Comments on: Baba’s mood is…

By: Chumpy

Chumpy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:48:47 +0000

Ach, theres nothing like being a a patient to make you feel ill! This get well comment is so delayed, I’m thinking dignity will have already been restored, well-being regained.
Even the most minor of procedures can be major in other ways, and the the general anaesthetic is one-size-fits-all. How would this be as a a tonic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKmY63FTwc

Google the lyrics if the songs not familiar, they’re beautiful: very rhetorical, all about description. Better than vicodin? Bread and butter, no?

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:12:00 +0000

Ah, yes. Yes, well you know.

I had begun the essay before he was diagnosed, as the mumbled beginnings of a book. The book idea was knocked into the stratosphere with his diagnosis, and I finished the essay — after being directed to Harlyn, who was still on the hunt for pieces — after he died. Coming back to it and writing the essay was in many ways theraputic, since so much of the first six months of our daughter’s life was filled with the battle royal during the last six months of my nephew’s. But I had to write him into the story. Remembering what had happened in the airport was a blessing, since it gave me both an ending for the essay, and a way to see his name in print.

A small something, but a something.

Thank you for the compassion.

By: IrreverendAmy

IrreverendAmy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:29:02 +0000

I’m so glad the news is good and I hope your recovery is uneventful. I will enjoy reading your essay in installments, even though I own the book and have already read it–in fact, that’s how we discovered your blog. I confess to some dread, since the second time I read it, which was quite recently, my beloved and I realized with grief that one of the boys you write about with such affection in the last section is the one who is gone. Going back to that piece after reading about him here made me feel the loss as if I’d known him myself.

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:03:26 +0000

Many, many thanks to you kindly well-wishers. Annz’s synopsis is on the button (no pun intended, L,D). Minus detailing about how like a wet kitten I felt wearing that ridiculous paper dress and the shower cap thingy. They must give patients these things to keep us docile. Worked on me.

Skittishness and brooding are indeed history, now soreness, queasiness, and headachiness are present! Which I’ll take over skittish brooding any day.

By: LookyDaddy

LookyDaddy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:15:54 +0000

Annz, I’m not sure that, when reporting on the research of someone’s, um, hoo-hoo, it is appropriate to say the results were “two thumbs up.” Or maybe that’s too crude for anyone else to think of but me. Anyhoo, glad to know all is as well as can be.

By: annz

annz — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:26:57 +0000

Reporting for Baba - she is A-OK and resting in a well-earned Vicodin haze. Innards have been attended to with complete success, and research results were two thumbs up! Skittishness and brooding are history.

By: violetta

violetta — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:49:13 +0000

Oooh LD sweet thoughts to you on your medical event, may all go very well on all fronts for you and I hope you have all forms of succor pending on your behalf. As far as posting parts of your landmark essay, I think that’s great. I’ve read it and would enjoy reading it again…and hope to read other essays in the future (hint!).

By: Ampersandprime

Ampersandprime — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:46:28 +0000

Here’s wishing you all the best for your surgery and recovery. I’m really looking forward to the essay.

By: lulazoid

lulazoid — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:36:10 +0000

Good luck with the intervention.

My SO is going in for something similar next Thursday, but it will leave her out of commission for 8 weeks, of which at least four will be spent flat on her back.

Hope everything works out!

I look forward to reading the piece.

By: Chicory

Chicory — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:39 +0000

good luck, and a swift recovery to you!