Connie, I'm very sorry, both for the diagnosis and for the unneeded drama.
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
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billytea - Dec 28, 2013 12:42:46 am PST #7594 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Laura - Dec 28, 2013 1:32:10 am PST #7595 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
But if she wants to vent the years of her frustration, she's going to have to do it out of my earshot, because I cannot stand by and let anyone yell at Hubby. I cannot.
Of course you cannot! It is completely understandable that you would be in protective mode. Ugh. So sorry that you are going through this.
Maria - Dec 28, 2013 5:43:52 am PST #7596 of 30002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Daniel and Connie, I am so sorry. Much peace and strength to you and your families.
le nubian - Dec 28, 2013 12:32:43 pm PST #7597 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Daniel, I am so sorry to hear about your nephew. How sudden and terrible. I have a pretty hard time with DUI after losing a friend of mine in HS and decades later I am still filled with rage.
Connie, I am so sorry to hear about your husband. let's hope he is an outlier in the predictions. He has been a fighter through all kinds of serious illnesses so if anyone can do it, he can.
Burrell - Dec 28, 2013 2:05:25 pm PST #7598 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Connie, I am so sorry to hear about your husband. let's hope he is an outlier in the predictions. He has been a fighter through all kinds of serious illnesses so if anyone can do it, he can.
co-signed
erikaj - Dec 28, 2013 2:15:18 pm PST #7599 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
My family is all too comfortable discussing their bodily functions, That is all. So sorry to read about the tragedies befalling Buffistas lately.ETA: Got a young stylist and super-short cut from Supercuts today, in a lighter note.I think I love it, even if it's rather unintended.
Connie Neil - Dec 28, 2013 4:12:12 pm PST #7600 of 30002
brillig
Last night Hubby listed all the ways he's cheated death--heart attacks, smoke inhalation, stabbings, shootings, chopper crashes, car crashes, poisoning (I think accidental, but he got vague on that one), incompetent anesthesiologists, other cancers, genetic issues--so he's back on his Viking/Klingon track. With understandable wobbles.
Me, I go back and forth between "Don't count him out yet" and "Whatever happens, I'll cope" and "Can I get the name of the doctor who decided not to run the test that would have spotted this two years ago?" As well as "The fates decided to have the gas lease money show up now so that I'll have the wherewithal to pay for a funeral."
But his will and his genetics have thrown up statistically improbable things before. It is what it is.
Kate P. - Dec 28, 2013 4:14:52 pm PST #7601 of 30002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Connie, I'm so sorry. I know your Hubby is a fighter, and as you say, he's beaten the odds before. I'm hoping with all my heart that he can do it again.
WindSparrow - Dec 28, 2013 4:23:45 pm PST #7602 of 30002
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.
It's the having to screw yourself up to face not knowing what's going to happen that eats away at sanity, at least that is how I imagine I would feel.
Cass - Dec 28, 2013 9:06:38 pm PST #7603 of 30002
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 is what it is.
This might be a phrase you come back to a lot. I have in the past few years. You can rail against it and wonder how it might have played out if different things had happened but, reality intruding, you have the hand you have right now. And you have us too.