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Just called my Aunt, who has cancer. She has weeks, maybe days, to live.
Hi Les, how are you? I said, greeting a person I know to be dying.
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« Reply #31756 on: Friday, January 17, 2020, 16:19:07 » |
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When my mum was dying from leukaemia and she was seeing out her time at home, nobody spoke about. We skirted round it.
I so wish we’d confronted it, talked about it, accepted it.
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Just called my Aunt, who has cancer. She has weeks, maybe days, to live.
Hi Les, how are you? I said, greeting a person I know to be dying.
Idiot.
I said, hopefully see you again soon, when saying goodbye to my aunt who was basically on her deathbed. I did see her once more after that, but still! We all put our feet well and truly in our mouths from time to time. |
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« Reply #31758 on: Friday, January 17, 2020, 16:26:23 » |
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I said, hopefully see you again soon,
Oh, I did that as well. 'Speak soon yeah?'. Twat. I think we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves. A lot of it is just subconscious pleasantries that don't necessarily mean anything. Apparently quite a few people get confused when we Brits say 'alright', yet we are not really asking about their well-being. |
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« Reply #31759 on: Friday, January 17, 2020, 16:39:53 » |
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Its the human way, I spent about 2 years ringing my mum every week when she had dementia to listen to her telling me the same stories over and over again.
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« Reply #31760 on: Friday, January 17, 2020, 17:50:51 » |
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When my mum was dying from leukaemia and she was seeing out her time at home, nobody spoke about. We skirted round it.
I so wish we’d confronted it, talked about it, accepted it.
I still feel the same about my old girl and she went in ‘88 |
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« Reply #31761 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 02:53:13 » |
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Just woken by a right rattler of an earthquake. Things falling of walls and doors/windows shaking. Biggest one in a while.
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« Reply #31762 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 12:02:10 » |
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Its the human way, I spent about 2 years ringing my mum every week when she had dementia to listen to her telling me the same stories over and over again.
Sympathies mate, Know exactly what its like, visit mother 2-3 times a week in a reasonably local home, come out and think 'why do I bother', sure its hard work, but you only get one Mum. |
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« Reply #31763 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 12:04:12 » |
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Just woken by a right rattler of an earthquake. Things falling of walls and doors/windows shaking. Biggest one in a while.
Hope all's OK now. |
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« Reply #31764 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 13:20:47 » |
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Hope all's OK now.
All quiet at the moment - 5.4 Richter. A 7.2 demolished the entire island in 1953! |
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« Reply #31765 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 13:23:29 » |
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Doing a potato au gratin which the recipe called for red potatoes.
Duly bought a bag with the label saying ‘Pomme de Terre - Rouge’.
Got them out the bag and the fuckers are blue - almost like beetroot. Anyone ever cooked with these?
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« Reply #31766 on: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 13:39:02 » |
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Doing a potato au gratin which the recipe called for red potatoes.
Duly bought a bag with the label saying ‘Pomme de Terre - Rouge’.
Got them out the bag and the fuckers are blue - almost like beetroot. Anyone ever cooked with these?
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« Reply #31768 on: Monday, January 20, 2020, 11:30:01 » |
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Oh, I did that as well.
'Speak soon yeah?'.
Twat.
I think we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves. A lot of it is just subconscious pleasantries that don't necessarily mean anything.
Apparently quite a few people get confused when we Brits say 'alright', yet we are not really asking about their well-being.
My uncle passed away a couple of months ago, went to see him at the John Radcliffe a couple of weeks before he died. He was on a ventilator, drugged up to his eyeballs to try to stop him pulling out the tubes, I stood there with my Dad, best thing I could manage was a squeeze of his arm and a 'See you again soon' as we left. Felt like such a prick. Getting old is such a cunt. |
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« Reply #31769 on: Monday, January 20, 2020, 11:41:11 » |
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My uncle passed away a couple of months ago, went to see him at the John Radcliffe a couple of weeks before he died. He was on a ventilator, drugged up to his eyeballs to try to stop him pulling out the tubes, I stood there with my Dad, best thing I could manage was a squeeze of his arm and a 'See you again soon' as we left. Felt like such a prick. Getting old is such a cunt.
Getting old is such a cunt. Indeed it is. Your early life is engagement parties and weddings, then you go to christenings, then later on in life it is funerals. You don’t have to be old either. This weekend my missus was informed of an ex work colleague who passed away suddenly aged forty-nine. I feel your pain and anguish. |
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