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Complications
Oh, poor Cathy! She's the classic example of the saying, "If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all". Major mental trauma, our poor girl didn't need this. She really needs Stella for support right now, and Stella can't be there. So unfair!
Karen J.
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
I'd be an orphan .....
You already are - orphan indicates at least one parent has died.
The meaning of orphan
According to wikipedia, both of your parents need to be dead before you're an orphan.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan
According to wiktionary the word is also rarely used to indicate the loss of one parent
see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan
So my guess is that it's a bit of a local thing and most of the world only uses the word
for people who lost both parents.
Hugs,
Kimby
Hugs,
Kimby
You point being?
Both of Cathy's parents are dead.
Poor Cathy. I shall wear a black arm band until the end of the next chapter.
NB
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Is This Too Much For Our Cathy???
She is now an orphan. Will she breakdown now after everything that has happened? True, Tom and George are adoptive Fathers, but now Cathy must deal with the guilt of not being there for her Daddy. This is one cliffhanger that is above them all.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
But maybe it is for the best
Remember her dad was NEVER there for her UNTIL his wife's death and his strokes and nearly beat her to death back when she was struggling with who he/she was. In fact he beat him multiple times.
I still think his actions contributed to his wife's death.
And except for that bit at the end which was as likely the delusions of a dying mind, Mom was almost as bad as Dad. Her outburst and telling Dad about Cathy crossdressing got her nearly killed. Did Dad ever answer to the law for it? No, Mom was an aider and abettor. Cathy is better off with out them.
Sad to say that but true. Who knows, maybe maybe her soon to be mother in law will turn out to be a good person, a little wild in her bedroom antics but a good woman.
The BIG issue now is, where to bury dad and should the members of his loony LGBT hating church be allowed to attend?
Cathy is heading for a breakdown. Mary tried to murder her and had her brains blow out next to Cathy by a police sharp shooter. Her post SRS depression is getting worse what with all the discomfort and all. Stella trying to kill her and nearly dying twice from hemorages has Cathy all wound up. Then there is the whole Russian mob problem. God, what next, Spike dies?
I think Cathy will be in hospital soon.
She is tough but no one is that tough.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Waaaaaahhhhh.
Okay. Now you've gone and done it! She'll feal guilty for a Loooooong time! And you didn't let him give his daughter away either! *sighs*
Tom's being "interesting". Mid life crisis? :-)
Wonder what's gunna happen next... Film a movie?
Hey, maybe somebody starts "hounding" Cathy to write her "life story" Cathy Watts, Queen of the Doormice or How I Corrected a Problem and Solved More. Catchy title? Who's believe that story? I mean, it's as Easy As Falling Off a Bike.
Annette
Whew, what a way to end the week
Glad he at least was able to hold off for her. Less guilt I think. But poor cathy's life sure is complicated. Hope superwoman can make it through all this. Time to call Tom and Simon and get her some support quickly. Wonder if the hospital staff remembers the "Lady Cameron" thing?
Woody
Another bad day for Cathy and especially her Dad
I'm going to take a different position on her father based on experiences with my own.Unfortunatatly parents can feel outside pressure about what their kids should grow up to be like.Even today some parents abuse their lgbt kids for religious reasons or other reasons like the loss of potential grandkids.To me it seems Cathy's Dad realized his mistake and was giving her the only support he could given his situation.Maybe it took the loss of her mother for him to get there but the thing is he did.I believe Cathy realized that otherwise what reason would she have had to visit him? Hopefully Cathy can move forward from this and also resolve her post op depression or I'm afraid she'll be Stella's new roomate at the nut house.She must get back to dialating as well or she might as well become a Nun.Great work Bonzi or is that Angharad.Amy
An end. A beginning.
Dying was probably the best thing that her father ever did for her. This removed the spectre of daily care a person surviving that degree of stroke needs, personal, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, detailed care. We will have to wait to see if her faint was in relief or remorse. I do not mean to be crass, but having been there and attending two parent's passing, both with long debilitating declines, I can attest to the mixed, honest feelings. She may have loved him, but until he wanted for her services, he never expressed any positive consideration for her, only negative, deadly negative.
Now, she needs help, professional help. The strain of even one of her recent exploits would have driven most, even the staunchest, of person's into a mental spin. She needs time to recover. This most likely needs to be alone time. Until the attack, Stella would have been ideal to companion her recovery and rest, but now, she too would merely add to the strain. Simon is no better. It almost comes down to Henry's questionable wife as being the only person of her acquaintance that could companion her. I hope a GOOD professional mental health doctor can help.
No wonder Henry wants her in the family, she is undoubtedly the strongest and most stable one of the bunch.
Thank you again for sharing this romance with us. You transport us all to a different world.
80 more postings and you will have completed a year. You should probably be contacting Guiness or someone about recognizing this remarkable acheivement. Speaking of Guiness, a pint or two might not be a bad idea. :)
Your admiring reader Early June
How sad for Cathy. I can
How sad for Cathy. I can relate to her Dad waiting until she was there before he died. I had an Aunt that waited for an entire week for my brother to show up before she passed. She had already said her "goodbyes" to all the rest of the family, but he was in another State and not easy to get ahold of. She actually went into a form of coma. When he did arrive, he was allowed right into her room at the hospital, said "hi Aunt Peg, I'm here"; she instantly awoke and saw him, then said "I just wanted to say I love you", and passed away. It is truly strange how the body and mind works. Cathy's Dad waiting for her proved that he did indeed love her, more than he had ever shown before.
J-Lynn
"well! It looks as if
"well! It looks as if everything we eat drink, breathe or otherwise absorb can do us harm."
We are all born with a fatal disease. It's called life.
Oh, and as for "organic," Cathy seems to have forgotten that the chemistry of carbon is so called because, before the breakthroughs at the end of the 19th century, organic compounds could only be made by organisms. . .
Cathy's dad's end brought on some leakage about the eyes. . .
Cathy's Dad
How very sad. He hung on until she could be there, to let her know he loved her, and then died. I cried after reading that, and I'm tearing up as I write. Despite their differences, in the end there was sincere love.
Yours,
JohnBobMead
Yours,
John Robert Mead
Cathy
Cathy loved her Dad, though I'm not sure this is the same as needing her Dad.
Her Dad loved Cathy, probably because he needed her.
If her mom and dad had lived to see her marriage, and the beautiful woman she had become, it is conceivable they would have changed their minds. We'll never know.
Ouch
That's rough- losing BOTH parents within such a short period of time. I got very weepy reading that.
At least Cathy and her Dad mended their relationship -somewhat- before he died, but she'll probably have some remaining doubts whether this would have happened had it not been for the stroke(s) and Dad being all alone.
Thanks Angharad for such a wonderful story- I'll catch up with you SOMETIME on this, (you're closing in on 1700 episodes as I write this).
No tissue alert.
How am I going to explain my red eyes to co-workers.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Are you trying to dissuade
Are you trying to dissuade others from having Cathy's surgery? I'm not planning on it or even thinking of it, but eeu, a shrinking, cold feeling in sympathy.
Had the same deal with mom, without the 90 min desperate ride. Life just got a lot simpler Cathy
Will there be complications with Dad's estate ?
Cefin
Poor Cathy
Poor Cathy