Oh, Allyson. How awful. I'm so sorry. I wish we could lift some of this burden off of you.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amyth - Jan 15, 2015 7:07:27 am PST #15288 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
sumi - Jan 15, 2015 7:08:45 am PST #15289 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday, msbelle!
Hey, you share your birthday with MLK and my younger brother.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2015 7:09:43 am PST #15290 of 30000
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
My pain specialist has just sent mail saying "You aren't supposed to take Tramadol on a long-term basis!" I had to sit on my fingers to avoid saying "WHO THE HELL PRESCRIBED THEM FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE OPIOID FAIRY?!?!?"
The hell? My dad has been taking it for headache pain for years. Just when the headache is too bad for over-the-counter meds, but I don't believe his prescription has restrictions other than "no more than once daily."
-t - Jan 15, 2015 7:12:20 am PST #15291 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm so sorry, Allyson. I wish I had some way to ease your burden.
Hey, you share your birthday with MLK and my younger brother.
Also Drew Brees t /random fact I just learned
Nora Deirdre - Jan 15, 2015 7:13:51 am PST #15292 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
OMG, Allyson. I'm so very sorry.
Sue - Jan 15, 2015 7:13:54 am PST #15293 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Allyson, I understand. I have never unheard the sounds my dad made when my mother told him that his brother (and his best friend) died in an car accident. It's so raw.
It's the hardest thing to ever have to tell anyone about a loved one. There's no easy way. I'm sure they were better to have heard it from someone who loved ita and who could share their grief.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2015 7:14:08 am PST #15294 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson, do you have a therapist or someone you could talk to professionally? That seems worth doing -- this is too much to deal with on your own.
Glamcookie - Jan 15, 2015 7:19:39 am PST #15295 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh, Allyson. I am so sorry.
Maria - Jan 15, 2015 7:21:18 am PST #15296 of 30000
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
Allyson, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. There are things none of us should have to see or hear. It doesn't make it better, but we love you. And we'll do whatever we can to get you through this.
JZ - Jan 15, 2015 7:22:23 am PST #15297 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thank you for sharing that with us. It's searing and unimaginable and you absolutely should not have to carry the weight of that memory alone.
There is mercy in that someone who loved her told them.
This. It's bleak to no comfort, but a kind and polite stranger would have been even worse, would have broken them even more badly (and they might not even have wailed or pleaded, but might have felt compelled to keep their shit together until after the call was over, even if it wrecked them even more -- but you are an emotional safe place for them; you're on the inside of their circle of absolute unguarded trust).