Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

Great photo Bill, but I wanna keep the old guy down here on earth for a while longer :-) I haven't been insulted in a long time ... we need him back soon. The place is not the same without reading "needle dick" at someone

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

Nice find, Bill!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:26 AM

moonbeams are lovely...but it's also nice to have an entire nebula in your honor

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:12 AM

My university library has laptops for 24-hour loan and they're out all of the time. Even being able to borrow them occasionally for that long period can make work a lot easier. Good idea, Dan!

We have a software they use to "wipe" data and reset the computers each time they're returned so data doesn't get left behind, etc.

Take care, Pat! Sounds like they're going to make you do some work, but as long as you remember to wear a bathrobe that hospital gown shouldn't be too drafty as you're wandering the halls. I'd think twice about Rapaire's bean and cheese burritos - you don't need to launch yourself on a trajectory following Janie's moonbeams. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:54 AM

This machine belongs to Spaw but what I am going to try and do is see if I can get some other notebooks. I was thinking too many of our friends are crashing lately and doing long hospital or rehab stays. It would be nice to have some backup notebooks that we could lend people while they are recovering. Kinda like a library loan. I am not doing it with this machine as it belongs to Spaw but I will try to do something along those lines in the future. Notebooks are expensive and many of our friends don't have access to one when they end up doing the jail time in the hospital. Plus we are all aging sadly and the health problems that go with it are starting to surface way too often here.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:31 AM

Not for a while, yet, Bruce. He will be at the acute rehab at least three weeks, then rehab where he will learn how to walk again, get his balance back, eat solid food, etc. Long ways to go, yet.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:19 AM

Any idea yet when the ol`fart will be home?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:36 AM

I could wear a kilt, but the last time I did some Scots nearly kilt me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,Tinker at work
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:12 AM

..... My daughter has a couple of Catholic School Girl uniform skirts in the closet.... I could donate them to the cause....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:53 AM

Come on, kat. It's not my style either but those little plaid skirts and white knee sox will get the old guy's blood flowing.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:49 AM

DW, good to see you. Hope the meds do their job and you stay safe and recovered! Please do let us know...it's good for us to pass out {{{{{hugs}}}}} ya know?!

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 12:24 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Woutuarsepaste -

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:58 PM

Moonbeams veering off in your direction, dw, and plenty of them.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:53 PM

I haven't been here in a long while due to my own serious illness but tell 'Spaw that he's beaten me by 1 degree F for the highest fever I've ever had and not died. I had 106 back in 1994 during a bout with Scarlet Fever. Spaw has to beat me at everything, eh?

Prayers, hopes and love to both 'Spaw and Karen.

I may wind up in hospital myself in a few days if the newer, better, stronger, meaner antibiotic doesn't turn me from Pumpkinhead back to normal. I think it will so I'll try and say high in food threads.

Tell him I have a newish cat whose name is Holly and we named her that because when we found her as a kitten she was surviving but hunting and eating Crickets. He should get the joke whilst those under 40 usually look at me sideways like a puppy who has hear a high pitched noise.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:52 PM

Love it, Ebbie!

Janie..moonbeams...lovely! But, Zappa - me - Catholic? Really? I can see Sins, but oh boy...my dad made us wear orange, though many of his best friends wore green;>) Love the idea of singing together though!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:40 PM

All this talk of denizens of the brine made me think of Michael Smith:

You have hundreds of miles to go says I
Take this fish to the land of the Finn
For the Finn woman knows more than I do so fly
To the land the blue fireworks burn in
Schlep this fish child
Across the wild tundra tonight
While a pitiless pale moon above
Shines on me lighting whale oil
And sitting at table
And dreaming of someone to love
For though reams of Lapland laddies urgin' mergin'
Would send me little paper love notes of intent
No one could make me consent to dent my virginhood
Like someone venting sentimental on a sturgeon would
And though I'm just a girl from God knows where
Still I'm a dreamer too
I've got a fantasy I'd love to share
With each and every one of you

For sometime now I've had this secret wish
Someone would send me a love letter on a fish
For a fish and a love letter
Just seem to go together
The sooner I get my fish wish
The better I would say
Someone could start out
To pour his heart out on a trout
I'd read and sigh and then I'd fry it my delish
Even when the weather's sunny
And it makes the mailbox smell real funny
Send me a love letter on a fish

Oh I would love to hear from you on one condish
That when you pitch your woo you pitch it on a fish
It would give me such a thrill
To read I love you on each gill
Or darlin' on a marlin
Things profounder on a flounder
If you'd fain complete your pass
Don't be crass employ a bass
Yeah use that shad for a pad oh I insish
Ten million postcards on a school
Holy mackerel Batman cool
Send me a love letter on a fish

Send me a love letter darlin
Send me a love letter on a fish
Show me that you like me
Tuna melt me smelt me pike me
Send me a love letter on a fish
If you think I'm super
Say it with a grouper
When you're mushy on a sushi I'm in blish
If you want a date
Get out your Papermate and
Decorate a skate
Send me a love letter on a fish

I wonder why do I find it so romantic
That your stationery hails from mid-Atlantic
Why billets-doux upon some shrimp
Can make this lady's knees go limp
Wanna kiss me in the dark
Forty-one cents and a shark
Send me some real postal scales just for the halibut
Don't leave me languishing on ice like Lillian Gish
What I'm sharing here is show your caring
On a herring from the Bering
Send me a love letter on a fish
And though most ladies that you know would go oh ish
Send me a love letter
Don't use an Irish setter
Send me a love letter on a fish
And seal it with a kish

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:15 PM

Why am I having these weird visions of Spaw playing a home recorded CD of Kat and Sins doing a rendition of Zappa's Catholic Girls?

'Spawser, as you become more coherent and inhabit this plane more fully, you are probably gonna get lots of wonderful cards and messages. None of them will likely be from me, 'cause I never get around to those good intentions. My good intentions tend to get sent up to the moon on a bright night to be bounced back down to the appropriate coordinates on earth.

Moonbeams comin' at you every night!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:55 PM

Perhaps I should send him a case or two of bean & cheese burritos.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:52 PM

It can be healing, but you're right about it being painful, too. He had an appendectomy and had a feeding tube down his throat until they sliced open his throat, so I am guessing it needs to be as gentle as possible and, that may be the case for a long while, from Karen has told me. I think he's miserable and, of course, rarin' to go...with no fuel. Who'd ever think of that about Spaw?:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:47 PM

Laughter IS the best medicine, but if you've had some surgeries, it can really hurt. Remind me - what originally put Pat in the hospital? Is it something that laughter will hurt or harm?

I came home after cancer surgery in 2000 and thought I'd try that "laughter" therapy and turned on reruns from a couple of television programs I'd always liked. Frasier and The Golden Girls were remarkably funny, and I would have to hold my stomach to laugh. So it doesn't need to be just movies.

But if you're talking funny movies, over the holidays I put the National Lampoon christmas vacation movie in and my ex and my daughter's boyfriend apparently had never seen it. They were like deer in the headlights, with regular bursts of laughter. And the one that really made them squirm was Peter Sellers in Being There.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:30 PM

Or "South Park". Or "Beavis and Butthead Do America."

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:12 PM

Or "Blazing Saddles."

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:05 PM

Send him a DVD of "A Mighty Wind". He loves folk music, innit?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 08:58 PM

I've told y'all before: he's the gas supply for both Columbus and Cincinnati.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 08:05 PM

Ow! Glad he can't hear all this talk of tubes and oiling things up and all. Have a heart, ya'll...he's got tubes everywhere, if ya know what I mean!;+>

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 07:55 PM

Heck, I'll send him a tube of K-Y Jelly. Just the thing to smear on doorknobs.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

Such unabashed celebratory foolishness! Pat, I'll loan you a tube of Official-Minute-At-A-Time-Patience if you'll squeeze out the last drop of it while your body catches up.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:50 PM

I think some of that was more for Tristan who loves big trucks?

Sins, I am going to GET you!!LOL glory be, woman, you are on a tear! Don't worry, Spaw, I've got the litter all cleaned up!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:20 PM

Good Grief, I shudder just the mention of it, next you will say put some fruit in it also ... ooop pardon gotta run and vomit ...

if you think about DVD's they guy loves the history channel and discovery. He talked to me many times about ice road truckers and all the history channel specials ... just tossing out ideas

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:19 PM

How about Songcatcher, Old Dude? That will get him out of bed faster than anything.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:17 PM

ooooohhhhhh!
Green Jell-O. Yum


Miss kitty - I am saying three our fathers, three hail marys and three glory bes for you. he heh he heh he heh

Some one wise told me today that I don't have a soul. He said that I am a soul but that I have a body.

Something to think about after I say those prayers for our kat, who has been truthful to the point of very bad. he heh.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:15 PM

One other suggestion , I have been a person stuck in the hospital more than a few times. It is awful boring. Anyone want to send him some movies wouldn't be a bad idea. The notebook has a DVD player ...

Miserable laying there watching soap operas

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:09 PM

I was thinking that myself Sins, the next thing they will add insult to injury and give the guy ... dare I say ... Jell-o

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:07 PM

Tuna Tetrazzini?
That would make me gag on a good day. What the hell are they thinking? Roast chicken, maybe. Or homemade chicken soup??? But TUNA? Gross!!!!!

Of course, Karen will have to let us know when he can handle Maine lobster.

Meantime, i suspect he needs his family around him, a computer when he is up to it and rest.

I love you, old man. Get well.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:48 PM

How about sending him some of those car calendar's with the hot bikini girls in it ... two things he loves ... cars and hot bikini girls ... LOL Or maybe just a cat calendar ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:46 PM

You two go sit on your hands and be good!**BG**

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:38 PM

I can't manage a salmon, but I have an almost-fresh trout here that should package up nicely.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:37 PM

Do you think he'd like a whole salmon? I could mail him one.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:25 PM

That's super, mouldy, thanks for that. Cards are most welcome.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:52 PM

Card all written...post office tomorrow...Spaw sometime next week.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:29 PM

Wasn't "Tuna" Tetrazzini the guy who spilled the beans on John Gotti?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - Kat Kewstion
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:27 PM

Hardi's bro and SIL live very near Columbus. Pat and Karen would like them. Can he have visitors yet? Pls advise.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:03 PM

Go Spaw yourself.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:01 PM

"tuna tettrazini"... sounds fishy to me.

Great news. Pitter Patterson, better get at er some! GO SPAW!!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:04 PM

Good news.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Nancy King
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:03 PM

Better and better!!

Subject: UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 12:11 PM

Well, well, well....seems he is doing much better! He did four hours on the trach mask, for his first time which met their goal. He got a little anxious and muscos-ey, but the respiratory therapist was so pleased, s/he wants to speed up the weaning. Karen thinks by next week, they should be able to cap the trach. He is still extremely weak, balance is gone, and he's a bit bewildered by just how much, but Karen tells him he will work through it, it's just going to take more time, this time.

He ate REAL food, yesterday...tuna tettrazini. If he keeps that up, they will be able to take out the feeding tube.

Karen is so excited and grateful to everyone. Dan, she says, "Yes please!" to skype, after I explained it to her. I do have a card addy, now:

Please PM me for the address.
As Art Thieme says, "Onward and upward!"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:18 AM

You may want to supply a piece of black tape to cover that cam for now. An accidental view if he's not expecting it might harm small children or make old ladies faint.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:57 AM

Does anyone know if Spaw has or uses skype since this thing has a built in webcam maybe his kids and family would love to see him without running to the hospital every couple of hours. Let me know so I can download the app

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Hawker
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:40 AM

Wonderful news! Bless all those wonderful people out there who chipped in to help.
Just lovely!
Cheers, Lucy x