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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3340 on: August 20, 2013, 12:01:09 PM »

* Morning Phone Ring
<Lyrai> h'lo?
<Dad> You know how Aunt D was in the hospital?
<Lyrai> yeah?
<Dad> They found out what was causing it. Lung cancer.
<Lyrai> ....shit.
<Dad> That's one way of putting it, yeah.

Shit got worse. I don't know much, but my dad told me to "Prepare for the worst."
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3341 on: August 20, 2013, 12:27:14 PM »

Jesus, Lyrai. You have my sympathies.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3342 on: August 20, 2013, 12:27:53 PM »

Now I know what I was doing to you people a few years ago. I see that Lyrai has posted in Shit Days and just think "Oh bloody hell."
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3343 on: August 20, 2013, 02:20:59 PM »

Gone.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3344 on: August 20, 2013, 02:33:58 PM »

well shit
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3345 on: August 20, 2013, 02:52:21 PM »

Jesus, that was fast.

I'm sorry Lyrai.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3346 on: August 21, 2013, 03:14:51 AM »

Hope you are "OK".
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3347 on: August 25, 2013, 11:18:31 AM »

Buddy of mine I used to play TF2 all the time with or chat motorbikes with killed himself. Really great guy, always the best to play with.

No details, only found out about it after the fact. He was about 50-60, not sure exactly how old. Had a game with him about three weeks ago. And like that, pfft. :(
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3348 on: August 25, 2013, 01:46:57 PM »

Yikes. All you know is it was suicide?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3349 on: August 25, 2013, 02:30:30 PM »

That's it. :/

EDIT: His friend who'd known him for 30~ years was playing TF2 with him LAST NIGHT. Then he found out in the morning and had to tell us. Jeez, that's really rough.

I don't know if any of you remember playing once in a blue moon on the Quebec TF2 server I used to go to all the time (a couple of you joined now and then), but it was De Mes Deux, the guy with the deep old wheezy voice. Sometimes he and I played on English servers too and he did speak English, albeit with a really strong accent, so one or two of you might remember his from that.

Man, he was the best damn teammate. Easily one of my favourite people to game with.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3350 on: August 30, 2013, 05:04:32 PM »

Funerals suck
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3351 on: September 01, 2013, 02:29:06 PM »

On August 7th, what the family (mother's side. Grandmother, 3 aunts + my mother, husbands of each, 10 cousins, and about 6 nieces/nephews) thought was mild stomach pain of Aunt D turned out to be full blown lung cancer. This came as a shock, but everyone was extremely supportive. While Aunt D was out of it for a few days, my mother who just got done with her own battle of (breast) cancer, was planning to help her out, tell her what to expect, all that. My mother was planning to fly down there when she could, the entire community ("The Clan", as it's called, is very ingrained, everyone knows everyone else, etc) was helping her out.

On August 20th, everything went to shit. A blood clot in her lung annihilated every hope of survival, and she was put on life support long enough for the family to assemble in the hospital room, with my mother there via an Aunt's iPhone video chat, and the plug was pulled.

My mother appeared dead to the world for a few days, until we all piled into the truck and drove down there on the 26th, a 9 hour drive. My mother was somewhat better by this. We get down there, and the viewing happens on the 27th. I have never seen my grandmother cry before this. A devout Catholic, along with most of the rest of the family, she's always been something of the iron matriarch, able to keep everyone together. I guess even those have their breaking points, and "Parent at her child's funeral" is one of them.

On the 31st, we drove up the mountains, to this 150 year old church near where Aunt D lived. A tiny one room affair where a Funeral Mass was held - the Rosary being held the previous night. The mass went off mostly without a hitch, one of my nephews acting about as well as you can expect a 12 year old to act who's not used to this - angrily snapping at the world. Her urn was buried after a nice speech from the msgr and a rather amazing speech from my native american uncle, who lit something I'm not quite aware what it was on, before saying a few words and giving a chant. We drove back down, went home, had In & Out, and went to bed.

We drove home today, and it was completely solidified that out of all of this, my mother was by far taking this the worst. Aunt B would just constantly work and keep busy. Aunt P took after Grandma with an iron spine and try to keep people together, but my mother was prone to fits of breaking down crying. The drive home consisted of her alternating between crying and lamenting about Aunt D's death, and sleeping when she was exhausted from it.

Also I learned I was sexually molested when I was like, 3, when the entire family sat down and the discussion went towards "At least none of us got sexually molested." "Well..."

So that's been my week
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3352 on: September 01, 2013, 02:51:11 PM »

* Büge hugs Lyrai
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3353 on: September 01, 2013, 03:18:15 PM »

Holding up?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3354 on: September 01, 2013, 04:25:07 PM »

I see that Lyrai has posted in Shit Days and just think "Oh bloody hell."

We don't have a :hug:

Maybe we need a :hug:

Until then, I will borrow one drawn by a friend.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3355 on: September 02, 2013, 02:50:18 AM »



I know "at least it was quick" is not much of a comfort, but with cancer there's no such thing as a trump hand.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3356 on: September 10, 2013, 03:00:47 AM »

My dad got fired again today. He'd actually managed to avoid doing that for quite a few years now.

This is sort of like when an earthquake is reported on the other side of the world. You instantly know that sooner or later a rolling wall of shit is going to crash into your shore and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3357 on: September 10, 2013, 05:15:22 PM »

Caught two bicycle thieves stripping my bike at the lockup at work! Security has cameras on that spot and patrols around there, but whatcha gonna do?

I actually interrupted them and chased 'em down a bit. They got away by running into oncoming traffic but dropped some of my stuff, so I managed to save my bike itself, bell, gloves, backpack (my incredibly beat-up 20-year-old back pack, which I got them to drop and which I actually thought it was quite funny that they were trying to steal) tie-down stuff, and seat, which isn't bad. They did get away with my lights, they had to break one off because of the way I mount it (specifically to make it useless to thieves) and more importantly, my coat (left tight-packed with the bike by mistake/laziness).

The lights together come to $30, but I actually expect my lights to get stolen pretty damned frequently in this town (they do). Kind of ambivalent about the coat. It was cute in that it was made by a company that actually bears my name, but was actually kind of a shitty coat to wear, with a bad zipper, crappy waterproofing, and was fraying even though it was close to new. So of course now I have to buy a new one. I can hopefully pick up something better, but I would have preferred not to have to do that for a another year or three.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3358 on: September 10, 2013, 05:32:04 PM »

Sounds like you were saved from 1-3 years of self-inflicted discomfort.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #3359 on: September 10, 2013, 05:43:10 PM »

Nah, I'm not stupid enough to start a fight with two guys, but they looked pretty scared (I did get them to drop some of my stuff). I was hoping to get close enough to yell at them them to drop the coat. Plus they were biking right into the very heart of downtown where there were still plenty of people and light. Would have been pretty tough for them to try and jump me or something there.

EDIT: OH, you mean the coat. Haha, derp. Yeah probably.
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