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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: serious crayons on November 20, 2006, 02:25:03 pm
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Hi everybody,
Diane (dly76) left me this message at imdb and asked me to post it here because she had trouble getting onto this site this morning. Some people have wondered why she hasn't been around a lot lately. She scheduled this surgery a couple of months ago and I think she expects to feel much better afterward.
Katherine
EDITED: to clarify that this is from dly76.
Hi all -
I have been absent from the boards for a few weeks. Just so that you know, I am alive and am still loving this film and remain passionate. It is just that I have been in a great deal of pain. Because of this, I am heading into surgery in a couple of hours and will be hospitalized for a few days. I am confident that I will be back on the boards, reinvigorated, in about a week or so.
Take care! Miss you all!
Diane
"We're supposed to guard the sheep, not eat 'em" - Ennis, BBM
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I wondered where she'd been hidin'. Thanks for letting us know, Katherine.
Diane, good luck and Godspeed to a pain-free and full recovery! I'll be keeping you safe in my heart.
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Thanks for letting us know, Katherine. I've been wondering, too.
All the best wishes for your health, Diane. Hope you get better very soon.
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Good luck with your surgery Diane! I've missed you a lot around here! :'(
We'll leave a light on for you.
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Best wishes for a full recovery.
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Katherine ..
I am guessing you are referring to Diane (dly64) ..? Deedee is actually not the Diane in question.
Dear Diane ~
We miss ya over on the Jake, Jake Jake thread.
Hope to see you soon when you can git back here!
Have a speedy recovery friend!
:-*
~M
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Katherine ..
I am guessing you are referring to Diane (dly64) ..? Deedee is actually not the Diane in question.
Yes, I bet this right.
Diane, I just happened on some of your older posts tonight and was thinking about you. I'm wishing you the best, and look forward to having you back as soon as you can redline it here!
Clarissa
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Diane, it's good to hear from you. I've been wondering where you've been. I hope the surgery goes well and that you'll soon be on the fast track to a speedy and full recovery. Best of luck! Looking forward to seeing you back here at BM as soon as possible. :)
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Hey Katherine,
Thanks for posting this update! I know I was certainly worried about her. And, of course I'm sending along my best wishes.
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I hope all goes well diane, and that you are soon returned to 'rude health'.
Take care, dearie, I'm sure we're all 'rooting' for you and wishing you well.
love
Sam :)
Love our boys to bits!
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Thanks for all of your notes and “well wishes”. I had my surgery Monday and was released on Wednesday. I haven’t felt this good in …. well, I think it’s been years! My incision is large (about six inches) on my abdomen, so every move I make is a bit touchy. But, every day the pain becomes less and I can move more freely.
I hope all of you had a nice Thanksgiving. I was able to spend a couple of hours at my sister’s and I had a great time. Didn’t (and still don’t) have much of an appetite, but that’s not what Thanksgiving is about (at least …. not all that Thanksgiving is about).
I got my dog, Asta, back on Friday …. so now I have no excuse for staying in bed for long periods at a time. I just have to focus on recuperating.
I will try to get online as often as I can. I look forward to having further discussions with all of you about our favorite film, our favorite actors or anything else you all bring to the table!
In friendship,
Diane
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Thanks for all of your notes and “well wishes”. I had my surgery Monday and was released on Wednesday. I haven’t felt this good in …. well, I think it’s been years! My incision is large (about six inches) on my abdomen, so every move I make is a bit touchy. But, every day the pain becomes less and I can move more freely.
I hope all of you had a nice Thanksgiving. I was able to spend a couple of hours at my sister’s and I had a great time. Didn’t (and still don’t) have much of an appetite, but that’s not what Thanksgiving is about (at least …. not all that Thanksgiving is about).
I got my dog, Asta, back on Friday …. so now I have no excuse for staying in bed for long periods at a time. I just have to focus on recuperating.
I will try to get online as often as I can. I look forward to having further discussions with all of you about our favorite film, our favorite actors or anything else you all bring to the table!
In friendship,
Diane
Oh Diane! I am sooooo happy you are feeling better now. I've missed you A LOT around here. Everybody has! :D
It's really good to see you back again. :)
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Glad to see you felt well enough to post. Will talk to you soon.
Leslie
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Yeehaw! Nice to hear from you Diane! I'm happy to hear you had a nice Thanksgiving and it sounds like you're feeling a bit better.
see you around the forums Bud!
cheers
Amanda
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Hi Diane,
good to see you back on board! :) You were missed.
Take good care of yourself.
cu around here,
Chrissi
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We missed U! Plz make us a regular part of yr recuperation. You didn't happen to have appendicitis did you? I had that and love to tell my horror stories. Or did you have a big ol endometrial tumor removed? I had one of those too. Yup I have my battle scars. Say, Diane, did you have a thread about comparing Lee to Hitchcock and BBM to H's films? I've been looking all over and I can't find it!!
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Diane! So good to see you again. And a relief to hear you're getting better. :) Take your time and take care of yourself, and you'll heal up and feel just as good as new. I've been there and done that too, so I sure know what it's like.
But until then, be well, recover, and post a bit when you feel like it! :-*
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Diane...
Hurry up and feel better okay??
I'm sick and tired of being the only Hoosier on here. :)
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We missed U! Plz make us a regular part of yr recuperation. You didn't happen to have appendicitis did you? I had that and love to tell my horror stories. Or did you have a big ol endometrial tumor removed? I had one of those too. Yup I have my battle scars. Say, Diane, did you have a thread about comparing Lee to Hitchcock and BBM to H's films? I've been looking all over and I can't find it!!
I have had appendicitis previously .... almost 20 years ago! YIKES! This time I had to have a hysterectomy. I had endometriosis (which they found when they opened me up!) and I had tumors that were being wrapped around by veins. My doctor described it like a rubber band around a finger that had been there too long. My uterus was very swollen. No wonder I was in crippling pain!!!! But the good part …. NO CANCER! We weren’t sure before I had the surgery. But everything looks good and I am feeling GREAT!
The Hitchcock thread is over on IMDb and was created by True Oracle of Phoenix. I have written him a note to see if he either has the link or if he has saved his essay so he can repost either on IMDb or here!
Later!
Diane
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Diane, welcome back! So glad to hear you're feeling better and are ready to jump back into the BBM action!
I haven't had a hysterectomy, but I did have an appendectomy the summer before last and it was actually one of the best weekends I can remember. First, the hospital was so much fun I stayed up til 2 a.m. just savoring the peace and quiet. Then at home: husband out of town, kids at their cousin's, a big supply of Vicodin and the house to myself! Seriously, it was great. (I guess that's kind of a pathetic statement about my normal life, hunh?)
Anyway, I guess I should save this story for the "what surgery have you had" poll or thread. Meanwhile, it's great to have you back, Diane. I look forward to seeing you here and at imdb.
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Anyway, I guess I should save this story for the "what surgery have you had" poll or thread. Meanwhile, it's great to have you back, Diane. I look forward to seeing you here and at imdb.
Katherine, I literally burst out laughing at this. I think what happened was I smiled because it was funny, but then I burst out because I realized that ridiculous as it sounds, it could be part of the next wave of gettin'-ta-know-ya here. At this point, I can actually see this poll/thread happening.
Diane, it IS good to have you back. We haven't talked much to each other directly, but I love reading your insights into BBM.
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First, the hospital was so much fun I stayed up til 2 a.m. just savoring the peace and quiet. Then at home: husband out of town, kids at their cousin's, a big supply of Vicodin and the house to myself! Seriously, it was great. (I guess that's kind of a pathetic statement about my normal life, hunh?)
I don't think it's pathetic. I'm so here with you. Living in a household of 5 persons + a dog I can empathize with you. I didn't have a single night all alone for the last 11 years. Savoring the piece and quiet... for a whole weekend... sounds mighty fine. Maybe I should volunteer for an appendectomy ;)
Anyway, I guess I should save this story for the "what surgery have you had" poll or thread.
:laugh:
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I haven't had a hysterectomy, but I did have an appendectomy the summer before last and it was actually one of the best weekends I can remember. First, the hospital was so much fun I stayed up til 2 a.m. just savoring the peace and quiet. Then at home: husband out of town, kids at their cousin's, a big supply of Vicodin and the house to myself! Seriously, it was great. (I guess that's kind of a pathetic statement about my normal life, hunh?)
You are cracking me up! I can't say it's been quite so relaxing. The second night in the hospital, I had a roommate whose TV was on the entire night! They made her wear headphones, but the light of the TV kept flashing in my eyes. So, I was achy, I was running a fever and that damn flashing light gave me a mind blowing headache! YEOW!!!! Believe it or not, the morphine did not help my headache one iota (but it did help my soreness from the incision)!! BIZARRE!!!
Yes, I was sent home with Vicoden, but I have already stopped using it. I am too paranoid of becoming addicted. However, the staying home and recuperating is kind of fun. I can watch all of the movies I want, I can take naps when I feel like it and I can get on the web (albeit, at this point, minimally). I am guessing after four or more weeks of being at home the majority of the time, I will start going a little bonkers (more so than normal …. hmmmm ….. scary :o)!
Anyway, it’s good to be back … I’ll be around more as the weeks progress!
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Believe it or not, the morphine did not help my headache one iota (but it did help my soreness from the incision)!! BIZARRE!!!
I didn't get much relief from morphine, either with my appendectomy, or a few years earlier when I had pneumonia. That's when I found out you can always ask for Vicodin or Percoset instead! :laugh: I know all the tricks -- I'm an addiction waiting to happen, but luckily far too clueless and chicken to figure out how to get it when I'm not really in pain!
However, the staying home and recuperating is kind of fun. I can watch all of the movies I want, I can take naps when I feel like it and I can get on the web (albeit, at this point, minimally). I am guessing after four or more weeks of being at home the majority of the time, I will start going a little bonkers (more so than normal …. hmmmm ….. scary :o)!
Isn't it nice to hang around your house and know that you don't have to be doing anything productive? It does get old after a while, though. But whenever you get bored, you know where we are!!
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Isn't it nice to hang around your house and know that you don't have to be doing anything productive? It does get old after a while, though. But whenever you get bored, you know where we are!!
When I was sick as a kid, my mother always said that getting bored was a sign of getting better.
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When I was sick as a kid, my mother always said that getting bored was a sign of getting better.
Once as a kid I was home sick from school long enough to read a biography of Helen Keller and teach myself sign language (not the whole-word kind, but the single-letter kind). Sometimes I wonder how I could have been well enough to do that yet not to go to school, but ... Anyway, the sign language came in handy, years later.
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Once as a kid I was home sick from school long enough to read a biography of Helen Keller and teach myself sign language (not the whole-word kind, but the single-letter kind). Sometimes I wonder how I could have been well enough to do that yet not to go to school, but ... Anyway, the sign language came in handy, years later.
I'd love to hear how the sign language came in handy. And then I'll tell you mine.
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I'd love to hear how the sign language came in handy. And then I'll tell you mine.
Well, it's a short story, Elle. Only one night I was usin that sign language. In college, a girlfriend and I went out to see a band in a bar, where we met three men who were deaf. After the bar closed, the five of us went out to breafast together, and spent a couple of hours in a really fun conversation, partly in our clumsy sign language (my friend had taught herself at some point, too), partly writing on the paper placemats, partly lip reading and talking a little. Finally my sign language had come in handy! The guys were interesting and I had a great time. And that Christmas, one of the men sent me a Christmas card, which was nice.
And that's the story of my sign-language career. :)
Your turn!
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And that's the story of my sign-language career. :)
Your turn!
You weren't no angel like me, myself, and I:
I've always been into languages, quite ferociously when I was young. If I had an opportunity to learn a language, i would suck it down as fast as I could. So when I was about 20, a friend of mine in medical school decided to take a sign language class and I decided to join her. The class went too slow, so after a while I just studied it on my own, and my friend and I would sign to each other the best we could, laboriously finger spelling when we didn't know the sign for something.
One night I was walking down the path to my house in the dark and tripped over a tree root. I was pretty sure I had wrenched my ankle. It hurt like hell and seemed scarily out of whack. My friends who were in the house drove the car as close to me as they could and then supported me to hobble one-legged into the car and drove me to the emergency room.
I got put in an examining room, up on an examination table, and then was left alone for a long time, with my scary ankle that felt weirdly crunchy when I tried to put any weight down on it. Eventually another woman was brought in and put on the other exam table in the room. A doctor came in to examine her. Well, turns out the patient was deaf and the doctor was a moron. He quickly started exhibiting impatience for her communications limitations, and she was close to tears. So I spoke up, or, I guess, signed up. I signed to her that I could sign a little and that I would be happy to interpret if I possibly could. I still remember her look of relief and gratitude, probably only partly because I could help with the communication, but mostly because I was just nice. So anyway, I did actually wind up helping them quite a bit.
Right after they were done, someone finally came in to examine me (I had been on that table for what seemed like two hours, waiting). He gingerly rotated my scary ankle, and, for some reason, it didn't hurt anymore. Hunh. After a bit, I carefully stepped down off the table and tested my weight on it. My ankle was completely fine, just felt a little weak. But the scary pain and crunchiness was just not there. I walked out 95% fine. Hunh.
Fast forward 23 years. My daughter was born, and I had been reading about signing with infants. I got a couple of books, and found that the dormant signing was still in me. I started signing to her when she was about 6 months old (as the books suggested). I focused on the baby basics - eat, drink, more, all done, bottle, change (diaper), etc. One day, in her high chair, I suddenly realized that the spazzy knocking of the backs of her hands together was her signing "more." Holy shit! It was like the dog had just spoken English. I couldn't believe it.
She and I signed together a lot. Several of our mommy & infant buddies were too. At one point, right before she got really verbal, I counted 47 signs that she herself had used. Just like the books predicted, as she began to talk, the signing faded away as she didn't need it anymore. But she still has strong interest in it. We still sign together now, for fun, and use signs for more sophisticated concepts than we could when she was an infant. I consider it her main secondary language, more than the French and Spanish we also mess around with. The cool and unique thing about sign, is that you can speak it at the very same time that you are speaking English, so it is very easy to impart meaning.
Anyway, sorry for hijacking your thread, Diane. [Elle rubs palm over heart in circular motion.] :)
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Wow, Elle! Not just one but two very cool stories. Thanks for telling them! I know kids who are bilingual because of having bilingual parents or schools, and unfortunately I'm not fluent enough in French or sign or anything else to provide that opportunity for my kids (my younger son was so impressed that I was able to clumsily respond to a French-speaking docent/reenactor on a field trip -- little does he know my limitations!). So they'll probably be stuck where I was -- learning a language at a ridiculously delayed age of 13 or so. What a great opportunity for your daughter. And for you!
:D
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Hi, Diane...as always, I seem to be the last to know, but this time it's because my computer crashed over 4 weeks ago and I've been so out of touch. I'm glad you are back, and feeling better. I know how you must feel, and I dread thinking about surgeries because it reminds me that I am scheduled for one sometime in Jan or Feb. Keep up the good spirits...Doug
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Hi, Diane...as always, I seem to be the last to know, but this time it's because my computer crashed over 4 weeks ago and I've been so out of touch. I'm glad you are back, and feeling better. I know how you must feel, and I dread thinking about surgeries because it reminds me that I am scheduled for one sometime in Jan or Feb. Keep up the good spirits...Doug
Hey Doug! Welcome back to you, too. I've been wondering where you went. Glad to see you again. :)