Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:22 AM

Pat's friend, Wayne, just called me and asked me to let you all know, Pat has begun bleeding from somewhere, probably related to the appendectomy, but they are not sure, at this point. They are working on it, but of course, can use all the support, love, hugs, good thoughts, etc. we can muster. I will touch base with Karen later today or tomorrow.

Please send whatever you are able/so moved.

Thanks,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:35 AM

Will do.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Dave Swan
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:37 AM

Thanks, Kat

Sending all best thoughts to Pat and Karen, the boys and the rest of the family.

Hang in there, boy.

D

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:40 AM

Good thoughts and virtual hugs winging their way northwest.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: My guru always said
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:41 AM

Thanks for letting us know kat. Sending positive thoughts from across the pond!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:44 AM

And from the severer northwest. Pat, this is just another hurdle. You can do this. Luxuriate in the warm cocoon of love and good stuff coming your way.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:02 PM

I bet he's on major anticoagulants. I hope it's something that will fix itself, or at least be easily repaired. Clot, dammit! You're in my thoughts, Pat. Get better and come back, because I miss you around here.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: curmudgeon
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:04 PM

Hang on, Pat. Remember the guidance you sent me about the elephant ride. Bright Light from Linn and I - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:22 PM

..... what everyone said, and a lot more.....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:36 PM

Please give them both my love when you talk to them, holding him in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:38 PM

O noooooo... Hold tight, Spaw. Lot of us rooting for you out here -

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Nancy King
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:43 PM

Mend quickly, Spaw! We're all looking forward to seeing you back here with your usual tasteless drivel!

Keeping you in my thoughts --

Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: alanabit
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:47 PM

Of course we are all looking forward to having you back with us fit and well Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ClaireBear
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:51 PM

Heal and mend, O inimitable Spaw. I am praying and doing the bears' special get-well dance for you...

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Alan whittle
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:53 PM

Lots of good wishes, and get well prayers

al

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 12:54 PM

What everyone else has already said...

Ol' hillbilly wishing ya' the best, Big Guy...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:01 PM

Yup, prescription anti coagulants for his other ailments was what occurred to me too.
Got my fingers, legs, and eyes, crossed for you pal.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:09 PM

Good thoughts coming from across the Pond. Get better soon my friend. Good thoughts also going to Karen and the boys.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:19 PM

And from me too Pat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: bfdk
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:27 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Spaw!

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:37 PM

CRAP!

I mean that in a good way. T&Ps at ya buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:39 PM

Of course, for the family and friends as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:48 PM

Pat,

You are one of the best people I never met. I don`t think prayers do a helluva lot, but for you I`ll try.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 01:52 PM

Stop that! Just stop it, you hear? I'm thinking of you, so don't make me come back there.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:07 PM

Prayers here Pat and family, and a reminder of so many here and around the planet who care very much. Clot, cure, and crow in triumph!

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: bobad
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:16 PM

C'mon Spaw, quit jerking around, clot up, get well and get back in here to astound us all with your eloquence.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:22 PM

OK

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:23 PM

Fuckin` right. As it is, I have been fartin` on your behalf. No one will come near me anymore. Get well and get back here.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:29 PM

Just left Karen a message on her cell that we are sending all we've got with lots of love, hugs, prayers, and thoughts. This one bothers me.

I give thanks for a complete and immediate healing. This or something better, for the highest good of all concerned. So mote it be!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Gervase
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:38 PM

Sincere prayers from a grumpy atheist here. We want to see you back online and being mightily vulgar as soon as possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Blondy
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:02 PM

Come on, Greaseball. Nobody lives forever, but we need at least 20 more years out of you. Have 'em put in a new valve cover gasket and get back in the race, because we've got a lot of laps to go, and the view would suck if I couldn't see you in my rear view! Or, yeah, through my windshield on the straightaways.

Your pal now and always

LEJ

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

I echo the above.
Healing thoughts coming across the Atlantic.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:17 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:17 PM

There is only one Catspaw. Thank Christ, so get you ass back here.
Ad

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:23 PM

Sending lots of positive thoughts for a full and speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:27 PM

All the very best thoughts from Charlie in Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Genie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:35 PM

Virtual hugs, good vibes, positive energy, and visualizations of you soon being back in fine farting form, coming from me to you, Spaw.

Get your ass well real soon (and the rest of you too)!

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 04:06 PM

Sending big, big mojo for a big, big man.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 04:19 PM

Best wishes from this side of the Tuna pond. Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: jeffp
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 04:41 PM

Prayers ahd good thoughts from Maryland.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 05:20 PM

While they're in there can you have 'em replace the muffler?

I'm warning you, don't make me donate blood! They're afraid to take mine because the alcohol content can cause fires and you wouldn't want to be responsible for that now, would you?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:10 PM

Prayers, warm wishes, and good thoughts for Catspaw. You can beat this, old man. Hang tough and keep yer beaver up. All best.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:14 PM

Okay... thoughts, thoughts, thoughts... praryers, praryers, praryers... when do I get my update that says you are okay and I (we) don't have to be tight asshole awaiting good news? Yer tiring me out, Spaw. Stop this bleeding stuff and get some coagulation going fer fuck sake eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:39 PM

Just got a call from Connie, Pat's sister in all but blood.:-) He had a haematoma on one side of the incision which they took care of, but also found one on the other side. So he is headed into surgery as soon as the doc gets done taking out someone else's gall bladder! They have been walking a very fine line between plasma, frozen platelets(or somesuch) and lasix as well as the darn coumadin. As Connie says, he never does things by half. I think she said they did two units of plasma this morning, then things went dickie with his BP etc. so they readjusted with four units of something else plus the meds. Sorry, I didn't have a pen handy to take notes.

There is concern about anything else which may be causing bleeding. As Connie said, we hope it's just that he is on cuomadin, and, just after the appy, went nuts from after-effects of the anaesthesia and pulled out his PIC line as well as a drain AND tried to pull out the Foley (catheter!) so maybe he pulled a stitch or two? The greatest concern is the aortic aneurysm which they won't know about until they get in there.

After twenty years of working at the same hospital Pat frequents, no one has approved Karen's request for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) yet, so any extra energy might be helpful there.

Michael has really stepped up to the plate and proven himself to be the fine young man we all knew he could be. He has been staying with Tristan when Karen has been at work, helping to keep Tris' routine as normal as possible. He has really matured and they have reason to be proud.

I will be consolidating your messages into one email to send to Connie who will take them up next time she goes to see Pat and Karen. Over the next few days he will probably be out of it because of the anaesthetic, again, but I know Karen will appreciate them. He will be in CCU after the surgery. Connie will call me if anything changes.

May he come out all right.

Love,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:44 PM

..... such fun.... watching and reading constantly

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:48 PM

Send him our love too. Or a swift kick in the pants - whichever gets him back on his feet sooner.

Subject: RE: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:26 PM

Just sent your messages to Connie and added this:

Tell him that Rick Fielding does NOT need any help taking care of orders for the Layabouts for Hire. All contracts have been suspended!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:27 PM

Hope you are up and around soon, Pat.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:28 PM

Well, fuck it!!!

I mean, I wasn't gonna do this but...

....#*@^%$*(*&%*#(^&^%$#*(&)#(**^&^$%^)!!!!!

There, that feels better...

Now we gotta get Spawzer feelin' better 'cause it's gettin' time fir a little good ol' Christmas flagilation...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

We can't have the world loosing one of the few people whose sense of humor may be more twisted than mine. Pat, hoping the best for you.
                   Dean in Michigan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Paul Burke
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:41 PM

I happen to know that Spaw was restored in 1849- I've got the photograph to prove it (available on demand)- so he should be ready for another lick of paint now. Someone will cure the old bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:43 PM

Bobert, I am shocked, SHOCKED you would swear like that in poor old Spaw's thread!

Maybe they should take some duct tape to the hospital...

Chill, dude, and concentrate on not leaking.
Love,
Jeri

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:45 PM

Leave it to Spaw to celbrate a mid-life crisis by menstruating...the best I could come up with at the moment.

Michael is amazing. I am not surpeised that he has stepped in to master of the house.

Prayers from one atheist to another.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:48 PM

Get well and get back here fast Spaw! Your eloquent expression and insightful advice on the Mudcat is a work of art! I hope that you won't be missing for long!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:53 PM

S
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Damned "enter" key.

SINS, I think we got an atheist prayer chain going here.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:06 PM

We atheists 'believe' that OUR prayers are just as good as anyone's!!

Pat will agree when he's out of that place! I just 'feel' it.....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:27 PM

Stop doing that in public, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:36 PM

Hey Spaw.....

   I'm wishing I had something silly to add but the truth is I hope you get yourself well and get home ASAP. Quit makin' us worry.

Much love to you my friend,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:40 PM

Pat, if there's anything we can do from a distance that will help you feel better, have someone let us know. Springing a leak is not, in general, a healthy thing to do, so like Rapaire said, don't make me come back there . . .

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Dharmabum
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:05 PM

Spaw,the place ain't the same without ya.
Slow the flow & git yer ass back here!

Sending best whishes.

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:09 PM

Come on, 'Spaw............

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Neil D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:11 PM

Hang tough Spaw. You wouldn't let Neil bow out so easily. Tons of positive energy coming for you and your family. Kat, is there an address where we can send cards? Thanks again for the updates.

                               Christina and Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:13 PM

Good luck and get well.
Russ (Permanent GUEST)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:23 PM

Geez! One can't ignore this forum for half a day without another catastrophe.

Kat, thanks for your updates.

I hope the egregious sod gets better fast.

I'll pour a libation of mead at the foot of our old maple tree to the Old Gods just for you. They'll love the attention.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:44 PM

adding my good thoughts & best wishes to the world-wide mix

love from sandra to spaw & family

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:49 PM

Haven't heard anything more, yet, folks, but am sending your messages to Connie. Thanks so much. You are a grand lot, you know that?! As soon as I can, I will post an address for cards and such. Thanks for asking.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 10:39 PM

My wife just finished a two hour nosebleed (no, I didn't hit her, it's an old baseball injury, it really is!). I do NOT want to have to deal with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named back in Ohio. I strongly urge him to knock it off; he can get plenty of attention in other ways.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 10:58 PM

LOL, that's kind of what Connie said to him. He likes the slipper socks they pass out in hospital. She'd gotten him some for Christmas. She told him he didn't need to go to such extremes to get a new pair. Then she asked him if it was an "only child" thing...just have to be the center of attention!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM

I know what the trouble is: barometric pressure. As the weather in Ohio clears and calms so will Pat. You heard it here first.

Grab the barometer and give it a shake, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM

Spaws one of my favourites around here....when I am feeling for the need to laugh I just look up one of his posts and I get my fix. It's a shame that he's had so many serious problems over the years. I hope you get better soon, Pat. We need ya back here to put things into proper perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:11 PM

You know I love you my friend. You are scaring me! I call ya and talk to you and Karen and we joke and laugh and a couple of weeks later I read this stuff. Now knock it off - don't make me come over there and kick ya one. If you or Karen needs anything at all you call, you have my cell.

you are in my prayers

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: BlueJay
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:08 AM

I know it's been awhile, Spaw, but I want you to know I'm still rootin' for you. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ragdall
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:54 AM

Spaw,
Stop that silliness and clot, dang it! We all need you back here, ASAP.
Good thoughts and prayers are coming your way.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:07 AM

Even the coyotes are howling tonight. "Get wellll...get welll... Hey 'Spaaaaawww...Get, get, get welllll. Yap yap yap yap yap yap."

Don't look at me. That's what they're saying right now. Listen: can't you hear 'em?

Bright moon tonight, and cold.

"Clot, clot, darn 'Spaw" Wm. Shakespeare, 'Macbeth'



So I can't sleep. I guess Pat had better pull himself together.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:26 AM

Well....I was farting earlier....and each spurt of gas from my ass said get better old man!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:37 AM

I was going to agree with Amergin from his post before this. (17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM) I'll let you two put your heads together about farts and stay out of that one.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Robyn
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:31 AM

Greetings from NZ.
Hurry and get home - it's almost Christmas and you don't want to be in there for Christmas!
(Tho' I'm sure the nurses are all very nice but it's not the same.)
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:25 AM

Ah Spaw, Ya gotta get home for Christmas! Hang in there and get better quickly.

Another atheist prayer on the chain!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:37 AM

Lookit that, Spawdarlin'...you've even roused folks we don't see much any more! Heya, BlueJay!! Okay, Spaw, that's enough, honest...it's good to see them and all, but you don't need to get their attention this way!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hollowfox
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 08:02 AM

Hey, Spaw - as the newest member of the Mudcat Coumadin Club, can I take your turn on nosebleed shift and let you go home this time? Or, I could sic Amy on you. You saw her sweet, quiet, nice to pets and her mother side, but she can be terrifying. She narrows her eyes like Lee Van Cleef in a spagetti western, raises her eyebrows, and then she'd face down a mountain lion with a buggy whip and a small smile.
Love to the family, and the $#@!-reduction candles continue, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 09:49 AM

Rec`d this from a good friend via e-mail. Here ya go, Pat.


An ad found in the Canberra Times, Personal Section:

I reckon this bloke should have got a few replies simply for taking the time to think of this!

Wanted A tall well-built woman with good
reputation, who can cook frogs
legs, who appreciates a good fuc-
schia garden, classic music and tal-
king without getting too serious.

Interested?
Then please only read lines 1, 3 and 5;
still interested?
Call me at...... 4321-1234

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:05 AM

Please be well, Catspaw, we all need you...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:46 AM

Looking for a progress report on the ol' Spawser. It's Saturday, that has to mean things are looking up!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:22 AM

Be well, please. The catbox needs you.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:32 AM

Always said you were a silly bleeder,'Spaw. Get Well Soon! The Feds are looking into the accounts of the NYCFTTS- something to do with laundering Madoff funds, get back & sort it!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:50 AM

Just spoke with Karen who spent the night at Connie and Wayne's.

He had a rough time in surgery. He had been in huge waves of pain from the haematoma and when they went in there, they took out a litre of blood from both sides of his belly. They've been having trouble with his blood pressure because of his haemoglobin, so they gave him two units before surgery, during surgery and after surgery. He spiked a fever last night and there is a bit of pneumonia in the upper lobe of his lung, left side, I think. He is on a vent, but they are starting to wean him off of that. He is in ICU. I forgot to ask about cards, but will send Connie and email and ask.

Despite all of that, Karen sounded very upbeat, though tired, and Connie did, too. Karen is going to go see him, soon, and then will go home for the first time in a couple of days where she will spend the night. She hasn't seen the boys in a couple of days and is looking forward to it.

Please keep sending your best, mostest powerfull Mudcat mojo and let's push him over the hump (oh, that's a camel, not an elephant, huh? Well, let's just give him a huge lift, what say you?!)

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:57 AM

I don't think he's in any condition for humping right now. He's got to get a lot better for that sort of thing. So, he's got to get better. That there is known as "logic."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:03 PM

you've got it.......well, no, Pat and Connie got it but you know what I mean.......be well, my friend and much love

Terri x

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:05 PM

Look at it this way...the guy represents job security for surgeons and nurses..

I'm sure he'd be proud...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:32 PM

As was said above, it is Saturday, the ending of each week, bitter or sweet or blah. This is GOOD. Now you can mend, Pat. As fast as you can gather the strength to, do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Noreen
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:33 PM

I say

Get well soon, Catswap!

(I wanted to say "Get well soon, Catspaw!" but my keyboard translated it- and I think I like the new name xx)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:50 PM

So how many Christmases has Karen celebrated in a hospital? Or with Spaw in bed?
Enough of this crap. Get your lazy ass out of bed and take care of yourself.
Auntie SINS, in mothering mode

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:05 PM

I am having a hard time to stay at "level CRAP". Any more of this, Spaw, and I am skipping levels damn AND son-of-a-pup! You don't wanna make a half-grown man cry do ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:25 PM

This is a helluva way to get out of decorating the tree. If you don't want to do it, just say something and someone else will do it. Or just get one already decorated. (I never take mine down.)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:30 PM

The only way to decorate the tree is by sitting in the recliner with some ales and telling the wife where to put this and that.

You are welcome in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 03:34 PM

Too easy?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:57 PM

Lord Jesus, you went about doing good and healing all, we ask You to bless our friend Pat who is ill. Give him the strength in body, courage in spirit, and patience in pain. Recover his health and watch over Pat , Karen and the rest of his family. He is a beloved friend to us all. Restore him to health, bless and protect him, and grant courage and strength to his family while they are caring for him during this time of trouble. In Your Name, we ask for Your help. Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:06 PM

I ain't much fer that kinda stuff, Dan, but, AMEN!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:15 PM

Sending more good thoughts too....what would Mudcat be without the occasional blast of hot air from Ohio?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:16 PM

Amen

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 06:08 PM

Hey Spaw....I don't know if you'll be able to read this while you're laid up....getting a sponge bath by some pretty young nurse....but I thought maybe this will help keep your spirits up:

Guide To Bad Parenting

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 06:15 PM

Pat,
Be better--and be quick about it!

I'm with ya, guy.
Art

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: DougR
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

Evidently you are having a pretty tough time, Pat. Sorry you are. I hope you are up and around as soon as possible.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:50 PM

Add another Amen to Oldster's prayer...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Dear Who- or What- ever, who art in the Afterlife (assuming that there is one), please make our friend Pat well again. While you're at it, don't make him sick anymore. He's tired of that schtick, okay?

Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:58 PM

adding another contribution to the beam of good wishes heading Spaw's way

sndra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Mark Clark
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:36 PM

I just learned of this from olddude. I don't spend as much time here as I used to and I've had BS turned off for a long time.

Please tell 'Spaw I'm thinking of him and surely miss the old discussions. Pat is one guy I always wanted to meet in person and now that I'm traveling east with some frequency I figured I'd finally get the chance.

Hang in there 'Spaw we're all pullin' for ya.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: KT
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:19 AM

Spaw, I'm sitting here in the frozen north, checking in as I do several times a day, hoping for a good progress report. It will be a joyous day indeed, to see a post from you. Keep healing, Spaw. Lots of folks holding a net for you here.

Karen, best to you, too. Hang in there,rest when you can, and keep holding that light for that guy who absolutely adores you.

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:15 AM

Just checking in.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: open mike
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:40 AM

here's rootin' for you....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: My guru always said
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:28 AM

Sending positive thoughts & love to Pat and Karen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:35 AM

Spaw, in this instance "clot" is NOT an insult!!!!

"Amen" and "So Mote It Be" to all healing prayers and wishes. (C'mon mate, we're sending vibes at you from all directions - you couldn't be more bound up in love and good wishes if you tried)!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:13 AM

Still keeping a watch on this thread.

Typical Spaw - all that bad weather in Ohio and he finds a way to stay warm and avoid putting out the trash. Definitely a worthy layabout.

I'm sending good energies to help the healing process my dear friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 08:19 AM

Holding vigil here as well, and sending beams of light and love and healing. And rest for Karen, too. Love to you!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 08:48 AM

I hope you heal up quick, old chum.

best wishes,
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 10:19 AM

........... ♥ ∞

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:32 AM

I am hoping there will be good news today.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Partridge
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:17 PM

Much love and healing thought from another Pat xxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

!!!^^^!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:40 PM

Spaw...

   I'm sending along my mostest powerful Mudcat mojo and lots of other good stuff for you and your family!!!!!!!!

Keeping you all in my thoughts,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 07:56 PM

Okay. I've donated over ten gallons of blood over the years. I have written all of the places I've donated and Spaw should be receiving better than ten gallons of A+ any time now. Granted, some of it's pretty old, but then so is he.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: chazkratz
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 09:10 PM

Patsclaw, what you really need is that which I've been promising you all these weary years, your Golden Shower, so on this occasion I'd like to finally keep my promise, especially with the help of   Fellow Mudcatters, before you go to bed tonight, as you make your final premorphial* bladder draining, think of Pat. Before you loose the stream say "Here's to ya, you old malingerer, you," then cut loose.

And Pat, you've gotta open your mind to the loving streams from all over the world. I know the effect would be greatest if we could unite worldwide for a single instant so for maximum effect I'd like to suggest that all Muddies time their ablutions for 10 p.m. Greenwich, but I know you're all too dense to figure out what time that would be in your own zones, and maybe it's best anyway that we don't flood him but just keep a modest stream aimed his way for the next 24 hours...

I love you, Pat. Keep your head above water.

*premorphial (a word I coined for the occasion--referring to Morpheus, god of sleep and soporifics.
--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Justa Picker
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 09:45 PM

Pullin' for you Buddy.
You will lick this. Please get well asap.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:20 PM

bseed...that was plumb bee-you-tee-full.

JP, good to see you, too.

I will call Karen tomorrow, folks, for an update. I don't want to pester her, too often. I figure, right now, no news is good news. I have it from Sister Connie, I will hear if there is a change, either way.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:18 AM

♥ °

from me, too...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:27 AM

Wow, it's been so long since I have been here at Mudcat...I'm sorry to hear this news...

Hey Spaw my friend...hang in there...there's a lot of people who love you and are praying for you...me included...

Take Care
Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:28 AM

Still keeping our fingers and toes crossed!

                                 Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:11 AM

Thanks Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ragdall
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:53 AM

To what Dan said,
Amen.


rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:52 AM

I'm keeping my best thoughts going and will check in from time to time.
Here's hoping...

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!

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: 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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:57 AM

No peepee for PP?

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: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:44 AM

More healing thoughts from the Blue Ridge...

B~

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:06 PM

Wishing quick healing and good feeling for Mr.

  
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Severn
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:35 PM

Continued good wishes.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Nancy King
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:43 PM

Thanks for the updates, Kat! Sounds like things are getting better. Whew!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:46 PM

Hey Uncle Spaw
Somebody says get better soon ok

Dom

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: bobad
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:57 PM

Spaw spewing.........aaah....that must be so cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:02 PM

Glad you brought that up

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: KT
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:06 PM

Thanks for sharing the good news, kat! And Oyster Stew will be a delicious way to ring in the new year!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:10 PM

"Spaw Spews" - Now that's a headline for you. Just try saying it 5 times.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:29 PM

Dan... Dom is some cute. I'll bet if he was old enough know his GREAT Uncle Spaw he'd be crying.

Yer welcome in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:41 PM

Got 'em from me... hope all is improving.

XX

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hawker
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 06:12 PM

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

One for you Spaw
get better !!

accent-U-Ate the positive

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 07:59 PM

Karen, Kick his lazy ass out of that bed, spewing or no, and climb in for a long rest yourself. That goes for Connie and the boys too. This simply has to stop! NOW!
Enough Mr. Patterson, Don't make me come out there to sort you out.
SINS, far crankier than you could ever hope to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:04 PM

Okay. 2 hours and nobody ran with mt set up? SPAW!!! We need you back here badly... nobody here can make fart jokes. This is critical. Get well before it's too late.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:50 PM

Danged, Spawzer... Now look what you done... You have Sins threatenin' to come and drag yer sorry ass outta that warm hospital bed and let Karen have it... Man, if that happens then you have just set back the development of "man" (not womanz) back, ahhhhh, let's see??? Maybe a couple of weeks... You want that??? Hell no, you don't!!! I say that the best defense is a strong offense... Know what I mean??? I'm talkiin' Reg Boyz here... I'm talkin' flagellation... Are we gonna let a bunch of womenz push us around, 'er what...

I tell ya' what, Spawzer... Seein' as yer flagellator ain't up to the task I'm gonna have my Couzin Rufus make a few calls... Yeah, we know how to fight fire with fire... No, no... Please don't light that match... That was just one of the metaphoric things... Put the match down... Man, you could blow this joint up with this su7pply of "man's not-so-secret-weapon"....

So, that's the plan, Spawzer... You detract the nurses and me, Couzin Rufus and maybe he can get then Reg Boyz (they related, ya know) to take care of Sins... She won't know what hit her... Okay, she prolly will but no matter...

But just in case, I recommend that you take them bed sheets and tie yer ass to that bed...

(Have you thought this through, Boberdz???)

Why you ask???

(Well, it sounds pretty juvenile...)

You got a point???

Not to worry, Spawzer... Ol' hillbilly got this one figurated out purdy danged good... Sins won't get within a hunnert feet of you... I mean, she'll hit that wall of, ahhhhhh, cologne and she'll be like coughin' 'n sputterin' and she'll have to come back here an' tell the rest of the womenz that we men definitely have the upper hand when it comes to this shit...

Sho nuff will...

But the best part about this is that after yer well an' ya' ain't got no half crazed womenz threatenin' to throw yer sorry ass out on the street from the ICU ward that we can get Couzin Rufe and the Reg Boyz together fir a little Christmas carolin' (wink, wink) next year... Know what I mean??? Maybe we can can Santa Claus all beaned up and fightin' for the good side???

Meanwhile, lock yer door and teach the nurses a code-knock to get in...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Dave Swan
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:53 PM

Kat, thank you for the update and keeping us all informed.

Patrick, get well soon and have fun doing it.

Karen, get some rest and remember that you're the best thing that ever happened to Pat.

D

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:56 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Spaw.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:15 PM

Hey, Spaw! I just send you a Face Book friends request and it would be RUDE AND IMPOLITE not to get the hell outa the hospital and accept me as your dearest friend (not THAT close).

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:20 PM

Listen up, mister. NO U-TURNS ALLOWED!!!!

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

hey, Spawzer....i am looking forward to the post that you will make in person...I want to hear it straight from the horse's Mouth, i mean ass!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Beer
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:54 PM

Hope you are getting up and feeling better
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:10 PM

Awright, 200 times. Take up your bed and walk outa there.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:26 AM

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: My guru always said
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:18 AM

Thanks for the update kat! Haven't been around much this past week as I've started on pain management for my back but this is one of several threads I check on when I can.

Still thinking of Pat & Karen from here. Sending positive thoughts, love & hugs.
Hil

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:55 AM

All the best, Spaw. Get well soon

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:24 AM

Just the usual holiday stress is enough to send most mortals to the emergency this time of year. Hope you get home in time to enjoy the Christmas tree. You can leave the Christmas guilt to next year.

Grumble, grumble,
Charley Noble, who still hasn't got the tree up

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:32 AM

Bobert,
Did you not notice the huge exhaust fan on the ceiling? Spaw has been in this hospital before.
You need a better plan.
The Reg Boys, indeed.
You'll have to do better than that.
As to you Spaw...we're waiting. How are you doing old man?
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:14 AM

I have a wonderful idea! Let's chip in and buy Spaw a lifetime supply of...dare I say it?...no, I cannot.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:24 AM

I knew what the link was before I clicked it.

I don't think it's a good idea. What if he took it regularly for a while and then forgot about it one day? Small children, pets and the frail would be in grave danger.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 12:33 PM

Hey Charlie, I think I speak for all of the rest of us regarding your Tree when I say I sincerely hope you can get it up by Christmas Eve. Once you get it up, I suggest hanging some tinsel on it and putting a star on the top. If you are a married man, maybe your wife will help you hang some colored lights on it. After all, there's no reason to get it up unless it becomes the center of the celebration.

Sorry, but I knew if Spaw was here, he would find that one irresistable.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 12:50 PM

A Christmas gift for Spaw's Karen
For Karen

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:09 PM

Is Spaw Jewish?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:30 PM

Hmmmm.... that joke may lose it's meaning once that item is sold on eBay, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:45 PM

I hope Spaw continues to do well. Sometimes I think he gets ill so he can challenge the docs to find out what's wrong. He seldom gets simple straight forward illnesses. This apparently started out as an appendectomy. Of course most of us have those when we're in elementary school, not 112 years old like Spaw. A simple in and out of the hospital would do. But No-o-o-o-o-, Spaw has to start spitting up blood or whatever and scaring the bejesus out of his family and his doctors and his friends on the Mudcat. However, he will have my prayers and my hope that he will get well soon.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:59 PM

Well done, LeeJ. You've done the guy proud.

Just spoke with Sister Connie. He is definitely on the mend, imo and hers. Troublesome stuff first: the sputum culture came back and the infection is one of the ones which are notorious for hanging out in hospitals. (I *think* I have the correct name of it, if anyone wants to know, please PM.) The best of all possible is that it means it is in his lung and NOT near his valve and/or intestines near the surgery site. REALLY good news is his temperature is down to 97.8!!

They have backed off on the pain meds and sedatives to the point that he hollered to Karen to get a nurse in there ASAP because his ass hurt! His first words, from all accounts after they took out the breathing tube. Since he's been on his back, and I know he has back problems, I can really relate. It really CAN hurt after a time! (I know you guys will take this and run with it...too many good lines there, eh?!)

Connie said he might get moved from SICU, today. She's sure they wouldn't mind as he has been so cranky.:-) She's sure he won't get out for Christmas, though, and they are planning on holding off the big Christmas meal until he is out, probably have it on New Year's Day. On Christmas, they will have other easy to fix and graze kind of food.

Thanks, folks.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

GREAT NEWS!!! At last the light at the end of his tunnel can be seen!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:15 PM

That is the same bug I got that landed me in the Hospital in Denver last summer. I went in for some chest pain while visiting the kids ... bam Pneumonia ... good news is they can clear it up but it is a stubborn one (just like Spaw) ... Well thank you Kat for the update. I am feeling a bit better now that the old fool is on the mend ...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:24 PM

They can do a fecal transplant! And yes, that's a genuine real no-foolin' medical procedure.

Light at the end of tunnel -- sounds to me like getting a colonoscopy and an endoscopy at the same time ("Doctor! I see a light at the end of the tunnel!")

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:33 PM

I understand he`s taken a turn for the nurse!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:43 PM

"he hollered to Karen to get a nurse in there ASAP because his ass hurt!"

She should have hollered back "Your ass hurts? Good! It's been killing me for years!"



Man, this is fun picking on him when he can't respond!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 04:13 PM

No, I won't. It's too easy.



ARGHHHHH!
SIGH

Glad you're better.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 04:24 PM

His hospital room is going to need an exorcist when he is done I just know it. I bet it ain't ever heard that much cussing since it was built. Wonder how many people heard "fuckwit" over the last day or two LOL.

By the way, for me, prayers do work in my humble opinion

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: alanabit
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 04:32 PM

Glad you are on the mend Spaw. Good news for all of us.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 04:49 PM

You guys STOP IT! I had a colonoscopy on Monday. My ass hurts too (not from the procedure butt from the prep), and they wouldn't give me a doggie bag of drugs. Damn.

Staph aureus? Pseudomonas? Gonnorrhea? Glad things are improving. Hopefully, he'll start throwing Jello around soon. (preferably before it's been eaten)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:05 PM

In celebration and observance I have decided to make a veggie soup and chuck the rest of the beef stew I made on Saturday which is now only turnip, carrots and barley. I have passed a lot gas in your honour for three days now, Spaw, but I think my work is now done. Glad it helped.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:34 PM

I have an idea here. Chongo needs money "bad" with the holidays approaching. "Real bad." He's willing to work at any time.

Spaw needs additional security while he's bedridden, someone to watch over him and make sure he gets treated right, and that's where Chongo comes in.

Chongo is willing to stand guard over Spaw and be in his room at all times to make sure that no one does anything they shouldn't and that all is copacetic. He will be heavily armed, because he always is. Spaw need fear nothing with Chongo on guard at the foot of the bed.

He's willing to do it for very reasonable wages too, and will while away the hours reading his entertainment magazines and perusing those nice pictures that fold out in the middle pages.

Phone information in Chicago and ask for the number of Chongo Chimp, Karen. Do it now.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Slag
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:40 PM

Spaw, the original dirty mouthed kid, hang in there buddy and get yourself well.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:49 PM

The moon looked worried too last night...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:55 PM

Best Christmas present possible is just the news that he's out of SCIU and easing off all the discomforts. New Years will be a FINE time to celebrate the holiday seasons and, hopefully, hear from his nibs himself about his generous effort to keep doctors & nurses employed.

(oh...Karen...don't bite on the offer from Chongo to 'stand guard'... he steals food off the supper trays.)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:14 PM

Why on Earth would anyone hire Chongz... He shows up to work with a laundry list of demands... He pisses everyone off... And worse than anything, he really isn't exactly toilet trained... Like not at all...

No, Spawzer can make a call to the Reg Boyz and they'll not only do a fine job but give Spawzer some new material for when he gets out...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:21 PM

Bobert, it just breaks my heart how you are always running down poor Chongo, a hard-working ape with a big heart, a guy who always bends over backwards to please other people and do a good job. I think you should reconsider all those thoughtless things you have said about him and make amends before his feelings get hurt and he comes down there, busts yer arms and legs, punches yer lights out, and stuffs you headfirst down the hole in the backyard privy... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:31 PM

Then why don't you hire him, LH??? Huh???

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:56 PM

Probably because Chongo throws his poop at people.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:07 PM

OH!@!!! That is just the sort of rank specist stereotyping that drives Chongo around the bend and causes him to foam at the mouth, SINSULL. How could you?

I would hire Chongo, Bobert, but times are lean financially for me too. I can't afford to hire him.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:17 PM

good news & bad puns & other stuff

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:27 PM

Whatever, LH??? Word on the street is that you are rollin' in dough... And if ya' wonder why things might seem a little, ahhhhhh, strained between you and Chongz it's because he's heard those stories, too...

In other words: Bad Answer...

But, heck, this thread is about Spawzer... Not a stenkin' monkey...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

"Rollin' in dough"??????

Yeah, sourdough! There was an industrial-sized accident at the Orillia bakery the other day, and I got caught in the "blowback". I was purchasing a loaf of rye bread when there was this godawful "WHOOOMPF!!!!!!!" sound and the entire kitchen area at the back exploded into the shopping area at the front. I and 13 other innocent people were engulfed in a tidal wave of rapidly expanding sourdough. They had to call ambulances from as far away as Gravenhurst to deal with it. The sourdough came to life like in that movie "The Blob" and it crawled down the street and engulfed the City Hall and the Chamber of Commerce. 39 Orillians have vanished! The army had to be called in to cordon off the downtown. I barely escaped alive.

So as usual, Bobert, this street you keep getting word on is grossly misinformed. I bet they still think Elvis is alive down there too.

Say...did you just call Chongo a monkey? You did, didn't you? Boy, when he gets ahold of you....! Ouch. It will not be nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:12 PM

He is alive, LH... Saw him riding thru the Walmarx parkin' lot just today... Had the 8 track blarin' and a couple hot chicks in that Coupe de Ville... I mean, he was lookin' good for 70... Still has hair... Maybe ya'll related...

As for the explosion at the bakery??? No, can't say I heard about it... Doesn't matter tho 'cause don't matter how many bakery expolsions yer part of you know what I mean... They call it cabbage, man... Greenbacks... They say yer stack make the Chrysler Buildin' look like a dog house... Yeah, you can try to divert attention to it but when you sittin' on that kinda bread everyone knows it 'cause...

...ya' can't hide money!!! No, sir...

As for Chongz??? Monkey, ape??? Ape, monkey??? Hey, if he didn't want to be a monkey he should have picked different parents... Just stuff a Valium in him and stick him in front of some "I Love Lucy" reruns and he'll be fine... Word on the street is that monkey's love Lucy, too... Okay???

Now can we get back to poor ol' Spawzer who is gonna have to forgo his annual shimmy down the chimney routine and maybe his New Years Eve Flagellation Celebration with the Reg Boyz... Oh well, there's always next year...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:37 PM

Dearest Supreme Being:

Fuck off already eh? Watch the traffic light instead of talking on the cell, texting and eating your honey glazed while sucking on your double double. Jaysus H! When the light turns green, MOVE your sorry ass and go to the hop and spring Spaw you sorry assed MOFO!

This we pray for Brother Spaw.

Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:40 PM

I have investigated, quite thoroughly, the stories about Chongo and Chinga and have come to the inescapable conclusion that they are completely true. Chongo did indeed leave home and thereby forced his sister into a Life Of Shame in order to support their aged mother.

I cannot agree that Chongo would be a good bodyguard for Spaw, as records of the Chicago Police Department clearly show that every time he sees a ventilator he thinks it's some sort of bong, that he's shot up Emergency Rooms when they wouldn't give him morphine and/or cocaine, and that when he was once hired to empty bedpans he flung the feces at passers-by.

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:17 PM

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program...ahem...:-)

Karen just called before she left to go to work. She confirmed he is "much better" today, though he is in isolation as they do not want the nasty stuff he caught to get passed on to any other patients. Of all the ones he could get, typical of him, he got the worse, but his doc says it IS treatable and his fever is gone as of today. Anyone working at the hospital, who has to work with him, has to suit up with gloves and aprons, no masks, though. Visitors have to wash hand thoroughly. (I can't believe all the straight lines I can feed to you guys!)

Moving along, his BP is good and he's able to keep his O2 sats at 91-92% on the cannula. And, get this...you're gonna love this..things are starting to m-oo-v-e! He had some gassy cramps today and has started to eat a tiny bit!! I love getting the scoop from Karen; she doesn't hold anything back!:-)

She also said to please let you all know she can feel your support and all and thank you, big time. It means a lot to her and everyone else.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:22 PM

Yippee!

Please return to us, Pat. Folks are getting restless and the stories are getting worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:27 PM

Maeve, the stories will likely get a LOT worse when he's back. I look forward to it. Good news (other than the one about him being the Boy in the Bubble). Thanks, kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:28 PM

Well sure they will, Jeri. But Spaw is certified for storytelling...certifiable?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:47 PM

Holy Christ! He's got gassy cramps and they're encouraged?! I just hope there's not a heart patient in the room with him when these so-called "gassy cramps" resolve themselves into what can only be predicted to be a Force 10 methane gale after this long period of inaction!!

(keep up the straightlines, Kat! And, by the way, it's great to hear some good news!)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ClaireBear
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:50 PM

I don't know about y'all, but my family is having heaps of roasted Jerusalem artichokes -- about the most flatulogenic food I can think of -- for Christmas dinner. Join us; together, we'll make Spaw proud!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hollowfox
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:16 PM

Thanks for keeping us updated, Kat. And much love from Northeastern Ohio to Central Ohio to Pat and all the family and friends down there. Much love and many $#@!-reduction candles.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: open mike
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:32 PM

maybe they have not heard so much of Spawzer's colorful language as we do cuz he might be saving it for his dear friends on the cat...since he does use it as terms of endearment...special wishes for continued improvement to you, my dear Spaw!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:37 PM

What??? Gassy cramps and Spaw in the same sentence??? How could that be???

Seriously, kat... Tell Karen that there's one heck of a lot of love for that gassy cramps guy...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:49 PM

Finally! Columbus and Cincinnati will again have heat!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:54 PM

Still gotcha on my mind Spaw. ((((((((((((Hugs))))))))))))

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 11:31 PM

Not much more to add; I check in a couple of times a day here to see the state of Spaw's bowels. I'm so glad to hear there is something in the wind. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 11:37 PM

LMAO...thanks you guys and gals...he's gonna LHAO when he reads these! Good medicine!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:58 AM

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with celebrating christmas in January, because before they buggered about with the calendar in the 18th century, Christmas Day was on what is now 6th January. Then of course one has the 12 days of Christmas after that... so if the cross-grained old git can't shift himself out by then, one would only make the assumption that he's become a professional invalid with a nurse fetish!

(Luvya Spaw!)


Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:36 AM

That's right, Andrea! Connie and i were laughing about how they could even wait until Martin Lither King , Jr. day which is mid-January, then there's Valentine's Day, Presidents; Day, we could add on all kinds of special celebratory dates for this!

I forgot to tell you all the most important thing! Tris wanted to stay home alone and so Karen let him and it was so fine, they are doing it again, whilst she is at work over this night. He called her on his ipod in the morning and told her he slept really well and the dog and cat kept him company, plus he knows how to make peanut butter and jelly toast, so all things were right in his world, other than Pat not being there, etc. This was another one of those BIG steps Pat and Karen have helped a remarkable young man, who was to have been a "throwaway" kid, accomplish. Congrats to them all, including brother Michael!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hawker
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 06:04 AM

Good news all round then! Kat keep up the newsfeed, and thank you for doing it, love and good thoughts still going out to all who need it right now x
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 06:23 AM

BP good! O2 okay! Gut gurgles! Eating a bit! Thank you Super Bee!

Great to hear about Tris.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 06:30 AM

yo Spaw.... Karen says you had gassy cramps?


Bile them cabbage down, bro!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu77tX7uDvc

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 08:33 AM

He'll be out of there before he knows it, and long, long before he's ready. He'll have to cross-dress in scrubs just to get his jollies.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 08:44 AM

So the Whoes down in Spawville are approaching normal again? Good on you. Good on you Michael for stepping up and filling in for Dad. Good on you, Tris, for peanut butter and jelly toast after a good night's sleep. Good on you, Karen - crap, just good on you. Now Spaw, go home.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 08:51 AM

amazing news, Kat

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:31 AM

Wonderful news all round. Hurry up and get well Spaw, we all miss you on the 'Cat.

Karen - you are amazing. Here's wishing you all a great time for Christmas and the New Year.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:44 AM

Christ, Jeri! The last place he should be farting is in a bubble!

Course, the only victim in that is Spaw himself. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:57 AM

Gassy cramps are a GOOD thing when you're recovering from full-body anaesthesia. A sign of peristalsis starting up again.

Now, that doesn' mean it is a good thing for society at large, but that's not a medical concern...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Wesley S
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:58 AM

That's GREAT news about Tris spending the night alone. I'm so happy he's growing into an independant young man. Thanks for sharing that.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 11:18 AM

Thought you might like to hear that, Wesley.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:09 PM

SPAW!!!! Lay off them Christmas Beens until you are all healed up!!! And get well soon... we need ya for he night before Mudcat Christmas...
=)
Stay well, dear friend
Lorcan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:32 PM

Indeed Amos. I mentioned early on that I would be awaiting Spaw's fist good dump with a baited breath. So gut gurgles are grrrreat!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Wys on a Santa Run
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:54 PM

But it is time to start the ball-kicking off yet? Like do we have to wait for the starting gun at the Superbowl to drop kick his nuts? Oh wait, we do hockey, not football.... hockey fights surpass Cups.... so that's OK. The Pens will be kicking Caps ass on Jan. 1, and Caps fits into the word catspaw just fine. Capstaw.... nonononono the palindromes and anagrams and spoonerisms (lions, tigers, and bears OH MY) are too much for ole Crimmiss-crazy-strokebrain..... suffice to say we will be "thinking" of him and the whole fam especially on THAT day.

[Kat do not sanitize that message, now-- Pat "reads" me just fine as-is.]

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:40 PM

Farting with style takes practice,
Perfection takes time, its a gift,
You've first got to learn all the basics,
Like pushing one out in a lift.

Those silent but violent are classics,
With friends it's a really good game,
Fart in a crowd at a party,
Then watch to see who gets the blame.

Now once your technique has been mastered,
You'll know what your bottom can do,
But ALWAYS remember - don't push too hard,
Coz one day you might follow through !!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:44 PM

A fart is a musical instrument,
It comes from the island of bum,
It travels down the valley of trouser-leg,
Whilst making a musical hum.
A chemistry student named Tate,
was heard to remark to his date,
"Because of the stink,
a fart is, I think,
just Spaw in a gaseous state."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:54 PM

If anyone will be seeing Pat, please let the old fucker know that I seldom pray, but I have been for him, just in case it works. He is a great writer--a humourist who ranks up there with the best of `em. This time of year is the worst to be stuck in hospital--although there is really no good time to be there.

I have never spoken with Karen via the `cat or e-mail, but pass on to her for me that she`s got one helluva man there, farts and all.

Merry Christmas to your family, Pat. I have admired you for many years for a good number of reasons; get yer ass home ya lazy sob.

Best wishes to you.

Bruce Murdoch

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:55 PM

Well done, Dan. You really stink up the place nicely.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 02:08 PM

Q: What is born without arms, legs, or mouth, yet goes roaring through the world until it die?

A: A fart.

This ribaldry attributed to Henry VIII.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

I WAS glad, several years ago, to meet Pat & Karen and Tris, and I have hopes of doing so again when it doesn't have to be just 2 hours at a restaurant.

Get well and stay well, my friend.... there's much more to share.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 02:37 PM

Rap... good thing Hank was a king on accounta he'da never got ta Just For Laughs. Like they say, "Don't give up yer day job."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

didn't write em Gnu, don't know who did but they are appropriate for Spaw the grand fart master of Ohio

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:14 PM

I haven't yet had the opportunity to meet Pat, Karen and Tris, but am hoping that I'll be able to do so once I've escaped the day job next year... meanwhile, all best wishes!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:35 PM

Well, Dan... they are Spaw inspiring.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:47 PM

A fart can be quiet
A fart can be loud
Some leave powerful
Poisonous clouds

A fart can be short
Or a fart can be long
Some farts have been known
To sound just like a song

Some farts do not smell
While others are vile
A fart can pass quickly
Or linger awhile.

A fart can create
A most-curious medley
A fart can be harmless
Or silent, but deadly

A fart can occur
In a number of places
And leave everyone
With strange looks on their faces

From wide open prairies
To small elevators
A fart will find all of us
Sooner or later

So be not afraid
Of the invisible gas
For always remember
That farts too, shall pass
But none have that have linger
have come close so far
It the one that hit mudcat
by the old master Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:51 PM

old dude? You all right now? I am starting to worry.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 03:57 PM

Much love and hugs for Pat and Karen- and for Kat for keeping us all up to speed with the news.

Some nervous moments there- all passed now, we hope!
xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 04:02 PM

Celebration clouds are rising from the Mudcat!

Good teamwork, Spaw, Karen, Michael, Tristan, and Connie!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 04:05 PM

There's a joke in that "clouds are rising" but I think it's best left alone. Well said m.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 04:16 PM

Yes, gnu. I left it understated, yet still a tribute to the brilliant off-gassing of Mudcat's clever humorists...and their inspiration, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 04:57 PM

Good pictures, Bill. Again, I'm struck by Pat's uncanny resemblance to Paul Williams. I wonder if Spaw's version of Close to You would compare to the original?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 05:17 PM

"Close to You"? Spaw would never do such. How could you even say something so vile? I am aghast, nay, worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 07:54 PM

katlaughing has been a gem in all this. Thank you, kat. Ya done good, gal.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 08:07 PM

Aw, shucks...I am breathing better, thanks! (Sometimes empathy sucks!)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 08:47 PM

I posted this sometime back on the News of Note thread, home of quirky articles

==================

Patently odd: thunder-stealing grundies and ...

    Australia is home to many quirky inventions, and they're worth $12 billion a year to the economy.

    It's those SBDs - silent but deadlies - that give us away. But the telltale smell of a secret gas alert could be a thing of the past thanks to a unique Australian innovation that has just hit the shelves.

    The designer of 4SKINS, Gilbert Huynh, says although odour-neutralising fabric has been used in sportswear for years, his range of men's undies is the first time the material has been used in intimate apparel.

    "Everyone has experienced those awkward situations and I thought that it would be great if you could let one off and no one could smell it," Huynh says.

    After extensive trials - with friends and family - Huynh launched 4SKINS this month and says interest in the innovation has been beyond expectation.

    "I'm amazed at the number of women who are buying them for their boyfriends or husbands," he says. "We have actually had more women buyers than men."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:33 PM

Hey, how about organizing a flash mob to celebrate? Let's take a head count. How many can fart on cue?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 11:11 PM

more good thoughts from away down here

stop hassling the nurses and get home 'Spaw!!

slainte

alison

PS - guessing the bug is MRSA - Medication resistant staph aureus - really common in hospitals these days unfortunately

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 11:17 PM

I was guessing that also. Unfortunately, it's all too common and difficult to cure. (Unlike C. Difficile, which responds to fecal transplants.)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 12:32 AM

"Get well soon buddy",      from my dick to god's vagina.

Here are some holiday pics exclusively for spaw

http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/max.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/santaleaks.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/grinch.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/beeker.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 12:33 AM

http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/grinch.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 04:03 AM

A sweet little rhyme...

"A burp is just a little wind
That comes right from the heart.
But when it takes a downword turn,
It comes out as a fart."

Old as the hills, and what every kid learns at school.

"Where e'er thee be, let thy wind go free, for to hold it in be the death of 'ee. Church or chapel - let it rattle!"

(My gastro-enterologist brother in law says there's a lot of good advice in that last one. Burbled something about diverticular disease....)

C'mon Spaw - I've run out of fart encouragements.

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: BlueJay
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 04:13 AM

Thanks, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 08:53 AM

I know it must be terribly hard for Spaw and his family and friends... Merry Christmas when you all get to celebrate it together and I hope The New Year brings health and happiness in a big way.

garygnu

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:45 AM

Ol' Ben Franklin wrote a book called "Fart Proudly." It's still in print, and perhaps Spaw needs a copy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:01 AM

Yes, Rap. I expect his copy is pretty worn out.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:25 AM

BlueJay! Good to see you. Boy, it's like ol' home week around here!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 01:00 PM

300 GOOD THOUGHTS!!!!!! Ook! Ook! Don't let go of that grapevine!

- Chongo

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 08:26 PM

Oh you good people, this is hard...Pat is having a tough time. I just talked with Karen. The fever is back up. He is on BiPap to keep stress off of his heart. He's having a lot of diarrhoea, but did test negative for c-diff(sp?), which I think is some kind of bacteria and it is good that he tested negative.

They are going to do another blood culture, tomorrow, as well as a CAT scan of his belly. One of the people Karen spoke to told her there is "something cookin' in there, they just don't know what."

He is on a lot of morphine. Karen has always, always been upbeat and positive. She knows him so well. I asked if she is frightened and she said yes. She is also tired. She and the boys are at Connie's and Wayne's for Christmas nad will go see Pat, tomorrow. Then, on Sunday, she is going to take a day of rest and stay home. She may also come visit Mudcat. I told her not to worry about it. He's got the whole world holding him and we'd do the same for her. Let's let that Light shine in whatever way we know/believe or not and see him through this!

Karen, you are everything Spaw has said and more. With much love and gratitude,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 08:42 PM

Thank you, Kat.

Karen, we're still here with prayers, laughter, comfort, concern...Many people are pulling for Pat and you, as well as your family and friends there.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:16 PM

...kat is right...so many are watching.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:18 PM

What the hell have they been feeding him, kat?
Poor Karen.
Poor Spaw.
Miss Kitty, we are all grateful for your updates. It is important that Karen be able to filter reports through just one person rather than answering or being forced to ignore multiple emails, calls, etc. Keep yourself well and safe and your family too. Spaw has gotten through worse. One day at a time.
Merry Christmas, Pattersons, and the La France's too.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:21 PM

(((Kat)))

(((Spawluvs)))

(((Spaw)))

~S&G

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:24 PM

Ohhh, fuck... c'mon buddy... fight. Fuck, fight and hold the light.

Sorry, but that's what they said in the back woods and in the trenches when the going got tough... and this is tough. Hang tough buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:33 PM

No apologies necessary, gnu. I've just got one question:

Fuck, fight and hold the light.

In that order?





:-)kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:54 PM

Who's he supposed to fuck, gnu? Karen might not like that at all. And as to that light - he's on oxygen for pity's sake. Don't light anything!
Spaw - I want no details about your diarrhea. Just get better...and cleaner. OK?
Much love,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:01 PM

Sending all the good stuff I have winging its way to Ohio. I'm damned near speechless.


D

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: BlueJay
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Thanks,Kat. I'm usually lurking, and this really upsets me. I feel like Spaw is an old friend. I only know Karen from what Spaw and all of you have said. She sounds like a SAINT!

C-diff, (clostridium difficile) is a bacteria that is normally present in the gut, but sometimes they overpopulate when competing bacteria are wiped out with antibiotics. symptoms range from mild to lethal, and can be treated successfully if caught in time. It is indeed very good Spaw's test for c-diff was negative.

Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:10 PM

Thank you, BlueJay! You ARE an old friend...luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:11 PM

sending more good wishes to Spaw & Karen & family & friends from australia, half a world away

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amos
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:14 PM

For god's sake slip him some broccoli. It'll piss him off so much he'll haul up and walk out.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:22 PM

Love, love and more love to you both.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:46 PM

Feel it, Spaw? That's love. We won't let go, you know. so rest and come back roaring, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:48 PM

Thanks for the update, Kat. Keep up the good fight, Pat and Karen.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Janie
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 11:11 PM

Oh dear. Here with the rest as we hold the entire Patterson family in our hearts and minds.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: mg
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 11:50 PM

mrsa bugs can be killed with various essential oils used in aromatherapy..tea tree is one. I have read elsewhere thyme and clove are among the most powerful. http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/mrsa_wounds_essential_oils/

http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/mrsa_wounds_essential_oils/

If you are visiting, take all precautions to protect yourself. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:35 AM

Good wishes

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Neil D
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:40 AM

Thanks again Kat for the updates. What can we say? Spaw, Karen, and the rest of the family, we are keeping you close to our hearts and in our prayers along with everyone else.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: KT
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:27 AM

You know those by-lines that sometimes run across the bottom of the television screen on certain news stations? I wish we could run this thread across the television screen in Spaw's room, so he could see first hand, his fan club and cheering section. Whatya say,
mud-techies? Get on that, will ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:50 AM

Come on old Buddy. Lick this thing and get back up where you ought to be.

EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Micca
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:09 AM

Spaw, ya old villan, hope you are feeling better by the time you get well enough to read this and compose your own inimitable "Fuck You" in reply, the diarrohoea is as , mentioned probably due to the destruction of the intestinal flora by the anti-biotics, been there got the T shirt (and the stained underpants) but a Nice bucket or 2 of Live Yogurt will restore it!! YECHHHHH, I know you are using it to get revenge on the hospital staff (Us Pattersons DO love getting even) for the many indignities they perpetrate on you when helpless!! but You Hang in there and get well, there are a whole bunch of folks out here pulling for you and your family, Karen, Tris and Michael and we look forward to Good News for and about all concerned.
Your Cousin Micca

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:18 AM

Maybe one of those singing fish will get him to fight harder?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: ClaireBear
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:22 AM

Prayed for healing for you at midnight mass tonight, Spaw -- and I haven't been in a church since June, so I expect extra credit for that. (Sorry, that was beginning to go all maudlin and I had to fix it quick.)

Love,
ClaireBear

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:25 AM

Good oh, Claire. I've a feeling tonight we could all use a redouble on efforts.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:46 AM

Heavyweight burst of energy being sent to Ohio, for all the Pattersons. This is a very happy household this morning so, hopefully, the energy will be well charged.

Keeping a close watch on this thread.

Unless Spaw wants a visit from members of the Evil Sisterhood he had better get his act together and get his arse out the hospital in short time.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Lox
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:51 AM

Keep it coming dude - nearly through.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Morticia
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 06:26 AM

thinking of you Uncle Pat.....and the rest of my honourary family

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 06:48 AM

Good thoughts and prayers coming express delivery!

Andrea.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: skarpi
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 07:06 AM

sorry just saw this thread , Spaw my thought are with you
sending prayers and light over the ocean .
kv Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:28 AM

I stopped in for my Christmas visit and found this thread . Get well and heal soon Pat . Tons of good wishes to you from so many years of fun together here !!! Yours Guy ><><><>

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: kendall
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:37 AM

You aint kidding me, Mate;I've been there and I know what goes on in that private room! Why do you think they call it private?
We peons are out here freezing our asses off while you lay there being waited on hand and foot!
Karen, get a 4 year old to read to him; that will put him on his feet right quick!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 09:48 AM

One more pull for the long haul!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 09:56 AM

Last night's midnight Mass here too, and again this AM. Pat and Karen.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Dharmabum
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:00 AM

Sending you all the good thoughts that I can spare.
Kick this thing right square in the ass & get yourself back home!

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:01 AM

If he don't get outa there, reasonably hale and hearty soon, I'm gonna go to that hospital and start reading him the entire, unabridged, uncut version of "Moby Dick."

Call me Fishmeal.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:23 AM

Continued healing thoughts comin' from this mountain holler and...

...don't make me have my Couzin Rufus and the Reg Boyz come down there, Spawzer. 'cause if you think things is funky now, they'll bring funky to a new level... Ya' hear???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:42 AM

Call me Fishmeal. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having as usual little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore (her father having caught us in the act), I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation of my splendid genes around the world. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I feel a burning pain when I urinate; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my typos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically passing large volumes of malodorous intestinal gas - then, I account it high time to get to sea or at least out of town as soon as I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:13 PM

Wow. You are well on your way toward composing a classic, my good man. Generations of future students will no doubt be forced to plow their way through it. The Coles Notes version will not do it justice.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:26 PM

Y'know, I was thinking...what if we all send him one of these to cheer him up:

Eeeeek!!!! Eeeeeek!!!!

They could be arranged in a sort of ring around the bed, and the nurses could activate them whenever necessary. I think it would do wonders for ol' Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:31 PM

ohmygawd, LH, that would send him right through the roof. That is a fright!

Rapparee...keep it up, that's good stuff...way better than the original!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:42 PM

I really dislike mokeys. Does that make me a bad person?
Remember the one who tore off the woman's face recently? Nasty things.

On another note, Netflix is shipping me Songcatcher which of course will trigger a review. Hope Spaw is well enough to contribute.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:53 PM

Well, now it feels like Christmas, you know, with LH draggin' out some home movies of Chongz at his 1st birthday party... What next???

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 03:29 PM

More and more kind thoughts from Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:54 PM

You are a brave woman to order that to watch, Sins. Odious movie, imo. And, just what we need, another review of it!*bg*

No news must be good news, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Janie
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:58 PM

That's my hope, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:36 PM

Thinking of Spaw and you-all on Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amos
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:46 PM

Hey, Pat, see if they'll let you watch a re-run of "Being John Malkovitch". It will really make coming back to your own skin seem like a good idea!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:50 PM

Well, I consider my cat comin' home to be a sign that 2 other things good are going to occur as things, good or bad, come in threes... So, I proclaim that Spawzer gettin' his innards squared away (for him, that is) as #2 and I'm now awaiting #3...

But sho nuff be nice to have that #2 in the books and have Sp-awzer home and healthy for New Years 'cause word on the street the Reg Boyz gotta somethin' big planned... That's all I can say...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:28 PM

Hard to be sick and in the hospital on Christmas, but your family loves you loads, and a lot of your extended-across-the-world family loves you some too. Kick microbial butt on the inside. On the outside, rest easy. Try to stay right-side out and get well.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: kendall
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:28 PM

Sins, that was an ape, not a Monkey

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:39 PM

Yes, I was going to say that too. Chongo gets so upset when people do that.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 10:10 PM

The only difference between a chimp and a monkey is the length of its tail.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 10:11 PM

And intelligence -- the monkey IS smarter and much better looking.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Fortunato
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 09:28 AM

Hey, Spaw, are you better yet?

I hope so. Send us a picture of yourself in hospital attire, wheeling your various IVs down the hall to the john, chasing nurses and generally being the true pain in the ass you are capable of being.

PPppthbsssssssss!

chance

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 09:29 AM

If you get better real soon, I promise NOT to come visit you.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 10:31 AM

If he don't get better real soon I'M going to take his presents!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:41 AM

No news is good news?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:44 AM

Hi, folks. Just got up, here, and it is earlier here than there. Morgan is on his way over for Christmas presents. I'll give Karen a call soon. Thanks for keeping up the ribaldry, etc.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: maeve
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:53 AM

You might take his presents, Raparee,


















but Spaw has unshakable presence of mind!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 12:06 PM

Morgan first, kat. Even Spaw would agree with that.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 01:45 PM

Alright Super Bee, listen up. Yer gonna get severely kicked in the nuts from Max on down to me if you don't take care of business. You know how many kicks in the nuts that is? Of course you do. You're the Super Bee. So heal Spaw or yer gonna regret it. We might even get Dan to give ya one a them there karate type chops in the gonads just fer extra measure.

If you don't want yer balls buzzin and lookin like Rudy's nose, get the lead out eh!

Subject: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 02:25 PM

Pat is back on the vent. His O2 sats drop way low without it. They have him on morphine which doesn't help with that. When they put him back on it, they sucked up some really nasty looking crud from his lung.

They reopened the appy incision to clean out a bunch of blood clots and have packed it and left it open.

They have given him something to stabilise the rhythms of his heart.

Karen and the boys are at home, today. She's making a special dinner, doing laundry, giving her fish some attention, being loved up on by all the cats and the dog and she is staying home for the night. She will go back to work tomorrow night, but will see Pat before that. Last night she and Tris were up 'til midnight playing Mexican Railroad Dominoes and had a great time. Michael has a friend coming to town.

One day at a time sounds trite, but that's kind of what we've got going on. Karen says "Thanks" for all you are doing.

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: maeve
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 02:34 PM

Thank you too, kat. Rest, and experience a semblance of peace, Karen.
We'll be here.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 02:44 PM

More mead being offered to the Old Gods.

They certainly are a thirsty crowd!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 03:32 PM

You know what really shines through all this is how strong the Spaw is. He has met and conquered so many potentially fatal ailments and I choose to believe that it has made him only stronger.

Karen has strength of a different sort, different but remarkable.

Bless them both.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 03:52 PM

Yes, Ebbie. Bless.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 03:58 PM

.......... if thoughts can help, he has mine.....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Lox
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 04:10 PM

There's nothing trite about "one day at a time".

There's a lot thats brave and practical about it.


Come on Spaw!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 04:47 PM

Sincere best wishes and powerful healing thoughts............c'mon man legends are needed on duty.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 05:10 PM

Michael has a friend coming to town????? Male or female? Does Auntie SINS have to pay a visit and check out this scheming...HMMMMM

Spaw get your ass back home. You may be needed.
M

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Janie
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 05:54 PM

Thanks for the update, Kat. Just arrived back in NC, and all day have been wishing, for the first time, for a G3 device so that I could check in.

I figure if voices and bytes can be sent and received through the ether, the energies of loving kindness can also, be they in the form of prayer, good thoughts, or fart jokes.

And what Lox said....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 06:14 PM

ditto

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: LilyFestre
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 07:36 PM

Still thinking about you and praying for strength, healing and some kick ass pain meds!

Love to you!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 08:15 PM

Once again, Pat, be well. We're with you.
Art & Carol

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Amos
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 09:18 PM

Pat:

Sending your ass my very best sass, to energize that damnthing. Please place it into gear tomorrow. 'Kay?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Tinker
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 10:38 PM

Blessings and light on all of you.... thought I posted here earlier.... Just keep on keepin' on....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 10:46 PM

I just re-read the old thread from six years ago when I went into hospital and was so very ill with chf. Spaw and the rest of you were in your prime and it gave me some great laughs as well as tears. There is one posting I would like to post here, for Pat. Janie posted it back then:

May you be surrounded by light and love and healing. May all our relations in the four directions come join us as we gather round now and hold and sooth you.

That's just beautiful, to me, and says just what is in my heart.

luvya'll...kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:04 PM

Thanks for the update again, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:09 PM

Welcome, SRS. My honour and privilege to be of service.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 11:32 PM

Merry Christmas, Pattersons. Karen, I just started up a fresh $#@!-reduction candle for yuns guys, as they say here in Youngstown. This morning I had a gig as the liturgist in church. I don't know if the location during the prayer makes a difference or not, but wotthehell, it don't hurt, eh? Michael, I look forward to seeing some more of your artwork sometime. I'll see if Amy and I can stop by sometime. I'm proud of how well you've been handling this hard situation. Tris, I'm so proud of you being on your own for the night. It's not everybody who can do so well with a project like that. I love you all, Hollowfox/Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 01:57 AM

Yet more wishes for good health to Pat and strength to Karen. And even a bit of tenacity to the medicals treating Pat. Our man Spaw is too unique to be a textbook case. He needs some creative treatment.

Perhaps he needs the real life version of

this guy

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 02:09 AM

I truly accidentally just happened on this while trying to find a Charlie Brown Christmas video on youtube.

It seems fated it should go to Spaw.

Happy Christmas man.

Jingle Farts

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: mouldy
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 02:23 AM

I'l re-echo what Kat just posted from Janie.

Spaw, when I mentioned clotting I expected you not to go overboard!



Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 05:07 AM

Still sending energies from the UK and hoping for good news very soon.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 10:32 AM

I tell you, I'm gonna send my friend Alice over. She's from Northern KY and between her ramps salad and kind, motherly manner she'll sort this out in less than a day. Spaw, however, might never be quite the same, if he ever was.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Micca
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 10:47 AM

it was christmas day in the ICU
and Spaw was liying there
with nurses a fussing round him
a combing of his hair
in came the Bold bad Surgeon
and said " about your Heart..."
and Spaw just raised his a blanket
and released a mighty..
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Oh Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 12:04 PM

Get well soon 'spaw, we're missing your wit and wisdom round here. Much love and healing to you and Karen xxxx

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 12:14 PM

Candles burning, warm thoughts wafting your way (prevailing winds notwithstanding!).

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: alanabit
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 01:25 PM

Waiting and hoping...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 05:22 PM

Animaterra - are you sure that you want candles around Spawser?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: LilyFestre
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 05:28 PM

Just checking in to say hello....hope today is better than yesterday.

Hurry up and get well, would you please? I'm running out of ways to say I hope you are feeling better and on your way home soon! ;)

Love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: maeve
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:07 PM

Checking in, Pat and Karen. Hold on.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:22 PM

Spaw, Hospitals are one of the least restful places to hang out, and they're usually not warm enough. The television selection is poor, and some poor sod comes around at 3am and pokes you for more blood work. Is this any way to spend the holidays? Please overpower that infection, get the oxygen levels back where they're supposed to be, and get yourself out of that place!

If you need an interim place to heal, we can always set up a new room in the Mudcat Recovery Ward and let you have Nurse Ratched all to yourself. Won't that be nice?

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-26
From: Janie
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 07:36 PM

Hi Pat and Karen. Thinking of you and youngin's.

Subject: UPDATE 12-27
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 07:50 PM

I was just talking with Karen. She was in the room with Pat. He is out of it under morphine, but did try to open his eyes and I spoke to him of you all, just for a second whilst she held the phone to his ear.

It's still too early in the evening for her to have spoken with anyone, but here's what she told me:

he's stable, has a feeding tube, fever still up around 101.5 at 4p this afternoon. They did another blood culture which she will find out more about sometime this evening, before she goes to work. It will tell them if he is septic or not. (No jokes, please guys?:-)

Tris went to work with the garbage guys, today, and earned ten bucks. He is a happy camper. Michael got to go see his girlfriend.:-)

We're in a Holding Pattern for Patterson for now, folks.:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 07:59 PM

Still hoping for the best here. Sending positive energy by the truckload :)


                              Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: Dave Swan
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 08:05 PM

Wow. Continued best wishes to Pat, Karen and the kids, Connie and Wayne.

This makes the great aneurysm scare look like a walk in the park.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 08:13 PM

adding my good wishes to the mix

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 08:44 PM

"Stable" is good for right now. Thanks, kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 09:07 PM

Obamma's Momma is picking up the bill....

Eat ALL the ice-cream you want.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

At least THIS time ....
We can be assured you are not pregnant

Rest Well - sweet man.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 10:41 PM

I think Pat would like it if those of us who want to, and are able, would watch The Mousehole Cat and how she tamed the Storm Cat who had big cat paws. It's a beautiful story and animation in three parts on youtube. Some how it just kind of reminds me of what Pat is going through and it's neat she finds safe harbour, again.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:43 AM

What are you smoking, kat? Mouseholes? Big Paws?
Too early in the morning for me.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:55 AM

I watched it last night, kat... Thanks...

Another day of healing thoughts coming outta Pine Grove Holler...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: MMario
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 11:24 AM

Well - I've not been checking the 'cat - but this does explain why I had the urge to add 'spaw to the prayers at midnight service xmas....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-27
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 12:52 PM

Stable. Septic. Yeah, there's jokes there and I reserve the right to come back, of course, but I don't feel like it making any jokes at the moment.

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 12:55 PM

Just spoke with Sister Connie. His bloodwork came back and he is NOT septic!! Yes!!

On the other hand, everything is about the same, still vent, still morphine, still fever, haemoglobin is coming up very slowly, but we've been here before with that.

When they scanned him they saw blood clots in his belly, but they also saw air pockets which may mean a different infection than the lung gunk.

Karen is sleeping after a night of work. Connie will let her know I got an update from her and will leave it up to Karen as to whether she wants to call, tonight, or call if there is any change.

MMario, I told Connie about your posting and she got chills up her back. Good to see you.

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 01:26 PM

gnu, I look forward to you exercising your right...when he's back defending himself!**bg**

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:07 PM

NOT septic. That is great news.

As far as me not making jokes because he can't defend himself, I am quite certain that he would want me to make as many jokes as possible either way... I just don't feel like it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:41 PM

My apologies, gnu. My attempt to be funny fell flat. I'll leave it to you experts and yes, I agree, he would want you to do your best whether he is here or not.

atb,

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: Amos
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:49 PM

He's only septic when he gets tanked. Somehow he manages to be in deep doodoo a lot of the time without that, though...


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:50 PM

Sorry if I came off nasty... it was not my intention... just really pissed off about Pat not bouncing back like we all want him to do. He means a lot to many of of for many reasons.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:50 PM

I think we need Dr. House. At least he will share the good meds when he has them.
Still thinking about you, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:54 PM

Pat and Karen- Although TL and I are focused on our house-raising, I'm imagining that every section completed is another step forward for you.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:15 PM

You didn't sound gnasty gnu...just really concerned friend and I think I was a bit of a mummy.:-) I'm so used to cleaning up the litter boxes around here after him. I swear I will never, ever complain about it, ever again. I'd love it if he'd get in here and kick some up, right now, as a matter of fact.

C'mon, Peaches...we need you, darlin'...luvyakat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: KT
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:46 PM

Two most frequently spoken (or thought) words over last few weeks-
"C'MON, SPAW!"

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: Janie
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:19 PM

Not septic and stable. No change otherwise is much preferable to a change for the worst. Another little sigh of relief. Keep haulin' Spaw, and we will keep hauling along beside you.

They made some changes to the website checker thingie at work, and as of this morning, the Cat is blocked - I guess because it is a social networking site.

What that means, 'Spawser, is I'll be sending out thoughts of care and concern even more often, since I won't be able to peek in on the thread periodically during the day for reassurance.

Even worry has it's upside!

Karen, Michael, and Tristan, rest up and also feel all the care and love surrounding you.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: rumanci
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:23 PM

The best of good wishes from me to both of you.
One of you for being somebody who always makes me smile and to the other for putting up with him ALL of the time
rum

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 09:01 PM

Checking in on you Spaw....I know the power of Mudcat prayers, wishes, good thoughts so I am confident that you'll kick this and be home soon.

C'mon friend...you can do this!!!!

Much love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: maire-aine
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 10:33 PM

Still praying for Pat & Karen & all. And thanks, Kat, for all of the updates.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 07:34 AM

still here Pat, waiting and hoping for your improved health.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: Partridge
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 10:08 AM

Healing, strengthening thoughts from over the pond.

Pat xx

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 10:16 AM

Hoping and waiting along with everyone else Pat. Get yerself back here soon mate!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 01:57 PM

I've been away from Mudacat for so long, only occasionally checking in, that I missed this unfortunate news until just a couple of days ago.

So I'm now praying/good-thinking along with everyone else; just sorry I didn't get on the job much earlier.

What a great guy ~ the world needs more like him, can't afford to lose folks like Pat (or even to have him out of commission for more than a day or two at a time!)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: open mike
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 03:38 PM

come on, light a match under that guy and let's launch him
back to health and home...well, maybe not!

when my daughter was born 28 years ago we had planned to have candles in the hospital room, but that was not allowed...due to the use of oxygen...in spaw's case it is for an entirely different (gas) reason.

best wishes for recovery and return to your rambunctious self, SPAW!!

visualizing healing for Pat, strength for Karen and growth for the boys.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-28
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:12 PM

I'm back in the USA, making it easier for me to head to Ohio and scare Mr Patterson out that bed, if needs be.

Good thoughts and energies still heading that way, for Spaw and the family.

Subject: UPDATE 12-29
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:15 PM

Just spoke with Sister Connie.

Okay, good news, first: His sputum is now clear, so whatever they've been using to fight the infection in his lungs is working! His blood is also clear!

They are kind of at a loss as to what is keeping his fever up. Tylenol is not keeping it down, so they have packed him in ice. He has a fever blister, so they've ordered an air cushion of his bum..talk about riding on air.:-)

Because he's been on the vent and morphine for so long they can't really do a very good evaluation, from what I understand, so after much consultation, Karen gave them permission (tough decision for her), this morning, to do a tracheotomy, so he is still on the vent, but it's connected to the trach instead of going down his throat, which may improve things as they will be able to back off the morphine and he can communicate in writing. They've been having to keep him sedated so much on the morphine, it's been difficult. Even though this sounds dire, it will give them a better idea of what's going on.

I probably will not hear from Karen, today. Connie took a few calls for her to do and she will be back at work, tonight. Tris and Michael continue to be great brothers and sons and taking care of home.

I feel a little bit better about all of this, today. I think the trach and getting off the vent may actually prove to have been good timing. As Sister Connie said, we've seen him come back from the edge, so to speak, before, and I don't think he's used up nine lives, yet, plus he's got all those Karmic Brownie Points that big ol' heart of his has earned him.

There ya go, folks. Please keep up the good work.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:33 PM

Spaw on Ice. There's a song in there somewhere...

And I never thought I'd EVER want to hear about the condition of Spaws sputum. So there's a first time for everything. Thanks for keeping us posted Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Neil D
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:36 PM

Thank you again so very much Kat for keeping us updated. Neil and I check in several times a day worrying and hoping for good news. We can't imagine what it must be like for Karen and the rest of the family. Many prayers for healing and comfort still going out. C'mon Spaw!!

                            Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:42 PM

Still thinking of Pat & Karen and sending positive thoughts!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 05:02 PM

Good news, kat. Or at least better.
Still praying for him, Karen and the boys.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 05:03 PM

I have been down the trach route myself, and it was tough, but they only do it for your own good. So keep writing the rude notes to the nurses Pat. At least you can blow up your own air cushion, so that's a help :)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: gnu
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 05:20 PM

SOB! Well, at least the trach will alleviate immediate problems, and, indeed, possible future problems. I still have a rasp that I don't think will ever go away (two years now) and I wasn't vented for anywhere near as long and I was out of it the whole time... I mean inert.

The air ride suspension system is better than installing standard Munroes. They might tend to chafe the ball joints over time. Plus, you can jack it up or down depending.

Yeah. Poor attempts at jokes, but it's sommat I gotta do.

Spaw, Karen, lads... hang tough.

Much love, buddy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 05:58 PM

sending more love & good wishes to Spaw & family & friends

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:16 PM

Haven't weighed in here before, but, Karen and Pat, you are both firmly in my thoughts, healing wishes and prayers.

Linn

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:33 PM

Thanks for the update Kat. I can't really add to what anyone else has said.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:53 PM

Pat,

I have the filthiest and best joke in the world for you. I`ll message it when you get back here. Seven or eight days I`d guess.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:27 PM

Connie,Tris,and Michael....you three keep doing the great job you are doing, we'll keep channelling positive energy, and we'll have the old man back on his feet in just a few days. Tell him I'll send him an Ale8 One to cool his achy throat,soon as he is ready.

Ernie

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: KT
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:33 PM

C'mon, Spaw!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:35 PM

...and probably Karen.

I hope they figure out where the infection is. Mainly I hope he gets rid of the infection. C'mon Pat!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Amos
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:40 PM

Spaw,

Gold beams of effervescent, shimmering energy permeate your every void and cell and bring healing.

We are tugging hard on this end. Better return for a while or we'll pull your ass right off.


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Maryrrf
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 09:00 PM

This is the third time I've tried to post to this thread, and the posts keep getting eaten. I'm not on the 'cat that often now so didn't see this right away. I want to add my good wishes to those of the others. Get well, Catspaw!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 09:47 PM

Maryrrf, I am glad you kept trying. I had some trouble getting a new thread to post, too.

Amos, I just cannot pass that up. I am sure Spaw won't mind if I tell you you are being awarded the latest Little Pissant Order of the Golden Shower Award as that is what came to mind when I read your posting! His own creation, just for you!:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 11:00 PM

Oh piss on it! Enough! Get well now!
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Nancy King
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 11:14 PM

Lots of positive thoughts coming your way from Maryland!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 11:26 PM

Checking in tonight on your progress Spaw...keep up the good work. I hope the trach went well and that it brings you some relief.

Fight on my friend, fight on!

Love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 05:03 AM

We're away for a few days but I'll be thinking of Pat & Karen and hoping that this New Year will be a Healthy one for all the Family.

Actually, that includes the rest of you here too....
Hils

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Janie
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 05:36 AM

Good morning, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 05:50 AM

A pure spot of white light to focus on (to go with Amos's golden beams!) to bring you back to us, Pat.

Hugs for Karen, Tris, Michael and Connie xxx

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:40 AM

Noreen, might be a good idea to clean that mess off the floor. We don't want Spaw falling on his butt when he finally gets out of bed. Slippery mess, that is - smelly too.
Spaw - keep to the right despite your liberal leanings. The floor is wet over there.
Good morning, Sunshine. Please feel better today and well tomorrow.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:55 AM

Oh, my- so grateful for modern medicine. Holding my breath and lighting candles galore for you, dear Spaw! Hang in there, too, Karen- we're holding you up on Mudcat wings!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:55 AM

Yay, a traech is way better than intubation, keep up the good work, and whatever other body parts you can raise, Spaw darlin'!

Subject: UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:30 AM

Well, I got my wires crossed when speaking with Connie,yesterday. Just spoke with Karen and the trach is scheduled for 2p this afternoon..that's Mudcat time.

And, he should be able to talk with it by placing his finger over the opening. They are slowly waking him up more by backing off on some meds. They are still not able to find out what is causing the fever, but one of the nurses said next they might do a head scan for sinus problems and Karen was after herself for not thinking of that...he always has sinus problems! So, if they get that checked out and can start treating it, there we go! Today, Karen sounded better, talking of when he gets to feeling better, he's going to need her more. (I was reminding her to take care of herself.)

Thanks, folks, and please check out the other thread I started about a Sing for Spaw.

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:49 AM

That is some sinus infection if it requires morphine! Oy! ;-) Good thinking, to remember to go back to what in other times would be the obvious.

Thanks again, Kat.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:52 AM

Hey, if pissing on Spaw is what it takes to yank him back into the universe, then by God, I volunteer....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 12:43 PM

Yep, Amos, THAT would get him out of bed I bet.

Yes, best regards to Michael, Tris, Connie and Karen, in particular. I can't think of anyone better for the job of riding herd on the nurses and docs than Karen. Keep up the good work gal, he'll thank you later. Well, no, maybe not since he's been in a stupor a lot of the time, but we certainly thank you!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: mouldy
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 12:49 PM

Well known side effect of morphine is constipation.....

Hope it does turn out to be sinuses. Poor man, if the pain has been THAT bad! Talk about a bear with a sore head...and some!

Still keeping the vibes going.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:02 PM

Ah, I think the morphine was more for the extreme pain of the haematoma which were removed, then the re-opened and packed incision, and the vent as well as the sedation needed to keep him on the vent. Don't quote me on that, though.:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:29 PM

We're still here even if we can't find words for the best wishes we proffer.

{{{{{{Hugs all around}}}}}

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 02:01 PM

Ditto, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 04:10 PM

Sing for Spaw thread.

~S~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: alanabit
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 04:37 PM

Thanks for the update. I hope this means better news is on the way soon. Buggered sinuses (as I know from personal experience) can screw up your breathing and give you excruciating headaches. If that turns out to have been part of the problem, with modern medicine, it should be relatively easy to fix it for the future once Spaw has recovered from this current bout of trouble.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 06:52 PM

Whenever my sinuses have given me trouble I just use a 1/2 inch bit in an electric drill and it cleans 'em right out. Same thing for constipation, only you need a longer bit.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:20 PM

Still here, Pat, Karen, and loved ones. Rest, recover...we'll help you rejoice.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:29 PM

Steel is tempered in fire, and mankind by adversity. (Seneca)

Spaw, you must be tougher than Japanese Algebra.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Janie
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:46 PM

Thanks again for keeping us in the loop, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:10 PM

I think he should stop screwing around in the hospital and start farting around at home.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:17 PM

Japanese Algebra ain't tough at all, Capt'n... What is tough is tryin' to squeeze out a "Silent Sam" while yer at the alter in front of a hunnert people gettin' ready to get hitched... That is tough...

I mean, there I was, 19 years old an' standin' at that alter with right at about a hunnert people behind me... Let me repeat that last part... "behind me" and, well, we all know that the Reg Boyz been known to lite a few but lotta folks don't know that my Couzin Rufus is related to the Reg Boyz thru marriage... Yeah seem that his wife, the ever lovely Retha Mae, was a Tompkin girl from Ohio that Rufe met when she was a roller derby queen with the "Yunks-town Honeydrippers"... So Rufe was my best man so he figurated that he should throw me a bachelor party behind the Sweet Spring General Store and so we was up eatin' cheezy pizza and drenkin' Iron City half the night before the big weddin'... Now the Sweet Spring Store closes at 2 o-clock in the mornin' which means no bath rooms... I wakes up about half an hour before Iz 'spozed to be at the church, ain't bathed 'er nuthin' and got bad growlin' sound in my innards...

So I look over at Rufe and he's passed out leanin' up against of the back of the store and I yells, "What time is it" so he check his Spiro T Agnew Time-ex wristwatch and say's, "Time to get to the church, like right now"...

Ten minutes later we at the St Andrews Mission Church where the weddin' 'is sposed to be and I find my bride, who ain't a real happy kinda bride, an she has my suit in the back of the car and so I put it on in the St Andrews port-a-john 'bout as fast as I can, run the church just in time for the organ lady to pound out that weddin' music on the old upright piano...

So there I was at the alter, pissed off bride, tummy gurglin' with a hunnert people, ahhhhh, behind me...

The priest/minister or whatwever the guy was had some kinda speech impediment... No, maybe I had a hearin' impediment... No maybe bvoth of us was impedded, I donno... All I knew is that I had me a severe little southbound situation brewin' that might not make it to the I-do's or I-changed-my-minds part of the deal...

I mean, I was a'squeezin' and a'squeezing 'bout as hard as a 19 year boy could do and my keens was shakin' and my knees was shakin' and my hands sweatin' and, well, folks... There's only about so much squeeze in a 150 pound 19 year old... So what's a guy to do???

We was almost down to the vows where the priest/minister/whatever says "I know pronounce you man and wife" when that little southbound train jumped tracks and decided that he'd be the "main attraction"... Well, first of all, I learned alot in that moment... I learned to never go out the night before a weddin' and get all drunked up on Iron City and eat up with lousy pizza... I learned that Couzin Rufus ain't best-man material fir the bachelor party he gave me behind Sweet Spring General Store... I learned that Iron City and pizza and a hunnert people "behind" you ain't a not good combination... I learned that ya' can't trust a fart no matter how it promises to behave, or in this case, not... And I learned that 19 must be too young to get married... Well, that one is what she said as she and the other hunnert folks were fightin' each other tryin' to evacuate St. Andrews Church... Didja ya'll see the news coverage???

Spawzer... That is fir you buddy... No, it was just one girl outta millions so it don't compare to some of the stuff you and Reg Boyz can get goin' butt, ahhhhhhh, but I thought it was the right story to tell jus'[ knowing that once it got back to ya' that I had "spilled the beans", so to speak, that that would put a fire in yer belly, so to speak, to get yer ass, so to speak, back into gear and get the heck outta that hospital and come hear and kick my ass!!!

Ya' hear???

Ol' hillbilly loves you...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:26 PM

Bobert-

Thanks for sharing that story....

Now I've got something to think about for the rest of the evening.

And Spaw will love it when he reviews this thread!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:30 PM

Seneca can't compete with such human interest stuff.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Watching and waiting.. thanks for the updates Kat...

Prayers .....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:05 PM

You're welcome, Janie and others. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:51 PM

Shucks, Bobert, that ain't nothin'. I cleared out the entire Bethesda Naval Medical Center Officer's Open Mess at my wedding reception, and the brought in the Chemical Corps from Ft. Detrick as well. It was a good thing I'd changed from my white gettin' hitched pants to my brown goin' away pants, too.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:01 AM

Good morning, Pat and Karen.You're on my mind again today.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:09 AM

Thinking and singing and still sending waves of love.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:09 AM

& mine at the start of a new year

sandra in sydney - 1.09am January 1st, 2011

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: GUEST,999
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:01 AM

Hey, Pat. Heard one yesterday.

Q: What do sperm and lawyers have in common.

A: Each have a one in fifty-million chance of becoming human.

Best to you and your family.

BM

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: olddude
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:39 AM

I am right there for you Pat, get better, got my prayers going . When you get better you are going to be in such trouble from everyone for scaring us so

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lox
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 11:42 AM

What some people won't do to get attention!!

Hurry up and get well.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Hollowfox
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 11:43 AM

Love and good thoughts to all you Pattersons from your (maybe) nearest Mudcat neighbor, and family. Your $#@!-reduction candle burning friend, Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:11 PM

Sang for you at noon, Spaw.





Dainty Davey.










Are you up now?
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:16 PM

I'll be singing that little-known Dylan song about Berea Kentucky called Possum-tively Fourth Street.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:19 PM

Hey, Pat!! Wake up!! Usn's got sompn to tell ya!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:42 PM

..... ♥

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:45 PM

I heard that Bob Dylan sang for ya... course ya couldn't tell what he was singing unless ya knew the lyrics already.

Yeah, I said it. Sue me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:21 PM

Let's see if this works... ..... ¢¾

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:23 PM

Nope.. it was a copy & paste of Bill's "heart" post. Oh well, it's the thought that counts.

My heart is with ya, buddy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Dave Swan
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:45 PM

All best wishes to the whole Patterson clan for a much improved 2011. With love from the West Coast office of LFPS.

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: KT
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:52 PM

Thinking of you Spaw and Karen. Dreaming of you, even. And in the dream you are well on the road to recovery and a return to good health. ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:00 PM

the ♥ was done by holding the alt key, and hitting 3 at the same time. It may depend on your exact PC.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:13 PM

Hearts for you, but alt three didn't work for me...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:49 PM

33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

It's a lucky numer, at least

33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:52 PM

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Goodnight, Pat.
See you in the New Year.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

Right, dude...til next year.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 07:45 PM

Spaw's going to come out of it and ask if we got bored and started an html practice thread.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

thenextweb.com has twitter keys, a little page you can link by dragging onto the top of several browsers and just open and copy (cut and paste) the symbols in there. Use html font commands to make them bigger.

That practice thread needs a font command of huge proportions to tell Spaw how much we love and miss him here right now. Get better, the new year is upon us, and we're waiting for you to join us again!

Oh, and in case it this sounds too serious,

✏ A while back you guys were discoursing on constipation. I recommend Spaw use the accountant's method. Work it out with a pencil.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:20 PM

brilliant, Stilly!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:30 PM

33

Aw heck. I can't get the hearts to work but don't think for a second that that means you aren't close in thought! Since I'm not much of a singer and really don't want to hurt anyone's ears, I hummed you a tune. :)

Much love and many stinkin' hearts! 3 3 3

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:39 PM

Spaw... I wish I was there to hold you hand and talk to you... to spell Karen off so she could go to Tims for a double double and a few bits...

C'mon buddy... we need you back here... we do

Subject: UPDATE 12-31
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:50 PM

They put the trach in and within an hour started talking about moving him to an acute care facility. They do have one at the hospital, so that might work out okay. Karen says he is improving. Opened his eyes and was excited to see Tris; tried to smile, but is very weak and still on some morphine. The fever is still around 100 degrees with tylenol. If he goes to acute care it would likely be for at least 25 days. Karen thinks once they get him off the meds and stuff he will improve more rapidly with breathing and all. At the acute care place they would be able to bring him back up whilst keeping an eye on all of his various "problems."

I am not going to call as often, now. If anything changes, they will call us and I will still keep in touch every few days.

KT, I told her about your dream. Thanks:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:54 PM

Thank you to all who are caring for Pat, directly or long distance.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:12 PM

Sounds like things are looking up a little. Thanks, kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:50 PM

Thanks, Kat, for the update.

Would be nice to have this thread all wrapped up and rosy but the reality is going to take more time and effort. That's O.K.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:08 PM

25 days - good grief!
I had a dream about Spaw too. He asked me to sing a song in front of a crowd and I sang off key. What does that mean????
Don't remember what I sang though. For sure it wasn't Dainty Davey.
We will let you handle things and get back to us when you can. Get some rest Karen.
Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:37 PM

25 days... I'll be here, checking this thread first thing every day and last thing every night, when I can. C'mon Spaw.... fuck, fight and hold the light.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: open mike
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 11:54 PM

♪♪♫♪♫ i will sing a song for SPAW--at midnite east coast time..is that what time zone he is in..!!??♪♪♫♪♫

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Janie
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 01:38 AM

Nothing to say, just here.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Cuilionn
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 07:25 AM

Ahem... mi mi mi...ahem...

"Joy, health, love and peace
Be all here and ablaw.
By your leave we shall sing,
Concerning Catspaw.

Catspaw is the best,
May he heal with good rest!
His gold heart and foul'd air,
No other can compare!

Now Christmas is past
Like a burble well-gassed
So we bid you adieu;
Great joy in the New!"

--Cuilionn, who doffs her mummer's cap and scampers out of the recovery room, ankle-bells jingling faintly.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 08:24 AM

well done, Cuilionn

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 11:13 AM

Brilliant, Cuillion! Joy, health, love and peace be to all in this place, ol' Spaw especially!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: BlueJay
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 11:31 AM

Thanks a lot Kat. Happy New Year! (But we still need Catspaw49)!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 12:21 PM

Love the good news, thanks, katwatching!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 04:25 PM

Mr. Spawzer always gave me the uplift I needed with his oddly perverse sense of humor. Many times I have laughed till I cried. I have gone through three computers due to Coke being Catspewed from my nose after reading his posts.

But I am ever grateful to him for his poem I found years ago...well here's the original posting of it:

Subject: A poem by Spaw???
From: GUEST,khandu - PM
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 07:37 PM

This is exciting!
In an old curio shop in Memphis, I found an old magazine. It certainly wasn't the type of mag that I, khandu, would subscribe to; however, having never heard of it before, I purchased it. It was an oddly put-together mag, very limp. It was titled "LESSER MEN- the magazine for the not-so-well endowed". This issue was dated 11-79 and featured "Readers Responses".

I came across this poem near the front of the mag. It was written by "Anon. from Ohio".

It sounds like Spaw to me!

Spaw, you are a wonderful poet! You should share your poetry with your fellow Catters!

So without further ado, A Poem by Spaw:

"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"

I, khandu, of course, cannot relate to the problem expressed in the poem. Yet, I am moved by his sense of futility and inadequacy.

You are good, Spaw.

khandu

My best to ya, old buddy; I love ya, man!

ken

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 04:54 PM

Thus spoke The King.

Excellent.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Janie
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:07 PM

Somehow missed Kat's last update. Good news with which to begin the new year!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:46 PM

Hey, kenny...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 06:15 PM

I got it, SRS... I will work it out with that pencil...✍

And will write Spaw when they let him read.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 06:33 PM

Many years ago, during a similar crisis, the Gaelic Goddess penned this song purely on behalf of the Great Flatulent Spaw, which I tender here with great affection:

It's In His Heart
(words by çine Cooke; music by A. Jessup)
D                   D                        G
How do we value a man, after all?
D                   D                      A
Why do we love him, and answer his call?
D                                                       G
Oh, where do we look for the mark of his worth?
D                                  A                           D
Or the reason that he is here, walking this earth?

D         Em    G
It's in his heart,
D                  A
It's in his heart,
D                                    Em
There's no other place to start,
A                   D
It's in his heart.

D                   D                                          G
Can you sum up a man by the coin that he holds?
D                   D                      A
Or whether he's young, whether he's old?
D                   D                                          G
Have you ever pondered the compass that guides
D                   D                                 A
To follow the straight path, wherever it lies?

D         Em    G
It's in his heart,
D                  A
It's in his heart,
D                                    Em
There's no other place to start,
A                   D
It's in his heart.

(Bridge)
Em                      F#m                Em                F#m
Oh, look in his eyes, they're bright and they're true,
Em                      F#m       G             A
No matter what colour, they're looking at you,
Em                      F#m          Em            F#m
And what do you see, when you look deep inside?
    C          C             A               A
A man full of love, honour and pride.

D         Em    G
It's in his heart,
D                  A
It's in his heart,
D                                    Em
There's no other place to start,
A                   D
It's in his heart.

D         Em    G
It's in his heart,
D                  A
It's in his heart,
D                                        Em
The soul that canÕt be torn apart,
A                           D
It's in his heart.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 06:38 PM

Thanks again Gaelic Goddess... and Amos.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 08:00 PM

My friend Ron Good had a similar condition as Spaw. IT took nearly 2 months of healing. Weight loss was was the most obvious after effect but all else went well until he walked too close to the turbo prop while in the Bahamas.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: maeve
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 06:40 AM

Good morning, Pat and Karen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Lox
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 07:50 AM

Well Donuel,

With respect to your friend Ron, I suspect that if Spaw were in a similar predicament, I'm not sure how, but it would be the prop that came off worse.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 08:39 AM

Sending Spaw all the healing energy I can muster. I don't spend as much time on the Cat as I used to, but I keep coming back now just to check this thread.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 08:57 AM

Thinking of you all today.

Saw a beautiful graduation photo.... how could one but heal with so much love to get up in the morning and greet?!

Let me know when he's ready to eat. I've perfected my 'buckeye' recipe and will wing them to you!

Dani

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Severn
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 09:43 AM

No expiration date*


1 COUPON GOOD FOR GOOD THOUGHTS FOR 2011

(There! That ought to be a lot of them!)

AND SOME SNAPPY PATTER, SON!

AND SOME OTHER THOUGHTS TO KEEP UP WITH THE TYPE YOU THINK WHEN WELL.

(I may be irredeemable, but my coupons aren't)

All this from a horse-spittle veteran who apprieciates from experience the value of Mudcat Support.

Karen, if they continue him on the Morphine after he gets home, stock up on Stools-Ofteners and Senna. I'll vouch for the fact he'll bloody well need them.

The good thing, is that his mind would be Morephined-ish than ever.

Remember, Spaw, that Acute Care means that it will be administered by a cute nurse or two. An upgrade so that you won't roll out of bed.

*And remember, YOU have no expiration date, either.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

When he's ready to eat?

They ain't gonna eat Spaw... too damn tough! Probably taste like

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 11:23 AM

similar condition to Spaw? could that be Fartitis?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 11:24 AM

Nice one, Sev!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 11:31 AM

Mighty Morphine Power Rangers!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 01:16 PM

Many years ago on the shores of the Mediterranean, people would risk their lives diving to collect a particular kind of shellfish. Many died, but the shellfish yielded the dye known as "Tyrreahian Purple" and was so costly that it could only be purchased by the very wealthy and powerful -- emperors, for example.

Recent archeology has brought some new facts to light about the preparation of and the ceremonies surrounding this legendary dye.

First, after the shellfish were brought to shore and scraped out of their shells, they were placed in large vats. They were then soaked in urine to dissolve the chemicals which produced the dye. The urine was flung onto the bodies of the shellfish by war heroes, those who had lost an eye or a limb in the battle and to fling the "chamber lye" was considered a great honor.

When the dye had been extracted, the vats were washed and the shellfish (which previously had been toxic because of the chemicals) were now fit to eat. Again, the only the heroes were permitted to partake of this culinary delight.

This select group of warriors were highly honored and were known throughout the Mediterranean countries as the "One-Eyed, One-Armed, Flying Pee-Pee Purple Eaters." Even today they are honored in song.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 01:49 PM

Source?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 01:57 PM

I'm not going to do all of your research for you! Crap, I'm R-E-T-I-R-E-D, man!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Lox
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 03:14 PM

"source"

Bwa-hahahaaa!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 03:36 PM

"One-Eyed, One-Armed, Flying Pee-Pee Purple Eaters." Rap

Ah, now I understand the inspiration. Spent long hours awake wondering about that.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: maeve
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:59 AM

Here we are again, Spaw. Nearly time for the sunrise.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:26 AM

Still here and sending good thoughts.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:28 AM

The world is waiting for the sunrise AND the spawrise. So take up yer pallet and walk, dammit!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:07 AM

Still here, Spaw and Karen.
Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:28 AM

Gosh. Will he really be in acute care for nearly a month?

Come on Spaw... Hoping you are feeling much better very soon.

I dressed up in a tight corset/bodice thingie with a saloon girl skirt on 31 December and did some singing (along with DJd music)and too much dancing at Dead of Night event in Swansea.

I didn't know about the sing for Spaw but can I dedicate this activity in retrospect?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:32 AM

St. Peter says, "That was an unfortunate accident fellows, especially on Christmas day. We have a tradition. Can you come up with something appropriate to celebrate this holy day?"

The New Brunswicker reaches into his pocket and pulls out a bic lighter and says, "This is a candle." and St. Peter waves him in.

The Cape Bretoner reaches into his pocket and pulls out keys, jingles them and says, "These are bells." and St. Peter waves him in.

The Newfoudlander reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pair of pantyhose and says, "Those are Carol's."

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:54 AM

I generally don't come down to this part of the forum. I don't like the crap about stupid Americans, and stupid Brits, and stupid Aussies.
So I step in to see what new crap I can read to bitch about and I learn that Spaw is not the picture of health. What a load of crap that is.

Feel better soonest there Pat. So, bad taste jokes are in order?

How many gender non specific people of an alternative life style does it take to change a light bulb?

Eleven. One to actually change the bulb, two to write an affirmative anthem about light bulbs in general but only the new non incandescent ones, and eight more for the drum circle.

There I hope that was offensive enough for a few laughs when no one was looking.

Be well Pat.

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:02 AM

"So, bad taste jokes are in order?"

I was moved by the spirit.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-31
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

I gotcher Dylan right here, pally:

Come all of you people wherever you are
The light bulb went out, you can't see any more
You might lose your self, trip and fall to the floor
If the chairs, someone's re-arrangin'
Get out a new one and screw it on in
For the light bulb, it need a-changin'

For the best way to go, you usually need light
Or you may be the thing that goes bump in the night
When you find the stairs and fall down the first flight
Crack your pow, un-curly and ancient
So call the committee and vote on it now
Cuz the light bulb, it needs a-changin'

C'mon Spaw!

Subject: UPDATE 01-03-2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:30 PM

Bravo, Jeri!!

Some good news. His fever is down to about 99 degrees and his sinuses are better since they took the vent out of his throat and can treat him better. And, they are doing CPAP with him this morning and have him less sedated! Karen sounded hopeful that he will continue to improve and be moved to acute care and hope he will be among us, soon, to read your postings.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: maeve
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:33 PM

Great song, Jeri.

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to the Return of Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:28 PM

Thanks for the update, kat.
Jeri - you need to start writing seriously again or at least sharing what you have written.
Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Lox
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:42 PM

Oh no - he's less sedated ...

I wanna be sedated!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:58 PM

Old woman goes to the doctor.
Doctor says "you've got acute angina"
Old woman says "well,yes, it used to be"

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: mouldy
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 03:05 PM

Good news about the fever and the sinuses.
Let's hope that things continue to improve, and he's able to read this and perhaps post in his own inimitable style - then we'll know he's really on the mend!

D'you think they'll really be able to put up with him in acute care for 25 days...?

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 04:33 PM

They're giving him CPAP? Are you sure you're spelling that correctly?

Yay for a lowered fever!!! Go-o-o-o-oo SPAW! Wait...I have to go out into the hall first...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:14 PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I was gettin anxious.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Hawker
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:42 PM

:0)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 06:00 PM

He must be getting better, did you hear what he did to those birds in Arkansas, and now an earthquake in Cumbria and Yorkshire, UK....?!

My tits are worried....

Thinking of you, dear.

XX

LTS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 06:15 PM

I'm checking this thread every chance I get and sounds like we had a "good report" day... More, por favor...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Janie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 06:26 PM

Yes!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 07:19 PM

I hope when he gets home, he is allowed limited access to this thread...*grin*... reading it all at once would wear him out and put him back IN.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 08:00 PM

A joke I heard that I think Pat would enjoy.

Conversation between a husband and wife:-

H. Honey, if I died would you miss me?

W. Of course I would dear.

H. And would you mourn my passing?

W. You know I would.

H. And would you keep the house?

W. Yes dear, it's our home, and I would hate to leave it.

H. Would you ever re-marry?

W. In time I might, if the right man came along.

H. And would you bring him home to our house?

W. I suppose so. It would make sense.

H. And would you give him my car?

W. Maybe.

H. And would you give him my golf clubs?

W. No dear, I would not.

H. Why is that honey?

W. Because he's left handed!



A bloody good reason to live.
Don T.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 08:33 PM

Good news!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 08:36 PM

ditto, & less worry for Karen & family

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 01-3-11
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 08:51 PM

They gutted him like a fish, shoved tubes and other things into intimate parts of his anatomy, and then cut his throat.

YAY! He's apparently getting better so he can get the hell out of a place like that!!! I mean, would YOU want to stick around that sort of place? If you would I can refer you to several bars in seedy parts of various towns....

Subject: UPDATE 01-3-11 #2
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:26 PM

Karen just called. She was with Pat who is alert and been breathing with the CPAP all day. Off sedation! Holding his own. She thinks we've turned a corner. He is really weak so she was trying to find a way to understand what he's trying to communicate. Paper and pen were too much, but she uses her phone notepad all the time which is what I suggested. I am sure they will figure something out and he will grow stronger.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:27 PM

Forgot she said to send you all their love. I told her they were getting all of ours, too.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:32 PM

If he wants to recover quickly, he really has to stop holding his own and use his energies for healing.

SOmeone had to say it.

I hate to think of Spaw so helpless and ill. Keep strong, Love. You too Karen
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:48 PM

Not to worry, Sins...

He's playin' possum which always means that there's a...

...Reg Boys story brewin'....

I can't wait...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:55 PM

More reading from "Moby-Dick":

...BOOK I (Folio), Chapter VI (Sulphur Bottom). - Another retiring gentleman, with brimstone in his belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of the profounder dives amongst the rivers of Ohio. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance, but he is often heard and his sulphurous emanations oft proclaim his nearness much to the disgust of all others. He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line as he choked those trailing behind. Prodigies are told of him. Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! I can say nothing more that is true of ye, nor can the oldest Nantucketer or Ohioan.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Tinker
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:00 PM

Kat, I'm glad to hear the energy and light headed out from the 'Cat is beamin' it's way west and starting a bit of positive stir.....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:11 PM

I think we'll at least get a "fun things to do at the hospital" story once he's back. I don't really care about the entertainment, though. I'm glad he's doing better. I'm glad for me and for his compadres here, for his friends , and his family there.

And kat, thanks again for the updates.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: KT
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:00 PM

Yahoo! C'mon, Spaw!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:43 PM

Me, too, Jeri. I don't care if he ever posts another funny or not. I sure did like the cautious optimism I heard in Karen's voice tonight, talking about turning a corner.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 12:09 AM

continue the good news

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 12:32 AM

Hey Rapparee, my favorite novel you're quoting from there. I appreciate the Spawsian Deviations from the original text!

Thanks for being the liaison on this whole sickly Spaw deal, Kat. I for one can't wait for the full report from the horse's mouth, as it were. And I think that's coming soon.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: My guru always said
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 02:44 AM

Fantastic news! Keeping those positive thoughts coming for a good recovery!!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Janie
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 06:45 AM

Mornin' Pat and Karen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 06:52 AM

Good News!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: mouldy
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:15 AM

Woop! Woop!

Andrea x

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 09:31 AM

Farts don't fail him now!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Lox
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 09:36 AM

"the full report from the horse's mouth"

or indeed from the other end of the horse ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

Gawd, I love my cpap! It helps with breathing,humidifies the air, and the white noise from the motor calms down my cat. I hope yours does as well for you, Pat.
Karen, now that the boys are old enough to manage a bit on their own, get some rest, eh? I mean really, a job, two sons, a clean house (a lot better than mine, folks, I've seen it with my own eyes),various pets, and all this with Himself...you deserve a nap, and then some.
Connie, thanks for your help. I hope to meet you someday.
Damn, it's hard to type with tears of relief in my eyes.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:25 AM

THe only reason he is holding his own is it is the most economic method with regard to energy expenditure...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: maeve
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:27 AM

That's encouraging news!

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:58 AM

Good news, indeed, continuing best thoughts from Charlie in Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE bet
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 12:44 PM

WONDERFUL!

Dani

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Maryrrf
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 01:14 PM

Wonderful news!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 01:37 PM

A result like this is worth a whole New Year's Eve of the Dogwatch Nautical Band attempting (badly) to do Dylan: "How do you fee--eel?," "Oh-ho, we gonna fly down in the easy chair" (for some reason the boys fixated on that one), and "Take your shoes off, do not fear, bring that bottle over here" (I did my sexiest solo on that one).

We're pretty sure you could hear how bad we were all the way to Maine, so we were surely quite audible in Ohio. The morphine probably just made it a touch more tolerable. But we're done now, so you can let up on the pain meds...

Keep on keepin on, Spaw. So happy you're mending!

Claire

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 01:49 PM

Thank goodness!

Spaw... 2009 Chrysler 300 with all that fancy crap like a nav screen and voice recognition and so much of it that I'll never read the manualsss... I drove it two days ago in the daytime, parked it in the garage and shut the door, unlocked, when I got out. We had snow yesterday and the temp dropped to -10C last night. Today, it was locked and the key fob wouldn't open it. Valet key. Fob in the ignition and nada and I couldn't remove the fob. Boosted it. No problem. Checked the trunk to see if a thief had opened the trunk. Nope. The only thing I can think of it that the fob got "pressed" in my pocket in my house, the car started and when it shut off the climate control fan kept running or the park lights stayed on. Any thoughts?

Take yer time getting back to me as I understand you are busy with more important things.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 02:34 PM

It's a freaking Chrysler, gnu. Do you really need more information? ;>)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 02:51 PM

Wel, LEJ, I knew many years ago that Chryslers (it`s Mum`s, BTW) had electrical quirks but I figured the Germans woulda sorted all that out.

I shall perform an experiment with the remote start tomorrow in case Spaw doesn`t get back on his feet in the next short while.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 03:04 PM

Speaking of, ClaireBear, check this out with The Byrds and Earl Scruggs!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 03:06 PM

Thank you kat! That is a gem.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 03:11 PM

In case he starts texting, these "senior codes" may come in handy...


                        ATD: At The Doctor's

                        BTW: Bring The Wheelchair

                        BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth

                        CBM: Covered By Medicare

                        CUATSC: See You At The Senior Center

                        DWI: Driving While Incontinent

                        FWB: Friend With Beta Blockers

                        FWIW: Forgot Where I Was

                        FYI: Found Your Insulin

                        GGPBL: Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low!

                        GHA: Got Heartburn Again

                        HGBM: Had Good Bowel Movement

                        IMHO: Is My Hearing-Aid On?

                        LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out

                        LOL: Living On Lipitor

                        LWO: Lawrence Welk's On

                        OMMR: On My Massage Recliner

                        OMSG: Oh My! Sorry, Gas.

                        ROFL... CGU: Rolling On The Floor laughing... And Can't Get Up

                        TTYL: Talk To You Louder

                        WAITT: Who Am I Talking To?

                        WTFA: Wet The Furniture Again

                        WTP: Where's The Prunes?

                        WWNO: Walker Wheels Need Oil

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 03:57 PM

Aha! He's on the mend? Excellent. This means I will yet get him to renounce the evil Cheech Wizard, confess his many sins, respect Dachshunds, worship Winona Ryder, and seek forgiveness for his uncountable rude acts! This is very good. ;-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: olddude
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 09:20 PM

LH
ahhhh don't count on it, his first words I think will be calling people needle Dick and I will be very happy to hear him say that to everyone again

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:21 PM

He's been sedated, medicated, confabulated, and excreted. I suspect it will pass like gas, but in the beginning you might find such exclamations as:

deedle nick
hit shed
doke-brick lamamucca
feet shucker
bit for shrains

and so on, and on, and on. On the other hand, "touch the brain, never the same" and he might become a pleasant, mild-speaking, polite, politician.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Janie
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 11:20 PM

Loved that video, Kat. Wonder what year it was?

c'mon, Spaw!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 11:31 PM

After looking a little further, it looks as though it was from 1969, a very good year as I remember it!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 11:46 PM

Love that Scruggs smile, and thoze crazy hippy-commie-punk kids!! LOL!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 01:32 AM

Whoo yeh! Love that bass and banjo.

Time to rouse up Spaw. (well, maybe you oughter wait until a bit less early in the mornin'.)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:45 AM

Good news! Looking forward to having Spaw posting again.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 10:09 AM

...There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any. He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness of posterior exhalation. His whole high, broad form, and most especially his head, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning
tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say. By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little or no allusion was made to it, especially by the mates. But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea and, peering through the auger-holes in the wall of his shower-bath, it was determined to run completely down the front of his body, under the feet, and again up his back to meet as a circle does. Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab, gave forth the opine that it was the track of a zipper. Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment. So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out - which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered - then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole and, pulling the tab of the opener, would allow him to again spring forth in life, as full and complete as before he went to sea.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 10:15 AM

600?? wow

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

It show's how much and how many people care about Spaw. Just too bad it didn't end before this.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:45 AM

The SPAW theory of socio economic Evolution

There is a socio-ecomomic evolution that applies to all man made movements...

It starts with a cause or a good idea and becomes a movement.
The movement becomes a business
and the business becomes a criminal racket.

plug and play any "cause" into this equation and you will see the inviolate truth of this natural evolution.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:52 AM

OK. Where IS the old fart.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 12:55 PM

Kat, that video was brilliant! I wish we'd sounded even a little like that. Our performance was suitable only for captive audiences like Spaw -- in fact, even Spaw might've gotten up and bolted outta there to get away from it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 01:38 PM

Hope you are bit stronger today, Pat.

Hope you are a bit rested today, Karen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 08:58 PM

Okay, he's in for it now!

...With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face - at least to my taste - his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide a fart. Through all his unearthly gaseous emissions, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bloodshot bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand flatulent devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Ohioan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor, nay, not even a dose of Beano. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved to his ankles, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one and indeed his whole figure promised good head. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top with a veritable Stromboli beneath. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 09:54 PM

"indeed his whole figure promised good head"

Rap, you are one sick puppy!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 02:48 AM

Rapparee is committing Melville sacrilege. As it is in a good cause, I will let it pass.

But just you stay away from John Milton, ya hear?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:11 AM

Still sending positive thoughts!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:40 AM

Still sending positive, new-year-new-start thoughts your way!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:57 AM

Is he home yet?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:58 AM

Why not, VT? You some sort of Miltonaire? You read things like "Aroapagitica" and "Paradise Mislaid" and stuff about the slough of despond (which is where you end up when you read too much Milton)?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:04 AM

Hey, Pat. Just got this from a friend.

Year to date statistics on airport screening from the Department of Homeland Security:


Terrorist Plots Discovered          0
Transvestites                     133
Hernias                        1,485
Hemorrhoid Cases                3,172
Enlarged Prostates             8,249
Breast Implants                59,350
Natural Blondes                     3

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 12:28 PM

Aarrgghhh... don't mix up the johns. Bunyan is not in same league as Milton.

Bunyan is an outhouse compared to Milton who is wonderful fully fitted ablutorium, with hot and cold running Little Pissants.

I should say though, I got so frustrated in the middle of my Milton course that I actually did write him a Dear John letter.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 03:33 PM

Bunyan? Paul, you mean?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: olddude
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 03:35 PM

Get out of that hospital and get back here you old goat ... enough already !!!

Subject: UPDATE 6 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:35 PM

Just spoke to Karen and it just keeps getting better!!!

Fever is down, vitals are good...the nurses say it is time to get him up and m o v i n g! Still has the trach and they put in the vent at night for rest. Best sign is, he's getting antsy, trying to ask "when are they gonna do this and that" and going nuts 'cause no one can understand him. Karen is going to go get a small write on-wipe off board at the office store. I asked her didn't they have any there. She said they have them all over the hospital, just none for the patients. Gee, ya'd think?

He is acting happier and his writing is getting stronger, so that will help, too.

She will be talking to them tomorrow about where he will go for rehab. In a day or two, she might have an address for us to send cards to; she'll let me know. I feel badly, every time I've called, lately, she's been asleep! This time she needed to get up for work, so I didn't feel so badly, plus she was planning to call me anyway.

This is GOOD news!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dave Swan
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:47 PM

Yep. Good news. Thanks again, Kat for keeping us informed.

I'm about ready to being heaping abuse on the lad. Soon.....

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:55 PM

I was trying to stay awake for a while longer to help me sleep better tonight but this news is a welcome bonus.

I shall sleep better.

Spaw... I hope you sleep well tonight. Rest well and get stronger my friend. I miss you.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:03 PM

Thank you, Kat. I suspect there were a number of us hovering around waiting to see if there was more news.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:20 PM

C'mon Spaw!!!!!!!!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 11:33 PM

What will be the first words he writes?

Da-da? Mamma? When am I getting out of here? I've gotta go poo-poo?

What do YOU think?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 11:41 PM

Hmmm....I think I probably wouldn't write what I think 'Spaw might write.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 01:02 AM

Ya know - think he could manage to stay in there until this hits 1,000?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 01:08 AM

"microwave me a burrito" is what I'm thinking

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 02:21 AM

@ Rapparee
I know you know which Bunyan I mean. Willful obtuseness doesn't wear well on librarians. Best improve your wit, Pilgrim, lest your weak attempt at humour land you in a personal slough of despondency.   You could do better with some sort of word play on bunions. Maybe take some instruction from Severn. :0}


@ Pat
Good to read that you are getting better. I hope the nurses have rose tinted specs at the ready for reading your first entry on that white board. Wouldn't want to blind them.


Sending more healing thoughts your way. Thanks Karen and Kat for keeping us posted.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:02 AM

excellent news

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: My guru always said
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:48 AM

Such wonderful news!!! Hope he doesn't piss the nurses off too much while he's recovering, he needs to mend properly, not get chucked out of hospital too early...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dharmabum
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 07:59 AM

We're pullin' for ya Spaw.
Keep it up.

DB.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:26 AM

Spaw, you poor puppy. Snuggle in and rest. You still have Christmas to look forward to.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: bbc
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

I haven't been leaving many comments, but I *have* been following this thread. Poor Pat! Nobody should have as many hard times & close calls as he has! Wishing you all the best, always, Pat (and, of course, Karen, too)!!!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

Lookin' forward to havin' an address... I got somethin' to send the Spawzer... Sho nuff do...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Hawker
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:34 AM

YAY! Great news! Thanks Kat. :0)
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:40 AM

Phew.... good thoughts still coming for all.

XX

LTS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

Paul was John Bunyan's brother. John wrote that awful book, and Paul "disgraced the family" (as the family history says) by hanging around with some blues babe. Ollie Cromwell finally tired of Paul always putting him down and had him chopped -- didn't even ax him. Paul high-lined outa there to the Colonies (and took the babe with him), where he lined up a job cutting trees chop-chop. The rest is history: Paul went on to be a big, big man and John also made some progress.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: alanabit
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 10:03 AM

Good news! I am not sure what the first words will be there, Rapparee, but I should think that "Broke dick Malucca" will be in there somewhere! Let's get Spaw back, bouncing and as badly behaved as ever.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Morticia
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:30 AM

A heartfelt thanks to the gods who look after Spaw, I don't much care who they are and another to you Katmedarlin' and hugs all round to anyone.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:32 AM

That's "mammalucca", alan.... Not to be confused with a Moluccan, which is a cockatoo, or Spaw, which is a cockamamie cockup...never mind...


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

ok ok Rap...I give... UNCLE

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:44 AM

Never argue with a trained music stand!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 J
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:03 PM

It's been a long hard haul but it's looking a whole lot better this week.

But all these blisters! And I'm almost running out of shanties.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:17 PM

Thanks for the news and also for the dating in the thread title for updates-- saves enormous time when I am on the jump as I am so much this year.

~S~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Lox
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:23 PM

I hope Spaw takes his time and uses it to breathe and look outwads at the world instead of sitting at the screen like we are damaging our posture and tiring out our eyes and enfeebling our minds.

Go somewhere beautiful Spaw - and bring your guitar!

I'd rather hear about how well you're doing for a while before I hear from you.

Now sod off :-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:38 PM

Spaw, I'm late to this thread, but here's sending good and healing wishes to you! Remember patients with attitude tend to be motivated....

Dan

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 02:13 PM

Rap... how did he get hooked up with that blues babe? She was as big as an ox!

Spaw... have you been told yet today? Or are ALL the nurses polite?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:49 PM

oi!   I am a blues babe... Who you calling a big ass?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:27 PM

""What will be the first words he writes?""


""%*&(*&$()* (^*(&^&(%% %££*£" £^*(& ( Broke Dick Mammaluccas!""

The rest will probably be non repeatable in polite company.

Come on Pat, prove me wrong!.......or right!........Whatever, just get well.

Don & Winnie T.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:34 PM

I am surprised none of you have thought of his favourite word: JADROOL, as in this inimitable posting by Himself:

A song is a song is a song. Yeah, uh-huh, sure.......so then a rose is a rose is a rose.......and a broke-dick jadrool is a broke-dick jadrool is a broke-dick jadrool and you are. Seems right to me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:42 PM

jadrool: jadrool is the italian for cucumber and why italians choose fruit for derogatory slang remains a mystery. Colloquially it means "lazy bum" and can be used amicably or as an insult.

"Be cool, jadrool."

or

"get a job you fuckin' jadrool!"

From the website "Urban Dictionary", in case you didn't know what "jadrool" meant.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:49 PM

My guess is the first word will be needle Dicks

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:47 PM

Ah. Dildo????

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Genie
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:58 PM

Kat,
Thanks for the update. That is very encouraging news.

Spaw, keep on keepin' on, and I'm sending you positive energies and 3rd-grade-boy humor to help get you out of bed and back passing gas and smart-ass cracks SOON!

Genie

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: BlueJay
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:21 PM

Thank You Kat, for keeping us posted, (or abreast, as Spaw might say). I've been following this thread from the start, and this is the most encouraging sign I've seen so far. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:38 PM

Envisioning Spaw feeling a little better and little stronger day-by-day.

(and would love for that vision to be enlivened by news he has started improving by leaps and bounds!)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: open mike
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 01:49 AM

well, not leaping an bounding, just yet, but hopefully that is right
around the corner!! Hang in there, guy, and best wishes for recovery!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 02:48 AM

Hooray!

Should we start stockpiling ear defenders for when he can speak properly?

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 10:31 AM

A jadrool is an Italian cucumber. Not sure why its dick should be broken or if it even has one. We need Spaw back to clarify.
Morning, Sweetie. How are we today?
Isn't that what the nurse says as he throws his bedpan her way?
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 05:32 PM

Actually, she says, "Good morning, sweetie. Now be a good boy and roll on your side because it's time for your enema. And try not to tear the catheter out this time."

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 05:43 PM

Folks, I tried to wash my cellphone, again, last night. So, this morning we went to get a new one. It wasn't quite right, so we went back, after lunch, to get a different one. On the way there, the first new one rang. I answered. It was Karen! I had no paper or pen with me, so wanting to keep my "intrepid reporter" status intact (in what, kat??!:-) I asked her if I might call her back in just a few. She said sure.

Anyway, long story shortened...I didn't have her number, lost in the washing and couldn't call her back until now. So, here's the news:

He is CRANKY! Always a good sign. He has been put in a stepped down unit and will going to rehab. When I called her back, she couldn't find the addy, so she'll have Connie email it to me. She found one she thinks he will really like.

They got snow and it's been crazy with her working, going to see Pat, and Tris working with the street cleaning people. She said she was sleeping and heard a knock on the door, ran down the stairs, opened the door to see Steve there asking if Tris was available. She looked outside at the darkness and said, "Do they have school, today?" He laughed and told her it was seven PM. He needed Tris to help with snow plows, so of course, Tris has been in heaven. Got to go out with them AND when Karen came home he had the driveway, sidewalks, etc. all cleaned off for her, too!

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 06:10 PM

wow! Good kid!...I hope Pat is hearing how well he is doing.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 06:19 PM

Hope health returns.
I was wondering where the old heckler was gone off to.

We do need all the voices.

Wassail= be whole soon!

Even from I

#1 Piss ant

Conrad

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: olddude
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 06:30 PM

Conrad, somehow I think Spaw will appreciate your comment the most

Thank you

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 08:11 PM

Cranky. That's good news. Now get cranking bud!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 08:52 PM

Cranky is good. Clean sidewalks and work for Tris is good. Karen needs some rest. And how is Michael holding up?
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 08:59 PM

As far as I know Michael is back and forth at his girlfriend's grandma's.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 09:36 PM

I'd be cranky too if every time I got an enema they ripped out the catheter.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: My guru always said
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 04:57 AM

Good Morning from this side of the Pond to Pat, Karen, Tris & Katlaughing. Sending positive thoughts at all of you!

Washing your mobile - is that a euphemism for dropping it down the loo??

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 11:44 AM

No, it's more like spurning the monkey.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 12:51 PM

G'day to you, Spawser!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 01:12 PM

I'm not surprsied he's feeling his cranky. Not a lot else to do in a hospital bed...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 01:35 PM

AMOS!












CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 02:27 PM

Should we take up a collection for $5 billsÉ Does his HMO cover bed dancesÉ

Arrrggghhhh... I hate this HP keyboard!!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 7 Jan
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 02:33 PM

Bully for him! Love to his caregivers and supporters too... don't forget the respite care!

Subject: UPDATE Addy4CardsEtc)
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 07:36 PM

So, I check in for PMs and see one from Himself and, I think wow, that was fast recovery!

Opened it up, it's an old PM Karen used to send me a PM with, are ya ready for this? A rehab addy where we can send cards, etc. Ta-Da:

Rockmill Rehabilitation Centre
    3680 Dolson Court NW
    Carroll, Ohio 43112

He's movin' on up..or down as the case may be:-)

Please see other thread and do NOT send cards, yet.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts(Addy4CardsEtc)
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 08:33 PM

He is in rehab... I hope it has nothing to do with his attitude. I like him cranky and crotchety.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts(Addy4CardsEtc)
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 08:37 PM

Well, he'll stay that way. Only a lobotomy would really rehab him, and I'm not even sure of that.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts(Addy4CardsEtc)
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 10:12 AM

Why doesn't he get outa bed and post here himself? Could it that he's actually sitting on some sunny beech, sipping alcoholic beverages and basking in this outpouring of love and concern? Or perhaps he's up in Stowe, sitting before a pleasant fire and drinking hot ruttered bum or something. Is something WRONG with the boy?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts(Addy4CardsEtc)
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 12:17 PM

Homemade card sent.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts(Addy4CardsEtc)
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 01:42 PM

I ain't senin him no card on accounta he never even sent me a PM when I had my haemorrhoidectomy. He must think I'm just another asshole.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Please see NEW THREAD
joe clone

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:27 PM

Spaw is home, recouping and everything is fine. Thank you for asking

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