Havin' had a day off down to the condrum factory, me and Clete thought maybe we'd go see catspaw uppin' that big city hospital place. We found the place, but it covers more ground than three of the damn towns we grew up in. We keppon' askin' folks about where to go and when one of 'em told us that a public shower would be a start...well Cletus is a man who ain't gotta' be told twice and he knew he didn't need no shower on account of one last week. They got initials for everthing that place. He turned out to be in the "innards care unit" which was confusin' since me and Clete thought thats what all them places did...you know take care of your innards. Well anyway, he was there and didn't seem overglad to see us, partly 'cause the security and some folks from somethin' called central sterile. We got real worried about them "sterile" folks but catspaw talked to 'em and all they done was take us out for a scrubbin! They even give us some clothes to wear called scrubs that they said we could keep...and they washed our stuff up too!!! Catspaw said he didn't need the two of us makin' no reports, but when we talked about Mudcat he gets all teared up so you'll have to wait a bit. He did say that Sandy Paton hit it right. Says he's crying over a hundred people he never met and somethin' about strangers and friends, it was too confusing for Clete and me anyhow.

PAW

P.S. I'll be back soon...catspaw(Pat)

P.S.S. Pat got moved to the floor today(room 218-1). He wrote this yesterday and when I came home to post it the computer would not let me on the net. All things considered you would not think this was a major disaster, but I was on the phone just going to pieces. I have really enjoyed coming home at night joining in on Mudcat. I'm glad you want me to stay part of your community, I only hope Pat will share the computer with me. Catspaw is going to relay messages through me until he is back at the keyboard himself. So the cat is back...sorta!

Karen