Comments on: This old thing http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/23/this_old_thing/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:09:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: OldeForce http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/23/this_old_thing/comment-page-1/#comment-61432 OldeForce Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:15:32 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/03/23/this_old_thing/#comment-61432 Told my wife to spray me down with some of that plastic goop you use on an outside deck, then prop me up in a corner with a Dr. Pepper in my hand, and throw a party. Later she can replace the Dr. Pepper with a bird feeder and set me up in the backyard. Told my wife to spray me down with some of that plastic goop you use on an outside deck, then prop me up in a corner with a Dr. Pepper in my hand, and throw a party. Later she can replace the Dr. Pepper with a bird feeder and set me up in the backyard.

]]> By: _Jon http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/23/this_old_thing/comment-page-1/#comment-61294 _Jon Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:02:55 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/03/23/this_old_thing/#comment-61294 My family often has a case of beer in the trunk. When someone goes for a "smoke break" at the viewing, a whole host of people go out to slam a beer and have a puff. On two occasions we've had a visitor's phone go off at the funeral - and she couldn't get to it in her purse to shut it off. The first time it was my fiancee at my step-mother's funeral. The second time it was my sister at my fiancee's funeral. Speaking of my fiancee's passing, I had a very uncomfortable conversation with a doctor at ICU just before My Love passed away. He needed a sign-off on organs to be removed and donated. It took quite a few "go-arounds" to get this guy to accept "no". I finally had to spell it out to him like this; "Listen - she died of Lung Cancer that had metastasized to her brain, liver, and chest. It probably had permeated *every* organ in her body. We can't - with a clear conscience - donate an organ that may cause the recipient to get cancer." "So you don't want to donate any organs?" (This was the third time he asked that question.) "No." "Not even the eyeballs?" "(sigh) Can you guarantee they don't have cancer and won't infect the recipient?" "No." "Then no - not even the eyeballs." I appreciate all that doctors do and all they go through. But for crap's sake they can be callous sometimes.... (I can still see the conversation - the hallway, lighting, doctor's clipboard and pen - all of it.) My family often has a case of beer in the trunk.
When someone goes for a “smoke break” at the viewing, a whole host of people go out to slam a beer and have a puff.

On two occasions we’ve had a visitor’s phone go off at the funeral – and she couldn’t get to it in her purse to shut it off. The first time it was my fiancee at my step-mother’s funeral. The second time it was my sister at my fiancee’s funeral.

Speaking of my fiancee’s passing, I had a very uncomfortable conversation with a doctor at ICU just before My Love passed away. He needed a sign-off on organs to be removed and donated. It took quite a few “go-arounds” to get this guy to accept “no”. I finally had to spell it out to him like this;
“Listen – she died of Lung Cancer that had metastasized to her brain, liver, and chest. It probably had permeated *every* organ in her body. We can’t – with a clear conscience – donate an organ that may cause the recipient to get cancer.”
“So you don’t want to donate any organs?”
(This was the third time he asked that question.)
“No.”
“Not even the eyeballs?”
“(sigh) Can you guarantee they don’t have cancer and won’t infect the recipient?”
“No.”
“Then no – not even the eyeballs.”

I appreciate all that doctors do and all they go through.
But for crap’s sake they can be callous sometimes….
(I can still see the conversation – the hallway, lighting, doctor’s clipboard and pen – all of it.)

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