Deserted Island
Things have been rather chaotic around my household for the past month. My rather healthy, robust mother-in-law was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme after the New Year. In the time since then, she’s had brain surgery, participated in a rehabilitation program with physical therapy, been admitted back to the ER because of pulmonary embolisms from blood clots that formed in her legs post-surgery, and now put on hospice. She’s in an assisted living facility in another town which makes seeing her not a simple matter of jumping in the car for a 20-minute ride. I’ve had to contact crematoriums to price services and shopped online for urns. But my struggle to come to terms with this pales in comparison with other people’s pain whose past has been entwined with hers for much longer. Especially my husband. I get a front-row view of his raw grief and feelings of helplessness.
So…. sometimes a dose of levity is exactly what I need, and I hope you’ll forgive me the frivolity of this post. As you may have read from a prior post, I subscribe to the podcast The Office Ladies. Their latest show goes in-depth into The Office episode “The Fire.”
On the whole desert vs. deserted argument, I won’t weight in except to say that a deserted island seems a little less intimidating to me than a desert island. A deserted island implies it had human inhabitants in its past, which means they survived there for at least some space of time and I could too…presumably. I might be able to find things left behind by the others and make use of them. A desert island offers no such hope.
Anyway, here are the movies that I’d hope to have with me. I know I could watch them over and over again because… I have.
Rambo First Blood
The Man Who Knew Too Little
You know, now that I think of it, I'm not into re-watching movies very much. When it comes to re-watching, it’s more TV series than movies that I binge:
Star Trek TV series (all but TOS and Discovery)
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Your turn…