Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Janie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:09 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 07:53 PM

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:27 PM

Hope you are up and around soon, Pat.

DougR

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 03:17 PM

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