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ANDI: Oh, hey. You're Todd's friend, right?
POHL: Amanda's mother, yes? Nice to see you again.
ANDI: We were just swinging by to get the kiddo. She cause you any trouble?
POHL: HA HA HA! Ha ha... err... no. No, no trouble.
POHL: But, um... I may have Todd give you my number? She's... HIGHLY likely to have some sarnothi-related questions for me.
ANDI: Oh, sure, thanks. Nice of you.
POHL: And... well, Todd can fill you in on what happened.
ANDI: "Happened"?!?
POHL: It's fine, it's fine. Just don't lose Amanda's assistive device, and call me if there's any screaming.
JESSIE: What in the HECKERS?!
POHL: The minute the words left my mouth...
POHL: Amanda's mother, yes? Nice to see you again.
ANDI: We were just swinging by to get the kiddo. She cause you any trouble?
POHL: HA HA HA! Ha ha... err... no. No, no trouble.
POHL: But, um... I may have Todd give you my number? She's... HIGHLY likely to have some sarnothi-related questions for me.
ANDI: Oh, sure, thanks. Nice of you.
POHL: And... well, Todd can fill you in on what happened.
ANDI: "Happened"?!?
POHL: It's fine, it's fine. Just don't lose Amanda's assistive device, and call me if there's any screaming.
JESSIE: What in the HECKERS?!
POHL: The minute the words left my mouth...
Wake me when the screaming reaches a palpable shrillness. No sooner.
Bless him. Pohl is so bad at knowing when to shut up. 😀
SWOOSH! Ah Pohl, you never cease to amuse us.
May as well head back inside, Pohl. You’re not goin’ *anywhere*.
Pohl: Cannot lie to save his life…The humans just can’t seem to break him.
Looks like Andi and Jessie are gonna come out to Amanda?
That’s a rather quick change of minds. They had several reasons for not telling Amanda, which are all still valid. Therefor I’m surprised Jessie is here.
I’m also surprised Andi is here – I read stayover as ‘staying over night’
My guess is a call from Amanda to go home RIGHT NOW, I am THROWING UP, very likely coming when the two of them were out on date night. It’s a lot like the Momma Swoosh. When you get that call, you go and figure out the excuses later.
That’s exactly my question!
Sometimes I wonder how in the hell Pohl got through med school. I mean, he’s a nice guy, and intelligent, but damn.
The ever constant absent-minded professor. High Int, Low Wis. Or maybe Low Cha, Charisma is how well you can talk to people, not just how sexy you are.
INT: knowing what to say.
WIS: knowing when to say it.
CHA: knowing how to say it.
I would like a doctor that is honest and direct.
When looking at the big ‘thing’ on the sonogram, and you suggest, “well maybe we better do a biopsy and find out if it’s benign or malignant?”
And the doctor looks straight at you and says, “No, it’s malignant.”
A pause for you to come to grips with the discovery, something hopeful, like maybe, “it’s not very big?” “It’s good we found it now.” Something hopeful?
“No, it’s malignant,” Is like getting kicked in the teeth by a horse. Let’s not compound the problem by adding a heart attack.
I’d honestly be OK with that. Sugar coating sets my teeth on edge, just tell me what’s going on and we can move on to what we’re going to do about it.
In this example, the patient jumped off of the medical table and ran out of the room after the first time the doctor said ‘No, it’s malignant’.
She didn’t give him a chance to further explain.
Anddi’s hair must have been a huge pain in the ass to get dyed properly. Still better than that troll cut she had.
How often have I stood in Pohl’s shoes, where the realisation kicks in as soon as the words leave my mouth.
Hoo boy.
We’re both a lot like Hagrid. “I shouldn’t have said that. I should NOT have said that!”
know the feeling! Concerned friends have told me time and again to watch the “out loud” thing.
That hair… blue with sparkles?
“Fairy lights” maybe? She’s into Art-Tech, and high tech art, right?
You can actually get hair wax with sparkles in it. It’s basically glitter. While the color still washes out well the glitter can linger on the scalp for weeks.
Glitter never actually goes away, it just merges with its host.
I see glitter, and I’m reminded of a community theater production of “Kismet,” I was in. The hero was supposed to be romancing Lalame, the villain’s “wife of wives.” (Trust me, it makes sense in context) and the costume director decided that Lalame would wear gold lame, and have gold glitter across her breasts. I’m backstage listening to the “romancing” scene and the hero comes off stage afterwards, brushing glitter off his costume saying; “Well, you can always tell who’s been with Lalame!”
I thought “night sky” myself.
Interesting to me, because it was a different color when she dropped Amanda off.
That’s exactly my question!
Jessie has a lot of experience with kid-friendly words that will still satisfyingly express shock and frustration.
*Momma Swoosh*
As a mom who does this at least once a week, I freaking love this!
Pohl: great with kids, still improving with adults
LOVE the “Mama Swoosh”!!
When I worked for a girl’s camp, I used “son of a chicken nugget” or just “chicken nugget” a lot so I wouldn’t cuss around the campers, and if Jessie ever wants to borrow that she is more than welcome too, I would die of happiness >.>;
I always prefer Ghostbuster’s with Venkman’s; “Mother Puss Bucket!”
I think this is a very personal choice. I got diagnosed with cancer recently, and they told me “it looks like it’s cancer”. They sent away the biopsies to be sure, but they were very sure already (they have a quick diagnostic test that’s pretty reliable for cancers of that area). I was a bit shell shocked and asked “if it’s not cancer, what could it be?” and they told me “then it’s pre-cancerous.”
Sometimes, with bad news, you need to know that it’s bad, directly, because you may mislead yourself otherwise. And then the doctors answer the questions you have in that moment, and take you through what you’re processing in that moment.
I’ve had amazing care, for the record, despite it being during the pandemic, and despite the doctors speaking to me in English when it’s not their first language. But I do live in the Netherlands, and the people here are very direct!
That was supposed to be a reply to Geneseepaws!