Comments | extemporanea: the fight was fixed

extemporanea

the fight was fixed

Nov 11, 2016 14:21

At this point 2016 can officially fuck right off and die. Seriously. I do not want this 2016, it is skraaatched. In my personal iconage, it has taken from us David Bowie, Alan Rickman and Sheri S. Tepper. It has given us Brexit, Donald Trump, destructive student protests and cancer in my cat. It and all its works can take a long fiery hike straight ( Read more... )

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stringgeek November 15 2016, 21:43:12 UTC

2016 killed off my husband and left me with Donald Trump. 2016 can DIAF as far as I'm concerned, and that's before we even get to David Bowie and all the others.

extemporanea November 17 2016, 07:09:31 UTC

oh my word, I hadn't realised how out of touch I was with your life - I didn't know you had a husband, let alone that you'd lost him. I'm so sorry. This has been an unbelievably shitty year. I hope you're doing OK, as much as you can under the circumstances.

stringgeek November 18 2016, 19:47:22 UTC

Short version: met the man of my dreams in 2012, introduced by our mutual best friend. Blissful bliss was blissful. In Jan 2015 he was diagnosed with a very aggressive strain of lung cancer. He was a 30 year smoker, so there are no doubts as to the cause. Anyways, surgery, chemo, radiation. Two weeks of quiet ensued in late August, and then we discovered it had metastasized to the brain. Brain surgery last September, marriage in October, couple months of wonderful normal married life before it metastasized again, this time to his spine. Surgery on New Year's Eve last year followed by a pretty much nonstop decline. He was in one of my nursing homes for the last 6 weeks. The cancer gave him dementia, which was really rough. He died on April Fool's Day, 4/1/16, at the age of 48 ( ... )

extemporanea November 19 2016, 07:51:35 UTC

Is it weird that I find that a really inspiring story? Thank you for sharing it. I am so sorry for your loss, but so glad you had even that short time with him. Also, you are an amazing person, and I wish you all strength with the activism. The responses of furious determination to fight this are the one good thing coming out of American politics right now.

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myfinalusername November 17 2016, 09:03:29 UTC

2016 not been a brilliant year for me as well. sorry for your lost