What's upsetting you today? - Page 324

jinx · 11-11-2009, 07:17 PM

My neck hurts for no good reason! I can barely hold up my head though and it hurts to turn it either way. wtf!? It's been days and I'm eating aleve like pez at this point.

lumberjim · 11-11-2009, 07:24 PM

call me if you want me to stop and get you some tiger balm or ben gay or sumpin

jinx · 11-11-2009, 07:27 PM

Maybe some heroin. I'll let ya know... thx

lumberjim · 11-11-2009, 08:40 PM

damn...fresh out.

monster · 11-11-2009, 08:41 PM

I didn't know fresh sold heroin....

Shawnee123 · 11-12-2009, 08:46 AM

So that's where he's been!

monster · 11-12-2009, 10:13 AM

yup. got caught.

(is this gossiping? Or just outright bullshitting?)

DanaC · 11-13-2009, 12:50 PM

It just struck me, properly, for the first time that Christmas 2008 was Dad's last Christmas. he spent it alone, as he couldn't travel up, I was unwell and my bro was knackered by the run up to Chistmas (work and also getting things ready for the girls and a few trips over to dad's to try and get his house cleared up and more comfortable.)

He bought goose for us to have at my Bro's house. And as he was unable to travel he got himself a small one as well. Trouble is it was too big for his cooking tray and oven. he stuffed it in there. Then I think he fell asleep or something. It charred somewhat on the outside. Then he couldn't get it out of the oven. He managed to get some of it out, but it was all dried out. It was all a bit much for him and he gave up on it, ate something else and went to bed. When he was telling mum about it a few days later, he said he'd been really disappointed about it. He'd been looking forward to goose, hadn't had it in years.

The idea of him trying to cook a goose for himself, all alone, struggling for breath after every movement, and then being gutted (and exhausted) when it was ruined, upsets me. I haven't thought about it in a while. It upset me when mum first told me about it. But I hadn't realised then that it would be his last Christmas. I also hadn't realised then that the next time I saw him he'd look so totally different with his white beard and one white eyebrow (the other remained resolutely dark grey to the end)and be barely conscious.

it's just really upset me that his last Christmas was so shit. I can't get the picture out of my head, of his lonely little bungalow, and the piles of packages, opened and unopened, from catalogue stores. The cupboards full of every last ingredient, by a man who loved cooking, but had no breath left to do it.

Juniper · 11-13-2009, 02:04 PM

I'm sorry, Dana.

limey · 11-13-2009, 02:08 PM

Hugs, Dana.

skysidhe · 11-14-2009, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jinx

My neck hurts for no good reason! I can barely hold up my head though and it hurts to turn it either way. wtf!? It's been days and I'm eating aleve like pez at this point.

Are you ok jinx?

jinx · 11-14-2009, 06:19 PM

I am sky, thanks for asking. Feels better today than yesterday, and yesterday was WAY better than the day/night before. I still don't know wtf... felt like whiplash or meningitis or something else horrible but I didn't do anything to hurt it. Strange.

monster · 11-14-2009, 08:10 PM

I reckon you were straining to see if there was anything interesting further down in cloud's nsfw pic.

jinx · 11-17-2009, 06:33 PM

I think that's exactly what it was.

Today it's disappoint more than upset but there's no thread for that...
Spent most of the day at CHOP, which is just not my happy place, meeting with the kid's plastic/hand surgeon, getting xrays, meeting some more... Unfortunately no major advancements have been made in the last 9 years and there's still no real fix for my kids' messed up fingers. Damn it to hell.

Clodfobble · 11-17-2009, 06:34 PM

Sorry jinx.

11-11-2009, 07:17 PM	#4846
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	My neck hurts for no good reason! I can barely hold up my head though and it hurts to turn it either way. wtf!? It's been days and I'm eating aleve like pez at this point. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

11-11-2009, 07:24 PM	#4847
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	call me if you want me to stop and get you some tiger balm or ben gay or sumpin __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

11-11-2009, 07:27 PM	#4848
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Maybe some heroin. I'll let ya know... thx __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

11-11-2009, 08:40 PM	#4849
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	damn...fresh out. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

11-11-2009, 08:41 PM	#4850
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I didn't know fresh sold heroin.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-12-2009, 08:46 AM	#4851
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	So that's where he's been! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-12-2009, 10:13 AM	#4852
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	yup. got caught. (is this gossiping? Or just outright bullshitting?) __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-13-2009, 02:04 PM	#4854
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	I'm sorry, Dana.

11-13-2009, 02:08 PM	#4855
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Hugs, Dana. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-14-2009, 06:19 PM	#4857
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I am sky, thanks for asking. Feels better today than yesterday, and yesterday was WAY better than the day/night before. I still don't know wtf... felt like whiplash or meningitis or something else horrible but I didn't do anything to hurt it. Strange. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

11-14-2009, 08:10 PM	#4858
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I reckon you were straining to see if there was anything interesting further down in cloud's nsfw pic. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-17-2009, 06:33 PM	#4859
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I think that's exactly what it was. Today it's disappoint more than upset but there's no thread for that... Spent most of the day at CHOP, which is just not my happy place, meeting with the kid's plastic/hand surgeon, getting xrays, meeting some more... Unfortunately no major advancements have been made in the last 9 years and there's still no real fix for my kids' messed up fingers. Damn it to hell. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

11-17-2009, 06:34 PM	#4860
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Sorry jinx. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

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