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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 15, 2016 11:27:03 GMT -5
I just downloaded her most recent album and am about to go rock out to it at the gym. Let me know how it is because I don't have it yet! It was really good, I especially liked, "Birth in Reverse", "Digital Witness" and "Del Rio". You should totally pick it up, and I need to get Love This Giant because I love the Talking Heads
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 11:59:45 GMT -5
Let me know how it is because I don't have it yet! It was really good, I especially liked, "Birth in Reverse", "Digital Witness" and "Del Rio". You should totally pick it up, and I need to get Love This Giant because I love the Talking Heads I want to! But I just bought two albums the other night. It will have to wait.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 16, 2016 11:46:10 GMT -5
Ms CW who is your avatar?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 11:55:33 GMT -5
Ms CW who is your avatar? Some character in a romance comic story. I cannot recall her name, but I can look laterI just loved the art.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 12:00:35 GMT -5
I'm sitting beside my mother's hospital bed. She had a massive stroke from which she likely will not awaken and even if she did she would have virtually zero quality of life. And rather than simply deal with that emotionally I know I get to deal v with the innanity and absurdity of the U.S. healthcare system. Really sorry to hear that. This has been a tough couple of weeks for friends' parents. I went to a funeral a week ago Friday for my closest co-worker's father, & I'm supposed to have dinner tonight with another friend whose mother's funeral I attended a week ago. Both had been in hospice (some 5 months in the first case, a mere 6 days in the second), but I honestly don't know how much how much of a difference that might make in preparing for the transition. My co-worker's father had been declining a bit at age 82, but he pretty much fell off a cliff when he fell backward & smacked the hell out of his head in his home back in mid-July. The impact on the brain left him with dementia, out of which he never emerged. The other person's mother was 96 & as far as I can tell hadn't really been able to communicate in years -- certainly not in the year or so that I've known her daughter, who took care of her (with caregivers) at home & appears to be absolutely devastated by the loss, though I guess I'll have a better handle on that in a few hours. *sigh* I have no memory whatsoever of having to "deal with the inanity & absurdity of the U.S. healthcare system" when my mother died 28 years ago next month, but I suspect I've blocked it out. Or maybe with a Medicare (I assume ... we'd been quite poor for years) patient that stuff sort of took care of itself back then, at least in the hinterlands.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 16, 2016 12:46:00 GMT -5
Ms CW who is your avatar? Some character in a romance comic story. I cannot recall her name, but I can look laterI just loved the art. That's pretty much why I was asking too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 17:11:35 GMT -5
Changing the subject drastically, I'm annoyed right now to find myself unable to recall the names of the two movies I watched back-to-back within the last couple of weeks that featured comics artists (whether would-be or pro, I can't quite recall) as major characters; one even had a Beanworld cover framed & hanging on a wall. And right after that I started reading a novel also featuring a comics artist -- Lisa Unger's Crazy Love You. It's like they're the new it girls/boys.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 16, 2016 17:17:15 GMT -5
Changing the subject drastically, I'm annoyed right now to find myself unable to recall the names of the two movies I watched back-to-back within the last couple of weeks that featured comics artists (whether would-be or pro, I can't quite recall) as major characters; one even had a Beanworld cover framed & hanging on a wall. And right after that I started reading a novel also featuring a comics artist -- Lisa Unger's C razy Love You. It's like they're the new it girls/boys. That is some good taste in comics right there. Tell us when ya think of it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 16, 2016 23:30:24 GMT -5
Moved Mom back into her apartment with hospice. But that's just comfort medical care. The rest is falling on my sister and I. My older brothers are here, but the oldest has already shown he will be no help. And my other brother has muscular dystrophy...And won't be any help.
I'm really not sure I can do this for potentially 2-3 weeks.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 17, 2016 9:38:40 GMT -5
Moved Mom back into her apartment with hospice. But that's just comfort medical care. The rest is falling on my sister and I. My older brothers are here, but the oldest has already shown he will be no help. And my other brother has muscular dystrophy...And won't be any help. I'm really not sure I can do this for potentially 2-3 weeks. Slam, so sorry to hear this news. I can speak from experience. It is difficult, frustrating, and emotionally draining, and as you have already seen, the burden is never equally shared. That's just the way it is. You and your sister will, I am sure, buoy each other. Comfort each other; that's all you can do. If the others (your one brother of course, excepted) will not be a part of it all, the hell with them. The death of a parent reveals a great deal about a family. However, as demanding, unfair, and enervating it is to nurse a parent and watch him or her die, many cliches prove true during the ordeal: you will find the ability to reach down and find more strength; you will put into perspective what's really important; you will find joy in simple things. No feeling person can help but be humbled by confronting the inevitability of death, especially as we care for a failing parent, a person who so often strode godlike through our lives and who now has become as weak and helpless as we were as children. It sounds as if you may have already lost your father, so you probably know that the memories of this trying time will not be the ones that spring first to mind when you reminisce about your mother, something people often fear. And whether your relationship with her was loving or distant, fulfilling or strained, no matter how tough this time is, you will always look back on it proudly. I wish you and your sister patience and understanding, Slam. Your mother is in good hands.
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Post by impulse on Feb 17, 2016 16:07:57 GMT -5
So sorry to hear about that, Slam.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 17, 2016 16:56:48 GMT -5
My Dad died from a massive coronary in 1999. Basically his aorta exploded. So it was instantaneous. All things being equal a much better way to go for everyone.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 18, 2016 13:38:38 GMT -5
I'm sitting beside my mother's hospital bed. She had a massive stroke from which she likely will not awaken and even if she did she would have virtually zero quality of life. And rather than simply deal with that emotionally I know I get to deal v with the innanity and absurdity of the U.S. healthcare system. Sorry I missed this when you posted Slam. I was out of town away from computers for a little while. I worked as a rep for a company that offered independent and assisted living for seniors and it was just too heartbreaking to listen to the families and what little could be done. My heart goes out to you and your mother and I sincerely hope something is done to fix this god awful broken system.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 18, 2016 16:43:03 GMT -5
Well, couple of things happened today in my life. First thing is that I changed my display name from my real name to "The Captain", both in a nod to my passion for Captain America as well as a desire to go incognito in my current situation, which is...
...I lost my job today.
I have worked in the natural gas industry for the past decade, and it is worse now than it has ever been due to oversupply coupled with lack of pipelines, leading to depressed prices with no end in sight. My company has done everything it could up to this point to avoid layoffs, but the time came that that option could no longer be avoided. Being in middle management and making the salary that I did made me a prime candidate, so I was not surprised when they let me go this afternoon. Luckily, the severance package is fairly generous and my wife and I live pretty frugally to begin with, so we have a rainy day fund saved for just this type of occurrence, so we're not panicking.
This is the first time in my adult life that I've been unemployed, so it's a little unsettling, but I know that this is part of God's plan for us, and while we may not know what that entails today, we have faith that everything is going to work out in the long run.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 17:12:17 GMT -5
Well, couple of things happened today in my life. First thing is that I changed my display name from my real name to "The Captain", both in a nod to my passion for Captain America as well as a desire to go incognito in my current situation, which is... ...I lost my job today. I have worked in the natural gas industry for the past decade, and it is worse now than it has ever been due to oversupply coupled with lack of pipelines, leading to depressed prices with no end in sight. My company has done everything it could up to this point to avoid layoffs, but the time came that that option could no longer be avoided. Being in middle management and making the salary that I did made me a prime candidate, so I was not surprised when they let me go this afternoon. Luckily, the severance package is fairly generous and my wife and I live pretty frugally to begin with, so we have a rainy day fund saved for just this type of occurrence, so we're not panicking. This is the first time in my adult life that I've been unemployed, so it's a little unsettling, but I know that this is part of God's plan for us, and while we may not know what that entails today, we have faith that everything is going to work out in the long run. Sorry to here that Captain. Hopefully the job search goes well and ends quickly for you. -M
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