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underpants

(188,714 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 10:08 PM Nov 2024

"She DIED died. There's no going back from this" my wife just said.

Hold on Admins, we need a reality break

Sam’s funeral on General Hospital. One of the few soap operas left. Sam is of the Cassadine family who had the world freezing machine in Port Charles (maybe a Greek island) but Luke Laura and Scorpio foiled that.
🌎👍

In the last two weeks my wife lost her father ……

while she was in Georgia our dog got hurt. He’s in the cone one more day. My wife got walking pneumonia. Tonight, between me shuttling her to the urgent care I FINALLY got her to go to (she takes after her Dad when it comes to medicine) and the ER, she’s home.
Breath. Food. What do you want to watch?


“Do you mind if I watch my recap of General Hospital?”
Me: sounds great.

Sounds weird watching a funeral but it’s calm.
We need some calm.

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"She DIED died. There's no going back from this" my wife just said. (Original Post) underpants Nov 2024 OP
Hope your wife's recovery is full and swift! MLAA Nov 2024 #1
I hope that H2O Man Nov 2024 #2
Sorry for your Travails DET Nov 2024 #3
Didn't know that. When my wife said it I laughed underpants Nov 2024 #12
Actually, There's a Connection DET Nov 2024 #16
Oh underpants Nov 2024 #17
The Cloud Doodles Nov 2024 #4
I had to return to Harry Potter the last week and a half before the election... Hekate Nov 2024 #5
Is that actor who played the German on Rat Patrol peregrinus Nov 2024 #6
Is anyone from Rat Patrol still alive?? LeftInTX Nov 2024 #7
That's who I'm thinking of peregrinus Nov 2024 #10
Victor! underpants Nov 2024 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author LeftInTX Nov 2024 #8
I don't watch it anymore but I can see how it can be comforting JI7 Nov 2024 #9
I'd have laughed too at her saying that. I also would have understood instantly. Solly Mack Nov 2024 #13
😊 underpants Nov 2024 #14
Ha! But of course! lolol Solly Mack Nov 2024 #15

MLAA

(18,885 posts)
1. Hope your wife's recovery is full and swift!
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 10:24 PM
Nov 2024

We all need our guilty pleasures now more than ever. I watched a Christmas cookie cutter rom com and found it soothing, not long ago I would have smirked my way through it if someone forced me to watch one. This year I’m all in. 🙂

DET

(1,846 posts)
3. Sorry for your Travails
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:27 PM
Nov 2024

GH is a good distraction. I’ve watched it on and off for forty years. And yes, Sam DIED died (actually, the veteran actress got fired for criticizing the firing of a fellow actor - who then died in real life). The actress was shocked, as was the audience. Personally, I wouldn’t call the funeral scene today a stress reliever…but whatever works during these trying times.

underpants

(188,714 posts)
12. Didn't know that. When my wife said it I laughed
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:16 AM
Nov 2024

She added “No fake deaths. No evil twins. She’s gone.”

Later in the episode an actress who hasn’t been on in years woke from a coma. Because, of course. I looked at my wife and asked “Sam’s spirit?!?!” We both cracked up.

DET

(1,846 posts)
16. Actually, There's a Connection
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:29 PM
Nov 2024

Sam ‘died’ as the result of a liver transplant to the comatose patient, who is the daughter of Laura (of Luke and Laura fame from the 70s). I know - TMI.

Doodles

(55 posts)
4. The Cloud
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:32 PM
Nov 2024

My husband and our best friends just call it “the cloud” as nothing but bad has happened in the last few months.

Hekate

(96,193 posts)
5. I had to return to Harry Potter the last week and a half before the election...
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:59 PM
Nov 2024

I planned to watch a movie a night just to take me out of the real world, but could only make it through Order of the Phoenix. Then I read the rest of the books.

Spoiler alert: the evil guy bought the farm.

Hope your wife (and doggo) return to full health soon, and meanwhile you stay well too. I totally understand the appeal of soap operas at this point.

 

peregrinus

(409 posts)
6. Is that actor who played the German on Rat Patrol
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 12:02 AM
Nov 2024

Still on General Hospital? Sorry for all you’re going through.

LeftInTX

(32,390 posts)
7. Is anyone from Rat Patrol still alive??
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 12:05 AM
Nov 2024

Actually Eric Braeden is still alive. He plays Victor Newman on Young and the Resless.

underpants

(188,714 posts)
11. Victor!
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:13 AM
Nov 2024

I’m aware of Y&R because I’ve worked in a couple places where at 12:30 it was on the TV in the breakroom. Required. No questions asked. Everyone really got into it.

Response to peregrinus (Reply #6)

JI7

(91,348 posts)
9. I don't watch it anymore but I can see how it can be comforting
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 12:12 AM
Nov 2024

it's almost like catching up with old acquaintances .

Solly Mack

(93,991 posts)
13. I'd have laughed too at her saying that. I also would have understood instantly.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 08:16 AM
Nov 2024

Last edited Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:25 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm sorry for the loss to your family and the events that sometimes seem to spring forth from a death in the family.

When it rains, it pours, then we eat BBQ.

Gut check through laughter.

My paternal grandfather was a native of Dalton.

underpants

(188,714 posts)
14. 😊
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:23 AM
Nov 2024

At the end of the episode a character who’s been off the show for a few years woke up from a coma. Because, of course. I looked at my wife “Sam’s spirit?” We both cracked up

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