Fri May 8, 2015, 12:01 PMhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10026641619
Star Member Omaha Steve (50,296 posts)
When Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger (can we talk?)
First I want to thank the 40-50 DUers that knew about my condition and kept my deepest secret.
Why OS doesn't really exist anymore is in an old NYT article below.
I had it long before I was diagnosed with FTD (I prefer to call it brain atrophy from the article below) just before Christmas 2013. I guess I'm lucky, some victims get this in their 20's.
My new symptoms point to me having a second deadly disease (ALS) that will shorten even more the quality time I have left. Projected lifespan 2 years. I'm just waiting to see the specialist for a confirmation diagnosis. I'm in no hurry to get there.
I so desperately wanted wanted to stay on the DU through November of 2016. But I've overstayed my time, it is so obvious. All I have done is ruin what OS used to be on the DU. My own fault for wanting to stay.
On current events. I was asked to do something by a DU Hillary supporter earlier this week. I spent the time and effort. It was pointed out to me point blank this morning because of something I did a few weeks ago, a huge "stick it" was the way it was treated by many. I had already heard it through the grapevine. It still hurt. Since then I haven't been able to stop crying.
And this morning an OP brought this reply: "I think you should delete this thread, because it sounds demented."
On the money in my case.
"you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/richardmn116455.html)
I've enjoyed being a part of the DU and all the friends I've made here.
As far as OS and life in the future. I won't go out violently. I won't go out on FTD's terms.
A glass to the good old days. To a win in November 2016...
OS AKA Algernon or Don Quixote
PS Make a copy before this gets locked.
http://www.theaftd.org/
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:28 PM
SoapBox (10,105 posts)
11. Please, please, please stay...
We need you.
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:33 PM
Star Member mopinko (43,842 posts)
16. my dear steve
**** it all. **** the disruptors. **** the disease.
we are your friends. we will miss you terribly.
and we understand if you make some missteps. big ****ing deal.
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:39 PM
TorchTheWitch (10,850 posts)
20. Please don't leave!
I know how hard it is and have cried many tears because of people like that as well. To be kicked when you're as low as can be is the worst feeling their is even by internet strangers. I think about you so often even with all my own troubles. Please, please, don't let the vipers here chase you away!
I so desperately wanted wanted to stay on the DU through November of 2016. But I've overstayed my time, it is so obvious. All I have done is ruin what OS used to be on the DU. My own fault for wanting to stay.
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:39 PM
TorchTheWitch (10,850 posts)
20. Please don't leave!
I know how hard it is and have cried many tears because of people like that as well. To be kicked when you're as low as can be is the worst feeling their is even by internet strangers. I think about you so often even with all my own troubles. Please, please, don't let the vipers here chase you away!
http://www.alz.org/dementia/fronto-temporal-dementia-ftd-symptoms.asp
Anything is possible but sounds like taking a shot at the disability gravy train.
All those years of scooping poop and cleaning cop cars took its toll.
Some mood music . . .
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYB3yyu0UrQ[/youtube]
Gotta believe this brain rot he nadined up is less deadly than his combination of morbid obesity, age, and sedentary habits.
First I want to thank the 40-50 DUers that knew about my condition and kept my deepest secret.
^^^yeah, that.
But it sounds nicer, dying of "brain rot" rather than "gross obesity."
Most of the mental problems and brain issues at DU can be linked directly to serious drug abuse in their youth.
I worked with my church in an outreach with former drug users and they all suffered from serious brain damage. They were free of their addictions, their bodies were healthy...but their minds were a shadow of their former selves.
This is why I am so against legalizing MJ. Its a gateway drug.
Seems drug use, brain damage and liberalism are all linked.
(http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/watch-arm-20946122.jpg)
Isn't he dead yet? I have shit to do...
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Makes it hard to diagnose true mental illness in liberals, when they start with the deck stacked against them. :rotf:
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on Today at 06:25:46 PM
It also removes responsibility for one's demise.
It also removes responsibility for one's demise.
This is why I am so against legalizing MJ. Its a gateway drug.
Seems drug use, brain damage and liberalism are all linked.
And this guy had hopes of running Bellevue?
He had this great idea for free natural gas.
It was a game changer.
But then he ran fourth in a field of four, so Bellevue still has to pay utility bills.
I don't want to give him ideas but, he could drag it out even further if he created a sock account for poor Marta.
Sat May 9, 2015, 10:20 AM
Star Member Omaha Steve (50,298 posts)
Marta has a current DU post
I didn't tell her about my OP from yesterday. I did it against her opinion while she was out. She just now read it after seeing it in greatest threads. She took it better than I expected.
Be sure to say hello. Here is her post from yesterday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026643652
(who has a ghostbusting site!)
I looked for but couldn't find the post that made OS cry. I imagine it must be a doozy, or DUzy.
Fri May 8, 2015, 06:09 PM
martalcd (15 posts)
Sodom and Gomorrah, Nebraska Style
Are you f***ing kidding me? Some religious idiot in my state wrote a seven page petition to the court asking them to declare homosexuality a sin, and make her the spokesperson for God and his son, Jesus Christ. She says (bad spelling, improper syntax, wrong initial capitalization, and incorrect grammar use in the quote below are all hers):
Never before has our great Nation the United State of America and our great State of Nebraska's been besiege by sin;
The way to destroy any Nation, or State is to destroy its morals, Look what happen to Sodom and Gomorrah two city because of the same immoral behavior thats present in our Nation, in Our States, and our Cities, God destroy them.
If God could have found ten righteous people among them he would have spared them.
I'm sixty six years old, an I never thought, that I would see the day in which our Great Nation or our Great State of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some peoples lewd behavior.
First of all, this 66-year-old woman hand-wrote the seven page petition to the court on lined notebook paper (three hole punched, no less, she really splurged) in a cursive style that a fourth-grader would have been ashamed to turn in. Is there no electricity down in Auburn, Nebraska, that she can't use a computer, or at least a manual typewriter? Or because there were no computers in the bible, or electricity, or manual typewriters, does she not use these amenities?
I picture her writing by candlelight while sitting on a camp stool in a subterranean survival bunker, where she and her son have barricaded themselves in, to protect them from the hordes of gay people she seems to think are overrunning Auburn, and the rest of the state.
Second, God has apparently visited her in that bunker and discussed the sin situation in Auburn and Nebraska. Why isn't God giving interviews about this on Fox or NPR, where he'd get much more media coverage?
Third, the Sodom and Gomorrah reference just won't hold water. We're all still here, so God must have found ten or more righteous people and decided to give us a break for once.
Lastly, I'm almost 60 "an I never thought that I would see the day in which our Great Nation or our Great State of Nebraska" would have a resident petition the courts to be named the spokesperson of God and Jesus Christ. The nerve!
It's here http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026640631 he deleted his OP though.Thanks. That was not a cry-worthy response, and it surely should not have caused a several day cry.
Sat May 9, 2015, 10:20 AM
Star Member Omaha Steve (50,298 posts)
Marta has a current DU post
I didn't tell her about my OP from yesterday. I did it against her opinion while she was out. She just now read it after seeing it in greatest threads. She took it better than I expected.
From the tone of this post, I take it that Stevie boy DIDN'T tell the wifey about his "condition", and now that she HAS read it in the DUmp, I would start scanning the Bellevue newspapers for stories about OS, and how he met an "untimely demise" at the hands of his "significant other". :lol:
It has me thinking that his brain rot is the result of too many cast iron shampoos from "dear, sweet Marta".(http://imageenvision.com/450/16457-woman-about-to-hit-her-husband-on-the-head-with-a-frying-pan-while-he-eats-breakfast-and-reads-the-paper-clipart-by-djart.jpg)
(http://ozarkareanetwork.com/localnews/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ftd.jpg)
Are you f***ing kidding me?
Sun May 10, 2015, 12:42 PM
Star Member Omaha Steve (50,302 posts)
All the replies to my post Friday have done so much good for me.
I'm trying to reply to all the email. It may take another day or two. But I will reply to everybody.
Are you f***ing kidding me?
Of course he couldn't have just posted his thanks in the thread that he had already created, attention whores need their attention.
cast iron shampoos
Ahahahahaha :lol:Agreed, I :cheersmate: him, too. :rotf: :lmao:
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)Sat May 9, 2015, 08:58 AM
Star Member ColesCountyDem (3,838 posts)
214. As someone you trusted enough to tell, I beg you-- please stay.
You are one of DU's shining lights, Steve, and one of the kindest, gentlest and most loving people I've ever met. Furthermore, even on a bad day, you STILL make very worthwhile contributions here.
I will join others here in asking you to reconsider your decision to leave. There will come a time when no longer posting will be the best decision for you, but as someone who knows you well, that time has not yet arrived. Please reconsider.
You are loved, Steve, and I beg you not to deprive DU of your presence prematurely.
I don't know if OS really has a brain disease as I've never fictionally spirit-guided him since I don't offer complimentary mini-tacos with each session, but if he does indeed have a brain disease he has my sympathy because I'm a compassionate fictional spirit-guide.
Now with that out of the way, why would a brain disease cause you to leave DU? As it progressed wouldn't it actually make you more DU-eligible?
If you check out the Big Guy's particular brand of alleged brain rot, the average survival after diagnosis is thirteen to twenty years!!
But - the chance that the hugely obese, sedentary Big Guy will survive 13-20 years under any circumstances is approximately zero.
So he had to toss in the bonus ALS to give things a little more immediacy.
Let me see if I got this straight: The big guy is now saying he has ALS and brain atrophy? I thought he had brain cancer?
Sorry Steve. I just ain't buying it. I am also wondering if his "goodbye cruel DU world" post isn't due to the fact people are starting to question his terminal illness. For someone who is terminal he sure is passing away in a slow, long drawn out fashion.
Just off yourself already and be done with it Steve. Go in spectacular fashion too. Jump off a tall building. They'll name the resulting quake after you.
I only question his death sentence in that he hasn't gone into detail about the disease. Sorry, OS but you seem to be the kind of person that if it was a fact you would tell every little symptom of the disease. Or Hell, I've known a few people that got terminal diseases and they NEVER talked about it. You didn't know they had anything wrong until you heard they died. So you skating that thin line when we have seen you tell everything is making your credibilty suck.
Hmmm. Maybe this is a set up for a Gofundme account.
Poor distraught Marta might have to resort to begging for funds to buy the piano sized coffin for OS.
Fire up that gofundme account.
Well, there's no way the retired Big Guy has enough life insurance to pickle and bury his carcass.
He didn't save, he spent his money on new gadgets to brag about at the DUmp and on travel to pay for autographs from 60s TV bit actors.
His pension's a pittance since he was never anything but the lowest city employee classification, and he's too young to be getting SS.
Maybe he can set up an apartment share with stewert and TorchTheWitch.
if he works for gov't he might have a hefty life insurance policy?
For a hefty guy.
I hope poor dear Marta's got some triple heavy-duty industrial-strength aerosol Lysol or somesuch in the cupboards. If the big guy spring loose of this mortal coil when she's at work, say of sudden cardiac arrest, by the time she returns home and finds the corpse, it'll be pretty ripe, if not in fact gag-inducing.
She'd maybe better keep about a dozen cans on hand, despite that spray Lysol is pretty expensive.
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There is hope for Steve:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3652788/Scientists-diabetes-treatment-drugs-impact-Alzheimers-disease.html
Watch him eat a shit ton of sugar to try and get diabetes so he can take the drug.
You've seen pics of him, right? Is there any doubt that he already eats a ton of sugar, and already may be diabetic?I figured if he was one he would have posted about losing a foot or something by now.
I figured if he was one he would have posted about losing a foot or something by now.
Maybe he lost a foot, but didn't realize it. It's not like he can see them, after all.
Oh he realized it.... then he promptly forgets it until the next time he stands up. He got the dementia doncha ya know!!!! :tongue: