Kendall - update (June 2009)

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: My guru always said
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:08 AM

Sodit! Love, hugs and positive thoughts!
Hil x

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:56 AM

What she said... but with more expletives.

Should I open up the Recovery Ward? It's got a secret tunnel to the Tavern that Nurse Ratched hasn't discovered yet...

LTS

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:04 AM

Take care of each other and make sure you get enough rest. Thinking of you both.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:58 AM

Positive thoughts winging their way across the herring pond today.

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: billybob
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:22 AM

Only know you both through mudcat, but healing thoughts and best wishes from Billy and me.
Wendy

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 07:04 AM

So disheartening.
The fight goes on.
Very best thoughts and hopes,
keith and mary

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 07:11 AM

Best wishes from another individual who only knows you as a valued member of our community here.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 09:00 AM

Best wishes for a rapid recovery from Texas.
- Phil

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 09:19 AM

Nobody ever recovers from Texas...........

On the other hand............WE're all hangin' in with you both and I know this has been damn tough to say the very least......and I guess I will because I have no more words to tell you how much I care...............This whole place cares...........and we're all pissed off and don't know what else we can do......

Much Love.....

Pat

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 09:57 AM

All the very best and positive thoughts winging their way across the waves.

Love and Blessings
Rhiannon and Mick

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 10:48 AM

what everyone said!

sending more hugs & good wishes

sandra

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:02 AM

Jacqui,

I am so sad to hear this latest news. It sounds like the Doctor hasn't given up hope, so I hope you and Kendall stick along. An old saw is "Success is getting up one more time than you are knocked down". Keep on striving. I wish you both success and you will be in my prayers.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:33 AM

Keep fighting the good fight. We're all in your corner.
                                              Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: momnopp
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:59 AM

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Hogs and quiches,

JudyO/momnopp

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:20 PM

Waves of loving thoughts.........

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Nancy King
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:34 PM

Jeez, Kendall, it just goes on and on, doesn't it? I'm thinking of you and looking forward to seeing you very soon.

Love to you both,
Nancy

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:35 PM

Twiddle twiddle, twiddle twiddle... my thumbs are getting sore.

BTW, what Spaw said... that's what I meant by my first post, eh? I just don't have such elephants in my vertactfular.... eh?

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:36 PM

Blastid raggin' fratulastic cancer sux.

Sorry Kendall and Jacqui. I really hoped that it would be minimal.

Well now preparing my mind and heart to contemplate all the hope and good luck it can muster and sending it your way.

My best wishes to you both

Tamara

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Carly
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 02:16 PM

I hope that both of you can take the love and support coming to you from so many,(including my own bit,) and add it to your own not-inconsiderable strengths as you climb this hard path. We hope it helps.

Love to both of you,
Carly Gewirz

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 02:56 PM

Thanks to all of you. Your messages mean a lot to us both.

We're home and settling down to decompress and take stock.We both need to come to terms with this in our own way. Kendall needs to be allowed into his 'sulking place' and left for a while in peace, and that he shall have.

We had a good drive home (well, I was driving so it was a bit white knuckle for the Cap'n.) It's nice to be back in familiar surroundings, although the rooms in the Albany hotel we use are becoming more and more familiar. It was a good thing we chose to stay there, rather than with friends in the area, as neither of us was feeling at all social last night.

We go back for the post-op in 2 - 3 weeks and, hopefully, can get more info then on how this goes forward.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:09 PM

Mom said she is praying for the two of you Jacqui !

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:17 PM

Terry - let your Mum know I'll be over in July/August and will drop in to visit with her.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:18 PM

Lasagna and milk. Cake and ice cream later. Sausages and eggs and oatmeal for brekky.... you see where this is going... lobster and crackers and beer is the goal next week.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:39 PM

Well, he had Chinese last night, and shrimp scampi for lunch today in Kittery. He's eating well - not a lot keeps my sweetie from his scoff.

Lobster will follow..............

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Hollowfox
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:01 PM

I don't know whether to gripe at the results of the operation or to give thanks that modern medicine has kept you (among others) as well and sound as you are. As the Broadway song says, "I'm not dead yet". and shrimp scampi is worth living for. as for words, they've all been said by the previous posts. Good thoughts and prayers and midwest folkie juju are being sent out as I type, and the series of Genuine Purebred Midwest $#@!-reduction candles will continue when I get home from work. Take care of yourselves and each other (not forgetting the dog). Both of you. Get some serious pampering in. Love, Mary

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: JudyB
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:15 PM

Well drat -

Good thoughts heading your way, to be accompanied by hugs next time we see you.

JudyB & Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:56 PM

I wonder if I can somehow make a career out of immitating a Giraffe?

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: ranger1
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:03 PM

Only if you get your neck stretched about another 12 feet.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:07 PM

Sometimes, that is what throat surgery feels like.

Glad to see you posting, buddy.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:09 PM

Keep your Pecker (Or ANYthing else) Up Mate !!!

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:16 PM

Keep your chin up, Kendall...oh, wait...I guess you have to, huh?

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Joybell
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:42 PM

I've been watching and waiting too. All our good thoughts from me and True-love.
Joy

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: MaineDog
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 08:19 PM

Well, Kendall,
I think you need to attend to your diet, which seems to be very like mine: too much Chinese and Thai food, and too little Single Malt,, and I can't sing either, that must be the problem.
Will I see you at Old Songs?
Jim

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 09:27 PM

You will never see me at Old Songs again.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 09:53 PM

Never say never, Captain. (unless some one running Old Songs really pissed you off.)

Love you.

Janie

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:01 PM

Jacqui

Don't skimp on the "Lobster Helper". Nothing is too fancy for you and tha Captain.

Art

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 05:36 AM

"Unless someone pissed me off" ?? thats an understatement.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 08:55 AM

Kendall was royally pissed off last year at Old Songs. There was a Utah Phillips memorial in which Kendall, Caroline Paton and, I believe, Priscilla Herdman were told they could not take part.

If that wasn't enough I was very badly bitten by mosquitoes - got about 50 bites and I react badly to them - it was a week before I was able to get any real sleep so, in spite of the fact that I love the festival, I just can't face those damned little pests again.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 09:03 AM

Pissed on and so pissed off. Yeah, I been there. Just get well and outlive the pissers-on: do something folkie about it, like dance at their funerals.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Fortunato
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 10:10 AM

Hey, Kendall, I'm looking foward to coming up to Maine, and hope to take the scenic routes you mapped out for me.

Although I'll not have a lot of use for hypnotizing lobster down in Asheville NC (to where we're fixin' to retire next year, I hasten to add)I figure if it works on lobsters it ought to work on hillbillies, too.

I'm still rereading your book down there on the mountain house. It makes great outhouse entertainment (no offense) the stories are just the right length. How did you gauge them so perfectly?

Speaking of outhouses, did I ever tell you how my cousin Viola burnt down the outhouse up on the hill above grandPa's house in Honeyville? She was sneaking a lucky strike one Sunday afternoon when grandPa walked up on her whistling Leather Britches, she jumped up threw her cigarette down the hole and the Montgomery Ward (Sears was too expensive) fell down off her lap into the hole. Pa went in as she went out and sat down. After 5 minutes or so the catalog down in the hole caught on fire. Pa escaped with only scorched galluses on his overalls, but the outhouse burned down to reveal 30 years of accumulated, well, nevermind...

Cheer up, or I'll tell another story, you hear?
chance

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Deckman
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 10:15 AM

Jacqui ... thanks for explaining that. I figured that something mighty bad musta' happened. What IDIOT made that stoopid decision? bob

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 10:45 AM

We discussed this at length last year.

There were many people who wanted to perform and not all of them could. Not everybody got to perform in fundraisers and other concerts elsewhere, and Utah was well known to folks in the Albany area who maybe didn't get any other chances to memorialize him. In retrospect, the necessarily hastily organized memorial could have been handled better, but nothing can be done about it now except bitch.

And I'm sorry that not getting priority over others counts for more than Utah's memory or your friends that will be there or the music. I would have liked to have heard Kendall and everybody who wanted to perform, but being pissed over what happened a year ago just makes you and the people who care about you miserable.

I can understand about the mosquitoes though. That's why I'm staying in a hotel this year. First time ever, since 1981.

All of that said, if Kendall's grudgifying and complaining, I figure he's getting back to 'normal' pretty quickly. Do what the doctor says and don't talk!

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 12:27 PM

Yeah, I hate them damn flies too. Never used to bother me but after the slice-and-dices under the ears, I HAD to use fly dope and that stuff bugs me.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 12:50 PM

Jeri, you do make a lot of sense as usual, but there is more to the story. Utah and I were close friends,I was not just another fan trying to get in on the act, and I was grieving his loss. The whole thing was poorly done, it was half an hour late getting started and then it was moved to another location. They had plenty of time to include Caroline, Priscilla and me. I've been a loyal Old Songs supporter for years and it just all piled up at once.

I may change my mind at some point but I doubt it.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 02:33 PM

Listen, I apologize. I forgot a fundamental thing I learned when I worked in hospitals: people who are sick (or recovering from recent surgery) don't generally have an operational niceness filter. I however, have no excuse.

Decisions were made that wound up making Kendall feel bad. One of the people who made the decision is a Mudcatter and a friend. Kendall may choose to hold onto his resentment or may eventually let it go--I can't do anything about it. The people he holds responsible are my friends and Kendall is my friend, so I choose to not discuss it any more.

Kendall, get better quick dammit!

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 07:38 PM

Well, funny you should mention that. I just got an e mail from my Doctor, and he said my prognosis is good but he can't be more specific until the pathology report comes back to him.

Of course, I don't know what "Good" means to him. To me it means I will get some sort of voice in time. To him it might just mean it's not going to kill me.

I think I know who that mudcatter was that made the decision at Old Songs. I've talked to him and it's ok.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 07:58 PM

He might just mean it's not gonna kill you, but this guy knows how important your voice is to you, doesn't he?

I've been having a stupid day. Felt like I've been trying to run through molasses, and now that thing about the niceness filter seems kind of ignorant.    I'm going to give up in case it's possible for me to say something even stupider, because I'll surely come up with it.

I may catch up to Jacqui on Don Meixner silver bracelets though. Take care of yourself. I'll probably make the John Roberts house concert.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 08:36 PM

I hope to see you here.

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Padre
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 09:41 PM

Prayers for your recovery, Kendall

Tom McHenry+

Subject: RE: Kendall - update (June 2009)
From: Tinker
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 10:02 PM

Kendall, I'm glad to see you in here posting today.