And my mother wonders why I don't call that often.

[apocalypsos]

Not because I don't like her, I just like to avoid bad news.

Take today's phone call to inform her I was going back to Pennsylvania for my brother's birthday next month. I call her up and am immediately set upon with the following three tidbits of information.

First off, a guy I graduated with, Matt M., got murdered last week. He was shot in the chest. Now, we had a fairly small graduating class, comparatively, and it's not like I was best friends with him or anything ... it's just, this is officially the first murder victim I knew. Huh. I feel bad for the guy, because he was a really nice guy, I just can't wrap my mind around the whole "somebody killed him" thing.

Secondly, my mother was feeling bad and she went to the doctor, and it turns out she's got fibroid tumors in her uterus. I guess it's not too serious (she certainly didn't seem worried, and one of my co-workers said her mom had them ad it was fine), but still, you can't expect me not to flip out a little when my mommy tells me she's full of tumors, even if they're not serious tumors. Apparently, they're funny tumors, which would probably explain all the giggling she kept doing.

Lastly, my brother -- you know, the official poster child for being a dumbass -- talked my parents into getting him a cell phone for his birthday, then got a speeding ticket for $200 the next day and just got his birthday present revoked so my parents could pay for the ticket. Smooth move, Ex-lax.

This entire conversation, by the way -- during which I kept fishing for any good news at all with "Well, what else is new?" -- finally ended when my mother yelped, "Jeez, Bryan got a speeding ticket, someone you knew was murdered, I'm full of tumors ... what else do you need?!"

And people wonder why I turned out the way I did. *sighs*

In other news, I saw a guy on the Metro who looked just like Xander. Unfortunately, it wasn't in a Speedo!Xander kind of way, but in a "Sheesh, Nick, you want to lay off the breadsticks?" kind of way.

Comments

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

Oh, fibroids. Those are just cystic growths in the uterus. They're usually harmless, but do occasionally become malignant. Mostly, in layman's terms, they jam things up so it's better to remove them.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I got that much after talking to my co-worker, but you have to understand the way my mom tells me stuff like this. As seriously as possible, laughing the whole time. It's basically, "I'm full of tumors! Wheeeeee!"

Tumors

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think I would be the same way. "Guess what everyone? I have inoperable brain cancer! I'm going to die like OMG!" I don't trust myself to take something like that seriously. I'd be too busy finishing off my life with gusto.

lmao at the Xander reference

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

I think ya turned out quite well, especially after hearing all that! oy what a load of news!

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

To my knowledge, none of my classmates have been murdered. I know of a few that have had cancer (two of them while we were still in school; one of those two died a week before graduation), and a few have fatal or near-fatal car wrecks...

hmmm

[voodoogoddess.livejournal.com]

One of my classmates was murdered too. She was East Indian, and her father found out that she was dating a white boy while she was promised to someone else. He stabbed her 17 times in the chest (one time for every year of her life). She was still alive, so he threw her in front of the hospital and she died while waiting for assistance. It was just awful

Had the operation, got the t-shirt...

[ninamonkey.livejournal.com]

If they're not too big (the fibroids) sometimes diet and birth control pills can shrink them (less estrogen = shrinking fibroids, in theory). If they are too big, your Mom might have to have an operation. DO NOT go to a gyno who says they'll have to remove her uterus. That is untrue.

I had six fibroids removed last year (all about the size of a man's fist - long story). The NP was telling me I needed to have my uterus removed. I absolutely balked at that and talked to my doctor, who said no, they didn't need to do that. Sad thing was, I waited too long and the tumors were too big, so they couldn't cut across my bikini line. So I have a nice, pretty lateral scar. But eh, it wasn't too bad. The worst part was the recovery - six weeks.

But, ok. I'm giving TMI - but all of that is just to let you know that fibroids aren't that much of a concern...even in bad scenarios.

[ibanezaxe.livejournal.com]

I heard about the whole Matt thing...

Weird aint it??

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know. Really awful, but mostly just weird.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

..."smooth move, ex-lax"... someone's been reading her SnowCrash?

[fyrdrakken]

Nope, that's an old one.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Secondly, my mother was feeling bad and she went to the doctor, and it turns out she's got fibroid tumors in her uterus. I guess it's not too serious (she certainly didn't seem worried, and one of my co-workers said her mom had them ad it was fine),

My mother had them - thirty years ago. She had to have a hysterectomy, but she's been fine ever since. Don't be too worried.

[fyrdrakken]

Your mom'll be fine, your brother was indeed a dumbass who reaped the rewards of his own carelessness. Pity about your classmate, though. (I hadn't had anyone I knew murdered, but a friend of my dad's shot somebody a few years back.)