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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: DougR Date: 09 Dec 05 - 01:33 PM Get well, my friend. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 09 Dec 05 - 02:49 PM I am going to print this out and send it on, late today. Your well-wishes, jokes, etc. mean a lot to both Pat and Karen. Thanks a bunch, folks. At least, this time, when he laughs all over himself, he won't hurt from an incision! And, I am sure thnking up good reh-par-taze will keep him occupied. MMario, I was glad her car is winterised, too, and, it is a good old car. Since Spaw used to have his own shop, it's been well-maintained, plus she has a cellphone, thank goodness. I will also send along a printout of InOBU's thread. luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: gnu Date: 09 Dec 05 - 03:05 PM kat's gonna print this thread out and send it later today? Okay.... kat... snip this post and put it on top. SPAW!!! There was a relay post through LH on this thread from Bill Shatner. HE MAY COME TO VISIT YOU!!! Get well immediately and flee!!!! That oughta do it. More thoughts and prayers, buddy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Homeless Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:12 AM I ain't been around in a while, and today check in by chance only to find this. I never know quite what to say in a situation of this nature, and usually make due with just standing over the bed and looking at the person. Karen, maybe you take in one my my photos to take my place watching over the bed. I think about y'all every time someone wants to bring a Weiner-meaner (sp?)(*g*) into the studio, or when I see a train. Yesterday on my way home from work, I got caught by the same train 3 different times. I should have guessed that something was up. Know that I'm holding you all in my heart and thoughts. And Sheila seconds that. Homeless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,William Shatner Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:28 AM I engaged in a bit of serious meditation and concentration over the last 2 days, placing all my thoughts upon a picture of your friend and mine, Pat Patterson, aka "Spaw", and projecting massive healing visualizations into his auric field. I have found this to be quite efficacious. My feeling is that he is going to make a speedy recovery. If not, I am still willing to make the ultimate gesture and visit personally at his bedside...even if it means cancelling my barbecue. Keep me informed. I stand ready, aye ready, on the bridge...as it were...ready to take action at a moment's notice. Your friend and captain, William Shatner |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Donuel Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:32 PM Spaw suffered for his art. Internal explosions are nothing to sneeze at. Stay away from open flames for awhile Spaw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: open mike Date: 10 Dec 05 - 03:13 PM hoping today brings good news and improved health for you, Pat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Guy Wolff Date: 10 Dec 05 - 08:52 PM Im slow to find this .. Im so sorry for all this hard work Pat and Karen . I know Pat is tough as nails but enough is enough here.. Get out of there as soon as you can and know I'll be thinking on you every day till you do ! As always<><><>< All The Best and more ! Guy |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Lyrical Lady Date: 10 Dec 05 - 11:39 PM Pat...just to let you know...I do home care for a dear little old lady who had exactly what has been described here! She's 87 and she has pulled thru just fine...you're gonna make it buddy! Still sending west coast winds your way..filled with every good positive thought! Barb (from Saltspring) |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Dec 05 - 05:23 AM Hope all is going well, take care mate, we want more stories about Tris! LTS XXX |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 11 Dec 05 - 07:15 AM Get well, mon ami. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Pete Peterson Date: 11 Dec 05 - 10:54 AM from Pete Peterson to Pat Patterson. . . sorry I saw this thread so late! by now, I hope the worst is over! hurry up & get well. Please. PETE |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 11 Dec 05 - 02:49 PM UPDATESpaw is BETTER!! His doc said all that was going bad is going in the right direction now! No vent, no naso-gastric tubes; he is eating solid food and hungry! He told Karen to tell everyone to come by and visit, which Michael and Tristan got to do, yesterday. He is still in ICU only because it's the best place for him IF the ulcers causing anymore problems. Karen spent ALL of yesterday sleeping and resting. I am so proud of her! She is cleaning up the house, in little bits, then resting, then cleaning. Tristan comes over from his neighbour-friend's house every once in awhile and takes bags of trash out for her; Michael helps in between playing Runescape online (part of the reason Spaw is more scarce...the boy has discovered the internet!) Karen is going to talk to Connie about taking her laptop up to Spaw, so maybe there will be a sighting here in a day or two. Karen wanted me to tell you all THANKS, send lots of LOVE, and she really appreciates everything, as does Spaw. She received a *mysterious* package from West Chester, PA (Mudcat Central?) which had a beautiful shawl in it. She was really pleased as her coat doesn't fit well AND the blower in her car's heater is out so she will use it to put over her legs on the way to work. It's okay, she said it's been out for 2-3 years and she is used to it (damn thing is expensive!), but she is REALLY pleased about the shawl and how toasty warm it is. I know of a couple of different ones which were going out to her, but not from PA, so not sure which of you special *Santas* did this one. Thanks a bunch, though, to you all!! More when I hear it! luvyakatgivingthanks |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Peace Date: 11 Dec 05 - 02:53 PM YAHOO. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Dec 05 - 03:31 PM I am happy to hear that he got better even though I did not send him a fart joke of my own. Congratulations, Spaw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: open mike Date: 11 Dec 05 - 03:59 PM great to hear that the situation is improving!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Peace Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:04 PM Some light reading for you, Pat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Peace Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:16 PM I do realize of course that posting that link for you is a bit like sending coal to Newcastle. BUT, on the off chance that there's something there even slightly new to you . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: jacqui.c Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:50 PM It's so good to hear that. Home for Christmas then! |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: KT Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:51 PM Spaw, do you have any idea how many people are smiling with a warmed heart at kat's most recent update on your condition? It's a wonder! Think on that, Spaw, and know that you're loved by folks you've never met who live in far reaches of the world. Keep mending, and we'll be rejoicing when you're well and posting again! Thanks, katdarlin' for knowing we care and keeping us posted! KT |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Wesley S Date: 11 Dec 05 - 05:11 PM That's great news. Thanks Kat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Morticia Date: 11 Dec 05 - 06:23 PM fan-bloody-tastic........ |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: JennyO Date: 11 Dec 05 - 07:54 PM Lately this has been one of the first threads I check when I come to the computer. I am one of the many that has never met you, but I feel like I have. That's excellent news! I like to think that in some small way, all the love coming from Mudcatters helped - it's pretty powerful stuff! This is pretty powerful stuff too - and it's just for you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Ebbie Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:02 PM eeeeewwwwwww. JennyO, for pete's sake. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: gnu Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:22 PM I only fired up the puter to check this thread and I am glad I did. Excellent news. Keep scrappin Spaw!!! We're all behind you... well, with you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Tinker Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:38 PM Thanks Kat !!! And thanks to all the medical staff for gettting all the various and sundry parts back into a semblance of working order again. Some folks require a bit more art than science and I'm really glad that Spaw seems to have found a crew that does both really well. Hugs all around.... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:49 PM WONDERFUL NEWS!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Metchosin Date: 11 Dec 05 - 09:34 PM WOW!!! Great news! |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Dec 05 - 10:37 PM Great news indeed! Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine...and the magic of Shatner...Spaw appears well on the road to recovery. Thank god. I may yet find a home for that danged "Big Mouth Billy Bass" thing that's collecting dust in the garage...can't seem to sell it even at the yard sales. And it still works too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Dec 05 - 04:46 AM thanks Kat for keeping us up to date with all the news, especially now it's good news. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Geoff the Duck Date: 12 Dec 05 - 05:28 AM QUACK!!!! what more can I say.... Geoff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Flash Company Date: 12 Dec 05 - 07:33 AM Glad to hear this, when I had my own bleeding ulcer back in 1967, they wouldn't let me near solid food for about a month. And that was over Christmas too. The sooner he is out the better, as my doc once said, 'Keep away from Hospitals as much as you can, they're full of sick people!' FC |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: KathWestra Date: 12 Dec 05 - 07:36 AM Keep it up Spaw. Sending love to you all, and breathing a very deep sigh of relief on a Monday morning. Love to you, too, Kat. Thanks for keeping us all connected. Kathy |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Guy Wolff Date: 12 Dec 05 - 08:42 AM I am so glad I came up for a look in at this at the begining of my day .Karen resting <><>>><> Spaw hungry ><<>><. and big thanks to KAT for teling us !!! All the best , Guy |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 12 Dec 05 - 08:56 AM Great stuff.... seems positive thinking works... E.W.I.S |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Big Mick Date: 12 Dec 05 - 08:57 AM Hey ........ Spawzer ........ You are really milking this one, guy ...... we do have other accounts here at LFPS, layabouts at large and for hire. We are coming up on our busy season here. There are many folks that don't have time for laying about, so's we have to pace ourselves. Time for you to move on out of that place. I know its a sweet gig, but have a little respect for the other Senior partners. And just remember folks. If your life is out of control, and every minute of the day is filled up. If you have a refrigerator full of beer and snacks, Buffalo Wings waiting to be eaten, and a couch or an easy chair just crying out for someone to use, but you just can't find the time, give a call to Lane, Patterson, Fielding and Swan, Layabouts at Large and for hire. We have reasonable rates, and are extremely competent at doing nothing at all. Our standard package covers eating your snacks, yelling at you to get us a beer and sleeping and snoring loudly with a TV set in the background blaring out your favorite football game/sporting events. No figure skating or ice dancing, please. While our prices are all inclusive, there are a couple of optional services that can be added for a fee. If you would like flatulence included, we need a days notice in order to "power up the pumps". There is no extra charge for belching loudly and scratching ourselves. We are your full service layabouts. Accept no imitations. Get better, pal. I love ya and have you foursquare in the prayers. Mick Senior/Founding partner LFPS |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 12 Dec 05 - 03:23 PM Dear Mr. Lane, Founding Partner, Is your service complimentary for other Founding Members (imagine finding those dangly bits after all of those years!) and, does it provide Lap Service for those of Other Species? I ask on behalf of Mr. Patterson's landlord and lady, Mr. & Mrs. Why MoreOnHer, as they are in some distress at having to layabout, themselves, without benefit of Mr. P's cushioned largesse and warmth. He has been qute good about them draping their 80 pounds and more across his Lap; actually lapping up the attention and they do so love to give him baths. It really helps tremendously with the wafting odors which seem to hang like a miasma of gaseous clouds whereever he is. They eagerly await, in quite dignity, your pending Sincerely Yours, Cat Agoneia (if Mr. P doesn't return soon! They are squishing me and I DON't like my fur getting slobbered on!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Hollowfox Date: 12 Dec 05 - 04:51 PM what a fine piece of news to brighten up my Monday! I still have a buncha high quality purebred @#$!-reduction candles going for the bunch of you. Now get better so I can visit you, hug you, and dope- slap you for cheating on your hard-won reputation as a layabout. Only hard-working people get ulcers and cellulitis! Now park that bum, elevate those legs, and relax, dammit! ... oh, you're doing that, eh?... well, relax harder and faster, you need to get out of there before you run out of people to torment. I've been corrupting folk all over the place, making them visit the Warther Museum, and I need you to corrupt me with yet more vices. Love, Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: InOBU Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:14 AM Glad to hear you are improving, and like the Balding E-Gal, soon may be off the endangered list ( I have even heard she is growing hair again...). As you know, some of us are begining to agitate for a bill in Congress, or presidential thingamagoogin, to get you deserved protection as an indespensagooble natural ( un-natural ) resourse. The ad hopped, committee for the preservacation of Spaw has been meeting, drinking, vomiting, and occationally thinking, and has thunked that a small demonstration may help to get the bill passed, something along the lines of a small town powered for a short time by Spawgas ( registered trademark ) a moon shot, or a night time light show. But, all this can wait, until you are feeling better and the committee regains conciousness long enough to drink itself back into some degree of wisdom. The Balding E-Gal has been agitating for you as well... So I close with, Save the Welsh, Don't waste the virgins in the forrests, and Protect and preserve our American Spaw. ummmm... oh, right, lor |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:45 AM UPDATEKaren just called me. He has been moved out of ICU!!!! Feeling quite perky and full of himself. They are going to keep him at least another week and a half to keep an eye on the ulcers. Will do another scope next week to see how they are doing. I will be calling Himself, later today and report more, direct from the Horse's Oh, Happy Day!!! It's working, again, folks. Keep it up, please!! luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Janie Date: 13 Dec 05 - 12:20 PM If my monster sister follows through with her threat to get my kid a battery-powered fart machine for Christmas, can I send the kid, the sister and the machine to Ohio for a New Years Celebration? Great news!!! Keep on a healin'. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 13 Dec 05 - 01:02 PM UPDATEJust spoke with Spaw himself. He sounded pretty good, a little weak and fatigued, but he said he'd been napping a bit when I called. His voice grew stronger as we spoke. He said he'll probably be in there at least another two weeks, so may have to have Christmas a little later. The biggest concern is he is not on any anti-coagulents while they get the ulcers healed, so there is a risk of blood clots. Next week, they will take a look at the ulcer they injected and discuss options then. It seems to be doing okay, now, but there is a possibility of surgery to repair it. His doc said he wasn't a good candidate for surgery, but Spaw reminded her he has never been so and it's basically a crap shoot, either way. He wants to feel better, either way and accepts the risks of surgery, if need be, because he does NOT want to continue as it was the past couple of weeks. On the whole, he said things are going as well as they can and we'll just have to see. He is elated to be off the bedpan! He is breathing better, etc. I will talk with him, again, in a few days. I told him Alba said he was getting to old to be a "mahout" to get off the darn elephant and the rest of you have been lighting @*&%$ reduction candles, sending good thoughts, cracking wise and wishing him well. He's thankful and I even got a soft giggle out of him. luvyakatinitforthelonghaul |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: JudyB Date: 13 Dec 05 - 01:06 PM Great news - thanks for the update, Kat, and congratulations on your graduation from ICU, Spaw! JudyB & Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Wesley S Date: 13 Dec 05 - 01:21 PM Spaw on a bedpan....now that's a picture I can't get out of my head. Words fail me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: John MacKenzie Date: 13 Dec 05 - 01:41 PM Sheer bloody magic Spaw, I am so pleased to hear your good news. On the ulcer front, a friend who has suffered from them for years was cured by taking massive doses of antibiotics, as per her doctor's instructions. They seem to think that most ulcers are bacterialogical in origin and can be treated this way. Anway the sooner you get back on solids the sooner you can stoke up a bit of pressure in the nether regions. GO SPAW!! Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Bill D Date: 13 Dec 05 - 01:42 PM hey! Good news, and you see, 'spaw, what can happen when there's no Marmite on the menu! Fer Pete's (or Pat's) sake, take it easy and pay attention to a LEAST half of what they tell you! (and I'm SO glad to hear Karen is getting some rest and relief....and warm knees! *grin*) |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Bert Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:42 PM Way to go y'ol fart. It'll be a slippery elm food Christmas for ya this year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: bobad Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:47 PM Spaw on a bed pan - reverberations felt far and wide. Don't let the helicobacter Pylori get you down boy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: gnu Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:22 AM Thought I'd check this thread before I put on my wind pants and parka and boots to fetch the newspaper. Good news indeed! Even a giggle... great to hear. Keep up the good work, Spaw. Now, off to chew some wind-driven snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:26 AM That's 200 times we've told you to get better, now do it!!! Giok |
