BS: One more time, for Spaw, please

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 01:34 PM

Good GOD! Don't give him beans when he is on the bed pan, there will be a whole spate of UFO sightings... some guy riding a silver disk accross the sky trailing blue fire....

keep laughing spaw,
lor

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 02:06 PM

Keep healing, Spaw, we keep virtually at your side. A big hug from the hot Buenos Aires
Un abrazo,
Andrés

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Steve-o
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 02:42 PM

Holy smoke- it's a Mudcat Who's Who on this thread. Ya think maybe this Spaw guy is loved? ThanksKat for all the running updates, and keep the "better today" stuff coming! Keep on keepin' on, Spaw!!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 02:57 PM

Loved? Yes. Admired. Treasured. Respected. Revered. Honoured. Regarded. Venerated. Even liked.

Just... stand upwind. No need to be silly about it.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,A
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 04:14 PM

Well, that is good enough for me. Spaw, get well soon for this varied assortment of people who seem to like you a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:03 PM

Not been on the 'Cat for a few days so just found this thread.
Glad to see the old b****** is pulling through, hang in there you old sod!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: black walnut
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:33 PM

Hey, Spaw. It's me, 'Nut (as Mr. Fielding liked to call me). I'm not surprised Kat could get a giggle out of you...she's definitely one of those healing loving types. Thank goodness we've got a few of those angel types around here, eh?

Big hugs from Canada!

~b.w.
(debbie)

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 09:58 AM

Just saw this thread for the 1st time today... I'm lucky in that I've been spared the suspense and the worry of the other folks, but regret not having been able to "contribute" my 2 cents' worth of encouragement a bit earlier. We haven't "met", but I've enjoyed reading your (sporadic) posts and am delighted that the news (and you, of course) are both much better!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Raptor
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 11:39 AM

KEEP GETTING BETTER SPAW!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: rumanci
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 11:43 AM

I'll echo all these good wishes flooding your way too
Keep on keeping on
Miss you here 'Spaw
rum

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Inobu at Genie's office
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 05:41 PM

Itsh thaaaa hhooooofffffiiish party spthaw. Wot an opppertunnnitety to shay sthomthin stupid an annomimouslyyy (hee dozent knw hits meee... Gennniieee we are on yer comupuuuttrrr ) so... ahhhhh lets see.... ummmm ah heck, I can't think of anything anominous to say... so, cheers Spaw... anominously thine, Lor and Genie... get well, ya snook.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Hollowfox
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 08:32 PM

You just rest up today, Darlin', and have Karen and the kids and everybody stay home for a while. If the freezing rain/winter storm messiness is half as bad at your house as it is at mine, you don't want to go outside - even if the alternative is staying in a hospital! seriously, I'm not looking forward to driving home in this tonight. And I'd rather not have Karen risk putting herself in the hospital by going out in this. Take care, and I think I'll just start up another fresh candle when I get home. Love, Mary

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 09:03 PM

GLAD TIDINGS!

Karen just called. They are talking about releasing Spaw from hospital in a matter of days! Then she said he told her to ask me to call because his curiousity was up. Karen received another special package in the mail, today, plus some other wonderful, thoughtful cards, letters, etc. I will let him tell more when he is home and able.

So...I called him. We talked for over an hour and it is the best I have heard him sound in a year or more. It was just wonderful. We both kept remarking on how good it was to talk...I think it was partly because we both had plenty of breath with which to speak!**bg**

He knows he neglected some warning signs and this time is making some important changes as he figures he's used up close to all of those nine lives we "cats" get.:-)

He is keeping his oxygen sat rates up just fine, without extra oxygen, the ulcers look good; he is "eating like a horse" and feels great. The only thing left is for them to start him on coumadin, again, to prevent blood clots, then send him home. So, he can rightly sing, "I'll be home for Christmas!"

Hollowfox, you'll be glad to know Karen took the day off, kept the boys at home and is getting some good rest and having fun fixing dinner.

True Confession: I didn't get this printed off and sent to him, partly because it grew so fast, it would've been scads of pages. I don't feel too badly now that I know he will be home soon and is eager to read it himself.

Oh, Happy Day!

Thanks ya'll,

luvyalat

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,the Royal Forkers
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 09:07 PM

We, the Royal Forkers of Mississippi, feel indebted to Mr. Spaw for his part in giving us a neat-o job working on Pa and Cleetuses bar b que pit back when our Royal pain in the ass uh, King khandu went a wee bit bazonkers in his Royal head (which is a routine of his that is as regular as his Royal Movements of Bowel!) and had to be sent to that Neil Young place for Loonies.

When we heard that Mr. Spaw was feeling poorly and suffering greatly, we, The Royal Forkers of Mississippi, gather many stones, bricks and what-not together and put our brains, hearts and backs to work and erected him a grand obelisk that looks like a mighty schlong. The good folks of our good state have traveled & traversed far and near to see the erection and all stand amazed and bewildered at the site.

The ladies often swoon in rapture as they read the inscription below the erection which features the world famous poem, written by Mr. Spaw, which we now include in its entirety below:

ODE TO MY PHALLUS

O Phallus, my phallus, why art thou so teeny?

T'would be a Prize, if ye were even half the size

Of an Oscar Meyer weinie.

O phallus my phallus, why art thou so teeny


They taught me much, they taught me well

To mine own self be true

To do my own thing

Alas, my own thing is much too little to do


O Phallus my phallus why art thou so wee

T'would give me much pleasure if thou wouldst only measure

At least two inches, or three

O Phallus, my Phallus

Why art thou so wee


I saw her there, so beautiful and fair

I was filled with desire

To stoke her lust into a bright flame,

Into a raging fire.

Sweet words, wine ,and poetry

Music so soft,

Surely that would do the trick

She giggled and tittered

Then she guffawed

"I've not even seen a candle with such a small wick!"


Have I angered the ancients, those powerful gods

Who created this kit'n'kaboodle

That they should give others such wonderful rods

And leave me with this pitiful noodle.

O Phallus, my Phallus

Why art thou so damned short!

The End

We love you, Brother!
The Royal Forkers of Mississippi

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:47 AM

Glad ain't the half of it!!! GREAT news!!!

Eating like a horse, eh? Nah... too easy.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: mooman
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:57 AM

Dear Kat,

Excellent news... the best in ages!

...and farting like one too no doubt!

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: MMario
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:20 AM

*grin* NOW it will be a Merry Christmas indeed!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:21 AM

"Eating like a horse."

Does that mean his condition is stable???

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KathWestra
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 10:12 AM

Wonderful, happy, fabulous news! Now Pat be good, for heaven's sake. We need you around here, and so do Karen and the kids. xo Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Partridge
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 10:30 AM

Great news, have a wonderful christmas
love

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: jeffp
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 01:59 PM

Fantastic news!!!!! Take good care of yourself, Spaw. Your family needs you! We do too!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: open mike
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 02:13 PM

Lay in a supply of alfalfa!
and oats, of course,
if he is eating like a horse!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 02:24 PM

Everyone's breathing a BIG sigh of relief around here.

Now...about them New Year's resolutions to eat right, take yer meds, and POST a little bit each week when things settle down......then we'll work on that long-delayed trip to the Getaway!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Guy Wolff on safari
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:39 PM

Could not be better news all the way around.. Merry Chrismas Ho Ho Ho . All the best , guy

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: InOBU
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 08:27 AM

Ummmm, well.. ummmm Kat... I have been thinking about the title of this thread... One more time for Spaw... WHAT are we going to do the next time? Not that there SHOULD be a next time, but, ummmm, well, I don't mind poking fun at Spaw ( and praying for him a little as well... ) no matter how many times he gets sick ( don't make a habbit of it... mind you... ) so, I think I will revive the Save The Spaw thread for a little while as well...
lor

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: black walnut
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 03:59 PM

Whoo hoo! So glad you're keeping us up to date, Kat. Thank you so very much.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 05:40 PM

You are welcome, bw and all. Larry, that sounds good!

UPDATE

Just spoke with Himself. WOW! He sounds better than he has in a couple of years. His pulse ox is running at 96 with no extra O2, during activity and all! (Didja hear that El Swanno?!)

All of the docs, but his primary care physician, have signed off on him and is free to go as soon as they do one more scope which will be tomorrow, sometime. He will NOT go home, on his insistence, until they start him on the coumadin, at least for a couple of days. His goal is to be home at least a day or two before Christmas. He feels great!

Thanks so much for all of your help, Mudcatters!

luvakat

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Dave'sWife at work on a sunday
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:10 PM

So glad to hear Spaw is doing better. Of course, this is this first I heard he was unwell - I've had trouble signing onto mudcat for weeks.

Sending some love your way Spaw!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:42 PM

!!!!!!!!!!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 03:58 AM

Wonderful news!! Someone pass on to Spaw that Mrs Morse has a special present for him... we saw it on Saturday and just could not resist it..... it's "special" and basically shouted at us to buy it for him.

Take care of everyone, we want pictures of Spaw and family reunited for Christmas!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 04:20 AM

Every day in every way, keep getting better and better.
All this talk of horses worries me!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 06:49 AM

Excellent!!!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KathWestra
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 08:31 AM

I like these happy Monday morning updates on our guy. Be good, Spaw, and have a wonderful Christmas with your family. What a gift to you all! Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 08:37 AM

I ran into this interesting item saturday - and immedietly thought of 'spaw. A singing dancing chicken - and the shutoff switch is in the neck. when you shut it off, the eyes bulge, the tongue sticks out, the limbs flail about and the chicken gags, chockes, and shuts down. Music, entertainment and anger management all in one item!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KathWestra
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 04:55 PM

Ooooh, Mario. I can think of SEVERAL people who need one of those. Where does this creature live? How much does he (she?) cost? Just the mere thought of owning one oughta make Spaw feel more like himself!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 04:59 PM

Oh frabjous day!!!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 05:47 PM

Home for Christmas? That is great news. A gift from Mrs. Morse? Ah well. Poor Spaw. I have seen that gleam when she spies the perfect horror to inflict on some poor unsuspecting...by the way, need a new clock or a moose head?
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: jaze
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 07:51 PM

That's great news, Kat. Hang in there , Spaw!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 08:36 PM

UPDATE - Sorta:-)

Well, they don't know the results of the scan, officially, but the word amongst the nurses is the ulcers are healing well. Karen and he both think his doc will probably want to wait a couple more days before starting the rat poison (coumadin) so, he may still be there for Christmas. They both sounded upbeat about it and said they'd just bring Christmas to the hospital. Pat's bored and frustrated that he can't be home to do some shopping online, so I told him "Santa" had already done some, not to worry. (You know who you are!)

Anywho, that's the news for today. I will probably call him again on Wednesday and post what's what, then.

Thanks, again, folks. You are all really special and incredible friends.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Janie
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 08:27 AM

I may have found the perfect gift for 'Spaw for Christmas. Should enliven the atmosphere in the hospital room considerably.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 08:39 AM

Thanks again, kat.

Bored and frustrated? Understandable, but, hey Spaw... you of all people should not get yer knickers in a twist.

Merry Ho Ho!!!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 08:52 AM

the word amongst the nurses is the ulcers are healing well - while I am sure this is true - my first thought was "of coirurse they would say that - it's the only way they'll get rid of him" - which of course is an unworthy thought and I ap[ologize to all his nurses.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 09:43 AM

Damn good Christmas news. For us AND for the hospital staff!!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:14 AM

Complaining, the first sign of recovery. Let me know when he is well enough for me to ream his ass out for not taking proper care of himself! What is it with men and illness? They whine like babies over a case of the sniffles and ignore chest pain, exhaustion, and all signs of serious problems until it's high drama time. Damn!
Spaw get your ass in here. I need a word.
st. mARY OF THE cAPSLOCK WHO LOVES YOU.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:20 AM

oh sure! blame us for something that is genetically coded into our 'Y' chromosome!

Dang - the 'Anger Management 101 Chokeing chicken' is sold out all the places I can find it online...

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KathWestra
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 09:31 AM

Well, Mario, Janie's suggestion above is a great substitute. I laughed out loud just imagining what this recording must sound like...

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 10:57 AM

Take it slow, Spaw, but take it!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 12:13 AM

Merry Christmas, Spaw, Karen, and everyone.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 04:35 PM

Im with Seamus . Merry Christmas Karen & Pat where ever you are for it !!! All the best , guy

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:14 PM

To say the nine lives are about used up is understatement as is saying that I have some great friends in this strange place. Saying thank you isn't enough yet it's the best I can offer and I can assure you it comes from deep in my heart.

This one was far too near a thing. I was actually between the rock and hard place in the most real of ways and it wasn't looking good. Many thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers and for all you did for Karen. Someday soon I'll tell you about her from a standpoint I have rarely described her before. She was warmed by this place once again and we both thank all of you for so much that words aren't really sufficient.

I'm home and feeling great, breathing better than I have in probably the past three or four years. I'm feeling pretty strong but it's amazing how quickly you lose all stamina after being intubated. One Doc said it takes 3-4 weeks rehab for every day past one that you're on a vent. Strong as I feel right now I was amazed at how quickly I ran down after getting home. But believe me, I am taking it easy and doing it right as I think I've gone to the "More Luck than Good Sense" bag once too often already.

But enough of this serious sounding crappola.......I have a few good stories which I'll post over the next few weeks including a wonderful piece of irony that Paw and Cletus fans will enjoy.

Once again, our thanks and our own best wishes back to you all. Have some great holidays and enjoy the company of friends and family.

Spaw