Beautiful obituary. Thank you.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
Shir - Jan 25, 2015 10:49:25 am PST #1289 of 3157
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Sparky1 - Jan 25, 2015 10:52:58 am PST #1290 of 3157
Librarian Warlord
The obit, the sharing, it's all so lovely.
Zenkitty - Jan 25, 2015 11:00:33 am PST #1291 of 3157
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Everyone who worked on this, the lovely obituary, and the music mix, and taking care of her things. You all have very pretty hair.
P.M. Marc - Jan 25, 2015 11:05:28 am PST #1292 of 3157
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Gorgeous hair. You're like Jem and the Holograms.
JZ - Jan 25, 2015 11:06:21 am PST #1293 of 3157
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thinking about things to do, in addition to the scholarship and Girls Who Code, I saw this article at my uni's website, about a movement to address racial disparities in health care management, starting with both formal education and retreats and teach-ins for doctors and medical students.
They already had their first retreat a couple of weeks ago, on the weekend that ita passed, but they've got plans to keep pushing the organization forward. Some of the names mentioned in the article are people I at least know to say hello to in the halls, some are friends of faculty members who know me and might be willing to help make connections, and the student organizers are on campus and actively seeking more participants.
So I'm wondering about, if ita's family thought it was a windmill worth tilting at, maybe making a project of gathering all her Natter updates about being bounced from doctor's office to ER to other ER to inpatient treatment, back to ERs, to home care, to inexplicable cancellation of everything -- anonymizing if her family prefers that -- and arranging them into a narrative that could be passed on to one of these people (I imagine the student organizers would be the most approachable). Pain management is mostly complete shit in the US anyway, but POC are even more likely to get the short end of what's already a short and splintery stick. If there's an activist group wanting to attack medical racial disparities from inside the industry, maybe her story and what she faced is something they need to know.
Yea? Nay? Thoughts?
esse - Jan 25, 2015 11:13:34 am PST #1294 of 3157
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Yea.
Consuela - Jan 25, 2015 11:31:10 am PST #1295 of 3157
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, JZ.
There's a crapload of politics behind why pain management is so mishandled, but the change needs to start somewhere...
Allyson, Burrell, Polgara and all: you are all possessed of fabulous hair. You have done so much, in such straits, it honors me to know you. And the obituary is fabulous, just perfect.
sj - Jan 25, 2015 11:34:40 am PST #1296 of 3157
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yea.
SailAweigh - Jan 25, 2015 11:34:46 am PST #1297 of 3157
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yea, big time.
Zenkitty - Jan 25, 2015 11:34:52 am PST #1298 of 3157
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I say Yea, JZ.