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Old 04-07-2010, 12:41 PM   #5326
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my recent financial fucking.
I didn't know about this. I thought you had a nice relatively new job with better pay? What's this about financial fucking?
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Old 04-07-2010, 12:48 PM   #5327
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I had some emergency dental work done. Out of pocket was very expensive, but it wasn't elective. I can hardly go to work without front teeth (all due to an accident I had in 2nd grade...the work my parents worked so hard to provide wouldn't last forever.)

Then there was a tax fiasco.

You know, the little expenses, and big, that add up and take you right where you were before.

I know I'll get through it, and catch up eventually (BECAUSE of my new job without which I could not have had my teeth fixed!) but then the ct scan really started to scare me and I got that "everything is looming" feeling.

I'm sorry, I'm just whining. I know things could be so much worse.
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Old 04-07-2010, 02:01 PM   #5328
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I'm sorry, I'm just whining. I know things could be so much worse.
Things could always be worse for everyone, and that doesn't keep this thread from reaching over five thousand posts. That's why it's here. Gripe away. I'm sorry about the tough financial times, but at least your teeth look great.
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Old 04-07-2010, 02:05 PM   #5329
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A smile with my new caps.
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Old 04-07-2010, 02:21 PM   #5330
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Hey Shaw. Kick em in the cunt.
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Old 04-08-2010, 06:31 AM   #5331
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yeah, Shaw; just give 'em the old Cunt Punt, it'll make ye feel better.
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Old 04-08-2010, 07:33 AM   #5332
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definite punt time
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Old 04-08-2010, 08:14 AM   #5333
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I'm sharpening my foot for the cunt kicking. I'm not so worried about anything being wrong...because I'm stubborn and will fight the fuck out of anything that comes my way...it's just the matter of going through it all.

Thanks guys. You can't know what your kind words, and suggestions of cunt-kicking, mean to me.
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Old 04-08-2010, 09:00 AM   #5334
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My father's state of health is a worry to say the least. He had a knee replacement operation about eighteen months ago and is now experiencing a lot of pain in the area. Of course whatever is causing it, might have nothing to do with the new joint. The doctor said that the symptoms led him to consider the possibility of a slight fracture so off he went to the local hospital for an X-Ray. There's no fracture but deeper appraisal of the image and other investigations are now on the cards.

I look at dad sometimes when he's asleep and realise how much he has aged recently. He's eighty-four and in many respects isn't doing too badly but I find it all rather depressing. My mother died last August after a long period of ill health and since then I've had some respite from various worries. I just hope that dad isn't now declining.

DanaC has written a beautiful poem to her Dad and reads it in a video in the Creative Expression Forum.

I don't have her skill with words but I can appreciate her writing.

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Old 04-08-2010, 09:03 AM   #5335
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Carruthers, Wishing you support in this difficult time. The aging and death of parents is a difficult phase that we all go through.
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Old 04-08-2010, 09:08 AM   #5336
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My Great Uncle John died last night. Grandad's second sibling in the last two years, and the baby of the family. The five of them seemed to have charmed lives until Auntie Alice died - they were all in their eighties and all compos mentis.

Of course no-one lives forever, but the Doyles were giving the impression of immunity for a while.

We didn't really know John - not like Auntie Alice, who was very much close family - but I feel it for Grandad.
Sorry to hear about your Great Uncle, Sundae.

Like yourself, I always thought that as my older relatives had always been there, then they always would be. It is probably a defence mechanism.

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Old 04-08-2010, 09:09 AM   #5337
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Carruthers, Wishing you support in this difficult time. The aging and death of parents is a difficult phase that we all go through.

Thanks for your kind words, Merc. I'm grateful to you for that.

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Old 04-08-2010, 10:17 AM   #5338
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Yet more bad news. One of my best buddies has diabetes. He's had two operations to replace various organs and had to give up a toe. The latest bad news? They found out yesterday that his daughter (my goddaughter) has childhood onset diabetes.

Fuck diabetes. (to paraphrase)
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Old 04-08-2010, 10:20 AM   #5339
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I'm sorry Pete.

That was my concern, diabetes. It runs in my mom's side of the family. Doc didn't seem to think that was the concern, after doing some neurological tests that resembled a DUI test, that I must've failed...hence the CT scan (and the fact that after my car accident they did x-rays of my head but not a scan and he says the scan will show the blood vessels and other things that could be a problem.)

Hang in there everyone. Warm thoughts...
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Old 04-08-2010, 10:37 AM   #5340
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Oh Pete, that's really hard. How old is she?

Carruthers, please enjoy him while you have him.

Shaw -- good luck with the test! Don't study too hard. :p
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