Oh, I'm sorry about your Mom's cousin, Cindy. Well, your cousin, too.
Thanks for sharing that, and I'm sorry your son had to go through such a traumatic time and has to deal with the ongoing condition. We differ in cause but had similar types of removals, it sounds like; I imagine we share some of the same future what-ifs and day-to-day planning challenges. I can completely understand why you wold get mama bearish. Yeah... my descriptors were "necrotized" and "adhered" - super not how you want to think of your insides. I will keep C in my thoughts now.
Timelies all!
No repeat names in my family or Gary's, due to the Jewish thing of not naming kids after living people.
I'm a Jr., so as I grew up, it was Big Fred and Little Fred, or sometimes Fred and Freddy. Complicated by the fact that my mother had a brother named Edward, whose oldest son is also a Jr. Leading to cousins Eddie and Freddy. And did I mention that Eddie and I were born 23 days apart?
Also in the childhood neighborhood were father James R. and son Jon R. I am told that things were confusing when mail was addressed to "J. R. Lastname."
Leading to cousins Eddie and Freddy. And did I mention that Eddie and I were born 23 days apart?
That's really cute. Two of my mom's brothers were Freddy and Teddy (an Edward too, not a Theodore).
My mom had an uncle named Uncle Son.
My grandfather and brothers only ever called their sister "Sis" and so she was Aunt Sis to her many nieces and nephews and their kids.
Saw this and had to share - an alternative LDB.
drat ... can't get it to link directly to the illustration ... it's the Little DRAMA Boy
This makes me think of my Korean-American coworker who only goes by one name at work, and my impression of Korean names is that all siblings would have half their first name be the same, like Sung Ho and Sung Jee, so basically the same thing as Mary Alice, Mary Catherine, etc. I guess going by Mary/Sung out in the world isn't confusing, but it still feels funny.
That's true in China too. Not just siblings, but cousins, and everyone of the same generation with the same family name. So, for instance, Biyi is Biyi, while her cousin is Bichang. Ryan's Chinese name is Fang Youren, his cousin - Bichang's daughter - is Fang Youxin. And so on.
Those first characters - Jia for her dad, Bi for herself, You for Ryan - are part of an entire poem, which then gets written out within the family over the generations.
Ooh, that is extremely cool
Lisah - the same grandfather that had Unky also has an Sis.
My grandmother was Babe as the baby of the family. She was really a Marjorie, her mother was also a Marjorie but called Treasure. There was also a Margaret, but she went by Marg.
