The woman was hospitalized for a medical evaluation.
I'll say.
There was really no need for you to tell me about this.
This is the sort of story that makes you wish they had more than one photo of each of their journalists, depending on the tone of the story. Like how TPM has the "happy Obama", "sad Obama", "confused Obama", "stoic Obama", etc.
I know the article doesn't say for certain, but I don't see how you can blame this on Obama.
Seriously, ogged, do you have to share every awful thing in the world? Why not just post a picture of the interior of your asshole or something.
Why not just post a picture of the interior of your asshole or something.
It's been done and it wasn't even that awful.
Some things are too horrible to share; some things are too horrible not to share.
Honestly, you thought picking at zits was disturbing?
If this derails the OP I will feel zero compunction.
I found the philosophical reflection of this bereaved mother of a young mountain climber to be just beyond the edge of my compression, as if visible but beyond grasp:
"Karen Kennedy is a trauma nurse, and her husband Jim a ski instructor. Between them, they had an intimate understanding of the risks Cole took and the damage that could result. After their son's cremation, they made an offer to Cole's closest friends, a grieving community of adventurers with half a summer of expeditions -- and, hopefully, many seasons more after that -- still ahead of them. If they wished, they could take a small portion of Cole's remains with them on their travels, and scatter his memory across peaks around the world.
When I spoke to her, nearly 10 months after her son's death, I said that I thought I'd probably be angry at climbing, at climbers, at the whole world of outdoor adventure. But she isn't, she said. She deals with death every day in the hospital. "I've seen it happen a million times," she told me. "And it happens so randomly. It can happen when you're crossing the street and it can happen in Peru. So you might as well live, you know?"
She paused. "And that's what he loved" -- the mountains, climbing, disappearing on an adventure, taking on some new challenge with his friends. "Now of course, in retrospect, I wish he'd gone to a different school and been a total nerd and never done any of that, but then he wouldn't have been him.""
From this interesting article: http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2015/5/20/8625135/cirque-of-the-unclimbables
Includes some beautiful photos.
The first boy to kiss me died in a climbing accident.
comprehension, not compression sigh.
So this is the good cheer into the holiday weekend thread. I had a friend, middle aged like me, who died on Everest two years ago.
Here, how about some images in hopes of changing the tone.
I had never heard of this painter before.
I have a selfie in this style. Hot or not?
12: how many of his friends does she expect to make it back from their death-defying trips to scatter his ashes?
There's a Pokemon pub crawl passing through my local right now. Shudder.
There was a heartbreaking (and horrifying) Salon article from a few years ago where a woman whose full-term child was stillborn asked to take her baby home from the hospital. They said ok, but try to keep him cold. And so she went on walks to the park and stuff wearing the baby in sling. I think she gave it back in a few days.
Round every corner stands PC 1984.
Some things are too horrible to share; some things are too horrible not to share.
The OP isn't even the worst thing I've heard in the last two weeks but you're all probably better off not knowing what I'm talking about. Cala might be able to guess from the local news.
25: This(and I repeat my warning to the rest of you about better off not knowing). Neighboring jurisdiction, but the wife of one of my friends in my dept is a nurse up at Primary Children's in the infant ICU. They had to bring in counselors for the nurses and doctors.
Oh, that one. I cried when I first read the story. Poor little baby.
Thanks, gswift! (The OP story might turn out to be a natural death followed by unusual but understandable reaction, right?)
Right. The OP story is striking because of its cinematic horror: mom pushes dead baby for a day straight. It's certainly not the worst thing to happen to a kid even in the last day.
And, of course, there's 27 million people in slavery right now, many of whom are children.
It's alright. I won't let it ruin my Canada Day.