http://www.culturefeast.com/thoughts-on-the-bucket-list/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thoughts-on-the-bucket-list fresh culture. served daily. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.culturefeast.com/thoughts-on-the-bucket-list/comment-page-1/#comment-30900 Ashleigh Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:20:47 +0000 http://www.culturefeast.com/?p=1190#comment-30900 Daniel, the never tasting sugar again comment reminds me of my mom as she was dying in 2006. She had colon cancer, so her diet slowly deteriorated. They kept trying to give her more solid foods, but inevitably, she'd be knocked back down to bland liquids, and toward the end, she couldn't even keep that down. Anyway, during one of her more lucid moments, she commented, in her typically optimistic way, that when she got out of the hospital she couldn't wait to go to Dairy Queen and get a MooLatte, their version of the frozen blended coffee. There have been many things that have made me think of my mom since she died two years ago (Jack Nicholson's reaction to the chemo treatments in Bucket List would be one of them), but this is one of the saddest for me. She didn't know when she went into the hospital for dehydration that she would never leave, of her own free will, again. I still get down, and I still get upset, but I really do try to realize that we really don't know how numbered our days, hours and minutes are. Daniel, the never tasting sugar again comment reminds me of my mom as she was dying in 2006. She had colon cancer, so her diet slowly deteriorated. They kept trying to give her more solid foods, but inevitably, she’d be knocked back down to bland liquids, and toward the end, she couldn’t even keep that down. Anyway, during one of her more lucid moments, she commented, in her typically optimistic way, that when she got out of the hospital she couldn’t wait to go to Dairy Queen and get a MooLatte, their version of the frozen blended coffee. There have been many things that have made me think of my mom since she died two years ago (Jack Nicholson’s reaction to the chemo treatments in Bucket List would be one of them), but this is one of the saddest for me. She didn’t know when she went into the hospital for dehydration that she would never leave, of her own free will, again. I still get down, and I still get upset, but I really do try to realize that we really don’t know how numbered our days, hours and minutes are.

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