Posted on 03/26/2007 3:27:31 PM PDT by paltz
Calling my sister right now to apologize for all those things I did when we were kids.
I think partner is a just a term there for who she is living with. I've seen it a lot lately, instead of husband.
Life BUMP for Simon Pretty, father of 3 in hopes of finding a donor.
What kind of comment is that? What a horrible, cold, senseless thing to say. Shame.
lol!
My brothers don't lurk on here but I'd give them my eyeballs if they needed them.
Well, one eyeball.
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She may be but I don't think we have the whole story.
I've done an advanced care directive giving my brother the power to make medical decisions for me in the event I'm unable to do it for myself. I've VERY nice to my brother!
Nevertheless, I get this odd feeling that the follow-up to this story will be the promotion of some new legislation in the UK that legally requires one to donate such things as bone marrow, a kidney, or such to save the life of a sibling. Perhaps even a stranger.
Thank you. You are not entitled to someone else's body parts even if you are a saintly father of three and the propective donor is a worthless woman who lives in an expensive house.
I hope you get cancer and die!
There was a time when that was considered a thoughtful gift.
We never knew how resentful my sister in law was against my husband until my father in law died and left my husband as executor of his estate, and trustee of his trusts.
My sister in law severed direct communications and insisted that all communications go through her attorney. She objected to court accountings and denied receiving household effects and funds that she had received. Her complaints were unfounded, but it took a great deal of time and money to prove it.
Most of the estate went to the attorneys, who spent seven years answering her many many claims. She is still bitter and hateful toward him.
I've seen plenty of email warning about traveling to China lest you awaken in a tub of ice missing your kidney.
Sis would wake up in a country ditch missing her bone marrow. ;)
That is certainly true.
This woman is just hard and cold. If she weren't, how about, "I'm sorry, I would dearly love to help save your life, but it's not physicall [or whatever] possible."
I hope her business dries up and everyone in England knows how selfish and evil she is if she truly "won't" help.
Donating bone marrow is not without consequence. The pain is just the start. I know a donor that spent about 6 months fighting all sorts of issues, some of which was because of the anesthesia, others included ongoing pain and pneumonia that nearly killed him.
What a gold-plated bitch.
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