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Mrs. Mordant is finally home, where it is QUIET and RESTFUL, and apart from normal at-home convalescence and follow-up visits at the local hospital over the next 3 days (a 5 mile trip rather than 65 miles), and having gotten little sleep of late, already seems more herself.
This is the first time I've seen this post, Mordant, seeing as I don't often frequent the atheism and agnosticism thread very often. I just wanted you to know that I hope that both you and Mrs. Mordant can find the strength and solace to get this this rough time. I be thinking of you and am very, very glad that it turned out to be benign.
Mrs. Mordant is finally home, where it is QUIET and RESTFUL, and apart from normal at-home convalescence and follow-up visits at the local hospital over the next 3 days (a 5 mile trip rather than 65 miles), and having gotten little sleep of late, already seems more herself.
While I've been on something of a forced vacation from C-D for a bit, thanks to issues experienced in the P&OCs forum I won't get into here, upon my return this morning I've scanned many of the threads and comments I've missed while gone. Hardly a one that had me inclined to jump back in. I wasn't even going to get started again, but upon seeing this thread started by Mordant, I am inspired to add my best wishes as well. If only we could do more...
Mordant's many comments that always seem to reflect an admirable way of thinking and living along with all the many other positive comments remind me this forum does have some redeeming qualities. I hope this thread has helped you, Mordant, in at least some tangible ways. As it has also helped me.
While I've been on something of a forced vacation from C-D for a bit, thanks to issues experienced in the P&OCs forum I won't get into here, upon my return this morning I've scanned many of the threads and comments I've missed while gone. Hardly a one that had me inclined to jump back in. I wasn't even going to get started again, but upon seeing this thread started by Mordant, I am inspired to add my best wishes as well. If only we could do more...
Mordant's many comments that always seem to reflect an admirable way of thinking and living along with all the many other positive comments remind me this forum does have some redeeming qualities. I hope this thread has helped you, Mordant, in at least some tangible ways. As it has also helped me.
Thanks and all the best to you and yours!
Sincerely,
LM
I've got 2 infractions total, both from P&OC. Imagine the most inane reasons you can think of - mine were even more inane than that. Did me a favor actually and stopped me from posting there. It's a hole of a forum anyway. Come back here and chat with us! We're all relatively sane!
I've got 2 infractions total, both from P&OC. Imagine the most inane reasons you can think of - mine were even more inane than that. Did me a favor actually and stopped me from posting there. It's a hole of a forum anyway. Come back here and chat with us! We're all relatively sane!
P&OC is a sewer. MY posts there get deleted for "trolling" because they don't reflect the preferred views, and I'm a mod.
Then I resolve not to go back...but sometimes I do anyway.
I just heard from another member who today had a post deleted for "trolling" in that forum. I had read the thread, which was all information I personally know to be untrue, and I had seen his post, which politely provided the correct information. That's what got deleted for trolling.
P&OC is a sewer. MY posts there get deleted for "trolling" because they don't reflect the preferred views, and I'm a mod.
Then I resolve not to go back...but sometimes I do anyway.
I just heard from another member who today had a post deleted for "trolling" in that forum. I had read the thread, which was all information I personally know to be untrue, and I had seen his post, which politely provided the correct information. That's what got deleted for trolling.
Best to stay out of there, my friends.
One of mine was for repeating back an insult word exactly that someone had said to me, and their post stood, and mine got deleted and infracted.
The other one was I typed a really, really mild swear word, if you could even call it that, (along the same lines as BS which apparently is allowed) and replaced one letter for an asterisk. It got infracted. Wow I guess that mod really didn't want me on the forum. LOL
While I've been on something of a forced vacation from C-D for a bit, thanks to issues experienced in the P&OCs forum I won't get into here, upon my return this morning I've scanned many of the threads and comments I've missed while gone. Hardly a one that had me inclined to jump back in. I wasn't even going to get started again, but upon seeing this thread started by Mordant, I am inspired to add my best wishes as well. If only we could do more...
Mordant's many comments that always seem to reflect an admirable way of thinking and living along with all the many other positive comments remind me this forum does have some redeeming qualities. I hope this thread has helped you, Mordant, in at least some tangible ways. As it has also helped me.
Thanks and all the best to you and yours!
Sincerely,
LM
Thanks for your kind words, LM. Yes it was helpful, and I hope it was helpful to others as well.
We learned a lot from the experience, not least the increasing depredations of for-profit healthcare, and the sudden shift in perspective has lit a fire under us to get some things done we had been putting off, such as updating our wills / medical directives and such, and getting a trust set up for our disabled son. Just a few days ago, I was contemplating doing that under duress but my wife and I have decided we are not going to lose the sense of urgency so much that we let that kind of thing slide anymore. Appointments are in place.
We also learned a lot we didn't know about cancer generally and ovarian cancer specifically and this has spurred the investigative reporter in my wife to perhaps research and sell a long-form piece on why it is that women are not adequately screened for this (short answer: no cheap / easy way to do it, and there's a cancer industry that has to be kept busy, lol). Actually regular PET scans would catch a lot of it much earlier, if only society could just decide it was important enough. And it would if enough women would demand it.
Anyway ... no experience is ever wasted.
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