Through the years Dopers have provided many interesting, funny, heartbreaking peeks into their lives. I never posted in most of the threads for various reasons
a) Another doper had already posted what I would have advised/said and done so more eloquently than I would have anyway.
b) There were already enough “me too” responses.
c) I didn’t read the thread until it had already run its course.
So, how did it turn out? How is the new job? How are you coping with the loss of a loved one? How is the new house? If you’ve started a thread that had good responses and a lot of views, let us know what happened. Please update us on the good, the bad, the sad, and the success. I’m too shy to message you, but I am interested and concerned.
I posted a little over a year ago in thesetwo threads about my neighbor outing me to my conservative, seventy-nine-year-old mother. For those who might be curious how things turned out, nothing happened. Mom treats SO with kindess and consideration. SO feels kindly towards Mom.
The only mention of the issue since last year happened a couple of months ago and was rather oblique. Mom was agitated over the DHS document about right-wing extremism. I said that I had read the memo and wasn’t offended by it and asked her if she had read the memo.
She said, “No.” We discussed it for a while. She telling me the summaries that she had heard on Christian TV and I explaining how I interpretted the text. She was becoming more entrenched in the belief that the text was targeting Christians. I said that I would be willing to read views expressed in the magazines (Evangelical Christian stuff) that she receives. I offered to read her publications because she has said before that I am better at communicating my thoughts than she is. In the past when I have pointed out flaws in her reasoning she has been defensive choosing to clam up rather than expound on her views. So I didn’t want to force her into defending her position, but was willing to read what she considered to be the best explanations of her thoughts.
She intuitively knew that although I would be willing to read the articles, I would comment on any point that I felt was erroneous. So rather than her telling me that she’d provide the articles, she said, “You know what I believe. You know I don’t----” I can’t remember her exact words but the sentiment was clearly “I don’t approve of homosexuality.” And we dropped it.
It was a breakthrough for me because I realized even as her words were forming that of course she’d never approve of me being gay. She’s entitled to her opinion. I am entitled to mine. I think she’s silly. I love my mom. She is kind, sweet, and loving. She thinks I am immoral. I think she’s silly. We are both adults and entitled to our own thoughts.------Of course, I’m not trying to infinge on her rights. But we won’t go there.
She’s dark, plump, curvaceous, with an incredible figure. She’s another transit rider; she reads; she likes mashed potatoes. It turns out we have more in common than I expected. We’ve been emailing a lot, and we’re going to dinner tomorrow. Yay!
Not that it was that big a thread, but if anyone’s curious, it’s been a little more than a month since my PE, and I’m down to one needle a month from 17+ per week! (I can now get one monthly INR check, versus two daily Lovenox injections + M/W/F INR checks).
I ended taking a chance buying a couple of sodas from a machine at a rest stop near Sandusky, and it paid off. There were indeed $10 off ‘coupons’ to Cedar Point on those cans.
The answer is always 42. It’s the question that varies.
Wow. Congratulations! I had to read your linked thread, because I totally didn’t understand your post. Except for the part about not as many needles. What’s INR?
