<p>Susan,
My thoughts, prayers and warm wishes are with your family. Congratulations to your daughter on her wonderful accomplishments and offers. Thank you for sharing your daughters' stories and your expertise on this board. Your insightful responses have been immeasurably helpful to me.
Chris</p>
<p>Susan,
What an unreal series of events for you, lows, highs...hope post-op days continue to be filled with only good things.</p>
<p>Soozie, thanks for the update. As you said, it's a process of recovery, but it sounds like your daughter is on her way. We'll look forward to more happy news as she continues to improve.</p>
<p>Wonderful news - just what the dr. ordered. Congrats to your D!</p>
<p>Susan, many congrats to your D! Fingers crossed for CMU and Mich. I was pretty sure she would have many choices and I am sure the news is helping her spirits and recovery. And she can now sit and savor them. The two of you will be in our prayers for a full recovery, which I am sure will occur. I know too many kids with similar accidents and injuries, and yes, they are all fully recovered, and with the attitudes you and your D are taking, she will do well. Do take care of yourself, Susan, and the hubby, as we are not as young and resilient as the kids are, and many caretakers to find their health fragile after a long, stressful vigil. I found that sweatsuits (attractive ones with collars on the sweatshirts, pockets in the pants from a good dept store or boutique) make good live in hospital apparel when I lived in a hospital with my son for a while. You can sleep in them and just change once a day and never feel like you are in a robe or in grundgey clothes when the hospital staff comes in. Also fresh, pretty robes (easy to open) are great morale boosters for the patient. I bought a number for a friend who underwent a bonemarrow transplant. </p>
<p>Actually, we had a Non- accident! H avoided the accident, but I banged my face when he did so! Hardly worth mentioning, and I know I'll be fine. Just added to the whirlwind of coming back home after a week's absence. Just mentioned it because, it all happened so quickly, and it just tells you how fast an accident can happen with the car. </p>
<p>Good wishes to Susan and D--keep me posted with the NYU situation. Am dying to know where she chooses to go. And thanks to all the good wishes from everyone. What a group of people! I just read the other threads, and boy did I miss the throngs of well wishers. I feel like I was gone a month! What wonderful support. And I add everybit of my thoughts to everyone's!</p>
<p>Jamimom: I had to travel backwards in this post to see what happened to you. Glad the accident was averted, and that your injuries are not serious. Take care!</p>
<p>Susan,
Your family has been in our thoughts everyday and I have ben reading in amazement and awe, as I'm sure you have as well, at the outpouring of well wishers here at CC. It truly is an amazing "community" of caring folks.
Many, many congrats on all acceptances...but...you know which school we're rooting for!
Hugs to your daughter and your family.</p>
<p>Great great great news!!! How is she ever going to decide?</p>
<p>Best wishes for continued recovery to everyone who is ailing.</p>
<p>Soozie--congratulations on the Saturday in the Square Invite and NYU acceptance to your D! So glad that so much good news is coming her way. I must confess that I don't know what Saturday in the Square is, though, could you explain what it is when you have time?</p>
<p>Susan--what wonderful news to lift spirits. Prayers for a quick recovery.</p>
<p>Susan - I haven't been on CC for awhile but I remember last year at this time we were all hanging in there together awaiting the news of our kids' acceptances. I used to talk to my D about your D and we all felt as if we knew you. I was disappointed that my D's open house at Georgetown conflicted with Smiths bc I really wanted to meet this amazing family of yours. Well, tonight my friend called me (who also reads CC) and told me of your D's accident. I was so upset - just like you were a neighbor of mine and wished I could help out in some way.
Just know that you have many many of us thinking and praying for your family and wishing you the best.
I just knew your youngest would get into NYU! Congrats to her and now she has an incentive to mend faster!
Take care, my CC friend.
Clipper from VA</p>
<p>Susan--That's fantastic about Tisch! It's like full circle; when I started reading CC that's the school your D seemed most interested in! I hope the surgery went well, and she continues to have a remarkably fast and uneventful recovery.</p>
<p>Susan, that is great news about Tisch and the other schools. I know your daughter has wanted to go to Tisch for a long time.
Looking forward to reading about her decisions.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D on her latest acceptance: Tisch. It will be interesting to see which school she chooses. I hope her good news helps to take her mind off her discomfort.</p>
<p>Thanks for your post on the Beginnings:Peter Sklar thread. I should thank you there, but I want to see the thread die soon. I don't want to post anything that will continue it. It has left a bad taste with me. I agree with you that Sklar and company doth protest too much. I think you said everything that needed to be said. Thanks!</p>
<p>I do have a prescription for your D - one hilariously funny video or movie every day. Maybe the readers of this thread could post their favorite comedy videos. I'll start. Any of the many videos by pianist/comedian Victor Borge have me laughing hysterically.</p>
<p>I think dancersmom's suggestion is a good one. There's nothing like laughter to heal the heart and soul. Our favorite are old Sid Caesar tapes. When my son was in high school we used to watch them the night before a big test. The "Swiss Clock" and the "This is your life" routines have us rolling on the floor again and again.</p>
<p>"This is Spinal Tap" and "Best in Show" should work :)</p>
<p>Driver-
Are you sure "Spinal tap" is the best move fore someone in the hospital? :)</p>
<p>Before we all think that laughter is the best cure, let's find out whether it would hurt or not. When I had abdominal surgery, I specifically asked that no one make me laugh or bring me anything funny to read. The upshot is that I got very gloomy books to read. :( But laughing did hurt.
Anyway, if it does not hurt to laugh: Fawlty Towers (with John Cleese). Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Mr. Bean (with Rowan Atkinson), Marx Brothers.</p>
<p>She could always read "Trout Fishing in America" by Richard Brautigan, a quick read of the random musings authored in an apparent 70's Haight-Ashbury induced fog. Amusing to say the least.</p>
<p>I used to love Brautigan. "A Confederate General from Big Sur" was pretty funny too, as I recall. Good point about "Spinal Tap," although it's still one of the funniest movies ever made :) Alternatively, assuming it doesn't hurt to laugh, Suzie could show her this page of spoofs of romance novel covers that someone just sent me. PhotoShop can be such fun.
<a href="http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/%5B/url%5D">http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/</a></p>