Alaska Mike needs good thoughts

Subject: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:55 PM

Hi 'Catters.
I got a call from Alaska Mike's wife Tawmmie letting me know that he's in critical condition in hospital in Anchorage. ( I don't know which hospital).
He's been in since Monday with a herniated twisted intestine, and has been heavily sedated.
The good news is that they took him off dialysis this morning, although he's still unconscious.
Tawmmie asked me to post this so that prayers/good thoughts/positive vibes/healing light can be directed his way.
When he comes out of sedation and can sit up, Tawmmie will bring his laptop in to him, so we can get all the gory details from Mike himself.

OK, 'Catters, let's help him get well.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:58 PM

crankin' the prayer wheels of my mind at full speed. For Mike AND Tawmmie -

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:58 PM

Thanks for letting us know.

Mike and Tawmmie, holding you close in thought and in prayer.

Janie

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:59 PM

All the very best thoughts from across the ocean

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:59 PM

But who's taking him the REAL cure-- porter?

Be assured Hardi and I are on the case and I also am taking the liberty of firing this URL off to the prayer chain.

Seamus, do try not to worry too much, and if you have a chance to let Tawmmie know, we will all be thinking of her!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

OK, Mike, UP and AT em!!!! We will NOT let this get you down!!!! Think Un Twisted thoughts! (yea, I know that is difficult)

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: bfdk
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery coming your way from across the pond, Mike!

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

Wow, totally shit news Mikey my friend, hope you get better really soon. That must be so bloody painful too, I wish you all the very best from Scotland.
Tawmmie keep your chin up girl and give him a hug from me, my arms won't reach that far.
Giok

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: skarpi
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:01 PM

hallo , Mike I send you all my thoughts and prays over the ocean I hope it will get there to you get well soon

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Bassic
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:02 PM

Mike and Tawmmie, best wishes for a speedy recovery, thinking of you both.

G.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: jeffp
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:04 PM

Prayers going up from here.

Jeff

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:08 PM

Cut the bullshit, buddy! We have more rambles to take. I haven't shown you near enough of the backroads.

Prayers on full throttle,

Mick

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Barb'ry
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:10 PM

Lots of love and hugs to both of you.
Barb'ry and Andy

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: kendall
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:11 PM

Son of a bitch! Sending healing energy from Maine my friend!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Barry Finn
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:12 PM

Good luck, Mike & Tawmmie. It's good to hear you're off the dialysis machine, it's must've been bad. I hope this means you're on the mend. We can't have you going anywhere, we need more of your songs & you need to contiue writing them for us. We all need & want you. Best of luck to ya.

Barry

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:13 PM

Thnaks for letting us know Seamus. Very serious situation and I send you both my very best thoughts for a full recovery. Tawmmie, that means you too!

Karen and I got to figuring the other day and over the past ten years, I've spent almost a full year in hospitals....and they just ain't no place to be for long! But when you need them, well that's another story.

Light, Energy, Good Thoughts, and Vibes

Spaw

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:25 PM

Hey Mike: you're just not allowed to be THIS ill. OK, you can have the odd cold but that's it! You hear me?

Seriously, positive thoughts winging their way to Alaska for both of you.

Luv

Rhiannon and Mick

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: My guru always said
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:30 PM

Positive thoughts from this side of the pond - lighting a candle,
Hil

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: skipy
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:31 PM

Hey, we need you out here, so get well & get back to your computer - SOON!
Skipy

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:45 PM

Positive thoughts coming from here, too!

Can't wait till you're feeling well enough to write a hilarious song about your hospital stay...

Nancy

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:45 PM

Please post updates as often as possible????? Semaus?

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:53 PM

I hope you didn't do this just to get a *straight man* posting from Spaw!*bg*

May the healing light surround and enfold you in peace, free from pain and on the mend. May it be this, or something better, for the highest good of all concerned.

All of our good thoughts and hugs to you, Mike, and Tawmmie.

luvyakat

P.S. Thanks, Susan, for letting me know about this.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:16 PM

Mike, please continue to improve at a rapid pace. This must be a truly miserable thing to go through. I'll be thinking of you and Tawmmie.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Micca
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM

all of the above , and special thoughts from your friend in London UK, and good thoughts to Tawmmie also,

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Megan L
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:20 PM

to both of you our best thoughts and prayers winging their way from scotland

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM

And I thought my day was crappy.... take care little man....

LTS

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Peace
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:26 PM

Get well, Mike. Soon.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Severn
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:35 PM

All the best wishes for recovery from Laurel Maryland from someone who is still kicking himself because didn't get to meet him personally at Getaway-before-last. even though I sat next to him a couple of times, and then later got to greatly enjoy talking to him in Chat on many occaiaions. Hang in there, Mike!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Tig
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:37 PM

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Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:52 PM

Whoa!!! Take care, and get yerself home soon.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Amos
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:54 PM

Untwisting and healing vibes full bore to Big Mike.


A

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:37 PM

ALL the above in Spades mate !!!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Col K
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:57 PM

Hope you are starting to get better and that you will soon be back on your feet.
Thinking of you and all your family
All the very best
Your pal
Colin

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Lanfranc
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:16 PM

Good thoughts are Alaska bound from here too.

Alan

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:20 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Mike!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:31 PM

My thoughts are with you and Tawmmie and hopes for a full and speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:33 PM

A BIG job for a BIG man; luckily your frame can comfortably hold all the good stuff hurtling to you.

Reminds me- when a horse gets its gut twisted the old treatment is to roll it back and forth on the ground. It'll take several good men to do it for you, Mike- let them do the work.

Seriously good thoughts to you and Tawmmie.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:50 PM

All the best Mike and Tawmmie.

Here now, Mr. Mike, there's guitars to be played and songs to be sung. The hospital's no place for a folksinger, there's sick people all over the place in there.

So get yourself up and out in that brisk Alaskan air.

get well soon,
chance shiver

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:57 PM

Wishing you the best, Mike. Speedy and complete recovery.

Elmer

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:58 PM

The United States of America flag first flew over Alaska on this date in 1867 in Sitka, a coastal town and heretofor a Russian garrison. Castle Hill, a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was the site of the ceremonious lowering of the Russian standard and the raising of Old Glory.

Get well soon.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:18 PM

I didn't think intestines were supposed to do that.
Best wishes for a speedy compete recovery.
We're thinking of you now, and when the Getaway comes around, it will be impossible for the collected multitude NOT to think of you there and then.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: GUEST,The Banjoest
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:38 PM

Get well soon big guy.

Hugh

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:01 PM

GEEZE LOUISE MIKE! Get well soon ... so you can make another BIG SPLASH in Ballard. All our best, Bob abd Judy!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:08 PM

Wow!...I do NOT approve of one of the nicest guys around getting his insides in a twist! Please know how much we need your humor, songs and presence in working order!

Get well, and we'll all tell stories about our miseries next time we meet!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:13 PM

Mudcat is a terrible place.

You get to meet up with really nice people, chat with them on-line, and then you find out that they have been struck down medically.

Sad!

Robin

Oh, I did say struck down, not off, didn't I?

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:17 PM

Yeah Bill,

I've heard of people getting their knickers in a knot,but this is ridiculous!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:20 PM

Mike and Tawmmie, best wishes from Vanessa and me for a speedy recovery. Mike, You Are A Rock, don't go pebble on us now!

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Maryrrf
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:23 PM

Best wishes to Mike. I haven't had a chance to meet him, but I've heard so much about him I feel like I know him. Good vibes heading north.

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: Ron Davies
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:24 PM

Hey, I haven't heard you sing the song about the Iditarod (nor do I know how to spell it)--and lots of your other great songs. You and KT write such delightful songs--Alaska must provide some wonderful raw material--maybe that's part of it. You have to get well soon--and come back to the Getaway--or tell us where in Alaska to have the Getaway--and we'll come to you.

Seriously, we'll miss you this year--and hope to see you soon again.

But get well soon.

Ron

Subject: RE: Alaska Mike needs good thoughts
From: bobad
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:27 PM

You're supposed to get your knickers in a knot, not your kishka.

Get well soon.

"May the long time sun
    shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light
    within you
Guide you all the way on."