Dear SW Bartender: You’re so sweet. I want to thank you for pointing out, as I signed for my dinner, that the gentleman I was talking with “was totally digging” me. It’s true that I am infamously bad at that game, so your assistance is very valuable. My week is really sort of full of [...]
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So, Mom’s having surgery today. Her chemo appointment this week became an ultrasound to see if some obstruction was blocking liver function. If not, then the theory was that her liver was too sick to take any more chemo and it was time to stop treatment. Lo and behold, there’s dilation in the bile duct, [...]
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I just had a difficult conversation with KidBrother, who’d just caught a Discovery program about Munchausen Syndrome. He thought maybe Mom was somehow making it up. It’s not like he doesn’t have a logical reason for relating to the program. Mom does like sympathy. Once upon a time, she even told people that I had [...]
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“Middle-class Mom“ I wonder which charities will receive the clothes from La Palin’s campaign wardrobe…or will they all go back to the stores after being worn once? Gosh. How tacky.
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Well. I’ve talked with the oncologist. I’ve talked with the internets. We all agree: Cancer sucks. The scans show that Mom’s liver is enlarged enough to push its neighbors around and cause the discomfort she’s been feeling for six weeks. (Six weeks. Did I mention that? Dear MDs: Please listen to your patients.) (Dear Mom’s [...]
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I’ve been cancer-quiet for a little while, mainly because there hasn’t been anything to report. Mom continues to feel uncomfortable…increasingly so…but we’ve thought and been advised that the effects are cumulative. The main problems have been continued abdominal bloating and neuropathy — a numbness with occasional tingling in the hands and feet — along with [...]
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A. Poison Ivy B. Doritos C. Civil Union D. Chuck Norris Answer? C. Civil Union Equally analogous: Marriage is to Civil Union as Church is to State I got a great email this morning from one of my favorite people explaining why he will not be voting for Obama this year, even though this has [...]
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Biden recalled the test JFK faced as a young, untried president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. McCain says he was tested by the crisis. He was on the deck of the USS Enterprise, with a target. I suppose he was tested…on following orders. Wouldn’t that be the difference between Capt. Jean-Luc ”Bald-Is-HOTT” Picard and Lt. “Duj [...]
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Not me. Alexa at Flotsam. She has been at the Life/Health of the Mother crossroads, and her post makes some points that I have not heard loudly enough before. After the last debate, I chose to write about the tax policies and Joe/Sam the (Unlicensed) Plumber, partly because I wrote enough about Roe v. Wade in college [...]
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1. Divorce = paperwork. I used to have a thing for filling out forms (I was an odd child), but college applications beat it right out of me. Divorce also = uncomfortable interactions with the person from whom you are trying to legally untangle yourself. This, it must be said, is unpleasant for all involved. [...]
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