If anyone has spare health~ma, I'd appreciate you sending it my mom's way. We just found out that her cancer has returned after almost 2 years of no signs of it. Fortunately it sounds as if it remains operable via relatively minor surgery, with what I assume is targeted chemo follow-up this time. Prognosis is good, but it's a hell of a kick in the teeth to have it recur after four all-clear checkups.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2023 4:02:02 pm PDT #23239 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
erikaj - Jul 22, 2023 4:51:34 pm PDT #23240 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
health-ma matt. you've had a lot of stress, jz.
Steph L. - Jul 22, 2023 5:30:47 pm PDT #23241 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Matt, that is lousy, but it sounds like there's an effective treatment. So, health~ma that it all goes smoothly.
Susan W. - Jul 22, 2023 5:35:03 pm PDT #23242 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Health~ma to Matt's mom
JZ - Jul 22, 2023 6:01:50 pm PDT #23243 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.
Much health~ma to your mom, Matt.
My fingers are very wobbly lately. I've also accidentally ordered an Uber and invited a friend to join a tag group she's not interested in.
msbelle - Jul 22, 2023 9:43:59 pm PDT #23244 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hard night here. My friend passed while I was sitting with her. She had moved to hospital hospice late Wednesday night and has stopped verbal communication by Thursday. I’m staying with her husband for the next day and a half.
meara - Jul 23, 2023 12:31:55 am PDT #23245 of 30000
Oh msbelle that is hard.
We drove down from Auckland today and stopped at a hike that was supposed to be 1km. We accidentally turned and ended up on a slightly longer hike….that was all up stairs. After forever we asked someone who said there were another 600-700 stairs and I said no and we turned around….but we had to go back down the 600-700 stairs we’d already gone up! Ugh.
Then we went to glow worm caves, which were very cool. And then drove to our hotel and tried to walk to the pub next door for food and they apparently didn’t expect the World Cup traffic and said it was a two hour wait for food and they weren’t seating anyone else. The place down the street said the same thing so now we are in a town 20 minutes away where they were willing to seat us!
Tomorrow, Hobbiton.
Calli - Jul 23, 2023 5:01:17 am PDT #23246 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m sorry, msbelle.
JZ, chemo brain is definitely a thing. Please extend yourself grace about forgetting things.
I’m not really looking forward to going to a work conference tomorrow (so many people), but I am looking forward to getting away for a bit. Since I work from home, I’ve seen a lot of my apartment, even with structured (and generally followed) plans to get out and about every weekend. And, of course, the 90+ F temps, combined with walking-through-soup levels of humidity do not make me want to take random jaunts around town. September will be better.
JenP - Jul 23, 2023 5:52:28 am PDT #23247 of 30000
I'm so sorry, msbelle. Love and comfort to you and everyone who loved her.
Matt, that's hard to hear, I'm sorry, and also I'm glad it sounds very treatable.
Watching the birds this morning.
lisah - Jul 23, 2023 6:00:51 am PDT #23248 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I’m so sorry, msbelle. Sending love.