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Bold And The Beautiful Discussion Group
As I've watched this sl play out, I began wondering how I would feel if I were in the same situation as Katie so I wondered how some of the rest of you might feel? Would you agree with her that what Storm did was wrong and not fight to live (before he spoke to you from the great beyond) or would you be really grateful and fight to live?
As I believe that one can never be sure how one would act or feel until in the actual situation, however I do think that I would do the right thing and be grateful for the chance to live with my brother's heart. I think that suicide is wrong but Storm did it for a good reason.
Besides that, a transplant heart is not all that easy to come by and Katie should be grateful that she was the recipient of one. I seen many patients kept alive with meds, O2, etc in the CCU waiting for a heart and then at times bumped back on the wait list as a more critical patient came along who needed the heart to keep from dying. Be thankful for what you have received, Katie. But then, I sometimes forget that she is a Logan and that family's reasoning is not always, if ever, rational.
I would feel like she does, like it was my fault he was dead. Suicide is a touchy subject. I wouldn't use the word cowardly b/c some people have faced some horrific things...however, facing your problems and getting help is very brave to me, to make a long story short... my dad got the the wrong stuff for a gas stove when he was 8, the house blew up, his five year old sister died, and back then (1960) tkids didn't get help for that, not only that, my grandparents lost another son and have a mentally challenged son that my gram takes care of he's 44, she's 75, my grandpa died last year. To me....The three of them are heros, they realized, what they have to live for out weights he awful things that happened.
I don't think storm was really thinking how katie would feel, that is an awful feeling for Katie to carry.
I never think of suicide as a heroic act - it leaves behind a lot of pain for those who go on living. in my step brother's case - he needed to be free of his pain and did the only thing he thought he could. but my family would rather he had taken his meds and still been with us.
storm took the easy way out of his troubles and he never ever faced any consequences for his actions (shooting stephanie). certainly, his heart saved katie's life but she is bound to suffer from survivor's guilt. much less all of the medical issues she will have to face for the rest of her life (or whenever the writers need a sweeps month storyline).
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Janie, I have no clue how I would feel. I usually am able to put myself in someone else's place, but I just can't do it with this. I just can't even imagine what it would be like to have someone you love kill themselves so you could have their heart. The one thing I DO know, is it would make me love them more than I ever thought possible.
I can also see why she feels he abandoned them. And her statement about him leaving them to hell may be very true. I feel for the whole family. (Except for Brooke. I just can't feel for Brooke.)
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If I were in her position I would be thinking how he changed my life. I walked in a totally healthy young woman and saw my brother, who already shot one woman now holding a gun on another (or so it seemed) I was trying to save him from himself and look what I got for it. A life altering operation and a family tragedy. Under those circumstances I my act was heroic. Storm's act was out of guilt.
I would be confused and angry. It all goes back to how her family treated her immediately after surgery. I would feel all alone because I couldn't trust anybody in my family. Her family has made it nearly impossible for her to have a positive recovery. I'd want them barred from my room, and then maybe I could start resting, thinking straight and concentrating on recovering. I wouldn't want to hear anymore about hero or sacrifice. I would yell at the top of my lungs GET OUT, STOP HURTING ME, GET OUT, LEAVE ME ALONE, GET OUT, SHUT UP, STOP TALKING TO ME, GO AWAY, DON'T COME BACK, I HATE YOU! And if that didn't work, I'd throw stuff at them. Yeah, that's how angry I'd be.
Well, IMO, she's physically and emotionally shocked. It's not like a person can go through major life-altering emergency surgery and expect to just wake up and be excited for the future. The patients you describe KNOW they need a heart transplant. Katie lost her healthy heart completely unexpectedly; to go from a healthy heart to needing major meds for the rest of your likely short life has to be a huge blow. Her quality of life (if this storyline is depicted accurately) is now seriously affected to the NEGATIVE. I know everyone always likes to smile and feel warm about organ transplants, but they are NOT easy to live with; it's a lifelong battle to fight rejection and failure. I knew a woman who had a kidney transplant, and she used to line up her endless array of drugs she had to take throughout the day, every day, forever. She also told me that transplanted organs are automatically considered to be failing; the best that can be done is to keep them going as long as possible. It was a daily physical and emotional struggle for her, and she KNEW ahead of time she needed the transplant; it wasn't an unexpected emergency situation. Imagine having healthy, functioning organs and then hours later suddenly requiring a foreign transplant. What an emotional blow that must be!
And at that, with this story we're talking a HEART. Every beat could easily be its last, even more so than one's natural born heart. But again, why not at least give her some time to adjust to the situation? No one lets anyone just BE anymore; there is a time to every emotion, IMO Katie's are completely appropriate. Did anyone tell Brooke to snap out of her rape the day after? In a way, Katie's body, her heart (both figurative and literally) was raped as well. I think she's allowed some anger at being dealt this horrible hand, at least initially, before she thanks anyone for having to face a severely abbreviated lifestyle after living fully until that one unfortunate moment.
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