It never rains, but it pours.

[cestsimal]

Aunt T's back in the hospital. odogoddess has already posted about it here. I talked to the nurse a bit ago, and Aunt T's had an angiogram and some other work to deal with a blood clot, and apparently she was cracking jokes right after the procedure, so the outlook's pretty good

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[psyfic]

Bite your tongue! If we must smoke and drink, we will smoke pipes and drink pints of ale like all good hobbits.

[davidkevin]

When I was a teen-ager, I refused to go get cigarettes for my mom, and I told her why: I wasn't going to contribute to something which would help kill her.

That was 35 years ago.

She's seventy now, and in an assisted living facility, unable to get out to buy her own. When I visit, I take her cigarettes. I can't see torturing an old woman, already suffering from Alzheimer's and fibromyalgia, by making her go through withdrawal in addition.

It hurts every time I go see her.