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Post by nsheldon on Nov 13, 2003 12:54:45 GMT -5
I was just curious... We (in CA) are done with YH. However, I know thru the months of discussions on this site most of us were disgusted with SM & everything he has done. My question is.... Does everyone feel pity for him now, seeing as he seems to be trying desperately to show sincere regret & sorrow for what he put people thru. I know I was crying & feeling very sorry for him & MJ even though they both had us all so angry with them for so long....
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Post by Jean on Nov 14, 2003 17:42:14 GMT -5
I feel bad for Sang-min. He is only 36 years old and dying of cancer. He doesn't get to see Yuna grow up.
The last few episodes for me have been very difficult, because my own brother died of cancer 13 months ago. Our family did not know my brother was sick until 3 weeks before he died. He lived in Florida alone. So seeing Sang-min suffering in his apartment by himself has brought back painful memories for me.
Sang-min was not nice throughout the story, but I even think Ja-young feels empathy for him.
I always thought Min-Joo really loved Sang-min. Even though she is divorced from him, I think his cancer diagnosis is breaking her heart. As you can see, she could care less about anything else right now but taking care of Sang-min, and hoping he will fight to live. I do not believe she feels this way just for her daughter. I think she still loved him even when she divorced him.
Jean
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Post by nsheldon on Nov 14, 2003 17:54:50 GMT -5
Jean, I am so sorry about your brother. That is so sad. What kind of cancer did he have? I think Min-joo loves SM dearly & regrets all her previous actions. They truly do love each other, just as JY & YJ love each other... I wanted it to end with the kids getting to know each other... Anyway, just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss... How old was your brother?
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Post by Jean on Nov 14, 2003 20:56:57 GMT -5
I agree with you, it would be nice for Yuna and Ji-min to know each other. They are both so cute, and I have enjoyed them in the short time they have been on the show. They are both good at acting.
My brother had a very rare muscle cancer. Apparently, tumors usually grow outward, but his tumor grew inward. This is why he did not know he had it until it was too late. By the time he knew he had it, it had gone into his lung, stomach and liver. He was in great pain at the end.
My brother, John, turned 56 years old on August 28, 2002.
He died on October 30, 2002. He spent his last birthday alone in his apartment in and out of delirium from the bad infections the tumors had caused.
Thank you for your sympathy. I didn't mean to bring up this sadness, but when I saw Sang-min ALONE in his apartment in such pain, it made me cry. We will probably be doing more crying as the Yellow Handkerchief ends.
Thank you again.
Jean
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Post by JadeEyes on Nov 15, 2003 13:11:02 GMT -5
Jean, please don't apologize for mentioning your brother. I can certainly see why this storyline would make you think of it, and I can only imagine how sad this must be for you, being reminded of your brother dying from cancer, alone at the end for so much of the time. I'm very, very sorry for him and you and your whole family.
Just last week, I was talking to my sister in NJ and she told me her husband's nephew, who is 47, recently learned he has a very rare cancer...lymphoma of the brain. He had strange symptoms for months and months and went from doctor to doctor w/ no one being able to figure out what was going on w/ him because the cancer is so rare. Now that they know what it is, they tell him the only treatment available that has any chance of working is radiation...and that offers only a 20% of getting him into remission.
He was divorced a few years ago and is not seeing anyone special right now. He's been self-employed for a while and has no health insurance and certainly will be unable to work for the foreseeable future. A very, very grim and bleak situation indeed.
I only met him a couple of times, but he seemed like a very nice person and I know my brother-in-law loves him so much. He was more like a younger brother to him than a nephew. He and my sister are just heart-broken and I feel so very badly for this poor guy and his whole family. I think this is making the scenes of Sang-min even more poignant and wrenching for me lately, too.
Sang-min was a horrible creep through much of the show, but it seems like he realizes the error of his ways and has deep regrets about that, and has done a few things to attempt to make up for his previous rottenness and the pain he caused Ja-young and her family. Of course I feel very sorry for him. It's tragic to see anyone so young w/ young children get cut down in the prime of his life like a tree in the way of a bulldozer. There are very few people something like this could happen to for whom I would not be moved by their plight. This would have to be someone truly evil.
Yesterday's scene of little Yuna asking "Santa" to exchange her doll for medicine that would make her very sick daddy better and SM's sobbing in his car afterwards had me reduced to tears as well. Who could not feel grief over this scene?
Jade
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