Couch 83: In a world where...

stopdog · Jan 07, 2015, 03:04 PM

It is too bad you are not closer. My friends are getting tired of bags of experimental meats I fear. I like making them more than eating them.

growlycat · Jan 07, 2015, 03:09 PM

Experimental Meats would be a good name for a band

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

I just read a therapist who called therapy a caregiver/cared-for relationship.
I am so horrified by that description as to almost be spluttering in how amazingly wrong I think that description is.

Within limits, the relationship is whatever you make it. Most patients see their T in a parental role, but that should be the patient's choice, not the T's.

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

That the therapist may know more about psychology is different from letting them think they are giving care at me.

No caring for Stopdog. Gotcha.

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by lolagrace

Hm. You always seem up in arms at any suggestion that anyone could care for you, help you, help you make a decision, have any kind of "power" over you. Seems like that would be your definition of "losing yourself". You want full control at all times of all things. Anything less would be "losing yourself". Maybe I'm missing something.

Many have tried to understand Stopdog. No one has yet succeeded. Best to accept her as a special case.

NowhereUSA · Jan 07, 2015, 03:27 PM

What kind of music would Experimental Meats play?

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

That nurse sounds like a sadist.

No. She just made the near-universal mistake of assuming that everyone else feels the way she does.

Jan 07, 2015, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CantExplain

No. She just made the near-universal mistake of assuming that everyone else feels the way she does.

logical fallacy there

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by NowhereUSA

What kind of music would Experimental Meats play?

Technopolka.

NowhereUSA · Jan 07, 2015, 03:36 PM

Snot-freezing cold.

I'm done. I'M EFFING DONE WITH THIS STATE.

My husband saw a job opening in FL. I used to live in FL. I hate FL. I told him to go ahead and put in a resume... I'm so desperate. So desperate.

catonyx · Jan 07, 2015, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by NowhereUSA

Snot-freezing cold.

I'm done. I'M EFFING DONE WITH THIS STATE.

My husband saw a job opening in FL. I used to live in FL. I hate FL. I told him to go ahead and put in a resume... I'm so desperate. So desperate.

Yes. It is still snot freezing cold here too. We were supposed to hit the plus side of zero later today, but nothing yet. I am tired of being stuck in the house. It has been 4 days now... no wait... 5 days now. Yuck! I need to get out... I need to at least see a prospective chance that I could get out... Maybe then I might shower. It's been a few days.

Jan 07, 2015, 04:11 PM

The air here hurts my EYES, it is so cold. WHY am I living where the air hurts my eyes?

Jan 07, 2015, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by JustShakey

Yeah. This. I'm finding myself doing a lot of ranting lately about things that should be obvious. I'm another one who'd be cracking jokes in the middle of the apocalypse. How do people cope otherwise? I don't get it. If I couldn't find something to laugh about I probably would be sui... My depression has been classified as mild/moderate. I call bs on that. I'm practically the poster child for ignoring pain. I nearly didn't make it to the hospital when I was having my daughter because I wasn't sure if I was in labor or not. Well, this hurts, but it's not that bad...

Story of my life...

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Yeah - i know what you mean. I almost died 12 years ago with my gall bladder because it was encroaching on my liver and would have been gangrene w/in hours the surgeon told me after he took it out. I had the worst pain of my life but I refused to go to the dr. Finally when I passed out from the pain my husband made me go to the hospital. I just kept saying It's not that bad I'll be fine until I passed out.

StressedMess · Jan 07, 2015, 07:15 PM

Hello couch! Sounds like winter has worn out her welcome, for some of us. I'm toasty in a flannel granny gown, slipper socks, about 1000 layers of cotton bandage from hip to toe, 17 story pillow tower under my knee, and my trusty space heater blasting away.

Remind me in summer how much I hate winter. I hate heat and humidity even more!

Question couches: I have the go ahead to shower (cue Hallelujah Chorus) if I make my incisions impervious to water. Short of wrapping the leg in Saran Wrap, any suggestions?

Jan 07, 2015, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by StressedMess

Hello couch! Sounds like winter has worn out her welcome, for some of us. I'm toasty in a flannel granny gown, slipper socks, about 1000 layers of cotton bandage from hip to toe, 17 story pillow tower under my knee, and my trusty space heater blasting away.

Remind me in summer how much I hate winter. I hate heat and humidity even more!

Question couches: I have the go ahead to shower (cue Hallelujah Chorus) if I make my incisions impervious to water. Short of wrapping the leg in Saran Wrap, any suggestions?

When I was nursing in my country we would use a garbage bag and use plenty of masking tape up top to seal it. I am assuming you had surgery on a limb..

CantExplain · Jan 07, 2015, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by NowhereUSA

Snot-freezing cold.

I'm done. I'M EFFING DONE WITH THIS STATE.

My husband saw a job opening in FL. I used to live in FL. I hate FL. I told him to go ahead and put in a resume... I'm so desperate. So desperate.

Have you considered Texas, California and Hawaii?

healed84 · Jan 07, 2015, 07:50 PM

Looking like snow will stop me from my t appointment on Friday.. Hoping that is not the case, but we'll see. The it's -12 right now and windchill and it is damn cold out. This winter is really getting me down.

growlycat · Jan 07, 2015, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by NowhereUSA

What kind of music would Experimental Meats play?

Maybe "Stopdog and the Experimental Meats" would just refuse to play

Kinda a DADA thing but whatever music's equivalent is.

stopdog · 11:47 PM

We would play PDQ Bach.
The Seasonings would be a favorite.

Oratorio: “The Seasonings”, S. 1 1/2 tsp. (P.D.Q. Bach)
Chorus: “Tarragon of virtue is full”
Recitative: “And there were in the same country”
Duet: “Bide thy thyme”
Recitative: “Then asked he”
Chorale: “By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept”
Recitative: “Then she gave in”
Aria: “Open sesame seeds”
Recitative: “So saying”
Duet: “Summer is a cumin seed”
Chorus with Soloists: “To curry favor, favor curry”

CantExplain · Jan 08, 2015, 03:58 AM

I read in one of my letters from 2004 that Madame T told me told me no one would ever promote someone as unstable and immature as me. She was right, of course, but what a thing to say to a patient!

Ten years on, I'm more stable and more mature and still unpromoted.

Jan 08, 2015, 04:53 AM

((((CE))))
Madame T is not somebody whose opinions I would trust very far.

Jan 08, 2015, 04:59 AM

Meanwhile, my T is the best T anywhere ever. In my completely neutral and unbiased opinion, of course. Based on a sample of, um, three Ts. Statistical significance, schmatistical schmignificance. My T is the one to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Jan 08, 2015, 04:59 AM

(a relieved Mastodon babbles a lot.)

ThingWithFeathers · Jan 08, 2015, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mastodon

Meanwhile, my T is the best T anywhere ever. In my completely neutral and unbiased opinion, of course. Based on a sample of, um, three Ts. Statistical significance, schmatistical schmignificance. My T is the one to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Same goes here! So lucky to come across this person who is helping save and change my life. She just the perfect fit for me.

RedSun · Jan 08, 2015, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

We would play PDQ Bach.
The Seasonings would be a favorite.

Oratorio: “The Seasonings”, S. 1 1/2 tsp. (P.D.Q. Bach)
Chorus: “Tarragon of virtue is full”
Recitative: “And there were in the same country”
Duet: “Bide thy thyme”
Recitative: “Then asked he”
Chorale: “By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept”
Recitative: “Then she gave in”
Aria: “Open sesame seeds”
Recitative: “So saying”
Duet: “Summer is a cumin seed”
Chorus with Soloists: “To curry favor, favor curry”

Excellent.

Btw couch, it's eleven degrees here, blue sky, sunshine......sorry

except I'm not

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