Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
I'm hoping everyone is having as beautiful a spring day as it is down here. Going out to enjoy a little more of it before the sun goes down. See ya later. :)
i got to take off my shoulder-lock sling today. now my arm is flopping by my side like an alien appendage. my shoulder hurts along with every muscle in my arm.
i think i'll just sit here and moan or groan.
I'm a Japanese Chin (spaniel)
The Japanese Chin are descendants of Pekingese given to the Japanese emperor by the Chinese Emperor centuries ago.
Jesuits took some back to Spain in the 16th century whence they were called japanese Spaniels.
Come to Poppa.
So9
Daddy, there's a big sale at the mall, can I have the credit card to get a new Easter dress, and shoes, and purse, and sweater, and perfume, and necklace and earrings, and tattoo?
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE??
I think 2 will be my lucky number
03/22/2005 2:22:22 PM CST by ValerieUSA
Sounds like we're talking about full scholarship here.
SO9
Thank you Nully I am a .....
I knew it was some sort of useless, yappy prissy dog, starting with a "P"...
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr YAP!
Published as a reader commentary on June 11, 1990, during a campaign in Washington state to pass a "Death with Dignity" physician-aided suicide initiative.
Here's what death with dignity act could mean
by Valerie Loop
Whenever I look at you I think, "Such a shame!"
It's frightening to see how an accident cut you down in the prime of your life. Now you can't speak, your body is twisted and you seem to always be grimacing. You are so much less than you were. It isn't dignified.
Remember Harvey, that old guy who wandered about in his slippers and kept getting lost? He was confused and incontinent. It wasn't dignified.
Think of little Jenny. She was so deformed at birth that nothing functioned properly in her. What an unrewarding expense she could have been for her family! It wasn't dignified.
Maybe you're starting to get my point, if you can really understand anything. As far as I can see, you have lost your dignity.
You are now unable to contribute to society. It's time for you to move on.
I mean, life is for us to enjoy, right? What other purpose could there be? And I know that you are past ever enjoying anything ever again. How can I find pleasure when I know how much you are suffering? You don't want to be an obstacle in my pursuit of happiness.
So, guess what we've done for you? Last week, we "found" this little directive you signed last year. It gives your permission to doctors to administer aid-in-dying if your life becomes hopeless. The form is part of the Death With Dignity Act. We all signed the initiative a few years ago.
Anyway, I showed this paper to a couple of doctors who verified that your condition is irreversible and you will die within six months anyway. Don't struggle now. If we were to stop nourishing you through this feeding tube you would definitely die soon, so there's no way their grim prognosis could be wrong.
Now don't get all worked up about this. You will drool and spoil the dignity of this special moment.
I know you're probably concerned about us, but don't worry, your life insurance policy will still pay out. This doesn't count as suicide.
Your health plan was happy to cover the doctors' consulting and aid-in-dying fees. No problem.
Once you are gone it will be so much easier for us to remember you as you used to be -- strong, independent, attractive, athletic. What a guy you were! That is how we want to think of you always.
It's such a blessing for so many of us "whole" people that you invalids are now allowed to legally make the courageous, private decision to die with dignity. What would we have done if that initiative wasn't approved?
I shudder to think of the character development and personal growth I might have to endure if I had to spend years tending to your unreasonable demands for medication, food, assistance, attention and love.
It's much better this way. You die with dignity, and I live with dignity. No more of these undignified caretaking tasks. It's fair.
Well, it looks like your time is about up. The doctor is on his way with a dignity-imparting lethal dose of morphine for you. You will join Harvey and Jenny and the thousands of other dignified untouchables.
Good-bye and God bless.
I am also another type of P.. dog
at least you have a long name!:)
I'm a Dachshund.
A Pug?
A shorthaired Pekingese?
An Alien from 'Men in Black'?
SO9
LOL! Poor Nully.
*Smooch*
I wasn't all that thrilled with being a Dachshund, either. I should have at least been a terrier.
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I do! I just wish we could get on with it and knock off all this erratic weather. It's getting on my last nerve.
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