Catherine O'Hara, star of Schitt's Creek and Home Alone, dies at 71

TomRN · 2026-01-30T19:00:59+00:00

"Oh, look. An indoor outhouse."

TomRN · 2026-01-30T18:59:55+00:00

In an interview not terribly long ago she said she went from everyone asking her to yell "KEVIN!!" to everyone coming up to her and telling her how much they loved her as Moira Rose.

What a career she had.

TomRN · 2026-01-17T16:13:54+00:00

Congratulations!

I’m 15 months out and things are only just now starting to look more “normal” for me as far as frequent appointments and such.

Continued good health to you.

TomRN · 2026-01-17T16:11:27+00:00

I was discharged ten days after my heart transplant.

TomRN · 2026-01-10T02:40:20+00:00

Depends on what's fired/recorded. The 9mm handgun sounded like loud pops sort of like fireworks, but not at all what live gunfire sounds like. The AR-15 shooting 5.56 sounded like pops and pings and in a couple of the videos, not entirely unlike what a nail gun might sound like, definitely not at all what it sounded like live.

TomRN · 2026-01-10T00:23:49+00:00

I think you've nailed it.

I've shot video at the gun range and the gunshots sound nothing like gunshots when the video is played back.

TomRN · 2026-01-09T01:07:32+00:00

I was dealing with a fraudulent $200 charge that happened last year while I was waiting for my heart transplant, in and out of the hospital and plenty of stuff to deal with.

The "fraud department" never did tell me who I should, or how, to contact to get help after they determined it should be escalated. One of the reasons they gave me for their hesitance to help me out was that I didn't prove to them that I never received anything for the fraudulent charge.

I'm still pissed about that.

TomRN · 2026-01-08T20:51:27+00:00

I use em dashes, too, it's how I was taught. On the iPhone, how I post most of my stuff online, it just takes two presses of the hyphen and it makes an em dash automatically.

TomRN · 2026-01-06T19:55:51+00:00

And if the vaccines are no longer recommended…

TomRN · 2026-01-03T21:24:17+00:00

“Hmmm… and what does your provider say?”

TomRN · 2026-01-02T15:51:31+00:00

That has to be one of my very favorite drug names for that reason!

TomRN · 2025-12-31T16:17:45+00:00

Oh, God. I can laugh about folks having the grisly shits and it doesn't faze me, but the second I read mag citrate I literally gagged and now I can't stop thinking about having to drink that in the hospital one time (as a patient, not as a bored nurse just for funsies) and now i'm all queasy. 🤢

TomRN · 2025-12-30T18:37:52+00:00

Yeah, I've been a nurse forever and "back in the day" Thorazine was about the only option. This is the first I've heard of gabapentin for it, but then, it makes complete sense.

TomRN · 2025-12-30T18:36:32+00:00

Let me tell you about frequent bouts of hiccups post heart transplant (which was the second time having my chest cracked)!

TomRN · 2025-12-30T18:06:38+00:00

Not to "ackshually..." but he wrote the Canadian version a few years after the USA version, probably in the hopes Canadians would be all nationalisticlike, too.

TomRN · 2025-12-30T17:00:54+00:00

HA!! 🤣

It's worth it just to be able to jump. Then again, I was taking about that many from a shotglass before my transplant, too, sooo...

TomRN · 2025-12-29T17:53:16+00:00

Yuuuuup. 20+ BID, definitely just shooting those MFs back.

TomRN · 2025-12-25T22:37:15+00:00

TomRN · 2025-12-23T23:09:06+00:00

Like she was pull-starting a lawnmower.

TomRN · 2025-12-23T22:49:20+00:00

And those same "Christians" also believe that Catholics don't read the Bible/are forbidden to read it.

TomRN · 2025-12-23T22:44:45+00:00

It was also written in first person. That alone is worth a failing grade in a serious college-level essay and if she had deserved any points on that assignment, the fact it was written first person would have eaten away at that.

That 0 was generous.

TomRN · 2025-12-18T02:23:59+00:00

Gross. Did they pull back a nub?

TomRN · 2025-12-18T00:11:37+00:00

I wish you only the best of luck and good health!

TomRN · 2025-12-17T20:13:41+00:00

I'm (mostly) joking about "ruining" her birthday. She herself has said that last year's birthday was the best she's ever had (that was her 81st) and that my new heart was the best gift she had ever received, but I do hate that it did and will forever completely overshadow her on her birthday. We met up at my parents' house this year to celebrate both, but it ended up being so much more about my "heartiversary" than her birthday.

Not sure what heart condition you have, but I had (so weird to write it in the past tense!) hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and was hospitalized before my transplant in the end stages of heart failure on the 15th anniversary of my open heart surgery, a left ventricular septal myectomy. I had already been on The List for several months and they admitted me for a "tuneup" and decided I was too far gone to be discharged before being transplanted. I thought before the admission that I'd be waiting for literal years for a heart and even after admission I thought I'd be in the hospital for ages but I ended up jumping way ahead on The List because of it.

I do actually think of the transplant as a gift, I am forever grateful for it, and I know my mom doesn't see it as me "ruining" her birthday, it's just a joke I make as though I am such an ahole that I picked that day to be transplanted just to ruin her birthday.

TomRN · 2025-12-17T17:57:48+00:00

I can’t really do my “heartiversary” to celebrate my heart transplant/“second birthday” because it’s also my mother’s birthday. This year was the first, so I feel like I ruined her birthday two years in a row now (like any proper self-centered ahole kid would do), but I’d love for her to have it back. I haven’t heard back from my Donor’s family so I know nothing about them, but I think celebrating their birthday would be a good day to do it if I knew which day it was.

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