Still waiting

[cornerofmadness]

Dad called at 7 to tell me he was at the ER with mom. Her bad toe got a lot worse today just as I said it would and in a way it's a good thing. I didn't want her waiting for 3 weeks because the OR is slammed and her doc only has one day a week to do surgeries. I told her last night to go to the ER if it looked worse because they'll roust someone as an emergency surgery and take that toe before they have to take the whole damn foot because this is my specialty and I know how it goes. That said it's been 4 hours and they still haven't called. This ER is slow AF and I'm not sure I've ever been there for less than 8 hours so good luck parents.

In better news, I did get my women of the weird west story edited (thanks evil little dog) but then realized April 1st isn't the deadline, that's when it opens. So yay, I have time.

Fannish 50

Have something happy like the new anime coming out this spring.

Watch on YouTube

to offset the new show I watched HOLLYWOOD DEMONS (caps are theirs) which I don't think I'll watch more of because it's hard enough to see entertainers you like being a monster let alone seeing it for 2 hours. That said I'm not sure that I knew about Stephen Collins' downfall mostly because I didn't recognize the name. I didn't watch 7th Heaven or even glanced at it.

I didn't recognize him as Captain William Decker on the first Star Trek movie or even from a tv show I loved (but honestly had forgotten entirely until I saw it tonight) The Golden Monkey. I realize I do know him (just not his name because I was watching him 40+ years ago)

He was a sick fuck, a pedophile apparently but the reason I kept watching was one of his earliest victims, a girl of 13 who would have been around my age at the time and how he kept exposing himself to her and her talking about how back then we didn't have stranger danger, no one ever spoke to us about what to do if someone did something to you. that mirrored my own experience with something similar happening to me back then. You didn't talk about it.
sigh.

But now I would love to see The Golden Monkey again but wouldn't because of him


ETA - they did keep Mom and will probably operate in a day or two. Giving her IV antibiotics which should have been done in the first damn place.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Sending good thoughts to your mom!

I couldn't place the name until you mentioned 7th Heaven. Even though I didn't watch the show, you couldn't get away from seeing stuff about it. I never knew that about him, wow. o_O

[cornerofmadness]

thanks and I hope your surgery went well too

it's very disgusting what he did.

[aien_hime]

Sorry about your mom, I hope she gets surgery soon.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks, she's in surgery at the moment

[cornerofmadness]

thank you. she had it today

[suzume]

Wow, that was Yaiba in there wasn't it? How awesome is that?!

Anyway, my prayers go with your mom into her surgery~

[cornerofmadness]

Yes it was Yaiba but that was never one I connected with (the 90s for me are a damn blur with medical school/residency/setting up a practice)

I'm looking forward to You Forma if I can find it and maybe Lazurus and that bumpkin thing and the one from the webtoon didn't look bad.

thanks. she had it today

[suzume]

It was a manga I could actually read in Japanese at that point in my life (this is probably some time after it had been first published and was recompiled into fatter volumes- every time we stopped in at Mitsuwa I bought another volume).

Well, I hope she's feeling better already!

[cornerofmadness]

Oh that is very cool. I found the alphabet too intimidating to try if I'm honest.

Mom's in good spirits

[suzume]

Well, it's a funny story because I wasn't able to get into French class at middle school. I agreed to join my friend, Lindsey* to go to Japanese School. She didn't even make it into the second year there, but I stayed for on for five years!

*all Japanese, but born in the US

Oh, I'm happy for her!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

and wow, what an opportunity. We had spanish or french (I picked spanish)

[suzume]

Well, I was very lucky to have a friend who knew about this opportunity!

[cornerofmadness]

glad you got the opportunity