It IS hard. Hello, I am a poster child (stuck on roof.) I'm just really feeling for A right now. *She* knows her mom needs help with her dad, she wants them to have it and she's an hour plus away and her mom won't even ask her for help. It's comic midwestern stoicism, except it isn't really funny. And she was in tears asking me to take out her trash, not because asking for that was hard but because she was so frustrated that her mother wouldn't even ask someone to take out the trash there and she was dealing with a nasty rotty can as a result.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2014 6:13:18 pm PST #19349 of 30000
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2014 6:19:21 pm PST #19350 of 30000
brillig
I think hospice means something in Britain that it doesn't mean in America. Our friend in Ireland said "Are you getting hospice care?" and my blood went cold and I barely kept myself from saying, "No, God dammit, we're not there yet!"
Sue - Feb 06, 2014 6:29:59 pm PST #19351 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Jesse, I am so glad your dad is okay.
And fingers (and toes and arms and legs) crossed for you Consuela.
I keep crashing after work and then not being to sleep at bedtime. Gah.
Cass - Feb 06, 2014 6:51:49 pm PST #19352 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think hospice means something in Britain that it doesn't mean in America. Our friend in Ireland said "Are you getting hospice care?" and my blood went cold and I barely kept myself from saying, "No, God dammit, we're not there yet!"
Ugh, I am sorry. Pretty sure it means really different things. And it's so very triggering here.
Kat - Feb 06, 2014 6:52:18 pm PST #19353 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Do any of you read conniewonnie? I'm charmed by what Robert Krulwich posted of it here: [link]
Cass - Feb 06, 2014 7:02:16 pm PST #19354 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am pretty sure even Puppycat thinks that. Big cats definitely do.
Fiona - Feb 06, 2014 8:23:53 pm PST #19355 of 30000
I think hospice means something in Britain that it doesn't mean in America....
Now I'm not sure what it means in America, but in Britain the hospice is the place you go just before you die.
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2014 8:37:36 pm PST #19356 of 30000
brillig
Ack. Yeah, that's what it means here.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2014 4:14:07 am PST #19357 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oof, that's a rough question to be asked.
billytea - Feb 07, 2014 4:23:23 am PST #19358 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
According to Wikipedia, outside of the US, hospice care can mean palliative care facilities for any serious illness. Hopefully that's how your friend meant it.