12 Comments
⭠ Return to thread

Desk sign: “Sometimes I just want someone to hug me and say, ‘I know things are hard right now, but it’s all going to be okay. Here’s a coffee. And a million dollars.’” 😁

Can't do the megabuck or the coffee, but {*{*{*hug*}*}*}!

Expand full comment

🤗

Thanks Jack!

I’m really feeling pretty good. The muses wanted to share an observation that every time somebody suggests a reason for C, Typist feels defensive… I wonder if other C patients feel that, too.

Maybe Gary will ask his wife and let us know if she felt something similar.

I used to believe all dis-ease begins in the mind. Maybe it does, but my belief has lost steam because I have been working for calmness of body and mind for a while. 🤷‍♀️

Expand full comment

Yes, Gail, I did ask Beth and such thoughts and feelings were hers as well. I asked if she could just banish such reactions by reasoning with herself. That was not her experience.

Expand full comment

Thank you for asking and sharing Gary. Thanks to Beth, too. Feelings can muscle out the most rational thinking?

Expand full comment

I asked Deb if her mom (who died of metastatic ovarian cancer almost six years ago) ever worried about where she “got” her cancer from. (Mom used to fret about how she got colds, or what was setting off her allergies, or whatever.) “No, on that side of the family, everyone who lived long enough died of cancer. Aunt Marge smoked her whole life, but it wasn’t lung cancer that got her. We all knew sooner or later it would be something.” <shrugs>

Under the most rigidly controlled environments, organisms will do as they damn well please. [sign in biology lab]

Expand full comment

In college my friends and I would declare, "Life is a terminal illness."

Expand full comment

Your right! A euphonium seranade is a distant second, too. 😬

Expand full comment