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  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    MiNinaLisa wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    A month ago the doctors told me my husband had a stroke. Two days later they tell me it wasn't a stroke, it's a large brain tumor. Three weeks ago they removed the brain tumor (he's healing up well!) and then told us it was malignant but not brain cancer. After a whole bunch of test they have narrowed it down to a neuroendocrine cancer that has metastasized to several areas. I have been caring for him and trying to keep up with my job (who knew I could do so much work from the hospital?).

    But sometimes I need to take off my Super Woman cape and I can come here and look at pretty pictures and funny memes or read witty, funny or interesting conversations. It's my break from what I'm up against. I was surprised to read in this thread that other people use it as a break too. Makes me feel less alone in my thoughts.

    i hear you so loudly on this. when something obscure health wise arises out of nowhere ,and an initial diagnosis is made, that is alone enough to deal with. then upon further testing more serious maladies rear their ugly head, it's a complete faceplant. i'm so sorry that you and your husband are going through this. i also had a rare condition occur in a very fast timeline and through months of tests, was eventually diagnosed with stage four lymphoma. i have a great medical team supporting me and i hope your husband does also also. if you ever need to vent or would like a new friend - please feel free to add me. my thoughts and vibes go out to you and your husband/family <3

    Super huge hugs to you and thank you! You are right, it all happened so fast I still don't have my bearings.

    My heart goes out to you for what you are dealing with, sending positive vibes your way.
  • MiNinaLisa
    MiNinaLisa Posts: 648 Member
    Social media helps us present ourselves to the world without the struggles, defects, inadequacies and vulnerability of real life. As humans we need to show that vulnerability to others . That is what makes us humans and why we develop strong ties with others. I am grateful for all the stories shared in this thread.

    verdad, hombre.
  • ButterIsGood
    ButterIsGood Posts: 201 Member
    Diatonic12 wrote: »
    @ButterisGood That yayhoo did a number on your head. None of that is true. You're stunning and beautiful but beyond that you've got a sweetness and goodness that's going to carry you forward into the rest of your life.
    I think you're wonderful and the sky is not the limit for you. There's infinity. It goes on forever.



    Thank you. I've been trying to slowly get unstuck in this phase in my life. Just need to be okay with failure if it happens
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    @Christi1979 HUGE hugs to you, what a difficult time for you and your family. :( I'm sorry.
  • ermengarde22
    ermengarde22 Posts: 2,116 Member
    edited September 2020
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  • Christi1979
    Christi1979 Posts: 30 Member
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    @Christi1979 HUGE hugs to you, what a difficult time for you and your family. :( I'm sorry.

    Thank you. Things have improved so much. That's the thing about difficult times.... you just have to find the strength to push through b/c it does get better.
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    I keep reading this thread as seriously deep heavy 🙊 stuff
  • ermengarde22
    ermengarde22 Posts: 2,116 Member
    I keep reading this thread as seriously deep heavy 🙊 stuff

    I keep reading it to my psychiatrist


    does she say dumb things like my therapist goin on about “are we discussing a real person or one of your apparitions?” 🙄
  • Reckoner69_lmao
    Reckoner69_lmao Posts: 1,000 Member
    I keep reading this thread as seriously deep heavy 🙊 stuff

    I keep reading it to my psychiatrist


    does she say dumb things like my therapist goin on about “are we discussing a real person or one of your apparitions?” 🙄

    My brain wizard was awesome, I miss her
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    I keep reading this thread as seriously deep heavy 🙊 stuff

    I keep reading it to my psychiatrist

    Audible.com is my therapist 🤷🏽‍♂️...

    Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water...
    After enlightenment, chop wood carry water...

    Although I know it's just not always that simple tho..
    I'm a notorious thinker... 🤷🏽‍♂️
  • PlentyofProtein00
    PlentyofProtein00 Posts: 3,669 Member
    I keep reading this thread as seriously deep heavy 🙊 stuff

    I keep reading it to my psychiatrist

    :D
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    fstrickl wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    I am scared that one day I am going to come to not know myself. I am very averse to conflict, I don't have the fight or flight response, I have the freeze response. When in situations of conflict I usually just freeze. It's hard to explain, but I don't put up defences and I also don't take anything being said too seriously. When that happens it also means I don't remember things well because I'm actively trying to be neutral, to just let things glide across my brain like snow over ice. Waiting for it to be over. I don't know why I do this (okay, maybe I do if I think about it). Because I avoid conflict I generally say "yes" to everything. I'm not scared of new things, I actually love new things and I'm not generally not scared of failure. What I'm scared of is what if one day I keep saying "yes" only to realize I should have said "no" for my own happiness and wellbeing? What if it's already happened, but I'm just going merrily along along along and never really know if I am happy or just neutral.

    There's a scene in the movie Carol with Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara that talks about something similar in Ronney Mara's character. When I heard it, I realised that I absolutely could relate. Cate Blanchett's character asks Ronney Mara (with whom she is having an affair) what she is thinking about and Ronney Mara's character responds:

    "I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

    Along similar lines, I don't like talking about my feelings because I don't know them very well so this is some scary *kitten* for me to post. Really hope no one I actually know is reading this . . . POSTING AND HOPEFULLY NO REGRETS.

    You misspelled 'Defenses'.

    Wanna fight about it ?




    .... and when I say 'fight', I mean thumb-wrestle.

    .

    Well...technically
    bkucmm64tddm.jpeg
    9swdufvetaip.jpeg
    So now we don’t need to fight about it 😜. However, just because I don’t like fighting doesn’t mean a good thumb war can’t come in handy from time to time (see what I did there...)

    DEFENSE

    Also. Vitamin is pronounced V-Eye-Ta-Men
    not: Vit-a-Men

    Let's see, what else?

    Behavior (drop the 'u', it doesn't belong, no more than the added 'e' on 'Center(e)'

    And while we're at it, 'Whilst' isn't a real word.

    Why are the above true? .....because we say so.


    BIGGEST%20MILITARY%20BUDGETS.PNG
  • fstrickl
    fstrickl Posts: 883 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    I am scared that one day I am going to come to not know myself. I am very averse to conflict, I don't have the fight or flight response, I have the freeze response. When in situations of conflict I usually just freeze. It's hard to explain, but I don't put up defences and I also don't take anything being said too seriously. When that happens it also means I don't remember things well because I'm actively trying to be neutral, to just let things glide across my brain like snow over ice. Waiting for it to be over. I don't know why I do this (okay, maybe I do if I think about it). Because I avoid conflict I generally say "yes" to everything. I'm not scared of new things, I actually love new things and I'm not generally not scared of failure. What I'm scared of is what if one day I keep saying "yes" only to realize I should have said "no" for my own happiness and wellbeing? What if it's already happened, but I'm just going merrily along along along and never really know if I am happy or just neutral.

    There's a scene in the movie Carol with Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara that talks about something similar in Ronney Mara's character. When I heard it, I realised that I absolutely could relate. Cate Blanchett's character asks Ronney Mara (with whom she is having an affair) what she is thinking about and Ronney Mara's character responds:

    "I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

    Along similar lines, I don't like talking about my feelings because I don't know them very well so this is some scary *kitten* for me to post. Really hope no one I actually know is reading this . . . POSTING AND HOPEFULLY NO REGRETS.

    You misspelled 'Defenses'.

    Wanna fight about it ?




    .... and when I say 'fight', I mean thumb-wrestle.

    .

    Well...technically
    bkucmm64tddm.jpeg
    9swdufvetaip.jpeg
    So now we don’t need to fight about it 😜. However, just because I don’t like fighting doesn’t mean a good thumb war can’t come in handy from time to time (see what I did there...)

    DEFENSE

    Also. Vitamin is pronounced V-Eye-Ta-Men
    not: Vit-a-Men

    Let's see, what else?

    Behavior (drop the 'u', it doesn't belong, no more than the added 'e' on 'Center(e)'

    And while we're at it, 'Whilst' isn't a real word.

    Why are the above true? .....because we say so.


    BIGGEST%20MILITARY%20BUDGETS.PNG

    Yo look, I come from a confused place. I know how many kilometres it is to Timmy’s, but I don’t know how many centimetres tall I am. I weigh my food in grams but my body in pounds. Celsius makes more sense but only for weather cause if I’m baking WTF is 175C, I set the oven to 350F.

    But your military budget is WAY higher than mine so my defences (😜) would not withstand your attack. So you can spell defence with an “s” and colour without a “u”. I won’t stop you or tell you it’s wrong. 😌
  • jamloche
    jamloche Posts: 109 Member
    fstrickl wrote: »
    I am scared that one day I am going to come to not know myself. I am very averse to conflict, I don't have the fight or flight response, I have the freeze response. When in situations of conflict I usually just freeze. It's hard to explain, but I don't put up defences and I also don't take anything being said too seriously. When that happens it also means I don't remember things well because I'm actively trying to be neutral, to just let things glide across my brain like snow over ice. Waiting for it to be over. I don't know why I do this (okay, maybe I do if I think about it). Because I avoid conflict I generally say "yes" to everything. I'm not scared of new things, I actually love new things and I'm not generally not scared of failure. What I'm scared of is what if one day I keep saying "yes" only to realize I should have said "no" for my own happiness and wellbeing? What if it's already happened, but I'm just going merrily along along along and never really know if I am happy or just neutral.

    There's a scene in the movie Carol with Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara that talks about something similar in Ronney Mara's character. When I heard it, I realised that I absolutely could relate. Cate Blanchett's character asks Ronney Mara (with whom she is having an affair) what she is thinking about and Ronney Mara's character responds:

    "I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

    Along similar lines, I don't like talking about my feelings because I don't know them very well so this is some scary *kitten* for me to post. Really hope no one I actually know is reading this . . . POSTING AND HOPEFULLY NO REGRETS.

    Get out of my head!
  • MaltedTea
    MaltedTea Posts: 6,286 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    I am scared that one day I am going to come to not know myself. I am very averse to conflict, I don't have the fight or flight response, I have the freeze response. When in situations of conflict I usually just freeze. It's hard to explain, but I don't put up defences and I also don't take anything being said too seriously. When that happens it also means I don't remember things well because I'm actively trying to be neutral, to just let things glide across my brain like snow over ice. Waiting for it to be over. I don't know why I do this (okay, maybe I do if I think about it). Because I avoid conflict I generally say "yes" to everything. I'm not scared of new things, I actually love new things and I'm not generally not scared of failure. What I'm scared of is what if one day I keep saying "yes" only to realize I should have said "no" for my own happiness and wellbeing? What if it's already happened, but I'm just going merrily along along along and never really know if I am happy or just neutral.

    There's a scene in the movie Carol with Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara that talks about something similar in Ronney Mara's character. When I heard it, I realised that I absolutely could relate. Cate Blanchett's character asks Ronney Mara (with whom she is having an affair) what she is thinking about and Ronney Mara's character responds:

    "I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

    Along similar lines, I don't like talking about my feelings because I don't know them very well so this is some scary *kitten* for me to post. Really hope no one I actually know is reading this . . . POSTING AND HOPEFULLY NO REGRETS.

    You misspelled 'Defenses'.

    Wanna fight about it ?




    .... and when I say 'fight', I mean thumb-wrestle.

    .

    Well...technically
    bkucmm64tddm.jpeg
    9swdufvetaip.jpeg
    So now we don’t need to fight about it 😜. However, just because I don’t like fighting doesn’t mean a good thumb war can’t come in handy from time to time (see what I did there...)

    DEFENSE

    Also. Vitamin is pronounced V-Eye-Ta-Men
    not: Vit-a-Men

    Let's see, what else?

    Behavior (drop the 'u', it doesn't belong, no more than the added 'e' on 'Center(e)'

    And while we're at it, 'Whilst' isn't a real word.

    Why are the above true? .....because we say so.


    BIGGEST%20MILITARY%20BUDGETS.PNG

    Now see? It's reasons like this that we're currently fighting over aluminum (pronounced by some as..."Ah-loo-MIN-ee-um" but that's another ball of wax...pronounced by some as "Wh-azk-its").

    Let's all drive to the border and air hug it out.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    MaltedTea wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    fstrickl wrote: »
    I am scared that one day I am going to come to not know myself. I am very averse to conflict, I don't have the fight or flight response, I have the freeze response. When in situations of conflict I usually just freeze. It's hard to explain, but I don't put up defences and I also don't take anything being said too seriously. When that happens it also means I don't remember things well because I'm actively trying to be neutral, to just let things glide across my brain like snow over ice. Waiting for it to be over. I don't know why I do this (okay, maybe I do if I think about it). Because I avoid conflict I generally say "yes" to everything. I'm not scared of new things, I actually love new things and I'm not generally not scared of failure. What I'm scared of is what if one day I keep saying "yes" only to realize I should have said "no" for my own happiness and wellbeing? What if it's already happened, but I'm just going merrily along along along and never really know if I am happy or just neutral.

    There's a scene in the movie Carol with Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara that talks about something similar in Ronney Mara's character. When I heard it, I realised that I absolutely could relate. Cate Blanchett's character asks Ronney Mara (with whom she is having an affair) what she is thinking about and Ronney Mara's character responds:

    "I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

    Along similar lines, I don't like talking about my feelings because I don't know them very well so this is some scary *kitten* for me to post. Really hope no one I actually know is reading this . . . POSTING AND HOPEFULLY NO REGRETS.

    You misspelled 'Defenses'.

    Wanna fight about it ?




    .... and when I say 'fight', I mean thumb-wrestle.

    .

    Well...technically
    bkucmm64tddm.jpeg
    9swdufvetaip.jpeg
    So now we don’t need to fight about it 😜. However, just because I don’t like fighting doesn’t mean a good thumb war can’t come in handy from time to time (see what I did there...)

    DEFENSE

    Also. Vitamin is pronounced V-Eye-Ta-Men
    not: Vit-a-Men

    Let's see, what else?

    Behavior (drop the 'u', it doesn't belong, no more than the added 'e' on 'Center(e)'

    And while we're at it, 'Whilst' isn't a real word.

    Why are the above true? .....because we say so.


    BIGGEST%20MILITARY%20BUDGETS.PNG

    Now see? It's reasons like this that we're currently fighting over aluminum (pronounced by some as..."Ah-loo-MIN-ee-um" but that's another ball of wax...pronounced by some as "Wh-azk-its").

    Let's all drive to the border and air hug it out.

    These air hugs..... do they include 'air reach-arounds' ??
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    edited September 2020
    We've been doing air hugs for months and it's getting old. Can't we cheat just once?

    And I honestly don't mind the disagree-ers but clearly some people push the button because they lack a sense of humour. Oh is that with a 2nd u or without?