tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post944374315378586754..comments2024-03-03T12:52:18.548-05:00Comments on Magpie Musing: TenuousMagpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-425432981079083452013-07-03T12:54:16.363-04:002013-07-03T12:54:16.363-04:00My son had surgery to remove a tumor from his brai...My son had surgery to remove a tumor from his brain about 7 years ago (he was 2 at the time). He is one of the lucky ones. No doubt. The scar on the back of his neck (and the scar on my soul) is my only reminder.<br /><br />At the hospital was a girl who also had a tumor. She was maybe a year older. In the week my son was in the PICU and only had to have one surgery, she had at least two. My son was released less than two weeks after surgery. I remember sitting with the mom for a while during the second surgery. The girl was still at the hospital two weeks later when my son went back to see his surgeon (though she had been moved out of the PICU by then and on to chemo or radiation or maybe both. I'm not sure anymore.). We visited with her and her dad. <br /><br />For the longest time I didn't know what happened after that. I think I was afraid to know. Then one day I googled the girl's name and found out that she had died about 6 months later.<br /><br />That just as easily could have been my son.leannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12862076176705733998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-32549361907415348042013-07-03T06:15:22.429-04:002013-07-03T06:15:22.429-04:00Dunno how appropriate this is but I make up ending...Dunno how appropriate this is but I make up endings to the partial stories I see like that. And they have happy endings. <br /><br />So for example if while in the car with Kent we see a turtle crossing a busy street, I'll tell Kent it got to the other side and then we both say "and it lived happily ever after." Otherwise seeing things like that, or hearing the news you heard about the the boy, would be overwhelming. I'm sure this coping mechanism makes me a lesser person, but I can only handle so much raw emotion.edj3https://www.blogger.com/profile/11137939126171451654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-35244339170963239332013-07-02T19:10:25.630-04:002013-07-02T19:10:25.630-04:00Can I leave the flip side to the wondering about t...Can I leave the flip side to the wondering about the twins? When my second, unexpectedly ginormous, 10-pound 10-ounce baby was born, as we left the hospital, we rode down with the other "celebrity" parents--they had two-week-old triplets who still, combined, did not weigh what my son did at birth. I thought of them often when feeling overwhelmed and wondered how they were doing. <br />Three years later, they enrolled at the same nursery school and we found out. They are healthy and wonderful and some of my son's best friends. I have heard that somewhere in that maternity unit, there is a photo of gigantibaby and the triplets. I would pay good money for a copy of that, and actually sent them a photo of the four of them, smiling with gappy lost-toothed smiles, in case any of the nurses are still there.Ooniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162162953846737959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-30863149758047385102013-07-02T15:22:25.757-04:002013-07-02T15:22:25.757-04:00My aunt died a year after her appendix burst insid...My aunt died a year after her appendix burst inside her, and we think the infection was never fully cleaned out. She tried to tough it out too long. We all think there's a lesson in this (especially my daughter the hypochondriac).Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-62305657863924651152013-07-02T12:12:42.978-04:002013-07-02T12:12:42.978-04:00How utterly poignant.How utterly poignant.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602868040771218507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-39772999618697309662013-07-02T12:11:21.040-04:002013-07-02T12:11:21.040-04:00I was just this morning reminiscing about my neigh...I was just this morning reminiscing about my neighbor who passed a couple of summers ago. She was going on a trip to Bermuda with her family and she didn't feel well beforehand but didn't want to bother anyone. Wound up with a burst appendix in Bermuda and eventually died of sepsis. <br /><br />Anything can happen. It's a blessing and a curse. I find it terrifying.Kizzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01957878512519527975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-80006532551134657872013-07-02T10:44:03.523-04:002013-07-02T10:44:03.523-04:00Hospitals are exploding with stories, joys, sorrow...Hospitals are exploding with stories, joys, sorrows. We do forget how fragile life is, how unpredictable.V-Grrrl @ Compost Studioshttp://www.v-grrrl.comnoreply@blogger.com