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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Don't go. Call them. They will understand.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Sorry for your loss, glatt.
And yeah, what Monster said.
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Maybe you could call your niece and nephew and ask if they'd like to come spend some time at your place after everything is done and dusted? Use the money for that instead. I would think they'd understand, and probably even not really care if you're there or not anyway. They'll be in grief, and they still have their Dad, so he'll be the one they'll be leaning on. (I assume he's going) When it all comes down to it, there'll probably be a lot of people there if she was youngish and the kids will probably have friends go along to support them too.
Don't feel bad. Just let them know they're in your thoughts and that you'd love to see them as soon as they'd like to get together with you.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I called and had a really good talk with them. I'm not going, and it's fine.
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#8285 |
Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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Glatt, sorry for your loss, and glad that the niece and nephew are OK with you not going to the funeral. I think the idea of inviting them to come and visit you for a while is a good one.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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My hand tremors have gotten worse recently, to the point that I feel I need to discuss it with my neurologist the next time I see him. Rationally, I'm pretty sure it's the same benign aspect of epilepsy that it's always been, and they are only worse right now because I'm not getting enough sleep (which in turn is because I am acting like a child and refusing to go to bed at the appropriate time, as if somehow tomorrow will be magically different and I won't have to get up at 5:45 after all.)
But. The irrational hypochondriac part of me keeps shouting from the back that this is the first sign of early onset Parkinson's. I have it on both sides of my family--not early onset specifically, just regular old Parkinson's--but one of those cases is the uncle who used to only have mild epilepsy like me. No doubt lack of sleep is making the anxiety worse too. Oh, and, I woke up with a sore throat, which is just pissing me off. I would go to bed right now, but Mr. Clod isn't home yet. |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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That would upset me too. Sorry, Clodfobble. I hope you're just tired. Go to bed as soon as the Mr. gets home.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Glatt,
a) I am sorry to hear about your ex sister in law's passing. b) A moth ate your only suit? That must have been a big ass, hungry moth. It was probably a good thing you weren't wearing it at the time. Clodfobble. a) I am sorry about ur tremor. That sucks. b) Just say NO to Parkinsons.
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Go to the doc. Put your mind at ease Clod. I'm sure it's just lack of sleep, so also, GO TO BED!
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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#8291 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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It's a choo-mah
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 27,063
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now, calls from bill collectors, asking me my number, my info, and "are you married to a mrs tink?"
fuck. no. stop bothering me about this shit, I don't want to have anything to do with mrs tink, leave me alone.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Oh man, that sucks. Those phone calls are never really going to go away until she pays the debt, or dies. Mr. Clod's brother has tons of bills in collection, and about every 1-2 years, the debt gets sold to a new collection agency, and they diligently re-run all the potential paths to find him, including us. We tell them he's never lived with us, and we haven't heard from him in years and honestly wouldn't know where to find him, and they are polite and cross us off the list... but then a year later, the calls start again.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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SonofV's epilepsy had become merely a historical fact for a couple years. That's the timeframe the doctors set for seizure free activity in order to consider stopping his medication. He went off the medications according to the doctor's instructions. Another couple years passed with no seizures. Then, another seizure about a year ago. Back on the medicine and during the followup, the only definite causal factor in his situation was fatigue. Getting a teenager to bed early (and up early) is not an easy thing, but it was "doctor's orders". He had a couple more seizures (but none recently) and every time he'd stayed up late the night before. It's a strong correlation.
I'm no doctor. I am not a doctor. But, lack of sleep does increase the risk of seizures in my experience. I hope you take good care of yourself. You're the person in the best position to get you to bed at a good time. Perhaps you can enlist Mr Clod in enforcing bedtime?
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