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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on April 05, 2016, 10:10:12 PM
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Has anyone noticed a primitive go missing lately?
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:07 AM
ellenrr (3,580 posts)
Need some love: DU friend had 2 strokes.
a friend went into hospital for knee replacement, and had 2 strokes.
(she is a member here, but since I don't have her permission will not mention her name)
I actually met her thru this forum just one year ago, and we have been emailing since - every day, sometimes more than once a day.
She lives in another state, I have never met her in person, but we do talk on the phone.
so since the strokes, she can talk, I talk to her in the hospital every day.
She says the docs have said there will be no permanent effect.
Good news.
but it is strange talking to her, one moment she will be completely lucid, the next, she says things, words, that make no sense. And she cannot make sentences sometimes - she just stops.
So I tell her it is ok, not to worry.
then, on Tuesday, same day I found out about this friend -^, I was sitting in the lobby of the Senior building where I live, and there is an ambulance outside.
(a very common occurance)
and who do they bring thru on a stretcher but someone I know who we have just begun creating a friendship!
She is young, Not even 50 I would say. Very vital, active person. Interesting.
She was laying face up in the stretcher, her eyes open- staring up. I called her name. She did not respond.
I asked around the building, staff and friends, and no one has any info.
I left a msg on her cell, which not surprisingly she hasn't yet responded to.
first thing, I'm going to do when she gets out and recovers from whatever it is- is get the name of someone close to, that I can call in case of a situation like this.
it is awful to not know. I feel helpless, I want to ask her if she needs anything, I don't even know what hospital she is in,
and even if I did they won't tell me anything.
i'm 68 years old, and healthy (as far as I know). I'm active, I'm engaged in and with the world.
I feel like people around me are dropping left and right.
I know - at this age - it normal and common to feel this way.
But I don't like it!
thanks for listening to my lament
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:11 AM
Star Member LiberalEsto (22,657 posts)
3. Hang in there, my dear
It's scary, isn't it?
I found out yesterday that a friend from college died suddenly this past Monday, Another from the same group passed away last summer. The rest of us are all around 63 to 65. I don't think any of us expected this so soon.
Leading a primitive lifestyle had NOTHING to do with that, I'm sure.
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"This is your brain on drugs."
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When I was growing up, we had an AA kid in the school from 4th grade on. He was my nemesis in grade school, became a friend in HS, and my best friend after I got home from the Army. He did a lot of pot, but tapered waaaay down in the last few years. He even was working at a local program for troubled youth/families. About two months ago, he was working at the center on an overnight shift. Apparently, he felt sick and went into the bathroom . . . and never came out. He had a massive heart attack. His first heart attack, and his last. He was three days younger than I.
No, he wasn't really a primitive-type, either. But it scared the Hell out of me, and unsettled me. I'm still somewhat unsettled from it. I'll survive; I've got my wife and daughter to ensure that.
It scared--and still scares--the Hell out of me.
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But it scared the Hell out of me, and unsettled me. I'm still somewhat unsettled from it.
It scared--and still scares--the Hell out of me.
Some time ago, the same thing happened with me and a friend of mine. He was months older than I. Marcus worked construction. Cement work, and building buildings. He was an outdoorsy person. He was also a party animal, a real honest to goodness child of the 80s. He kept himself in pretty good shape in spite of all the beer. He was fine at thanksgiving and gone the morning of Christmas day.
When you say unsettled, I take your full meaning, and it is a hell of a hard thing to talk about.
CMD
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Matthew 24:36