Kendall's Cure

Subject: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 02 - 01:59 PM

This should be the last week of radiation for Kendall. How's it going? Anyone have anything to report? It will be nice to go from red-necked to a rosy outlook, eh?

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 27 May 02 - 02:42 PM

I just saw Kendall yesterday (over Memorial Day weekend) at a bluegrass festival in Acton, ME. He said his last 4 treatments were coming up this week on T-W-Th-F and then he's done! He was in good spirits and had several stories to tell, despite a raspy voice, and it was great seeing him, despite the "redneck" disguise.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: CapriUni
Date: 27 May 02 - 02:56 PM

:::Waving hands in the air, Kermit the Frog Style:::

Yay!!!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: alanabit
Date: 27 May 02 - 03:05 PM

Good to hear that the fightback is under way. Good luck. Alan.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:04 AM

Here comes the last countdown, then! Good luck this week.

Four. . .

Three. . .

you know how it goes!

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:51 AM

Happy for you, Kendall. I've no doubt it has seemed a long haul; I'm glad it's almost over.

Incidentally, although I've never met you, on these pages your 'voice' is still the same - even maybe a tad better! Good on ya.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:57 AM

Still doing what I said I'd do, petal. Take care and next time you come visit Morty, remember I want dinner!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Áine
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:42 PM

Great news, Kendall! You can do it, ya stubborn ol' Yankee ;-) Hang in there, we're all behind you (and pushin' ya all the way!).

Love, Áine

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:59 PM

Old recipe for Salt Curing Kendall, this method can preserve Kendall for years.

For a 170lb. Kendall:

33 Pounds of Brown Sugar
10 Pounds of Black Pepper
5 Pounds of Red Pepper
58 Pounds of Salt

Mix the ingredients together and rub onto the skin-on Kendall, paying special attention to the ass. Then the Kendall is wrapped in paper, then wrapped in cloth, then placed in a cloth bag and hung with the ass down. The Kendall is hung in a well ventilated, dark and secure building. The Kendall bitches for about two months and is ready to piss, moan, whine, and complain continually, in about 6 to 9 months and is still a pain in the ass years. Kendalls cured in this manner continue to stay curmudgeonly until they are completely dried out.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Morticia
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:02 PM

So, Kendall's well-hung then??? *BG*

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:07 PM

Well he would be in this case Mortie, probably be the highlight of his entire life, until the salt really gets to work...at which point his genitals will resemble a Thai Pepper flanked by two raisins.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 28 May 02 - 02:11 PM

So, it's show and tell time, eh?

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 May 02 - 04:04 PM

Hmmmm, not quite what I had in mind when I started the thread. And to introduce a diminishing set of numbers at this point might just encourage Spaw. He'll just have to be big about it.

;-)

Spaw, if you add some mustard, onion powder, wine (not whine) and water to that formula, reduced considerably, you could use it as brine before smoking a salmon.

Since the point of it was to encourage Kendall, here goes:

Three. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Bert
Date: 29 May 02 - 05:57 AM

...this method can preserve Kendall for years...

Er! Kendall has already been preserved for years *Gotcha Kendall*

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 29 May 02 - 07:51 AM

W.O.B.H.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: SharonA
Date: 29 May 02 - 09:48 AM

Stilly River Sage: Smoking a salmon? How on earth would it fit inside the rolling paper? *G*

Go, Kendall, go! Yer almost there!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:47 AM

Perhaps I shouldn't promote smoked salmon. I read somewhere that consuming smoked meat means that one is taking in a lot of hazardous chemicals. There was a formula that I don't remember now, along the lines of eating X amount of smoked meat is equivalent to smoking Y number of packs of cigarettes. Too bad.

Hey, Kendall, it's now only

Two days to go!

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 May 02 - 01:30 PM

You go, Kendall!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 May 02 - 02:29 PM

Good job, Kendall!! Keep it up!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Áine
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:47 PM

There once was Yankee called Kendall,
With trevails that I tell ya would end all,
Whether frozen or salted,
Over all he exalted,
Though now he's the size of a Ken doll!

Well, at least now we'll all know that groaning sound coming from 'up thar' is because of this dreadful drivel, and not from any other cause! ;-)

Love ya, ya stubborn ol' fart -- so keep going, you're in the final stretch!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: lamarca
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:29 PM

Do you get a balloon, Kendall? My radiation nurses gave me a "Graduation" certificate and a great big balloon the day of my last treatment...which gave me a great big smile. Only

2 To Go!!

duplicate post deleted by mudelf ;-)

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 02 - 08:26 PM

He is grumping and griping and accusing me of mothering him. All in all, I would say he is recovering nicely. Party time at Old Songs!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 29 May 02 - 09:35 PM

It's nothing personal Sinsull; I just hate being "mothered". When I'm ill, i want to be left alone, but, mothers cant hear that!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:13 PM

Somebody had it right the other day..women don't do the fight, flight or flee as much as they want to stay, cuddle, mend, and make it all better...so deal with it, Kendall!**BG**

So good to hear how thigs are going. Almost to the finish line, or in the harbour, safe port, drop anchor, er...come ashore...LOL

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: jeffp
Date: 30 May 02 - 09:36 AM

So..........

Just today and tommorow, and then you can get on with the rest of your life. Congratulations, Kendall, and an early with for a happy June 1st to you!

jeffp

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 May 02 - 10:45 AM

Kendall's definition of mothering: A waitress brought us two cups and a pot of coffee. One cup was dirty; she took it back. I poured coffee into the other and handed it to him.
He is cranky and cantankerous - a sure sign that he is expecting to recover. Me - I just want to make it all better...and get even. The crankier he gets, the more I try to soothe. Makes him furious. Tee Hee.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Peg
Date: 30 May 02 - 11:35 AM

Sinsull; cook him some kielbasa.

peg

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 May 02 - 11:38 AM

Peg, he'll just be envious of it........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: MMario
Date: 30 May 02 - 11:56 AM

My GOD! sinsull! HOw could you possibly pour him a cup of coffee! That is just so...so...humiliating

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:00 PM

I asked him if he was supposed to talk so much or if he should rest his voice, and he replied "I don't remember marrying you!" Yep, cantankerous, but I've never seen him any different!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:17 PM

...me either, in the daylight!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:25 PM

Gee, he said that to me once--now I know it wasn't a proposal! Whew!

But hey, another day, another chance to pull out the HTML4 book:

ONE. . . to go!!!

And after tomorrow, Kendall can show us or tell us whatever he feels like showing or telling, as he recuperates from the cure. Sinsull and Barbara, I predict less crankiness as he feels better. It works that way for most people.

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:44 PM

Could be, but I think he'll still be envious of the Kielbasa......

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Naemanson
Date: 30 May 02 - 01:06 PM

Ah, Kendall, how do we know who loves us? By the way they try to make us feel good.

Glad to know you are doing well and will soon have a clean bill of health. Are you about ready to speak the transaltion of Coplas? I'm planning to go to Old Songs with Dahlin, Murray, and their mother. I hope you are up to getting in on the act.

Brett

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Helen
Date: 30 May 02 - 08:26 PM

Stilly River Sage,

This is Kendall we're talking about. "Sinsull and Barbara, I predict less crankiness as he feels better. It works that way for most people. " Most people - this direction. Kendall - anywhere but there. (grin)

This fight/flight vs mothering instinct, in the case of sickness, is obviously another case to add to the files on the great psychological and linguistic divide between men & women. Hubby gets cranky if I "mother" him when he's sick and wants to just be left alone. I get cranky because he is "ignoring" me when I am sick when I need some loving attention/support.

Just been watching Allan Pease videos on body language etc and his latest called Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps. It's really funny, and very apt.

Get back to your normal healthy cantankerous (marshmallow-hearted) self, Kendall. ASAP.

Helen

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 30 May 02 - 10:09 PM

Good for you, Kendall. You go!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 May 02 - 10:35 PM

In Kendall's defense, I will admit that questioning whether or not he washed his hands before leaving the Men's Room is a bit much. But better safe than sorry...and it is so much fun to see him control his temper.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 02 - 10:09 AM

People who never have an unspoken thought also bug me!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: SharonA
Date: 31 May 02 - 10:23 AM

Oh, well, I was thinking that this is kendall's last day of treatments so we should all cheer him down the home stretch, but maybe I shouldn't have spoken... *BG*


For the *last* time: Go, kendall, go!

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 02 - 10:28 AM

Seriously folks; this is the final day of treatment. In about a month they will check me out again (just before Old Songs) and, I will probably get checked again at Johns Hopkins. Thanks for all the support and wise cracks. It means so much to me.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 02 - 11:01 AM

I always wondered what Spaw was smokin'!!

A crusty ol' Yankee named Morse
Took the medical poobahs by force!
So high was the dudgeon
Of this Yankee curmudgeon
He was cured, but the Doctors got worse!!

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Áine
Date: 31 May 02 - 11:16 AM

For this 'Cure' we now write the last check,
But this Southerner says, 'What the heck,'
Kendall's days have been brightened,
Perhaps his load lightened,
But no longer he'll be a redneck!

Way to go, Yankee! Now, did you finish that book you were supposed to have begun when all this started? Or have you been too busy being grumpy? ;-)

Here's a big, loud, rebellious YEE-HAW for your last day, Áine

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 31 May 02 - 11:35 AM

Onward & upward, Kendall! See you soon!

bbc

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: CapriUni
Date: 31 May 02 - 02:47 PM

Been thinking good thoughts about you, and cheering that 'tis almost over...

Sinsull -- if he gets cranky over a cup of coffee, I pity the nurses if they try to give him a balloon! ;-)

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 May 02 - 03:11 PM

A poetic thought from one of Kendall's favorite songs, slightly folk-processed, to provoke further healing:

I climbed the clock tower 'neath the noon-day sun,
It was mid-day at Lathom, my journey was done;
But the clock never sounded its last stroke of course,
For there from the clapper swung Kendall Morse.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 02 - 03:13 PM

definition of curmudgeon; Anyone who hates hypocracy, sham, dogmatic idiologies, has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts, and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor, and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labled "Curmudgeon". (Jon Winokur)

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 02 - 03:24 PM

Good poetry you all, thanks.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 02 - 04:00 PM

My work is finished, the countdown is over, though one usually acknowledges ignition and blastoff. Perhaps that's one 'Spaw would like to write a little ditty for?

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 02 - 09:05 PM

The big day for me will be the one that I'm able to sing a song.

Subject: RE: Kendall's Cure
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 May 02 - 09:28 PM

Blast Off? Someone say Blast Off? No problem....Happy to oblige.....

BBBRRRAAAAWWWWMMMPPP

.....Ahhhhh...that's fine..........

Spaw