Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 07:37 PM

Hey, Susan, sorry but I've lost track. What's up with you, or maybe I should ask what is keeping you down? You got a projected date of release from that nursing home?

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: olddude
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 11:09 AM

Kendall put more than a few dents in it also ... stay well guys.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: olddude
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 11:02 AM

I got the spawster on speed dial with my rosary. I think he wore out the beads he did

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: GUEST,Wysiguest Post-Op
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 10:57 AM

Well hell Pat I'll just have to put you in That List. Fone anytime. Church office/Hardi have my fone #-- no use putting yours in my personal page. Damn nursing home lacks relaible 'net access-- and the lil ole fone doesn't always go where I direct its browser.

May I say tho that 11 weeks plus of ER, hospital, and nursing home care has really gibven me a window in on NURSES and the collegiality that forms the good ones. I salute Karen!

BE WELL.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 04:11 AM

((((((((((((((Dude))))))))))))))) I love you, Pat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 03:50 AM

Spaw, do you ever wonder why people here love you so much? Isn't it a wonderful thing?

I suppose I'm one of the few Mudcatters who has met you in person. I'm sure glad I went out of my way to meet you. You're a goddamn wonderful person.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 04:02 PM

And you folks did a fine job this time around as usual......Living down here in very red Bumpkinland I was glad to see my little village actually split pretty close on the top ticket but had a nice vote for Sherrod. That little nabob the GOP put up is an ass. I had a hard time believing anyone would support the twit.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: CupOfTea
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 12:02 PM

Ohmylord Green Jello Salad! are yez trying to scare AWAY marrowbeasties from reproduction? That stuff oughter be declared Toxic Waste. Pine Sol Jello. gaaahhh.

Spaw, have you tried sympathetic magic cooking of traditional edibles- marrow bones?
(they won't make you blind, will they?

Then there's blood sausage and black pudding... and all those other "nasty bits" Anthony Bourdain eats (And he IS talking food "nasty bits" -his hottie wife is a judo expert).

Eat well, be well, snark on

health wishes from Joanne in Cleveland (You KNOW I'm in CuyaDEMOCRAThoga county, right?)

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 11:25 AM

Next time we will hear he got the clap .... now stop this stuff. Don't make me come there with a bowl of green jello with the fruit all stuff up in it

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 09:53 AM

Thanks to all of you for the kind words and support.   Not to worry yet. My Doc told me that when it was time to worry she'd write a prescription allowing me to worry for 10 minutes each week so I'll keep you posted when and if that happens.

And KT......That truly is beautiful and I thank you.........just have a hard time thinking that you're talking about me. So maybe you and Janie are right and I need to own it.......Okay.........

HEY!!! YO!!! ANYBODY OUT THERE!!!

Any of y'all see a dragon anywhere? Lemmee know where one is if you do so I can go out and slay that motherfucker!!!!!!!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 01:32 AM

beautifully said, KT, so I'll second it

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: KT
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 12:13 AM

Wise words from those guys, Spaw, and good for us all to consider. I hear you. I do. And I wish for you, in addition to your gifts of humor, wisdom and compassion, which have seen you through other hard times, continued strength and courage, which you possess perhaps more than you realize.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 10:57 PM

Oh, my! I hope you are able to get the treatments closer to home and that they are effective.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Janie
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 08:46 PM

Damn! Damn! Damn!

You DO have courage 'Spaw.

Now Own it.

Love to you.

Janie

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 05:22 PM

I said POSSE, Tonto!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 05:17 PM

"Eat More Possum."

Yeah... I thought a that, too. But, I spell it a bit different.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 05:09 PM

Eat More Possum, Spawzer... Good fir whatever ails ya...

But seriously, man... Hope the injections get you jump started and back to running marathons...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:48 PM

ya just had to do it, didn'tja...boldly go where no evil twin has gone before!

DON'T GO ANY FURTHER!!

luvyabuckets, Karen, too

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:46 PM

No, that's a triple boBAD with a twist.....LOL........   

And Bill......Too true.



Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:37 PM

boBAD! Hehehehee!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: bobad
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:26 PM

You need to massage your bone if you wanna stimulate your marrow.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:14 PM

♫"Oh that I was where I would be;
Then would I be where I am not.
Here am I where I must be..
Go where I would I can not."♫

    from "Katie Cruel"

Philosophy is as philosophy does, hmmm? *wry grin*

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Will Fly
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 03:15 PM

Jesus - is this thread still crawling along?

For heaven's sakes, Spaw, get your act together, will you? I can't keep seeing this thread creeping up to the top of the BS section and thinking, Oh no - what now?"

It's more than flesh and blood can stand - I think Rap should keep his promise of a swift kick in the nuts and sort you out once for and all.

I've recently threatened Dan with a Jello attack (in a private email), so don't think I can't threaten you... You have been warned.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 03:08 PM

Oh, crap. Maybe I could come there and stimulate yer bone marrow with a swift kick in the balls. Or I could send Cheech Wizard to do it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 02:36 PM

Ya forgot to quote Portnoy's Complaint Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 01:26 PM

Hey KT....I love y'all up there (say Hi to Ebbie too) but there ain't nothin' courageous here. I've always sorta' lived from the advice of two guys that gave me some good advice:

"If I laugh at any mortal thing, t'is that I may not weep."
.......George Gordon, Poet, aka, Lord Byron

"There is only what is. What should be never existed."
.......Leonard A. Schneider, Stand-Up Philosopher, aka, Lenny Bruce


Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 01:21 PM

Jeez.. next it will be recalterant Plebney!... or maybe "fever of the fingernail"

If you write something beyond Reg boys stories, I smell a book about it all. You are the poster boy for the Irish curse.. "May you live in interesting times"

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:58 PM

Spaw
well if ya need mine you are welcome to it ... it is one of the few things that seem to work on me right lately

hang in there let me know if you need anything my brother

Dan

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:52 PM

You do like to try on a new ailment for size, every so often Spaw. I think you do it just to keep us on our toes.
Gues ya need to eat things rich in iron fer yer red blood cells, but   an old hand at the hospital business like you, will know all about that.
Eat well, be well, and cut down on the foreplay, AND what comes after that, too. (No I can't remember either!)

Be well friend.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: KT
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:45 PM

Oh, Spaw, you are a courageous man. Hang in there, and know that you are being held in heart and mind way up north.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:21 PM

I'd like to stay healthy Bugsy but I keep opening new vistas on the health front.

Regarding this thread and the anemia/breathing problem.................I had a bone marrow biopsy two weeks ago to see if there was a reason there for this anemia which is causing the breathing problem. As it turns out, there is!

I have some lazy-ass bone marrow which ain't keeping up with the needed supply. Mostly all the things we associate with Leukemia. At this point it ain't. The condition is called Myeloplastic Dysplasia Syndrome. The good news is that it is a pre-cancerous diagnosis and may or may not become Leukemia at some point in the future. The lesser news is that if it does it is a type that does not respond well to most of the known treatments.

We are starting weekly injections to stimulate the marrow which obviously needs a swift kick in the ass. We'll see how that goes first and move on from there. My hemoglobin and platelets are better than they were but still very low. I'm breathing better and doing better overall but I look forward to hopefully boost my red blood cell output with the shots. It will probably take awhile to see/feel the effect of those. Hopefully there will be some!!!

Biggest problem right now is the trip to Columbus (100 mile round trip) which will be weekly. My back has been bothering me since that 2 month stint in the hospital a couple of years back following the botched appendectomy. The trip gets uncomfortable for me plus it is another 100 miles on the car and the gas. So I need to get some more info then talk to the insurance folks about a closer location for the shots or home health care to do them.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Bugsy
Date: 21 Nov 12 - 10:55 PM

SHit Spaw! when I saw this thread resurface I thought you were back in AGAIN!

DON'T DO THAT!! You KNOW I've got a weak heart.

Now I'll have to have a little lie down.

Keep Healthy mate.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 04:31 PM

Well, I'm a little late on the Welcome Back bandwagon, but Welcome Back! Hope you are doing well. :-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Hollowfox
Date: 15 Nov 12 - 11:34 AM

I didn't have a chance to post after I read the news a couple of weeks ago, but I told Amy the news (not knowing what the diagnosis was. My terrifying daughter calmly told me that if he snuck off like that again, she would fillet his punk ass. So now you're on a specific $#@!-reduction candle series, not the general one. Love to you, Karen, and the lads. (They're too tall to just be the Boys anymore).

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 10:38 PM

Am I sniffin' a new Reg Boyz story from the latest hospital stay??? Me thinks so...

B;~)

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: gnu
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 10:33 PM

Right. Surely you've had enough RnR. Now, get back to work as a super hero... our champion. The best among us in total could not fill your bullshit... er, shoes. You know what I mean.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 10:28 PM

Tonight is the first time I've been on Mudcat since Sept. 26, the night before I left for Ireland. I did see some of this info on Mudcat's thread on Facebook, though. I'm sorry you went through all this and hope you continue to improve. I'm sorry I wasn't able to wish you well sooner than this.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 10:02 AM

Time for some R & R in the NYCFTTS methinks!
Welcome, back, 'Spaw.
RtS

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: kendall
Date: 19 Oct 12 - 07:26 PM

Whatever you are doing, don't stop.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Janie
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 10:13 PM

Hope "it's" going ok for you Pat - that you are resting and restoring yourself.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: CapriUni
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 06:15 PM

Yay!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 02:23 PM

Good news. Make that great news.

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 11:29 AM

'Home is where the heart is', but home is also where Spaw is...BRAVO!!
                               With Love,
                                              Nigel & Ann
                                              xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: billybob
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 11:00 AM

so glad you are home
Wendy x

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 04:15 PM

Triple yay!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: mayomick
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 09:22 AM

ditto

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 05:40 AM

good to see your post, Spaw - keep getting better

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 04:56 AM

Spaw, I'm glad you're home - but you've been pulling our pissers, surely?

This is where you've been the last few days.

And why? Well... who'da thought it...

I'm glad you're getting better, you old bugger - you've been missed!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 12:24 AM

Good to hear you're home, man. The only thing I regret is that we didn't have a chorus of singing Dachshunds there ready and waiting to welcome you with their doggy serenade...

Owwww-OOOOOOooooooo!

And even better than that...


2 Part Dachsie Harmony!

Subject: RE: Catspaw/Spaw in hospital -Home Again - 16-Oct-12
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 08:57 PM

Hey, our local team, the Idaho State University Bengals, are 1 and 5. Nebraska beat them 73 to 7, Portland State whumped 'em 77 to 10 -- not every school can have their football team lose by more than 65 points twice in a season.

Of course, last year the women's basketball team went to the NCCA finals...and the women's teams are doing extremely well this year.

So I ask: Why in the world does Idaho State University have any men's sports at all?