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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 31 2015, 4:37am
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Jazmine
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Jan 31 2015, 8:31am
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My cousin had a fall in the bathroom in November
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He was unwell, with a high fever, felt dizzy and slipped, hitting his head on the sink. He was in hospital for a few weeks with bleeding on the brain, they have had to operate twice. He has not yet fully recovered.
It is scary to think how a simple slip at home can become so serious.
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Annael
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Jan 31 2015, 4:53pm
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My mother broke her hip some years ago, and since then she shuffles rather than walks. If she used a cane, she walked more freely, but she didn't like it because it made her "look old." (She was in her late 80s at the time). I told her that when she used the cane, she looked like she didn't need it, and vice versa, but to no avail.
And of course she wouldn't keep up her exercises once the PT stopped visiting. She's finally started using a walker because she's so unsteady on her pins.
Since evidence can be adduced and interpreted to corroborate a virtually limitless array of world views, the human challenge is to engage that world view or set of perspectives which brings forth the most valuable, life-enhancing consequences.
- Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind
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Annael
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Jan 31 2015, 4:59pm
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that started happening to me a few years ago, and of course I was very worried - my mom's had a detached retina. I went to the ER and the doc there didn't know what it was; he thought it was some kind of migraine variant. So the next day I went to the eye doctor who was all "oh yes, the vitreous is detaching, it happens to everyone sooner or later, it's not a big deal really." Then I found out that yes, it had happened to a lot of my friends in their 50s (and earlier to friends who had bumped their heads). My question was: if this is a normal thing that happens to us all sooner or later, why don't we know about it? Why didn't the frigging ER doc know?
Anyway: definitely get checked out, but you may just be having one of those "normal aging" events. Mine calmed down in a few months; I hardly ever get flashes any more, and I'm so used to the one big floater I rarely "see" it.
https://www.nei.nih.gov/...th/vitreous/vitreous
Since evidence can be adduced and interpreted to corroborate a virtually limitless array of world views, the human challenge is to engage that world view or set of perspectives which brings forth the most valuable, life-enhancing consequences.
- Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Ataahua
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Jan 31 2015, 9:51pm
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We only got a light drizzle a time or two. Now it's bucketing down out there, and we badly need it. :)
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Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 2 2015, 11:32pm
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I told Uncle Baggins about your friend's daughter
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and he's been repeating the story to everyone he tells his own story to. So I think he'll be very cautious in the future.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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