Thank you very much

Thank you very much I appreciate it ! I’ve been off here for a while.

They debated. Both of them. Back and forth. A debate isn’t ill treatment – from either side.

What are you talking about? This is a respectful, warm obit.

The aspects are very subtle, I gathered pieces of them through my multiple encounters & coversations with Brad over the years. But to see them here all put together in full light is very difficult.

Knowing Brad, the immediate memories are of a man who always had a brilliant smile on his face. He was a free spirit with beauitiful, full hair as my boyfriend always joked to Brad that he had the best hair in St. Pete. He was 100% consistent, always dressed to be on his motorcycle & arriving on it.

I met Brad a few years ago through a mutual friend who invited him to join for brunch on Christmas day on the beach. We were just five people brought together that day because we didn’t have family to celebrate with. At breakfast Brad mentioned his motor cylce accident, the shattered pelvis & blown out knee.

He would mention things but I didn’t realize they had such a grip on his life or that he would end his life over them. He just seemed free & the magnitude wasn’t reflected at all in his tone.

The last time I saw Brad was about two months ago. I went to a new bar and he happened to be right behind me when I turned around. My boyfriend bought him a shot of his choice, scotch. He had the one drink and we talked a minute before we took off.
Looking back, he must have been in a lot of pain then. He was just having one drink “of medicine” to try to subdue the pain. I wish I would have known the magnitude of it all when I could have had the opportunity to be there for him.

I love that you are here, I love is Bunker community!

So sorry about your wife. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for her.

it is true that socialized medicine can create bureaucratic tangles— But it is still less expensive and more efficient— so take that, free market!
(and it must be said that in Franc ei have a little green are and I’ll have to do is show it and my private insurance and social security is debited and I never have to h-show a penny (or rarely)

In any game, a player knows the rules and follows them whereas a pawn ignores the rules and just takes orders. Any game then.

😀 Don’t apologize. I figured it was more typo than anything else.

I live in Canada – I have socialized medicine, and I thank God for it every day of my life. My wife…doesn’t have regularized access to socialized medicine right now, even though she’s here with me. That’s the long story. And we’re trying to fix it because it’s the stupidest thing on earth (after Scientology) that I, the relatively uninjured one, have free health care, and she, walking on a cane more often than not, doesn’t.
However, I could not possibly agree more strongly with you. The conversation taking place in America about socialized health care is one of the most sickeningly deceptive things I’ve ever seen. In terms of the amount of pain and suffering that will be caused if the Republicans manage to convince the electorate that they’re right, it is worse than Scientology ever dreamed of being – by a couple of orders of magnitude at least. It is before coffee. I can’t do math before coffee.
Socialized health care is a basic sign of respect for your own citizenry. It is so sad that America can’t respect its own.