Fuck!

[ygmir]

Fuck cancer, indeed, Eric..........by best to you, and yours, Pal.

[MyDearFriend]

(((Eric)))

((((Uncle))))

Be well, both of you, or as well as you can be.

[marck]

Eric, Please refer to my previous post regarding my father's tumor and check if it is the same type as his was.

If it is then, I'm sorry, outcome will be the same. Chemo and radiation treatments may extend the time but make the remaining time much less pleasant.

I hope that it is something survivable.

[Eric]

Eric, Please refer to my previous post regarding my father's tumor and check if it is the same type as his was.

If it is then, I'm sorry, outcome will be the same. Chemo and radiation treatments may extend the time but make the remaining time much less pleasant.

He's in his 80's and it's already bad enough it's causing stokes, I'm coldly realistic about where this is going, sadly, just not sure how long or painful it will be.

He has had a great life, has a great family (well, other than his second wife, but I won't go into that) and is surrounded by people who support him. I am hoping it goes as painlessly and takes as long as possible, and I'll be supporting my mom through this as much as I can

She was lucky enough to beat her cancer against the fucking odds, there is always hope he will as well.

[theCryptofishist]

((((((Eric))))))

[unjonharley]

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(Eric)


My second wife acted different one day.. The next day they found a small lump in her brain (noncancer). Day three she did not know her childeren.. Next day she knew us but realatiy was slipping away.. Then she just faded away in no pain
and died..

It's still fucked in our lives for a lot of years..

[maryanimal]

(((((Eric)))))
(((((UJ)))))

[BAS]

Fuck, I'm sorry to hear that Eric and UJ!


My best wishes all around.

[theCryptofishist]

Fuck. A friend just "coded" and he's not a cryptogra;her.

fuckityfuckruckcuckfuck. To weired out to spell. tingling in the soles of my feet. or the souls of my feet. bad buns, uhem, puns my nervous specialty.

fuck to the fuckth power.

[maryanimal]

*huuuuugs* fishy* Im so sorry.

[maryanimal]

*huuuuugs* fishy* Im so fucking sorry.

[Eric]

((((fishy))))

[ygmir]

awe fuck, Fishy!!!!
best to your friend, and to you.

[Elderberry]

Fucking sorry Fishy.

[unjonharley]

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Sorry Fishy (())'s

[AntiM]

Aw fuck, (((fishy))))

[BAS]

((fishy))

Fuck. I don't feel like listing specifics, so just fuck all the fucked up things life throws at people!

[Here and there]

This was a dandy surprise. Last week, I had just bought my groceries, and was going back to the home of an older member of the family I was visiting. Along the way, I had to pass through the intersection of two of the main roads for a city of over 100,000 people. It's a busy place.

The light changed, and the walk signal came on. As always, I quickly looked to the left, then the right, and then ahead and behind, just to make sure that there wasn't another maniac weaving his way down the road at around 90, who I might have had to jump out of the way of. The coast was clear, or so I thought. The walk signal was still white and unblinking, because like anybody else who has had the misfortune of growing up in the sprawling urban mess that is "Chicagoland", I had learned to do that check very well, and very quickly. I crossed, and right as I was in the middle of the highway, I got to run into the wonder that was somebody's bright idea, and the even greater wonder that is the Illinois driver.

It's called "traffic pre-emption". An emergency vehicle, about three blocks to the west of the intersection, hit its lights just as I stepped onto the yellow median line. This set off an automatic response, causing the red light that had been stopping traffic in the street that I was crossing to suddenly (and without warning) turn green. In normal cities, ones not run by and for sociopaths, traffic pre-emption has a built in delay, in order to give pedestrians a chance to clear out of the intersection, but this is one of the megaburbs, so fuck the pedestrians! If they had real money, like all respectable people do, they'd be driving for the 3 1/2 blocks it takes to go to the grocery store. In their volvos, of course.

The moment the light turned green - going both ways, of course, even though the emergency vehicle only needs to go eastbound - all of the drivers did as any good yuppie fuck would do under the circumstances, and floored it. I got to spend the next ... I'm not sure how long ... dodging traffic, until a break came and I could run for the nearest sidewalk without jumping in front of a car. These fuckwits do love to tailgate out there in Yuppieland, and those gaps are usually far too narrow for a pedestrian to get through, at any speed that any human being could be expected to be capable of. It's a fucking wonder that I wasn't fucking killed, by the bright idea of the nitwit who decided to eliminate the delay. I can already picture him saying something about this practice "saving more lives than it takes" by getting emergency vehicles to where they're going more quickly, and not being challenged to back up that claim, or being asked exactly what the fuck a pedestrian is supposed to do when the system does what it did.

Be a good sport about it and die without making a fuss, I imagine. I've noticed that the town in question has received high marks for pedestrian friendliness from whoever rates these things, and that the locals like to talk trash about "the terrible drivers in California". I think that's fucking hilarious. I've been to San Francisco, San Diego and even the infamous Los Angeles. I have yet to have to jump out of the way of a California driver. I've lost track of how many times I've had to jump out of the way of some fucking Chicago area driver, sometimes when I haven't even been in the street. Forget about the fucking assholes who are in such a fucking hurry that they'll run a red light at speeds far above what would be legal, even were the light green, but ... you know that cute maneuver, where somebody will cut across a filling station in order to avoid a light? Some of these guys have decided that it would be even more fucking cute if they came up on the curb, figuring that red lights don't apply to any car traffic on the fucking sidewalk. Or, just as adorably, they'll come up over the curb when the light is green, which seems totally fucking reasonable to them, because if they passed up the opportunity to shave maybe four feet off of their trips by taking those short cuts, they wouldn't be able to get to wherever their presence was so vitally needed, two seconds sooner.

The best part? Having a fucking cop there, and discovering that whether he's on foot or in a car, no matter what his ability to pursue or react might be, that one will get the same response. "What do you want me to fucking do about it?", as he heads into Starbucks for his fifteenth fucking pastry of the day. How about "do your fucking job"? The Illinois criminal does have statutes dealing with reckless endangerment in its various forms, and if speeding on a sidewalk, driving toward a pedestrian, isn't a violation of the traffic laws, what the fuck is? But you'd better not say anything like that to the worthless fucking waste of the taxpayer's dollars wearing blue, or even softly suggest that he really ought to call in what could be argued to be attempted vehicular homicide, because Chicago's police force is fucking unionized, and the union will be just fine with him busting you for the wonderfully vaguely defined offense of "disorderly conduct", which in practice means "having a cop get annoyed with you". Not that there's anything at all unconstitutional about writing a criminal statute so broadly as to effectively allow any cop to lock up any citizen on a whim.

The asshole in the car? Catching him would take some work. You, the pedestrian, on the other hand? You're standing right there. Catching you is no fucking work at all. So, the asshole with the badge takes the path of least resistance, and threatens the complaining citizen with arrest. No report gets filed, and the city's official crime rate remains what it has been, insanely misleadingly low. The incident just goes away. One calls professional standards and services, and is warned by them to not file a report, because not only will nothing ever be done to the cop, but his buddies will be given one's home address, and one's life will become interesting after that. Far too interesting.

So, as much as I would enjoy seeing the person who decided to eliminate that warning period locked in a room, and ordered to write "pedestrians are not cannon fodder, and I was a fucking asshole for thinking that they were" for 100,000 fucking times, I know that there's no point in pursuing the complaint. All that I can do is try to survive in this shithole for as long as it takes me to escape it, and seriously advocate for a kind of secessionism. I'd like to see Illinois become an independent country. This is not because I'd like to see Illinois secede from the union. It's because I'd like to see the rest of the union secede from Illinois. Really, it deserves better company.

But please, let it wait to do so until I manage to migrate to somewhere nicer.

[MisaBlue]

HaT, great you survived that fucking traffic!!!

And thank you for such a wonderful post, with all the new words I can put in my vocabulary, memorize them and one day enchat someone by my wide knowledge of swearwords...excellent!!!

fuck

[Sail Man]

HaT was a fucking frogger



(((Fishy)))), sorry about your friend

[Simon of the Playa]

dear Here and There, Your Kind is called FIBS for a reason.


(fucking illinois bastards).

[Mojojita]

Wow - I was on fucking vacation (no, really, I fucked a lot on vacation) and missed so much going on here! Fucking unbelieveable that Hushville not placed! That is a different kind of grief, but grief nonetheless. ((((((Fishy)))))

While on Maui, we took a day snorkel trip to Molokini, which is a small semi-circle of rock in the ocean that is actually the very top of a volcano crater. The crew was charming, entertaining us playfully and the snorkelling was spectacular. I have particularly long blade swim fins and crew members were borrowing them to try them. One of the crew did not try them and told me he doesn't use fins at all because they bother his tendons. 10 fucking minutes later I watched them bring his lifeless body up from the bottom. He was only 26 years old. He died of "shallow water blackout" which basically happens when you hold your breath too long and pass out underwater. Although very sad, I can only hope that when it's my time, I go doing something (or someone) I love.

[jella]

Fuck...my mother in law just now figured out I blocked her from my facebook and she got her feelings hurt trying to wish me a happy birthday. I blocked her at least 6 months ago when I found myself censoring what I and friends posted and decided it was my "space" and thought she took it so well
Geeze I'm such a bad girl

[AntiM]

You don't have to block her. You make a list with her on it, and she can only see those posts and that information you wish her to see. I do it with my family I post a few things now and then they can see, butt for the most part, all my activity is hidden from them. It is like having two FBs pages, almost.

Oh, and fuck.

[jella]

Well fuck,There's a thought, but it's too late for that now. I did forget to mention she lives next door so it's not like we don't talk almost every day, well at least we did

[BAS]

Fuck! These side effects of this blood pressure medication I'm on not only have been keeping me from work, now I am going to miss a wedding reception. And fuck the credit card people who are now back to calling me every day after putting me on their hardship program! They still want the $200+ overdue, and will still sell my debt to an outside collection agency if I don't send them another $35 before tomorrow! (I *thought* that the $37 they took last Thursday was supposed to delay all of that.) Fuck!

[MisaBlue]

(((BAS)))

[Sail Man]

Fucking.....dumb.....ass.....drivers!

Responding lights and sirens to a severe respiratory distress. Eastbound on a 5 lane lane city street, I'm in the middle (for both directions) turn lane. A small red car is also EB in the left through lane.

And, the MOTHERFUCKER! decides to turn left onto a side street from the left through lane, right the fuck in front of me!!!!!

Option A: T-bone the future Darwin Award recipient and probably kill his or her sorry ass, but run the risk of screwing my own ass up and there-by missing the burn. Ruled out.

Option B: Implement my training from many years of watching Nascar both on TV and Live at the track and avoid the car on the high side by aiming for the inside of the straightaway.

I went with Option B and hoped that my spotter was correct, and also hoping that the Expedition I was driving would keep all 4 tires on the ground while I evaded this fucking idiot (Probably one of the Busch Brothers ) at approx 70 mph (short track racing at it's best).

OK, first maneuver complete, didn't clip the fucking asshole, but..........

I'm headed towards oncoming traffic, a street sign, and a fire hydrant (not bad in itself as it's 95 degrees with 100% humidity) but rule this out as a viable option and jerk back to the right towards the EB lanes (ABS don't fail me now) and......

Yes! I have successfully avoided what I thought was going to be the first accident in my 20 yrs of EMS (and a big one at that). One that had the potential to really fuck up somebodies day. I continue on towards my call, asshole nicely puckered, and grab my gear and head into the house only to find.....

That the guy just fucking went into cardiac arrest ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! And here I was short on fucking adrenaline

When can I retire???

[MyDearFriend]

Oh FUCK!!! (((Sailman))), you were damned lucky. I keep writing to my City Council suggesting that they put cameras on the front of all our EMS vehicles so they can slap big fines on everybody who fails to get out of the fucking way. Idiots like that, though, geez...

I hope your patient arrived alive somewhere, anyway?

[jella]

Wowie wow wow...oh and fuck . Good job Sail Man !