The Best Christmast Present Ever: Part III

Dec 16, 2008 03:57

(Continued from hereThroughout all of it so far, Jim had still had a positive attitude, but this -- this brought him down. From laughing and making cancer jokes, he went to an "I'm fucked" kind of attitude that hurt all of us to witness. He just wasn't the kind of guy that you can picture getting down about anything, which made it doubly hard to ( Read more... )

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photog42 December 16 2008, 14:36:48 UTC
Just wanted you to know that I was reading and sending you and Jim good mojo. You're the bomb for doing all this for him. I won't write more, because I don't want to drown your weblog in bile and nasty, nasty words.

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mrsveteran December 16 2008, 17:51:40 UTC
If the bile and nasty words are about Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield's corporate policies, go right ahead.

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ladyfox7oaks December 16 2008, 17:41:04 UTC
I just don't EVEN have words for how completely screwed up this is. "Health" insurance- the Greatest SCAM ever thought up.

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mrsveteran December 16 2008, 17:51:10 UTC
Dude. Seriously.

The same EXACT fucking insurance company!

What. The. HELL?

Honestly, it boggles my mind.

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jasonsacks December 17 2008, 02:55:19 UTC
It should be a crime. Seriously.

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wind_4 December 17 2008, 01:21:44 UTC
Ugh. This is just disgusting! Poor Jim.

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xviragox December 17 2008, 03:05:38 UTC
Personally, I'm voting that the mass turned out to be a) a pony embryo, and they removed it and finished growing it in a petri dish, and he is getting a pony for xmas, or b) a mayo smear.

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mrsveteran December 17 2008, 03:24:35 UTC

Heh. Wouldn't that be nice.

Nope, it's small-cell lung cancer, big time.

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xviragox December 17 2008, 03:27:37 UTC
This choose-your-own-adventure sucks!

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mrsveteran December 17 2008, 03:32:13 UTC
LMAO!

I'll be sure to mention that next time I see him. He'd probably get a kick out of that.

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