Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:40 AM

Noreen, might be a good idea to clean that mess off the floor. We don't want Spaw falling on his butt when he finally gets out of bed. Slippery mess, that is - smelly too.
Spaw - keep to the right despite your liberal leanings. The floor is wet over there.
Good morning, Sunshine. Please feel better today and well tomorrow.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:55 AM

Oh, my- so grateful for modern medicine. Holding my breath and lighting candles galore for you, dear Spaw! Hang in there, too, Karen- we're holding you up on Mudcat wings!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-29
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:55 AM

Yay, a traech is way better than intubation, keep up the good work, and whatever other body parts you can raise, Spaw darlin'!

Subject: UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:30 AM

Well, I got my wires crossed when speaking with Connie,yesterday. Just spoke with Karen and the trach is scheduled for 2p this afternoon..that's Mudcat time.

And, he should be able to talk with it by placing his finger over the opening. They are slowly waking him up more by backing off on some meds. They are still not able to find out what is causing the fever, but one of the nurses said next they might do a head scan for sinus problems and Karen was after herself for not thinking of that...he always has sinus problems! So, if they get that checked out and can start treating it, there we go! Today, Karen sounded better, talking of when he gets to feeling better, he's going to need her more. (I was reminding her to take care of herself.)

Thanks, folks, and please check out the other thread I started about a Sing for Spaw.

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:49 AM

That is some sinus infection if it requires morphine! Oy! ;-) Good thinking, to remember to go back to what in other times would be the obvious.

Thanks again, Kat.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:52 AM

Hey, if pissing on Spaw is what it takes to yank him back into the universe, then by God, I volunteer....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 12:43 PM

Yep, Amos, THAT would get him out of bed I bet.

Yes, best regards to Michael, Tris, Connie and Karen, in particular. I can't think of anyone better for the job of riding herd on the nurses and docs than Karen. Keep up the good work gal, he'll thank you later. Well, no, maybe not since he's been in a stupor a lot of the time, but we certainly thank you!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: mouldy
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 12:49 PM

Well known side effect of morphine is constipation.....

Hope it does turn out to be sinuses. Poor man, if the pain has been THAT bad! Talk about a bear with a sore head...and some!

Still keeping the vibes going.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:02 PM

Ah, I think the morphine was more for the extreme pain of the haematoma which were removed, then the re-opened and packed incision, and the vent as well as the sedation needed to keep him on the vent. Don't quote me on that, though.:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:29 PM

We're still here even if we can't find words for the best wishes we proffer.

{{{{{{Hugs all around}}}}}

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 02:01 PM

Ditto, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 04:10 PM

Sing for Spaw thread.

~S~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: alanabit
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 04:37 PM

Thanks for the update. I hope this means better news is on the way soon. Buggered sinuses (as I know from personal experience) can screw up your breathing and give you excruciating headaches. If that turns out to have been part of the problem, with modern medicine, it should be relatively easy to fix it for the future once Spaw has recovered from this current bout of trouble.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 06:52 PM

Whenever my sinuses have given me trouble I just use a 1/2 inch bit in an electric drill and it cleans 'em right out. Same thing for constipation, only you need a longer bit.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:20 PM

Still here, Pat, Karen, and loved ones. Rest, recover...we'll help you rejoice.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:29 PM

Steel is tempered in fire, and mankind by adversity. (Seneca)

Spaw, you must be tougher than Japanese Algebra.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Janie
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 08:46 PM

Thanks again for keeping us in the loop, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:10 PM

I think he should stop screwing around in the hospital and start farting around at home.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:17 PM

Japanese Algebra ain't tough at all, Capt'n... What is tough is tryin' to squeeze out a "Silent Sam" while yer at the alter in front of a hunnert people gettin' ready to get hitched... That is tough...

I mean, there I was, 19 years old an' standin' at that alter with right at about a hunnert people behind me... Let me repeat that last part... "behind me" and, well, we all know that the Reg Boyz been known to lite a few but lotta folks don't know that my Couzin Rufus is related to the Reg Boyz thru marriage... Yeah seem that his wife, the ever lovely Retha Mae, was a Tompkin girl from Ohio that Rufe met when she was a roller derby queen with the "Yunks-town Honeydrippers"... So Rufe was my best man so he figurated that he should throw me a bachelor party behind the Sweet Spring General Store and so we was up eatin' cheezy pizza and drenkin' Iron City half the night before the big weddin'... Now the Sweet Spring Store closes at 2 o-clock in the mornin' which means no bath rooms... I wakes up about half an hour before Iz 'spozed to be at the church, ain't bathed 'er nuthin' and got bad growlin' sound in my innards...

So I look over at Rufe and he's passed out leanin' up against of the back of the store and I yells, "What time is it" so he check his Spiro T Agnew Time-ex wristwatch and say's, "Time to get to the church, like right now"...

Ten minutes later we at the St Andrews Mission Church where the weddin' 'is sposed to be and I find my bride, who ain't a real happy kinda bride, an she has my suit in the back of the car and so I put it on in the St Andrews port-a-john 'bout as fast as I can, run the church just in time for the organ lady to pound out that weddin' music on the old upright piano...

So there I was at the alter, pissed off bride, tummy gurglin' with a hunnert people, ahhhhh, behind me...

The priest/minister or whatwever the guy was had some kinda speech impediment... No, maybe I had a hearin' impediment... No maybe bvoth of us was impedded, I donno... All I knew is that I had me a severe little southbound situation brewin' that might not make it to the I-do's or I-changed-my-minds part of the deal...

I mean, I was a'squeezin' and a'squeezing 'bout as hard as a 19 year boy could do and my keens was shakin' and my knees was shakin' and my hands sweatin' and, well, folks... There's only about so much squeeze in a 150 pound 19 year old... So what's a guy to do???

We was almost down to the vows where the priest/minister/whatever says "I know pronounce you man and wife" when that little southbound train jumped tracks and decided that he'd be the "main attraction"... Well, first of all, I learned alot in that moment... I learned to never go out the night before a weddin' and get all drunked up on Iron City and eat up with lousy pizza... I learned that Couzin Rufus ain't best-man material fir the bachelor party he gave me behind Sweet Spring General Store... I learned that Iron City and pizza and a hunnert people "behind" you ain't a not good combination... I learned that ya' can't trust a fart no matter how it promises to behave, or in this case, not... And I learned that 19 must be too young to get married... Well, that one is what she said as she and the other hunnert folks were fightin' each other tryin' to evacuate St. Andrews Church... Didja ya'll see the news coverage???

Spawzer... That is fir you buddy... No, it was just one girl outta millions so it don't compare to some of the stuff you and Reg Boyz can get goin' butt, ahhhhhhh, but I thought it was the right story to tell jus'[ knowing that once it got back to ya' that I had "spilled the beans", so to speak, that that would put a fire in yer belly, so to speak, to get yer ass, so to speak, back into gear and get the heck outta that hospital and come hear and kick my ass!!!

Ya' hear???

Ol' hillbilly loves you...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:26 PM

Bobert-

Thanks for sharing that story....

Now I've got something to think about for the rest of the evening.

And Spaw will love it when he reviews this thread!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:30 PM

Seneca can't compete with such human interest stuff.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Watching and waiting.. thanks for the updates Kat...

Prayers .....

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 10:05 PM

You're welcome, Janie and others. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:51 PM

Shucks, Bobert, that ain't nothin'. I cleared out the entire Bethesda Naval Medical Center Officer's Open Mess at my wedding reception, and the brought in the Chemical Corps from Ft. Detrick as well. It was a good thing I'd changed from my white gettin' hitched pants to my brown goin' away pants, too.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:01 AM

Good morning, Pat and Karen.You're on my mind again today.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:09 AM

Thinking and singing and still sending waves of love.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:09 AM

& mine at the start of a new year

sandra in sydney - 1.09am January 1st, 2011

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: GUEST,999
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:01 AM

Hey, Pat. Heard one yesterday.

Q: What do sperm and lawyers have in common.

A: Each have a one in fifty-million chance of becoming human.

Best to you and your family.

BM

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: olddude
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 10:39 AM

I am right there for you Pat, get better, got my prayers going . When you get better you are going to be in such trouble from everyone for scaring us so

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lox
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 11:42 AM

What some people won't do to get attention!!

Hurry up and get well.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Hollowfox
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 11:43 AM

Love and good thoughts to all you Pattersons from your (maybe) nearest Mudcat neighbor, and family. Your $#@!-reduction candle burning friend, Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:11 PM

Sang for you at noon, Spaw.





Dainty Davey.










Are you up now?
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:16 PM

I'll be singing that little-known Dylan song about Berea Kentucky called Possum-tively Fourth Street.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:19 PM

Hey, Pat!! Wake up!! Usn's got sompn to tell ya!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:42 PM

..... ♥

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:45 PM

I heard that Bob Dylan sang for ya... course ya couldn't tell what he was singing unless ya knew the lyrics already.

Yeah, I said it. Sue me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:21 PM

Let's see if this works... ..... ¢¾

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:23 PM

Nope.. it was a copy & paste of Bill's "heart" post. Oh well, it's the thought that counts.

My heart is with ya, buddy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Dave Swan
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:45 PM

All best wishes to the whole Patterson clan for a much improved 2011. With love from the West Coast office of LFPS.

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: KT
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:52 PM

Thinking of you Spaw and Karen. Dreaming of you, even. And in the dream you are well on the road to recovery and a return to good health. ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:00 PM

the ♥ was done by holding the alt key, and hitting 3 at the same time. It may depend on your exact PC.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:13 PM

Hearts for you, but alt three didn't work for me...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:49 PM

33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

It's a lucky numer, at least

33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:52 PM

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Goodnight, Pat.
See you in the New Year.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

Right, dude...til next year.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 07:45 PM

Spaw's going to come out of it and ask if we got bored and started an html practice thread.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

thenextweb.com has twitter keys, a little page you can link by dragging onto the top of several browsers and just open and copy (cut and paste) the symbols in there. Use html font commands to make them bigger.

That practice thread needs a font command of huge proportions to tell Spaw how much we love and miss him here right now. Get better, the new year is upon us, and we're waiting for you to join us again!

Oh, and in case it this sounds too serious,

✏ A while back you guys were discoursing on constipation. I recommend Spaw use the accountant's method. Work it out with a pencil.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:20 PM

brilliant, Stilly!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:30 PM

33

Aw heck. I can't get the hearts to work but don't think for a second that that means you aren't close in thought! Since I'm not much of a singer and really don't want to hurt anyone's ears, I hummed you a tune. :)

Much love and many stinkin' hearts! 3 3 3

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 12-30
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:39 PM

Spaw... I wish I was there to hold you hand and talk to you... to spell Karen off so she could go to Tims for a double double and a few bits...

C'mon buddy... we need you back here... we do

Subject: UPDATE 12-31
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:50 PM

They put the trach in and within an hour started talking about moving him to an acute care facility. They do have one at the hospital, so that might work out okay. Karen says he is improving. Opened his eyes and was excited to see Tris; tried to smile, but is very weak and still on some morphine. The fever is still around 100 degrees with tylenol. If he goes to acute care it would likely be for at least 25 days. Karen thinks once they get him off the meds and stuff he will improve more rapidly with breathing and all. At the acute care place they would be able to bring him back up whilst keeping an eye on all of his various "problems."

I am not going to call as often, now. If anything changes, they will call us and I will still keep in touch every few days.

KT, I told her about your dream. Thanks:-)