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    What's Going On?

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    4 hours ago, CSC said:

    After tempting fate with two trips to Disney World and now a cruise during a pandemic, the finance and I both came home from this trip with COVID.  

    Thankfully we are both vaxxed and boosted so the worst of it is really just a long annoying head cold that we seem to finally be over the hump with, but it's still kind of sucked for the last week.  

    Your finances will be safe.

    (Feel better.)

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    What's Going On?

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    On 2/19/2022 at 12:48 AM, Hayabusa said:

    My cousin passed away tonight at 1022 cst

     

    I'm still in shock because until literally hours ago nobody knew what was happening with him. My aunt posted on Facebook back around the 5th that my cousin had to go into the hospital, he was unresponsive and couldn't breathe and his heart was slowing down 

    Now some of my cousins and me reach out to keep in touch with her, sending the family prayers and support. But my aunt never gave anyone any updates beyond its real bad and he's gotten worse 

    So that's two weeks of he's getting worse, its very bad, but no explanation beyond its very bad and he's getting worse 

    My stepmother passed away about 5 years back after being hospitalized for months, so I have some experience with hospitalizations and the inevitable trip to hospice care before we say goodbye 

    What had me puzzled was my aunt being as vague as possible, like yknow how every family has their black sheep so to speak, that nobody is in touch with? Well our huge family has about four branches of black sheep in the family tree and lets just say her branch in particular has been known to cry wolf on thousands of occasions, be it my aunt or her daughter or one of her boys

    So my aunt saying from the beginning "its very bad, its not good" and then being as vague as fucking humanly possible had me wondering was this another Cry Wolf episode?

    Its been said a few times, not by me but other relatives, that my aunt would post at least 2 or 3 times a year how her sin was back in the hospital for this procedure or that one. A different aunt pointed out how my cousin had just gone through some issue around October and that this might be another "emergency visit" just like the last 20 emergency visits of the last 4 years 

    Aka we hear there's some tragic incident but then it quickly blows over and is forgotten until the next emergency tragic incident 

    So I wasn't the only one thinking aloud that this could possibly be the next Cry Wolf episode. And so here we were skeptical as fuck about everything with my cousin 

    Then at 5pm we're hearing about they're going to unplug him and if we want to say goodbye we have to rush there by 7, etc etc

    So a good chunk of the family didn't take this seriously because of my aunts vagueness and her reputation for over exaggerating the health issues her family goes through 

    And thanks to healthy skepticism there's a bunch of grieving angry relatives trying to cope with my cousins passing and nobody who made it to the hospice care to visit is in any condition to drive home, crying so much and all.

    Just rambling outta anger and grief ? sorry

    I'm sorry for your family, that's just unbearably brutal. Do what you can, we're there with you in whatever context that gives you comfort. 

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    What's Going On?

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    On 2/15/2022 at 11:35 AM, The Natural said:

    When I had 30-40 kidney stones, I was told it was one of the worst pains ever. I can vouch for that. I can honestly say the pain I'm in isn't far off. My health has taken a decline the past year and half, but more so the past few months aging with Cerebral Palsy and my medicines getting messed around with.

    I seriously hope the best outcome for you, man. I've passed 2 kidney stones and those suck, but good grief that sounds brutal beyond description to due it justice.

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    What's Going On?

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    2 hours ago, Mike Campbell said:

    My Aunt, who I was very close with, passed away very unexpectedly on Wednesday at the ripe old age of 56. As you can imagine, we're all taking it really hard, although I'm not trying to pretend that it's impacting me the same way as it is her husband and children. For me, it hasn't really sunk in yet. I can honestly say I have a great support system, even being across the country. My wife and sister in law both are checking in with me, and my buddies at work made it their goal yesterday to keep me smiling and laughing as much as possible.

    Been there before, uncle, almost the same age about 21 years ago. Hang in there.

    What's Going On?

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    I know all corrective eye surgeries are safe and done fairly quick, but all I can see is that one scene from Dead Space 2 that's very famous. This makes me chuckle to myself, but it's still weird that it's what I think of.

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    What's Going On?

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    1 hour ago, Craig H said:

    Yeah, fuck that. I have only felt one "earthquake" and that was 10 or 11 years ago. It was an earthquake in southern Illinois that we felt all the way up here in northern Indiana. The less than 15 seconds it probably lasted felt like forever and the feeling of my office building shaking or even swaying is disorienting. I can't imagine having that many rumbles in that short of a span of time or living somewhere like California and it being a regular occurrence.

    Do co-workers ever shake your chair around and yell earthquake to annoy you? They may start soon....

    What's Going On?

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    My parents second test from the Binax thing were also negative, so hopefully mine is later tonight as well, although my father got a shitty cold regardless, so that's always fun. Probably, just from general public exposure the few days after being around my aunt. Standard annoying symptoms.

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    What's Going On?

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    My parents took my aunt out to a play last Thursday as a Christmas present/she's alone, so she could use some stuff to do. She failed to mention she was feeling a little sick. She texted my mother this afternoon, out of nowhere, saying she'd tested positive for COVID, etc. She's not vaccinated.

    My parents were around my mother's 80-year-old sister and brother-in-law on Monday for Christmas setup stuff, and one of them is severely immunocompromised. To say my parents were insanely fucking mad is an understatement. Luckily, both of them are tripled up, as am I. I would have been exposed to them on Sunday if they had caught it.

    Thankfully, they both took the first rapid test last night and it came back negative, which likely means I don't have it and neither do they. We'll see after they take the 2nd test on Thursday (36+ hours) if I should bother taking one or not. We all feel fine and have no symptoms beyond the general dry air allergy type crap we always have.

    I'm worried about my aunt because she's old and the "stubborn won't see doctors" one in that family, even if my parents are still righteously and justifiably pissed off and refuse to even answer her. We're supposed to do stuff for Christmas with the aforementioned relatives, so all the prep for that being blown up would suck as well for how much time my mother and everyone put into that. That whole family is boosted and very careful. Here's hoping everything is negative again.

    For the record, my aunt's daughter is a nurse who literally told her not to get the vaccine and feeds her misinformation because her husband is a piece of shit and she just follows his lead.

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