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Posted by airheadgenius

This is not my doctor.


I had an MRI this week for some random weird crap that's been going on with my mistreated body.
I am sure everything is ok, because it usually is, but it made me think about dating and being sick.

It would suck.

Finding a partner involves putting your best foot forward - applying make up, wearing lingerie, not farting (Zeitgeisty clearly excludes himself from this social norm), being positive, not talking about your whack mother etc etc

Now, unless you've hooked yourself up with someone with a variant of Münchausen syndrome, being a sick puppy and not in a good way doesn't increase one's chances of dating success I imagine.

On a date "your hair is beautiful"
"err, watch this space. That might be changing"

"Your tits are amazing"
"Thanks, although I am about to get a whole new look"

And so on and so forth.

But no one wants to die alone do they?

I imagine this is when the extreme contingency fuck kicks in. Or at least dating someone that you're just not that in to, but who cares for you. This could be an instance when the nice guy does get the girl.

A date from a while back was trying to set up a booty call, but logistics kept getting in the way. One of them was my MRI and resultant evening of juggling kids and my schedule. I wasn't going to get into the details of why I wasn't available, but it wound up being easier to tell him. I asked if he still wanted a booty call. He said "oh yeah. I'd still want to do you even if you were dying".

I found it weirdly touching.
Clealy I have a brain tumour.

 

Here are some I made earlier:
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recycledbrooklyn said:

A very good friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.  After surgery and several rounds of chemo she was out for dinner with friends and met one of their friends.  They clicked.  She was going to blow it off, thinking it unfair to bring someone new into her life at a time of so much uncertainty. She was also uncertain given the mastectomy, losing all her hair etc. Yet the man persisted.  They're together 6 months now.  He's head over heels for her, and vice versa.  She's an exceptional woman and she found an exceptional guy... yet this just may be an exception.  It's got to take a lot of courage on both sides.

I've given it a fair amount of thought, this business of the what-ifs of single life.  Personally, I think I'd rather go it alone if I got ill, but having not been in that situation that's a hard call.  It's also easier, given that my responsibilities are less than those of others, to make the call and say I'd rather fly solo.  

And I suppose if I were that ill, dating might very well be the last thing on my mind, but who knows?

April 5, 2009 12:17 PM

Tiptree said:

AHG, I hope you have the best possible outcome.

I closed everything down once for the above reasons and, in retrospect, it was a mistake (for one, I lived; no one would've been tragically widowed).

April 5, 2009 12:47 PM

casualencounters.com/blog/ said:

Personally I hate it when terminal brain cancer interferes with my casual sex lifestyle, so you know. Hugs.

April 5, 2009 8:10 PM

syncope99 said:

Try dating someone when you're actually sick.  Is vomiting blood not sexy?  OH crap, I didn't know.  Remind me to restrict my diseases to the sexy kind.  And if you have the time, please tell me what the sexy diseases are. I didn't get the memo.

April 6, 2009 1:06 AM

airheadgenius said:

syncope99 - you win today's "missed the point" award. Congratulations.

April 6, 2009 10:23 AM

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