Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

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: 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:02 AM

excellent news

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 10:20 PM

C'mon Spaw!!!!!!!!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Kat.

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:57 AM

Is he home yet?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 10:15 AM

600?? wow

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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 - 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: 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: Maryrrf
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 01:14 PM

Wonderful news!

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From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 12:44 PM

WONDERFUL!

Dani

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.