Kate, that's just awful.
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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.
Oh my god, Kate, that's terrible. I'm sorry.
Thanks, everyone. I'm still in shock, and really wishing I could be with my Boston friends today -- they're having an even tougher time with this than I am, since they saw her all the time.
Oh, Kate, I'm so sorry.
Kate, was there a note of any kind? Dealing is always going to be awful, but there's more awful...
I don't think there was a note, but there are a lot of details I don't know yet. The friend I talked to didn't mention a note, but given the circumstances of her life recently, and what we know of her death, he's sure she killed herself.
She had entered an inpatient treatment facility several months ago for help with her mental illnesses (depression, OCD, possibly others); at the time, I assumed it was just a short-term thing, and I even thought (or wanted to believe) that it was a positive thing for her to be seeking help in that way. She was apparently still living there when she died, so I'm guessing that her problems were proving difficult to treat.
That's rough, Kate.
CAT scan contrast dye is the one thing I've had a frightening and very quick reaction to—difficulty breathing that felt like increasing pressure from immersion in water, followed by projectile vomiting when that let up a few minutes later. (Though I've had a merely annoying case of hives in response to amoxycillin after a few days on it.)
I'm so sorry, Kate. Suicide is always so hard on those left behind.
I hadn't thought of an allergy to the dye, thanks for mentioning that. I'll suggest it to our other sister. I know my sister developed an allergy to tape with this illness, so other allergies developing isn't out of the question.
All sympathies, Kate.
Dammit, "We Can't Stop." I already had it in my head this morning, and now I just watched this a capella version with The Roots.