The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[Minimalist]

Away for a bit - death in the family.  Be well, all.

Boru

Condolences, Brian.

[Fireball]

Away for a bit - death in the family.  Be well, all.

Boru

I "liked" this for the obvious reason. Really sorry for your loss.

[Mystical]

Hey Luckie, wishing you all the best and hoping everything will come out OK in the end.

Thank you sweet sweet Be good while I'm gone. I know that's impossible for you, so, just don't be extraordinarily bad and you should be good!

When chaplains enter my room and try to hold my hand despite my succinct request that they dont, I definitely hear Min's "blow it out your ass" key phrase.

Have you considered extending your middle finger to them?  Tell them it stands for the "one, true, god."

Alas I don't have your incredible talent for offencery. But, I have memorized that One true God comment to add to perhaps this form of the finger? I think they'll go together nicely, don't you?

I'm in I'm out I'll be around a bit, then I have another colo-rectal surgery the week after next. Yay. Prep for that is the same as a colonoscopy if I do recall, so, I hit the unlucky surgical procedures lottery again, Vorlon!

I don't know if I should be thankful to medicine in general that I'm still alive or horrified at the lengths at which they end up taking to keep people alive, or peeved at the mistakes that are made during these processes that require a double (triple in my case) of the same surgery?

either way I'm exhausted

Not the best time for surgery, having been septic most of last month, but have no choice. With a constant source of infection now I'll never heal without the surgery. Never been this weak. Never! Still pondering why I was sent home from hospital so anemic that I need a blood transfusion? Glad I fired those people and will be at a competent hospital for surgery. Talking aloud now.  Just wanted u guys to know if I don't come back by football season to give Tibs and Chtulhu shit.. that's probably what's up.
I see each and every one of you in my daily life. From Whateverist in the gardens I run across online or out my window-- to thumpers in classical guitar praces to cool science shit that Steel ad Poca and and all the other science fiends might like. I see Ivy in the red sunsets, the ones like margaritas that are the same red color of her lipstick, and i hear her and all the smart ladies on this site whose collective voices yell with me in my imagination when I read about LGBT rights and or international affairs fueled by religion.  When chaplains enter my room and try to hold my hand despite my succinct request that they dont, I definitely hear Min's "blow it out your ass" key phrase.
I guess I'm thankful that even though I come and go, you're still here. The forum. In all its glory, good or bad, getting along or not--we are all tied here as one big community. I'm proud to be part of this community, and I certainly expect to see you all again after surgery. Peace.

Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

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*squeals YOU KNOW ME WELL!!!

I Love them!!! Thank you! I'll come look at them again after surgery I'm sure! Thank you for my own little moment of happiness, to visit at any time. ♡

I'll keep you guys updated once the deed is done. It's not supposed to be until the week after this upcoming week--this week I need to get a transfusion at some point so I have blood for surgery. And more antibiotics pumped into me! I'm scared. Usually I am not such a big baby, but this time last year I just had the opposite of this surgery and that was hARd. This one will be easier but I'm so immunosuppressed and anemic it makes me squeamish. Oh well, it'll go how it goes, yeah? 

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I'm in I'm out I'll be around a bit, then I have another colo-rectal surgery the week after next. Yay. Prep for that is the same as a colonoscopy if I do recall, so, I hit the unlucky surgical procedures lottery again, Vorlon!

I don't know if I should be thankful to medicine in general that I'm still alive or horrified at the lengths at which they end up taking to keep people alive, or peeved at the mistakes that are made during these processes that require a double (triple in my case) of the same surgery?

either way I'm exhausted

Not the best time for surgery, having been septic most of last month, but have no choice. With a constant source of infection now I'll never heal without the surgery. Never been this weak. Never! Still pondering why I was sent home from hospital so anemic that I need a blood transfusion? Glad I fired those people and will be at a competent hospital for surgery. Talking aloud now. Just wanted u guys to know if I don't come back by football season to give Tibs and Chtulhu shit.. that's probably what's up.
I see each and every one of you in my daily life. From Whateverist in the gardens I run across online or out my window-- to thumpers in classical guitar praces to cool science shit that Steel ad Poca and and all the other science fiends might like. I see Ivy in the red sunsets, the ones like margaritas that are the same red color of her lipstick, and i hear her and all the smart ladies on this site whose collective voices yell with me in my imagination when I read about LGBT rights and or international affairs fueled by religion.  When chaplains enter my room and try to hold my hand despite my succinct request that they dont, I definitely hear Min's "blow it out your ass" key phrase.
I guess I'm thankful that even though I come and go, you're still here. The forum. In all its glory, good or bad, getting along or not--we are all tied here as one big community. I'm proud to be part of this community, and I certainly expect to see you all again after surgery. Peace.

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Oh, babe! This post of yours made my heart crumble. I wish you the best. Fuck, luckie. You are such a strong, strong woman. You never cease to amaze me. Love you, amiga!

Love you too amiga ♡
Keep on flying free, okie?

Away for a bit - death in the family.  Be well, all.

Boru

So sorry for your loss Boru. Deaths in the family seem to be (for me) sudden and unexpected. They're a test on your willpower and ability to adapt to such drastic losses to this map of interactions we call life. Hopefully your future has better news and events in store. 

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I'm in I'm out I'll be around a bit, then I have another colo-rectal surgery the week after next. Yay. Prep for that is the same as a colonoscopy if I do recall, so, I hit the unlucky surgical procedures lottery again, Vorlon!

I don't know if I should be thankful to medicine in general that I'm still alive or horrified at the lengths at which they end up taking to keep people alive, or peeved at the mistakes that are made during these processes that require a double (triple in my case) of the same surgery?

either way I'm exhausted

Not the best time for surgery, having been septic most of last month, but have no choice. With a constant source of infection now I'll never heal without the surgery. Never been this weak. Never! Still pondering why I was sent home from hospital so anemic that I need a blood transfusion? Glad I fired those people and will be at a competent hospital for surgery. Talking aloud now. Just wanted u guys to know if I don't come back by football season to give Tibs and Chtulhu shit.. that's probably what's up.
I see each and every one of you in my daily life. From Whateverist in the gardens I run across online or out my window-- to thumpers in classical guitar praces to cool science shit that Steel ad Poca and and all the other science fiends might like. I see Ivy in the red sunsets, the ones like margaritas that are the same red color of her lipstick, and i hear her and all the smart ladies on this site whose collective voices yell with me in my imagination when I read about LGBT rights and or international affairs fueled by religion.  When chaplains enter my room and try to hold my hand despite my succinct request that they dont, I definitely hear Min's "blow it out your ass" key phrase.
I guess I'm thankful that even though I come and go, you're still here. The forum. In all its glory, good or bad, getting along or not--we are all tied here as one big community. I'm proud to be part of this community, and I certainly expect to see you all again after surgery. Peace.

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Be well, Luckie -- may you enjoy a full and fast recovery.

Thank you Thumper ♡ 

All i know is that I need to rehab fast, and get to Australia like we planned for me to do so many years ago. Before my diseases flared my life into an unrecognizable tangent! I can breathe at sea level far better than the mile high city, and instead of having ER docs tell me I'm a "burden on society", I'll have my sweet husband there to tell me he loves me, and that he cares. Nothing better in this world, imo.


One day I will be sitting on the beach holding my husbands hand. It's going to happen! I haven't seen the ocean since I was little, and I've had this dream moment in my head since the day we met, so I think that that moment will be one of the most perfect life has to offer me. Wish me luck in your heads! The science is still out on whether humans can affect reality with their minds, I do believe.. but positive thoughts are good for your body, I know that much!

[Joods]

That scene in GOTG is one of my favorite go-to's.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here's hoping your dreams come true.

[Pat Mustard]

I'm in I'm out I'll be around a bit, then I have another colo-rectal surgery the week after next. Yay. Prep for that is the same as a colonoscopy if I do recall, so, I hit the unlucky surgical procedures lottery again, Vorlon!

I don't know if I should be thankful to medicine in general that I'm still alive or horrified at the lengths at which they end up taking to keep people alive, or peeved at the mistakes that are made during these processes that require a double (triple in my case) of the same surgery?

either way I'm exhausted

Not the best time for surgery, having been septic most of last month, but have no choice. With a constant source of infection now I'll never heal without the surgery. Never been this weak. Never! Still pondering why I was sent home from hospital so anemic that I need a blood transfusion? Glad I fired those people and will be at a competent hospital for surgery. Talking aloud now.  Just wanted u guys to know if I don't come back by football season to give Tibs and Chtulhu shit.. that's probably what's up.
I see each and every one of you in my daily life. From Whateverist in the gardens I run across online or out my window-- to thumpers in classical guitar praces to cool science shit that Steel ad Poca and and all the other science fiends might like. I see Ivy in the red sunsets, the ones like margaritas that are the same red color of her lipstick, and i hear her and all the smart ladies on this site whose collective voices yell with me in my imagination when I read about LGBT rights and or international affairs fueled by religion.  When chaplains enter my room and try to hold my hand despite my succinct request that they dont, I definitely hear Min's "blow it out your ass" key phrase.
I guess I'm thankful that even though I come and go, you're still here. The forum. In all its glory, good or bad, getting along or not--we are all tied here as one big community. I'm proud to be part of this community, and I certainly expect to see you all again after surgery. Peace.

Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

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Paradise literally means garden. The Persians believed their heaven was the perfect garden.

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Away for a bit - death in the family.  Be well, all.

Boru

Sorry for your troubles.

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[Whateverist]

Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

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*squeals YOU KNOW ME WELL!!!

I Love them!!! Thank you! I'll come look at them again after surgery I'm sure! Thank you for my own little moment of happiness, to visit at any time. ♡

I'll keep you guys updated once the deed is done. It's not supposed to be until the week after this upcoming week--this week I need to get a transfusion at some point so I have blood for surgery. And more antibiotics pumped into me! I'm scared. Usually I am not such a big baby, but this time last year I just had the opposite of this surgery and that was hARd. This one will be easier but I'm so immunosuppressed and anemic it makes me squeamish. Oh well, it'll go how it goes, yeah? 

There is good reason to feel afraid or at least apprehensive.  Putting my well being into someone else's hands has always been hard for me, it does make one feel helpless like a big baby.  (I'm the one who cannot sleep in a car while someone else is driving.)  But fortunately there are doctors who can do what you cannot, and that can make a positive difference for you.  Looking forward to hearing that you are better and safer soon.  I'll be away for about a week around the eclipse and I'm not sure what kind of internet connection will be available at my aunt's country house in South Carolina.  

Here is a set of photos from a tropical style garden in San Jose I visited with a group last year.  There are more sets there than you can shake a stick at.  There is a button on that page that looks like a monitor with an arrow in the middle in the upper right corner which will make the photos play as a full screen slideshow.

Tropical garden pics

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Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

Paradise literally means garden. The Persians believed their heaven was the perfect garden.

We have a winner.  I figured someone would know that but I wasn't sure who.

[brewer]

Hey Luckie, wishing you all the best and hoping everything will come out OK in the end.

Thank you sweet sweet Be good while I'm gone. I know that's impossible for you, so, just don't be extraordinarily bad and you should be good!

Can I guaiac test your first post surgery emission?

[Mystical]

Thank you sweet sweet Be good while I'm gone. I know that's impossible for you, so, just don't be extraordinarily bad and you should be good!

Can I guaiac test your first post surgery emission?

Um.. no? 

 

Did u speak words or am I just mixed up on pain meds agains? 

@Mark, have a good trip to nowhere (those are the best wheres)!

[Mystical]

Thank you sweet sweet Be good while I'm gone. I know that's impossible for you, so, just don't be extraordinarily bad and you should be good!

Can I guaiac test your first post surgery emission?

Um.. no? 

 

Did u speak words or am I just mixed up on pain meds agains? 

@Mark, have a good trip to nowhere (those are the best wheres)!