the big guy had a bad week

[franksolich]

http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?9608-A-bad-week

Oh my.

The big guy looking for pity again.

The Wizard of OS    04-23-2016, 10:51 AM

A bad week.

It seems our daughter's dog has turned a corner after his two surgeries and will survive.

We learned this week of a couple friends our age with short left to live time frames. (No, not Marta that was so sick this week)

I've known for 2.5 years I'm terminal. Learning about friends that are facing death still hurts.

<<<has known since childhood am terminal; that I was going to die some day.

The big guy must be a slow learner?

[franksolich]

I'm not exactly sure how all that added up to a "bad week."

The dog's getting well; that's good.

Two friends are apparently terminal; that's bad.

But they weren't poor dear Marta; that's good.

And then there's the last thing mentioned.

Out of the four things mentioned, three are "good."

So the week was apparently only one-fourth bad.

The big guy's got to keep things in perspective.

[SVPete]

OS better get used to people of his age range dying. Yes, it's sad, but it isn't going to get any less common in his experience ... and those dying relatively young won't all be people who lived rough or stupid lifestyles. It's part of life, and if he doesn't "make peace" with that he's going to be a basket case (more than he already is) in a very few years.

[Carl]

Just for the sake of argument I will allow his story of FTD is not a complete lie.
However to refer to it as terminal in the typical sense of what a terminal illness would be simply to make it an attention whoring drama is completely dishonest.

[SVPete]

Just for the sake of argument I will allow his story of FTD is not a complete lie.
However to refer to it as terminal in the typical sense of what a terminal illness would be simply to make it an attention whoring drama is completely dishonest.

It sounds like it is terminal in the same sense that Alzheimer's is terminal. The deterioration eventually affects a vital function of the brain and death results. But the processes can extend for a decade or more. ALS and MS are similarly long but inexorably terminal processes.

A good friend who is only 70 recently buried his wife of ~40 years after she suffered 15 years of Alzheimer's. I do not envy OS's wife.

[franksolich]

I do not envy OS's wife.

Even under the best of circumstances I wouldn't envy poor dear long-suffering Marta.

Can you imagine what he smells like in bed, all rancid and fetid, in mid-spring when it's not quite cool enough to keep the furnace on, but not quite warm enough to use the air-conditioner?

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This is what ticks me off about the buzzy primitive, when he jumped on us for our "insensitivity" towards the late Las Vegas Leviathan, insinuating we're heartless people. 

Actually, we're pretty caring people; I don't think there's a "Vinca" type in our midst.

I think we've demonstrated quite well over the years that we're very nice people, the concern we've expressed for the late Las Vegas Leviathan's widow Jeanette, and in this case, the big guy's long-suffering wife Marta.

Concern for the victim, not the victimizer, not the bully, in a relationship.

[GOBUCKS]

The Big Guy (who is dying but much more slowly than expected), is afflicted with only one terminal condition, the Birthday Syndrome.

As a side effect of that condition, he will surely expire very soon due to his massive obesity and almost totally sedentary lifestyle.

Looking on the bright side, his demise will likely come suddenly, like turning off a light switch, so we will be spared months of increasingly maudlin, whiny, attention-whoring DUmp posts. He's bad enough already.