Connie,
I'm in awe. Your husband is a trip.
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
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.
le nubian - Feb 25, 2014 9:45:07 pm PST #20917 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
NoiseDesign - Feb 25, 2014 11:38:30 pm PST #20918 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Dad's cancer was ver aggressive. One month from when we found out to when he died. There was a plan to start treatment but he never got to that. When digging through papers after his death I found a diagnosis from a doctor from about two months before we all found out. With a little research it was clear that the small lesion that they found on his he'd in April was a death sentence. As Dad was a doctor he knew that. For whatever reason he kept that to himself until he had to go to the hospital two month later due to pain and then we all got the diagnosis of brain cancer that has already metastasized to heart, liver, lung, and lymph. Word was he would probably get six to eight months with treatment. He got one.
I have guesses as to why he kept it all to himself for two months, but I will never really know why. I also regret not just being in San Diego for that last month but I thought I had more time. That was a mistake.
Still I will take the cancer that got my Dad over the more than a decade decline into dementia and no mobility that my Mom is still going through.
Calli - Feb 26, 2014 1:11:52 am PST #20919 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Best side effect ever, Connie! I hope they're all equally, usefully, anomalous.
Anne W. - Feb 26, 2014 1:49:08 am PST #20920 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Connie, that is amazing!
-t - Feb 26, 2014 3:50:03 am PST #20921 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, Connie!
I don't know if I can really add to that, it's so huge.
Theodosia - Feb 26, 2014 4:09:45 am PST #20922 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sometimes side effects can be positive, though that's definitely not the way to bet. Fingers crossed, though.
Jessica - Feb 26, 2014 4:15:39 am PST #20923 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Connie, that's really great news!
Jesse - Feb 26, 2014 4:22:14 am PST #20924 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amazing!
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2014 4:24:56 am PST #20925 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Sometimes side effects can be positive
As a nerdy point of info, that's why, in medical editing, we explicitly use the term "adverse effects" to indicate unwanted bad side effects, because there is the possibility of good/beneficial side effects.
#themoreyouknow
sumi - Feb 26, 2014 4:26:41 am PST #20926 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Connie - that is an amazing side effect: long may it continue.