 30001
Because books.
My favorite thing ever was the little laundry around the corner from our first apartment in New York, on Second Ave. If you took laundry and washed it, you could have the women there dry it and fold it for ridiculously cheap.
meara - Jul 21, 2013 6:20:22 pm PDT #29907 of 30001
His shorts could be PATCHWORK PLAID. (My dad has a pair.)
Hah. Madras!!
Burrell that sounds really tough. I hope you can get the support you need to be helpful (and I hope we can maybe help with that if possible!)
I don't laundromat but I do fold right out of the dryer...and then the piles live on my floor or in the laundry basket (at which point the dirty clothes can't go in there, so they end up all over the floor)
Lee - Jul 21, 2013 6:21:56 pm PDT #29908 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Best possible outcome for your sister, Burrell. I'm always available to talk about cancer and chemo
Seconding both parts of this
Really? The doves in my yard never go up to the feeders, they just eat on the ground.
Mine eat on the ground, but they have started hanging out on the fence and picking on the other birds, and each other.