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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread
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I figured but I was hoping for the best. I’d be pleasantly surprised if we got anything north of 10mph, if that . I mean it’s still moving on a track right? .... so if it’s simulated speed alone that will leave the experience feeing a bit flat.
This would be a great and cheap solution and totally fine with me. I’d even be ok with the last Jack Sparrow staying. In fact, I would appreciate the last Jack Sparrow more. Kind of like he’s just creeping around and then at the end we see that he got his treasure as opposed to hearing his name a million times. However, this wouldn’t really solve Disney’s problem if being politically correct is the catalyst for the rumored change.
Side note: somehow POTC is so great and there is so much to see that I don’t find myself too distracted with the Jack Sparrows. They re kind of just there. I find the new auction scene far more offensive.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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Don't...don't give me hope
George Lucas on a Bench
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JD's hot ex may have been a nutjob, but that doesn't excuse the Cell Phone Footage of him walking around the house drunk wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses. Get him out of the ride!
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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Because they are Passive Progressive
smooch
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Hi everyone I'm sorry to bring the mood down in the thread but I don't have anywhere else to talk about this because I don't want to talk to any people I know in real life about it until my brother is okay with it. Last night my brother had a seizure and today in the morning he went to the doctor then straight to the ER and they found a brain tumor or a cyst and he has moved to the hospital. They've been doing scans and tests all day and are determining exactly what it is but they think it's an arachnoid cyst that is around the front-center top of his brain, and it is larger than they usually see.
The worst part is that my family can't even be with him because of the pandemic, my mom lied about his age initially in the ER so she could be admitted with him and they let her stay when they found out he was actually 22 (23 this Saturday) but when he was moved to the hospital while my dad and I were bringing him some things like headphones, a phone charger, and his Switch just in case he's able to play and wants to, so my mom couldn't even personally give it to him and had to hand it off to a nurse. He is almost certainly going to have surgery to remove it within the next couple days depending on the specifics but as far as we can tell my family will not be allowed to see him, even from a separate room looking through a window, and we won't be able to see him during the recovery period. I got to FaceTime him for a little bit earlier in the day but have only exchanged a handful of texts with him since then, and on my drive home alone from the ER I was talking to my girlfriend and broke down after having to hold it together for my family. I'm so worried if anything were to happen we won't be able to see him. He was aware of everything that happened in the morning before he left and thanked me for taking care of him last night when he had his seizure, but once he was in the ER for a while he forgot what he was doing there and why he was there. I know memory loss / confusion can happen for a few days after a seizure but it's just scary and surreal, he's only a year and a half older than me and seeing this is so sad and scary. I really just wish my family could be there with him, this is so crazy not even my mom can be with him when he literally forgot what he was doing in the ER, what if it happens again and they need to ask him for information or something.
Hopefully he will have surgery soon, most likely needing to cut open his skull to drain the cyst if it does end up being confirmed as a cyst, because it is at the top of his head and couldn't be reached without removing some skull. They said it is located in a pretty active part of the brain that controls a lot of functions (they didn't specify) and now I am scared that even if he does have it successfully drained that there could be serious damage done. Just a hair over 24 hours ago life was perfectly normal and now here I am. I am sorry if this doesn't belong on this thread, I will delete it or move it, I just needed to get this off my chest and this anonymous site is the only place I can talk about it. I hope you are all doing well, I hope to return with a positive update soon but we will have to wait and see. Maybe we will get to at least see him through a window before surgery, maybe not.
The worst part is that my family can't even be with him because of the pandemic, my mom lied about his age initially in the ER so she could be admitted with him and they let her stay when they found out he was actually 22 (23 this Saturday) but when he was moved to the hospital while my dad and I were bringing him some things like headphones, a phone charger, and his Switch just in case he's able to play and wants to, so my mom couldn't even personally give it to him and had to hand it off to a nurse. He is almost certainly going to have surgery to remove it within the next couple days depending on the specifics but as far as we can tell my family will not be allowed to see him, even from a separate room looking through a window, and we won't be able to see him during the recovery period. I got to FaceTime him for a little bit earlier in the day but have only exchanged a handful of texts with him since then, and on my drive home alone from the ER I was talking to my girlfriend and broke down after having to hold it together for my family. I'm so worried if anything were to happen we won't be able to see him. He was aware of everything that happened in the morning before he left and thanked me for taking care of him last night when he had his seizure, but once he was in the ER for a while he forgot what he was doing there and why he was there. I know memory loss / confusion can happen for a few days after a seizure but it's just scary and surreal, he's only a year and a half older than me and seeing this is so sad and scary. I really just wish my family could be there with him, this is so crazy not even my mom can be with him when he literally forgot what he was doing in the ER, what if it happens again and they need to ask him for information or something.
Hopefully he will have surgery soon, most likely needing to cut open his skull to drain the cyst if it does end up being confirmed as a cyst, because it is at the top of his head and couldn't be reached without removing some skull. They said it is located in a pretty active part of the brain that controls a lot of functions (they didn't specify) and now I am scared that even if he does have it successfully drained that there could be serious damage done. Just a hair over 24 hours ago life was perfectly normal and now here I am. I am sorry if this doesn't belong on this thread, I will delete it or move it, I just needed to get this off my chest and this anonymous site is the only place I can talk about it. I hope you are all doing well, I hope to return with a positive update soon but we will have to wait and see. Maybe we will get to at least see him through a window before surgery, maybe not.
Communicora
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I'm really sorry to hear this and will be keeping you, your brother and your family in his prayers. I know this is a scary time and hope the surgery goes well and he is soon on the road to recovery.
Californian Elitist
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I’m very sorry to hear this news about your brother, Smooch. I can only imagine what you and your family are going through right now. I’ll be praying for not only a successful surgery and speedy recovery for your brother, but peace and comfort for you and your family.
smooch
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Thank you very much, raven. I haven't been able to get any sleep, and my mom understandably did not take the news well. When we took her home from the ER after they moved him away from her she was hysterical at home and my dad and other brother and I comforted her as best we could. She has been calling every few hours even during the night to ask for updates and he has been sleeping well after a day full of tests which is good. He is being monitored in case he has another seizure, I am hoping he doesn't have another. I've been doing my best to stay strong for my family, especially for my mom, but it's so hard knowing I can't do anything to help and I know to hope for the best as the hospital he's at has a fantastic neurology department but it's so hard not being able to be there for him. I texted him good morning for whenever he wakes up and that I know they will figure everything out soon and begin working on treating him. Yesterday in the evening he texted me saying he hopes they can figure it out and begin work as soon as possible so he can get out of the hospital as soon as possible, so he hasn't been confused again and is still aware of everything going on which makes me happy. I am so nervous for the period after surgery, if we can't be there with him I am worried he will be confused if he will know where he is or what happened or anything. I also have no idea what his recovery will even look like, what the effects will be / the severity, etc. I hope to god there is nothing severe, but after so much happening so quickly I am just scared and my mind goes to the worst case scenario. We will get through this as a family, his birthday is the 5th and I have no idea if we will be able to celebrate with him or if we will have to wait for a while to celebrate with him afterwards. I hope since it is likely a cyst they can drain it and if necessary remove just enough that there isn't a lot taken out and doesn't damage anything substantial. That's what I keep telling myself anyways, it's a draining more than anything so nothing super invasive.I’m very sorry to hear this news about your brother, Smooch. I can only imagine what you and your family are going through right now. I’ll be praying for not only a successful surgery and speedy recovery for your brother, but peace and comfort for you and your family.
It just still doesn't feel real to me, I walk by his room and feel like I should hear his music playing and things should be normal. I keep replaying in my head when I went to his room when he had his seizure and taking care of him with my dad, when he came to he was delirious but quickly became coherent and we asked if he had taken anything to cause the seizure and he swore he didn't and we were sort of hard on him because we thought it was from drugs as he had a problem but stopped recently, and now we feel guilty. When he swore he didn't take anything and he literally went from watching a video in his desk to seizing on the floor and didn't know why he told us he was scared and I could truly hear it in his voice. When he wasn't making sense I held him and reassured him everything was okay and to relax and that I was going to make sure everything is okay. I just wish I could be there now with him to do the same thing, he shouldn't go through this alone. What if recovery takes a long time and he has problems with cognitive functions and doesn't know to talk to us on the phone like he has been, are we supposed to just wait and not talk to him and let him not realize we are there for him. I don't know how but I swear we'll do whatever we can to get even remotely close to him before or after surgery, especially for brain surgery. Even if just my mom can get in like she did in the ER so she can be with him and FaceTime us so we can see him that would be better than what they're suggesting we can do, which is nothing but wait and just text him.
Rich T
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My thoughts and prayers are with you, your brother and the rest of your family, Smooch. Hang in there. You’re being a fantastic sibling and a great help to your parents.
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DrAlice
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I'm so sorry that you and your family are going through this. You sound like you need a big hug, so I'm sending you one.
Hang in there. My thoughts are with all of you.
PiratesMansion
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We'll all be thinking of you and hoping that this turns out for the best.
Sending positive thoughts, vibes, and prayers your way.
D.Silentu
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Don't even remotely feel bad about posting your news here. I believe I speak for everyone when I say that we're all anxious to hear how your brother is doing. My Dad had a health scare back in in August, so I understand how straining it is to have a loved one in the hospital during Covid. However, it also meant I got to see first hand the incredible things that doctors are capable of these days. Try and keep your mind equally occupied on your brother and lighthearted things that will help pass the time (British mystery shows helped me). Know that you have a lot of keyboard friends here that are hoping with you and anxious for your brother's recovery!
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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I am so sorry. If you find it appropriate or welcomed, I would like to pray for him and you as long as its ok with you.
I'm so sorry, Smooch. You and your parents have done everything that you can. He is in good, capable, and caring hands. No one wants to take a chance on spreading covid, especially in his current condition. The best thing you and your parents can do is take care of yourselves so you will be ready to take care of him when he comes home.
smooch
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I just want to say thank you to everyone for the well wishes and for keeping my brother / family in your thoughts and prayers, I truly appreciate the support. I had a busy day today but so far it was mixed, more good than bad but I will explain why. Good news first: my brother came home this evening and is feeling much better, he is just tired from all the testing and waking up in the middle of the night to get labs done. So it is confirmed to be a cyst, but it is about twice the size they usually see in a person with an arachnoid cyst, I believe they said it was somewhere near the size of a golfball but that sounds huge to me so I might be mis-remembering but I do not know. While that is scary, the doctors have determined that the cyst is something he has had his whole life as it is something you're born with, and that the cyst is not what caused his seizure, which is good news. Since the cyst wasn't the immediate cause he was released and is back home with us, and he is seeing a neurologist on Thursday to get more scans done and to determine the course of action he will take. There is a possibility they will leave the cyst alone and monitor it every 6 months or so to ensure it isn't growing too large to cause complications if it were to press against the skull or anything. The bad news is that the seizure was from his drug addiction. He has struggled with it for years as I have mentioned briefly on here before, and he has been on and off of drugs since last Thanksgiving when my parents finally learned about his problem while he was away at school and came back for the holiday. The part that shocked me was that it wasn't something that happened unprompted as a result of his previous usage, it is that I believe he had an overdose or a bad interaction as far as I understand as in the labs they found a lot of different things there from extremely recent usage that they believe was actually the night of his seizure which caused it, they found large amounts of multiple types of pills, powder, and alcohol (if a mod wants me to remove that part I will, I don't want to name specifics but still convey what the problem was). I would guess there was an interaction between any one of those which caused it, not the cyst.
We have tried helping him get sober and I thought he was sober, I used to know when he took stuff and I thought he had been clean for a bit but apparently not. Our doctor we've had since we were little just lost his son to an overdose but has a rehab center to treat people with addiction to help people like his son, so I believe we will be doing everything we can to get him to go there. Obviously he has to choose to go and choose to work towards sobriety, so we can't do anything but be there for him. The neurologist said we shouldn't let him drive just in case, even though it isn't the tumor or epilepsy but drugs causing it, just to be safe which my family planned on doing anyways. It's bittersweet in a way, I am happy to have him home and am happy the cyst is not an immediate danger, but there is a good chance he will still have it drained eventually and would have to have his skull cut to do it, but it is disappointing he is back to his old ways and lied to everyone including me about it even when I personally asked him just so I could know what was going on. I love him of course, these past 2 days have shown me how important family is and made me appreciate mine more than ever, but I am just disappointed he has started hiding it even from me and lying to me.
This will always be an ongoing battle to help him towards achieving and maintaining sobriety, and I know these next few weeks / months in specific will probably be especially challenging, but we need to get him help sooner than later. My parents and other brother found all his drugs and have taken them from his room, I think they have them kept but locked away somewhere in case there is anything he has to taper off of if he can't quit cold turkey (we had to do that last year) but there is nothing for him to take on his own. I guess the only silver lining I see from all this is if he never had the seizure we wouldn't have found the cyst and wouldn't be aware and begin monitoring it, so if it were to grow down the line and cause problems we have stopped that from happening. These last 2 days have been such a toll emotionally, going from a doctor's checkup to the ER with my mom to the hospital alone for what was believed to be an emergency brain tumor removal, becoming a less dangerous cyst, back to drug problems. I'm glad my family was there for each other through it all, the news that the cyst wasn't immediately dangerous definitely made the pain we went through and the sleepless nights a little worth it, but addiction isn't something you can just operate on or cure with medicine, and it will be up to him to do this. We will do everything we can to help him but I am worried he will go back to his old ways, hopefully this entire scare has woken him up but other less serious events in the past didn't do anything so I'm not sure.
Thank you all for reading my long essays, a lot happened in so little time and I just have a lot of mixed, confused feelings about it all and I am thankful to be able to share them with you. I really do appreciate all the support and well wishes, and I am glad I was able to come back with some positive news even if it was accompanied by negative news as well.
We have tried helping him get sober and I thought he was sober, I used to know when he took stuff and I thought he had been clean for a bit but apparently not. Our doctor we've had since we were little just lost his son to an overdose but has a rehab center to treat people with addiction to help people like his son, so I believe we will be doing everything we can to get him to go there. Obviously he has to choose to go and choose to work towards sobriety, so we can't do anything but be there for him. The neurologist said we shouldn't let him drive just in case, even though it isn't the tumor or epilepsy but drugs causing it, just to be safe which my family planned on doing anyways. It's bittersweet in a way, I am happy to have him home and am happy the cyst is not an immediate danger, but there is a good chance he will still have it drained eventually and would have to have his skull cut to do it, but it is disappointing he is back to his old ways and lied to everyone including me about it even when I personally asked him just so I could know what was going on. I love him of course, these past 2 days have shown me how important family is and made me appreciate mine more than ever, but I am just disappointed he has started hiding it even from me and lying to me.
This will always be an ongoing battle to help him towards achieving and maintaining sobriety, and I know these next few weeks / months in specific will probably be especially challenging, but we need to get him help sooner than later. My parents and other brother found all his drugs and have taken them from his room, I think they have them kept but locked away somewhere in case there is anything he has to taper off of if he can't quit cold turkey (we had to do that last year) but there is nothing for him to take on his own. I guess the only silver lining I see from all this is if he never had the seizure we wouldn't have found the cyst and wouldn't be aware and begin monitoring it, so if it were to grow down the line and cause problems we have stopped that from happening. These last 2 days have been such a toll emotionally, going from a doctor's checkup to the ER with my mom to the hospital alone for what was believed to be an emergency brain tumor removal, becoming a less dangerous cyst, back to drug problems. I'm glad my family was there for each other through it all, the news that the cyst wasn't immediately dangerous definitely made the pain we went through and the sleepless nights a little worth it, but addiction isn't something you can just operate on or cure with medicine, and it will be up to him to do this. We will do everything we can to help him but I am worried he will go back to his old ways, hopefully this entire scare has woken him up but other less serious events in the past didn't do anything so I'm not sure.
Thank you all for reading my long essays, a lot happened in so little time and I just have a lot of mixed, confused feelings about it all and I am thankful to be able to share them with you. I really do appreciate all the support and well wishes, and I am glad I was able to come back with some positive news even if it was accompanied by negative news as well.
Yes that would be more than fine with me, I would greatly appreciate it and thank you for doing so and for asking beforehand.