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RE: [EN/中文]DailyPetPhotography monthly election | "每天寵物攝影" 月選 (Oct/2019)
Thank you @kona for including Rowan, it means much to see him here ... now he's diagnosed with incurable cancer I try to make as much memories as I can.
CANCER?
Omg
I'm late to the party, reading bottom to top, catching up on stuff I miss every day.
Rowan!!!!!
Oh ROWAN incurable - it does happen, people and beloved pets DO surprise medics with miraculous recoveries because they are loved so much -
I'm rooting for you Rowan!
My heart goes out to you.
Actually, I did read that Rowan is not well but I must have been in denial about that, and I didn't see the C-word:
"Forever Autumn", you wrote. .
Never take it personally if I Black-Hole forget something anyone here said or did or posted. I found out Sunday that my sister does this too. It seems to be a consequence of the PTSD of having our oldest sister murdered (we were 13 and 14 at the time). I was surprised to learn that she too remembers NOTHING of the first two days after Julie was found dead. Our brains just wiped it all out of ur memory bank. Someone asked if I'd ever gotten counseling (back then, nobody did), and I said what would be the use - but I'm finding out, decades later, that strange things I assume are not abormal ARE abnormal, and may result from unresolved issues like sister found on Friday, buried on Sunday, and Monday, we're all back in school as usual, functioning as usual, nobody talking about it... that was our normal... but here I read 12 days ago that Rowan is fading like the autumn leave, and that information got BLOCKED from my brain.
No wonder so many people think I'm an idiot, or heartless.
Forever Autumn
Ok, off to walk my own dogs now. Prince and Bear have waited all day for me to get off Steemit!!! (And Facebook messenger, where author friends find me because I forget to check email but Messenger pings me.)
What I fail to make clear: an aspect of this BLOCKING of memories is that the brain randomly goes off blocking memories at random, of things like doctor appointments and faces I should recognize and obvious things like "Yes, you and I were coworkers once," yet I have no memory of that. Or this guy who tells me 40 years later that we talked every day in high school study hall. Why would the brain block that? Stupid brain.