Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: bbc
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:37 PM

kat,

Thank you so much for these reports! I just came in on the middle of this, but it sounds like it's been pretty serious. I've, certainly, been on the edge of my chair w/ Pat before. Enough, already!!! I'm glad that things are starting to sound more promising!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:30 PM

I am betting 30 times any takers?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:29 PM

Anyone want to be how many doctors and nurses heard the term "Needle Dick" today?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:00 PM

"seriously cranky"... great news. And the o2 levels sound good, especially with gnumoanya. Thanks for the update.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:58 PM

"seriously cranky"

Sounds good to me. I'm delighted to read this update. Thanks.

Hmmm...
Wonder if I can try out some of that "seriously cranky" business. Pat, kindly return to us asap. I need a tutorial.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:49 PM

ALright, Spawzer. Vacation's over. You are sorely needed around here; please make arrangements to make up your missed work time on these threads in theimmediate future.


A

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:48 PM

Well, he is "seriously cranky" according to Karen, so she says to tell you all that he's coming back! "Spewing" is the word she used for when he refers to a bunch of the stuff he's just been through. I told her, I think he's entitled to spew a bit.

He is off the vent. Still has the fever and pneumonia, but able to keep his pulse ox from 91-96% ...that's GOOD!

This time the personnel are being really nice, letting Karen is to visit on her 3am lunch break and all (last time they were really buggers about visiting hours.) She was just getting to sleep when I called; had been up and at it for about 25 hours with work and taking Michael shopping. Tris will be going over to stay with Connie and Wayne and they will all be there there for Christmas, sans Pat, of course. So, they are not going to have oyster stew because that is Spaw's speciality. Karen has Christmas off, so that's good, too.

She says to send you all her love and thanks. He knows we're all working on him.:-)

Now, breathe, please!?! All o'youse!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hawker
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

PAT!
Not been on here for ages and you pull this stunt whilst my back is turned! GET BETTER SOON! This place just aint the same without you!
Thinking of you and sending healing thoughts to you & your family.
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:02 PM

"But you know best."
ummm.. I was responding to Rap's 'prayer' above... How dare others insert good wishes before I am finished! *grin*...

Even I know better than to take on burrito farts...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 02:55 PM

Right now I guess he is asking nurses to pull his finger !!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 02:45 PM

Miss your posts and personality `round this place, Pat.

BTW, I cut one yesterday that even YOU would have been proud of. Nothin` left of my shorts `cept the elastic band. Haven`t seen the cat since.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lox
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:47 AM

Hurry up spaw ... we're waiting for your triumphant return ...

... just one big belch would do ...

All the best mate!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:38 AM

Lots of love and laughter comin' to you so stop your languorous lollygaggin', ya Layabout. There is LOTS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:28 AM

Don't know how wise it is to get behind a burrito fart, Bill. But you know best.
Still thinking of you, Pat.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: C-flat
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:52 AM

Get well soon Pat.
I sent you a pm after my discharge, assuming you'd be home by now.
Since then I've been re-admitted (Friday) and discharged again (today) following a minor complication, so I'm disapointed to discover that your Appendictomy(?) hasn't been straightforward and that you're obviously very unwell.
You're a great support to others and I'm sure you already know how well loved you are around here, so get back to us soon and regale us with some fresh medical stories!!
Merrick

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:37 AM

Hey....THERE'S a prayer I can get behind! 2nd the motion...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:37 AM

Remember on thing. God does not need burrito farts in heaven so get better

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:25 AM

Oh Great Wizard, Great CHEECH, You of the Great Hat and tiny tallywhacker, look with favor upon Your poor, pathetic, poot of a servant, Catspaw49 and grant him the strength to get outa the hospital so that he may continue to be Thy servant instead of continuing to be the hospital-bound doofus he has been. And may You continue to kick those who deserve it in the nuts, for Thine, etc. etc. etc.

Amen and all that jazz.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: kendall
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:19 AM

Listen you pusillanimous poltroon, you have the power to heal yourself. Do it. Ok, I'll send you some positive energy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:55 AM

MEMO TO GOD!

Look here mate, you need to get your act together and fix this cantankerous, funny, irreverent friend of ours.

Trust me, you don't want him up there. He'll turn the place upside down and inside out.

Now fix him please. You really don't need the competition.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Get well soon Spaw. We're all pulling for you.

Don & Winnie T.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: KT
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 12:07 AM

Thinking of you, Spaw, Karen and Michael & Tristan.   Be well, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:31 PM

Still thinkin' aboutcha.

XOXOXOXO

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:15 PM

Dear Shallow running crankbait... I'm sorry to hear you've landed in the hospital again. I hope you are released in time for Christmas (without a toe tag)! Please know you are in my prayers and thankis for your encouragement over my trials. love, harpy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:43 PM

Dan... kick him in the ass? No, no, no... Spaw has always been most specific about such... in the nuts.

You can have the duck.

In any case, this is my last check-in tonight. Be my first check-in when I wake on the morrow.

C'mon Spaw. I might need advice again about my truck. It's a Ford and, well, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:23 PM

Me, too, Sins. Can't remember anything but a Knight in Shining Armour, a silly catbox litter flinger (the evil twin), and Peaches driving a hot rod. As well as the long conversations and advice on buying my first dulcimer, the joy when Tris got his first training wheels all the way from Gervase, then in England and could ride for the first time, the love and enthusiasm about his Weimies!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Severn
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:35 PM

Continued good wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:14 PM

When he comes home he will need a house call from a doctor to get my size 11 shoe out of his ass cause that where it is going to be after I kick him one

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:01 PM

Spaw? Stable????

Oh, physically. Well, that's different.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:49 PM

Along with a bunch of other folks, Pat, I breathed a small sigh of relief to learn this morning that you are a bit more stabilized. How about giving us "Catters a wonderful Christmas present (and it can come early!) with news that you are out of the woods!

Karen, thinking of you and the boys.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:57 PM

I don't think Spaw has ever insulted me. In fact, he has gotten annoyed when others have. But we have shared reams of exchanges about our lives, our children, our families. Karen is a saint. The boys are boys until life makes them sit up and be men. They are an amazing pair, our Michael and Tris.
I won't get too mushy - but I do love you Spaw and am proud to call you a friend.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:43 PM

Well, mouldy... we got "the little engine that could" trying to get up that bank and hopefully the big banker will help him up.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:41 PM

Ya know you've made it to the inside track if he calls you a "broke-dick jadrool" and says you ain't got shit fer brains. If he uses the term "fleabitten" to describe ya too, then ya know you've made it to the inner sanctum where only the big Kahunas hang out. You might even be one of a select and tiny handful of people that can define the term "folk music" with total authority and put an ailin' bodhran in tune.

- Chongo

p.s. If so...I pity you! Cos you ain't got a life. ;-D Ook! Ook!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:29 PM

One good step back up that big bank...but it is a big 'un.
So, as they say in UK railway-speak, we've "sent for t' banker" (the engine that couples on to the back of the train and adds power from the back to help get up difficult inclines).

We've got one hell of a banker here, Spaw!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:06 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:38 PM

STABLE!!! Good. Now, get out of the stable and quit hoarsin' around eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:00 PM

Ya Ebbie we all know it but most of the new people don't. One summer I worked in a brake line factory when I was in college. I really sucked at the job. My foreman was an ex Marine Corp drill Sargent from WWII. His name was Whitey. Now Whitey would chew you out like no one ever before or after could. He would press his nose to yours and scream every insult you could imagine as his spit flew in your face and could even make up some words as he was cussing ya. I was a screw up, I would get "see me in my office" which of course was the mens room to get my face ripped off with cuss words and insults. One time the office manager came into the line. I knew they were going to fire me because I heard it threw the rumor mill (I actually deserved it). I overheard Whitey say come to my office. I could hear him ripping the manager a new one about "the kid is new, he will do fine" now if you have any problems with one of my people, I will tell you so get your ass back to your desk before I do a little dance on your face. Here was this guy putting his own job on the line to protect me.

I didn't get fired, worked the rest of the summer and tried to be better at that miserable job. That is the way Whitey was made, he could chew you out but nobody else better try ... Kinda like Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:53 PM

He was only speaking the truth, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:31 PM

I feel particularly blessed, because he has called me a broke-dick mamalucca on more occasions than I can keep count of...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:44 AM

Many of us have been around here long enough to have 'got' that long since. He can still make me cringe or pass rapidly over a post but the obverse is that I linger over and think on his heartfelt ones - and, oh, that trade is so worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:34 AM

And many new people haven't figured out yet ... Spaw will only call you a "fuckwit" if he cares about you. He won't waste time arguing with someone he thinks is a total hopeless jerk ... usually the thinking goes like this ... you are too good a person to write stupid shit hence you will get "fuckwit". if he didn't care about you , he would say nothing .. Most of the time it is to get you to laugh ... that is Spaw and his brain in action. Many don't get it

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:22 AM

I been in non stop Prayer lately. The old goat just drive me nuts There are people that one never meets in this life that you feel you have known your entire life .. Spaw is that.

He struggles with his health, goes through hell and all he ever does is ask about everyone else and how they are feeling and if they need anything. Never complains about what he goes through and most don't know the half of it yet all he does is worry about others and how they are doing. For those who don't know him, you could never understand the depth of this man's heart for others even as he comes across with his posts as gruff old geezer. He is special and this world needs more Spaws in it. He drives me crazy with his health ... all I can do is pray cause that is all I have but I tell you what, there isn't a better person anywhere and he doesn't deserve the hand he was dealt. He also doesn't complain about it either. When he gets better all he will do is laugh about how he picked on the nurses and joke about everything. Most would sit around feeling sorry for themselves but he will just laugh and say "what the hell was that all about" He is one of a kind a gem of a person.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:07 AM

Welcome news. Thanks, kat and Karen. I'm still going to think of the equipment noise and shaking here as being his recovery racket.

Maeve

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:01 AM

Karen is on her way up to see him this morning. She'd sent me a text, but I don't have that service on my phone. It's too expensive and I'd never use it.:-)

Anyway, he is stable right now. On multiple antibiotics for the pneumonia which is the cause of the fever. They are keeping him sedated and he is on some painkiller, too. He was on the vent, but I *think* she said they switched him to CPAP as it is less stressful on his heart from him getting aggravated with the vent, but don't quote me on that. (She was driving and I didn't want to ask a lot of questions. I don't like bugging people on phones when they are driving.:-) Because he is still retaining fluids a bit, they are being very careful in how fast they replenish his blood. Some level went up to 8.7..I think she meant haemoglobin, which I think would be good to have rise.

She said she'd let me know, later how things are, after she sees him. He is aware enough to recognise her and she did let him know about all of us and, even the ones coming out of the woodwork (Pseudolus, bseed, JP & others!!) It's a helluva way to get us all gathered, isn't it?

Thanks, folks,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:44 AM

More healing thoughts from the Blue Ridge...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:00 AM

Checking in from Maine. The earth is shaking...Must be Pat is recovering?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:57 AM

No peepee for PP?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:16 AM

I'm giving minutes. COme on Spaw. I get three ten minute segments on line per day at work and you're using them all up.
seed - that is just plain nasty although I believe we have covered the healing powers of urine on the 'Cat, probably numerous times.
Justa Picker was far more discreet in his suggestion. lol
Spaw will enjoy that.
Love to Karen and the boys.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:44 AM

Misery! Sounds like it. I'm so sorry : (

Let's all go give blood!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lox
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:37 AM

Hey Catspaw,

Hang on!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:58 AM

'Spaw, git yer bleedin' ass outa there! Git yerself back here where you belong! Don't wanta hear any excuses neither!