Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (12)

[Bryne]

I broke my toe today. Kind of ironic since I am taking a radiography class right now.

 

[MaryEmily]

Did you get to x-ray it? I hate broken toes....such little things, so much pain.

 

[DaRev]

My patient, a really sweet 84 year old woman, was diagnosed with metastatic, aggressive lung cancer today. She has a year at best.

There was a man back home who worked for the fire department. He was an assistant chief and later became fire chief. He was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and basically 4 to 6 months. They told him there was nothing more they could do and basically sent him home to die. After sitting at home a couple weeks he said "To hell with this, I'm going back to work." So he did.

He retired 25 years later.

 

[Bryne]

Did you get to x-ray it? I hate broken toes....such little things, so much pain.

I wish. But we aren't allowed to x-ray living tissue. That would be considered unethical. I had to go to an actual doctor in and actual clinic. I did get to x-ray my husband's transformers, though. That was pretty cool. I will post the pictures when I get them scanned in.

 

[Tangible]

Your husband still plays with Transformers?

 

[Bryne]

Your husband still plays with Transformers?

Yes...but not that one.

I took x-rays of a G-1 Starscream, and a movie version of Optimus Prime, Megatron and Rampage.

 

[SyntheticPaper]

Transformers are not exactly kid things anymore: G1 Generation 1 Transformers Fortress Maximus NIB MIB < | eBay now, one might think "Well that's just one of those over-inflated E-bay prices", but no, a Fortress Maximus sold for over $3000 just last Christmas. Also this guy here:

Sold for around $3000 a while back. Which means that a plastic, toy car sold for more than a lot of used cars.

Okay, so the old ones have ridiculous prices, but the new ones are still not all made for kids. Sure you have the nice, simple movie figures made for kids, but then you also have the binaltech line which have opening doors / hoods / trunks, reclining seats and steering wheels that actually move the wheels. Those things are so fiddly and delicate that it takes an adult (who knows what he is doing) a half hour to Transform them, and the limbs are all going to pop off at least 10 times while you do it. Those things are seriously not made for kids.

And you don't really "play" with them … you mess around them, you pose them, you set them on a shelf and you look at them.

And, yes, GI Joe is the same way, and so is He-Man. Toylines from the '80s pretty much grew up just like the kids who owned them back in the olden days.

 

[seajoy]

More than meets the eye.....

 

[Studeclunker]

It's ridiculous. It's hotter here than in Florida.

My patient, a really sweet 84 year old woman, was diagnosed with metastatic, aggressive lung cancer today. She has a year at best.

For the love of Mike, Mel... SHE'S EIGHTY-FOUR! What did you expect, another twenty or thirty years?

I hope not to live that long. Oi!

 

[Aibrean]

My grandparents are in their 90s.

 

[seajoy]

My grandma is 93.

 

[Tangible]

All my [edit: dead!] relatives died before their early 80's. I'd just as soon not linger too long once my health starts to fail.

 

[Studeclunker]

It's wonderful that you all have the privilege of knowing your Grandparents so long. My wife's grandmother died at ninety-eight. However, the average person dies before seventy. All the same, having had a lot of exposure to nursing homes, I'm of the opinion that for the majority of people, extreme old age is a curse, not a blessing. I have a friend in Weaverville that's eighty-six, drives her own car, just married a man twenty-five years younger, and people think her new husband is the older one. However, Barbara is not the norm. I have no desire to live past sixty. Besides, I want to go home. Why hang around here in the shadowlands?

 

[Luther073082]

My great grandmother lived to be 101 and out lived all of her children and some of her grandchildren.

I don't think she counted her old age as a blessing. Out-living your children has to be tough.

My maternal grandmother died before I was born, my maternal grandfather died not long after I was born. So I never knew either of them. I knew my paternal grandparents though. My paternal grandfather died in Nov of '03 I think. My paternal grandmother is still alive but her health is failing at this point and most of us think its just a matter of time.

 

[alexnbethmom]

lessee - my mom died when she was 55, my grandmother (mom's mom) died when she was 66, my dad's mom died when she was 77.....i always thought that was a little strange.

my great-grandmother (mom's mom's mom) died when she was in her 90's, and she outlived all her children - after my grandmother died, she basically gave up, and was gone 2 or 3 months later, she died of a broken heart.....i don't think she really considered her extreme age a blessing, either - who wants to outlive their kids??

i think my paternal grandfather was in his 60's when he passed, back in the late 80's - he had supranuclear palsy (what dudley moore died of) - and my maternal grandfather passed maybe a year or so ago, he was right around 90 - i know he did not consider his age a blessing, for too many reasons to go into here.....

 

[DaRev]

My paternal grandfather died at age 67. He had Huntington's Disease, which two aunts (one still living, now approx. 87) and an uncle also had. My paternal grandmother lived to be about 83 or so. Outlived two husbands and two of her children (three if you count the one who died in infancy). My dad is 81 but doesn't look or act like it. He's very independent and active. His oldest living sister is 91 and is the same way.

My maternal grandfather died at 61 of a massive coronary. Grandma lived another 26 years, passing at age 86 (just a week shy of her 87th birthday). She had some health concerns but nothing that prohibited her from remaining active. Sharp as a tack until the end too. My mother died at age 61 from lung cancer, and she never smoked a day in her life.

 

[Studeclunker]

George is home. Oh.... joy. I'm currently picking up beer cans.

 

[seajoy]

I found out from my son today that the ultra sound showed a baby girl! I was so excited that I ordered a pink corduroy dress, on-line! What else is there for a grandma to do?

 

[alexnbethmom]

I found out from my son today that the ultra sound showed a baby girl! I was so excited that I ordered a pink corduroy dress, on-line! What else is there for a grandma to do?

when i was a baby (i was the first grandbaby for my maternal grandparents) my nonny carried a little photo album in her purse, and on the front of it, it said "S.O.G. with P.I.P" - it stood for "Silly Old Grandma with Pictures In Purse"

you'll need to get one of those little albums to carry around, LOLOL.....this is what grandmas do, they buy clothes and toys!!! (and carry pics!!)

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!

 

[ctay]

Congratulations Seajoy, I love being a grandma