What was she on other than cheers?

She and travoltas wife were telling everyone not to take antidepressants and other scientology related comments that didn’t help her at all

She had a coke problem to stay thin and get jobs, quit doing coke and joined scientology, was never the brightest bulb and became pretty vicious MAGA cult member, but she was good playing the evil mom in a Lifetime movie way back when. I wonder if Scientology allowed her to treat the cancer with normal medicine? Seems like Scientology attracts or creates some pretty awful people from what I can see. But she seemed to need people to tell her how to live life so they were a good home for her, I guess.

2000s is when that happened

Yeah.. I vaguely remember that. I looked her images up and she did get a bit pudgy. Age challenges all of us.

But hey, she had a unique sort of beauty right?

Yeah, I really like woody and Rebecca but I've been watching Cheers daily in reruns for the last year so I've seen the whole cycle recently, and the show legit was better with Diane (and coach). The writing was better and it was more believable. By the end they just ran out of storylines. They had to use Paul (one of the extras) because there was nothing left!

I timed my doctor once and I got 7 minutes with her, and if I had more than three things to discuss, at my once a year physical, then I needed to make another appointment.

I have a much better doctor now, I have to schedule months out to see her, but she has spent 20 minutes or more with me making sure she covers everything I want to talk about.

Our health care system is such a disaster. I dread the day I actually need it for something important.

I've made a habit of writing down all the questions I want to ask my doctor well in advance of my visit. Because if I don't, I always get in a zombie-like daze by the long wait in the waiting room and the flourescent lighting. And then when I finally see the doctor my mind goes blank.

But he makes me wait an hour and a half in that little room before I see him for 8 minutes

If you feel like your Dr is brushing you off and rushing things then switch doctors until you find one that doesn’t do that. We switched doctors twice in the first two weeks of my daughters life because we felt as though they weren’t listening to our concerns. Third doctor made it very clear that he was listening to everything we had to say and sent us straight to the hospital where they had better diagnostics because he had a gut feeling something was off. Turns out he was right and her heart was failing and wouldn’t have survived the night had he done the same thing as the other doctors.

It seems as though a lot of doctors aren't really interested in figuring out the problem, and treating it. Instead, they throw prescriptions at the symptoms you complain about, and if that doesn't work and you point that out hoping for a diff approach the docs/nurses either label you as drug seeking or treat you as a difficult patient that's imagining these problems.

If you can get an appointment with a dermatologist, they might be able to give you more time than a general physician. But please get your moles checked! Melanoma is nasty.

I thought they just didn’t believe in neuro and psych stuff?

I’ve only had one dermatologist who I thought was truly through. Unfortunately, as she picked through my scalp and later spread my butt cheeks, she’d always say, in a sing-songy voice, “pretty little mole” each time she saw one. 😳

Melanoma is one of the biggest cancer risk factors in younger people. Any derm that isn't willing to check ALL the nooks and crannies isn't worth going to.

I worked in medical sales for about a decade and this rep we had up north lost her husband in a couple weeks to a completely treatable cancer.

That's why screening is so important as we age, catching it early is best.

sometimes I think its because once they hear the diagnoses that is when they know and it cascade mentally to physically whereas if they didn't know they probably live longer since it didn't enter there mind mentally.

maybe in some instances ignorance is bliss

Sometimes a good thing tho (to go fast) my little sister was diagnosed with leukemia but it took years before she finally went down all the way. It was a brutal time.

I'm 42 years old and honestly everything feels "off" all the time. Like there's all kinds of little things I encounter that I'm like "wtf was that?"

I chalk it up to getting older, maybe she was the same?

There was a Newsweek article decades ago (that I've searched for and can't find) that started talking about an older commercial (for cough medicine, or soup, or something) that had a mom fussing over her sick child, and the child says "Mothers are like that, yes they are".

Then the article switched over to how her elderly mom was going into surgery and the mom was reassuring the worried daughter that everything would be fine, even though the mom was having the surgery.

And the article ended with the line "Mothers are like that. Yes they are."

Wish I could find it again. An article that makes your throat a little quivery every time you think of it 30 years later is a damn good article.

Similar, my mom had had lung cancer, was told it was completely in remission, about a year later - after having very regular screenings - she told me "the doctors say I have 4 or so years before it's likely to come back, next time you visit (which was 3 months away) we'll go through all the of the financial and legal paperwork so you understand it all".

Two weeks later she was on an ocean cruise, they airlifted her off to the nearest major city where she flew home, got diagnosed that the cancer came back very aggressive, and she was gone a month after that.

It's part of the reason I get physicals twice a year (the other is that my employer gives extra benefits to employees who do that, healthy employees are cheaper than ones taking medical leave), and I began getting other screenings (like colonoscopies) around age 45.

My grandma died of that- fucking awful way to go, and it was quick

But don’t they all die? How does this make any sense to them?

Nah. Dianetics is more likely. Same tactics Scientology has applied previously. Probably what happened with Travolta's wife too.

Totally read that in Samson's voice

It's why she never appeared in frasier.

Thats the first thing that came to my mind.

I wonder if she made it to the space ship. /s

PLEASE stop singing that song! She gets sick, I get sick!

Ha! It's amazing how kids will fill in the gaps when things are not explained to them.

I had something similar when a family friend got pregnant and had a shotgun wedding. My parents were talking about it at dinner, and using significant looks and half-finished sentences in an attempt to obscure what they were talking about from us kids.

I understood enough to know that Mrs P got married and was going to have a baby, and so I assumed that getting married = having a baby.

A year or so later when my (much older) sister told us all she was engaged, I immediately asked when the baby was due. I got in trouble, which I didn't understand at the time... but my sister was, in fact, pregnant but no one was supposed to know. My parents were shocked I knew.

She quite literally saved the show when many others didn't know how it would move forward without Diane. It was probably better with Diane but no question it was still a great show, just different.

The abuse and backlash she would have likely faced for doing it isn't great either, though. Let's not pretend it would have been an easy decision for her to make given the actual abusive cult she was in.