A guy I made friends with a little under a year ago who recently died. One of the best friends I’ve made in the last 20 years. I still catch myself wanting to text him. Grief fucking sucks.
Lost my mom over a year ago. When something good or bad happens, i still reach for my phone to call her. I don’t know when that ends. I kinda hope never.
“I don’t know when that ends”. I remember this feeling when I lost my own mother 15 years ago. A friend told me “It’s not really about getting over it, but getting through it.” It stuck with me - I hope it may help to hear.
Thank you. Yeah, there’s no over it - you know- it’s still on your mind every day. I’m spending this summer cleaning out her house - clean a little, find something funny, cry a little, take a nap, repeat.
Grief is the worst, hear hear
My second bout with Covid. Wasn’t nearly as bad as the first time. All I did was watch Legend of Korra and Fargo season 5. All good now though.
Glad you bounced back. Fargo S5 was my favorite story since S1. John Hamm was fantastic.
I really liked the immortal dude. Sam Spruell stole the show. I did have an issue with the Halloween episode though. Like Dot went through all the trouble of changing the street signs, but she couldn’t wear a mask on Halloween? Classic smart character does something stupid so the plot can happen.
Epiploic Appendagitis:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/epiploic-appendagitis
Thought I ruptured something. Horrible pain.
Things you never want to hear a doctor say:
“Nothing we can do except control the pain.”
So they put me on hydromorphone:
https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/hydromorphone
“It has an analgesic potency approximately two to eight times greater than that of morphine”
Decided to take a corner by swapping places with my bike. Got more graze than a flock of sheep.
The back window of a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
grand
2019 was a shit year for me, I got mycoplasma just before going abroad on a work trip, I thought it was just a cold, and remember thinking in the taxi that it was going to be a shit week having a cold the entire trip.
Well, it was worse than that, much worse, I could hardly work at all, and nothing I did made me better.
The only relief I got was taking a shower and cough up phlegm sonthst I could sleep, only the hotel reception called me sbout flooding the floor I was on (this was a fancy hotel), and when a technician came up to look at it he half accused me of “splashing and deliberately using the shower outside the bathtub”, something I never did, so I got terrified that I would loose my job because of that since I had used my company credit card (as I should).
But i got a few hours if sleep, and decided I needed to get into a shower again, so I did, and was very careful, but the reception rang again, and sent out a new technician, this guy was way better and actually took a look under the bathtub and found out that the sealing agaibst the wall was fucked, I have never felt such instant relief, it wasn’t my fault!
I got a new fancier room for the last night, and the flew home.
A week later I was diagnosed with pneumonia in one lung, and got penicillin, the pills were too big so I could not swallow them, I tried to dissolve them in water to drink them, but the taste allmost made me throw up, so it took about an hour to slowly drink the penicillin every time.
I didn’t get better and got to hospital, I was admitted and stayed for two nights, I got penicillin striaght in to the blood ans well as drip and finally started getting better.
When I was discharged I got stronger penicillin pills that dissolved easier and didn’t taste revolting.
All in all I was out sick for 1,5 months.
Then in 2022, that year sucked as well, got double heel spurs, flat feet and a bad knee.
It took me a year of painkillers and walking home crying from the bus every day to get it sorted, new inlays and excellent Brooks shoes to get it sorted