Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 06:08 PM

Hey Spaw....I don't know if you'll be able to read this while you're laid up....getting a sponge bath by some pretty young nurse....but I thought maybe this will help keep your spirits up:

Guide To Bad Parenting

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 06:15 PM

Pat,
Be better--and be quick about it!

I'm with ya, guy.
Art

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: DougR
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

Evidently you are having a pretty tough time, Pat. Sorry you are. I hope you are up and around as soon as possible.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:50 PM

Add another Amen to Oldster's prayer...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Dear Who- or What- ever, who art in the Afterlife (assuming that there is one), please make our friend Pat well again. While you're at it, don't make him sick anymore. He's tired of that schtick, okay?

Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:58 PM

adding another contribution to the beam of good wishes heading Spaw's way

sndra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Mark Clark
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:36 PM

I just learned of this from olddude. I don't spend as much time here as I used to and I've had BS turned off for a long time.

Please tell 'Spaw I'm thinking of him and surely miss the old discussions. Pat is one guy I always wanted to meet in person and now that I'm traveling east with some frequency I figured I'd finally get the chance.

Hang in there 'Spaw we're all pullin' for ya.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: KT
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:19 AM

Spaw, I'm sitting here in the frozen north, checking in as I do several times a day, hoping for a good progress report. It will be a joyous day indeed, to see a post from you. Keep healing, Spaw. Lots of folks holding a net for you here.

Karen, best to you, too. Hang in there,rest when you can, and keep holding that light for that guy who absolutely adores you.

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:15 AM

Just checking in.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: open mike
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:40 AM

here's rootin' for you....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: My guru always said
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:28 AM

Sending positive thoughts & love to Pat and Karen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:35 AM

Spaw, in this instance "clot" is NOT an insult!!!!

"Amen" and "So Mote It Be" to all healing prayers and wishes. (C'mon mate, we're sending vibes at you from all directions - you couldn't be more bound up in love and good wishes if you tried)!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:13 AM

Still keeping a watch on this thread.

Typical Spaw - all that bad weather in Ohio and he finds a way to stay warm and avoid putting out the trash. Definitely a worthy layabout.

I'm sending good energies to help the healing process my dear friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 08:19 AM

Holding vigil here as well, and sending beams of light and love and healing. And rest for Karen, too. Love to you!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 08:48 AM

I hope you heal up quick, old chum.

best wishes,
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 10:19 AM

........... ♥ ∞

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:32 AM

I am hoping there will be good news today.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Partridge
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:17 PM

Much love and healing thought from another Pat xxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

!!!^^^!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:40 PM

Spaw...

   I'm sending along my mostest powerful Mudcat mojo and lots of other good stuff for you and your family!!!!!!!!

Keeping you all in my thoughts,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 07:56 PM

Okay. I've donated over ten gallons of blood over the years. I have written all of the places I've donated and Spaw should be receiving better than ten gallons of A+ any time now. Granted, some of it's pretty old, but then so is he.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: chazkratz
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 09:10 PM

Patsclaw, what you really need is that which I've been promising you all these weary years, your Golden Shower, so on this occasion I'd like to finally keep my promise, especially with the help of   Fellow Mudcatters, before you go to bed tonight, as you make your final premorphial* bladder draining, think of Pat. Before you loose the stream say "Here's to ya, you old malingerer, you," then cut loose.

And Pat, you've gotta open your mind to the loving streams from all over the world. I know the effect would be greatest if we could unite worldwide for a single instant so for maximum effect I'd like to suggest that all Muddies time their ablutions for 10 p.m. Greenwich, but I know you're all too dense to figure out what time that would be in your own zones, and maybe it's best anyway that we don't flood him but just keep a modest stream aimed his way for the next 24 hours...

I love you, Pat. Keep your head above water.

*premorphial (a word I coined for the occasion--referring to Morpheus, god of sleep and soporifics.
--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Justa Picker
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 09:45 PM

Pullin' for you Buddy.
You will lick this. Please get well asap.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:20 PM

bseed...that was plumb bee-you-tee-full.

JP, good to see you, too.

I will call Karen tomorrow, folks, for an update. I don't want to pester her, too often. I figure, right now, no news is good news. I have it from Sister Connie, I will hear if there is a change, either way.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:18 AM

♥ °

from me, too...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:27 AM

Wow, it's been so long since I have been here at Mudcat...I'm sorry to hear this news...

Hey Spaw my friend...hang in there...there's a lot of people who love you and are praying for you...me included...

Take Care
Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:28 AM

Still keeping our fingers and toes crossed!

                                 Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:11 AM

Thanks Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ragdall
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:53 AM

To what Dan said,
Amen.


rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:52 AM

I'm keeping my best thoughts going and will check in from time to time.
Here's hoping...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:58 AM

'Spaw, git yer bleedin' ass outa there! Git yerself back here where you belong! Don't wanta hear any excuses neither!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Lox
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:37 AM

Hey Catspaw,

Hang on!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:44 AM

Misery! Sounds like it. I'm so sorry : (

Let's all go give blood!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:16 AM

I'm giving minutes. COme on Spaw. I get three ten minute segments on line per day at work and you're using them all up.
seed - that is just plain nasty although I believe we have covered the healing powers of urine on the 'Cat, probably numerous times.
Justa Picker was far more discreet in his suggestion. lol
Spaw will enjoy that.
Love to Karen and the boys.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 09:57 AM

No peepee for PP?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:00 AM

Checking in from Maine. The earth is shaking...Must be Pat is recovering?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:44 AM

More healing thoughts from the Blue Ridge...

B~

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:01 AM

Karen is on her way up to see him this morning. She'd sent me a text, but I don't have that service on my phone. It's too expensive and I'd never use it.:-)

Anyway, he is stable right now. On multiple antibiotics for the pneumonia which is the cause of the fever. They are keeping him sedated and he is on some painkiller, too. He was on the vent, but I *think* she said they switched him to CPAP as it is less stressful on his heart from him getting aggravated with the vent, but don't quote me on that. (She was driving and I didn't want to ask a lot of questions. I don't like bugging people on phones when they are driving.:-) Because he is still retaining fluids a bit, they are being very careful in how fast they replenish his blood. Some level went up to 8.7..I think she meant haemoglobin, which I think would be good to have rise.

She said she'd let me know, later how things are, after she sees him. He is aware enough to recognise her and she did let him know about all of us and, even the ones coming out of the woodwork (Pseudolus, bseed, JP & others!!) It's a helluva way to get us all gathered, isn't it?

Thanks, folks,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:07 AM

Welcome news. Thanks, kat and Karen. I'm still going to think of the equipment noise and shaking here as being his recovery racket.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:22 AM

I been in non stop Prayer lately. The old goat just drive me nuts There are people that one never meets in this life that you feel you have known your entire life .. Spaw is that.

He struggles with his health, goes through hell and all he ever does is ask about everyone else and how they are feeling and if they need anything. Never complains about what he goes through and most don't know the half of it yet all he does is worry about others and how they are doing. For those who don't know him, you could never understand the depth of this man's heart for others even as he comes across with his posts as gruff old geezer. He is special and this world needs more Spaws in it. He drives me crazy with his health ... all I can do is pray cause that is all I have but I tell you what, there isn't a better person anywhere and he doesn't deserve the hand he was dealt. He also doesn't complain about it either. When he gets better all he will do is laugh about how he picked on the nurses and joke about everything. Most would sit around feeling sorry for themselves but he will just laugh and say "what the hell was that all about" He is one of a kind a gem of a person.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:34 AM

And many new people haven't figured out yet ... Spaw will only call you a "fuckwit" if he cares about you. He won't waste time arguing with someone he thinks is a total hopeless jerk ... usually the thinking goes like this ... you are too good a person to write stupid shit hence you will get "fuckwit". if he didn't care about you , he would say nothing .. Most of the time it is to get you to laugh ... that is Spaw and his brain in action. Many don't get it

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:44 AM

Many of us have been around here long enough to have 'got' that long since. He can still make me cringe or pass rapidly over a post but the obverse is that I linger over and think on his heartfelt ones - and, oh, that trade is so worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:31 PM

I feel particularly blessed, because he has called me a broke-dick mamalucca on more occasions than I can keep count of...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:53 PM

He was only speaking the truth, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:00 PM

Ya Ebbie we all know it but most of the new people don't. One summer I worked in a brake line factory when I was in college. I really sucked at the job. My foreman was an ex Marine Corp drill Sargent from WWII. His name was Whitey. Now Whitey would chew you out like no one ever before or after could. He would press his nose to yours and scream every insult you could imagine as his spit flew in your face and could even make up some words as he was cussing ya. I was a screw up, I would get "see me in my office" which of course was the mens room to get my face ripped off with cuss words and insults. One time the office manager came into the line. I knew they were going to fire me because I heard it threw the rumor mill (I actually deserved it). I overheard Whitey say come to my office. I could hear him ripping the manager a new one about "the kid is new, he will do fine" now if you have any problems with one of my people, I will tell you so get your ass back to your desk before I do a little dance on your face. Here was this guy putting his own job on the line to protect me.

I didn't get fired, worked the rest of the summer and tried to be better at that miserable job. That is the way Whitey was made, he could chew you out but nobody else better try ... Kinda like Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:38 PM

STABLE!!! Good. Now, get out of the stable and quit hoarsin' around eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:06 PM

Wishing quick healing and good feeling for Mr.

  
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Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: mouldy
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:29 PM

One good step back up that big bank...but it is a big 'un.
So, as they say in UK railway-speak, we've "sent for t' banker" (the engine that couples on to the back of the train and adds power from the back to help get up difficult inclines).

We've got one hell of a banker here, Spaw!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:41 PM

Ya know you've made it to the inside track if he calls you a "broke-dick jadrool" and says you ain't got shit fer brains. If he uses the term "fleabitten" to describe ya too, then ya know you've made it to the inner sanctum where only the big Kahunas hang out. You might even be one of a select and tiny handful of people that can define the term "folk music" with total authority and put an ailin' bodhran in tune.

- Chongo

p.s. If so...I pity you! Cos you ain't got a life. ;-D Ook! Ook!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:43 PM

Well, mouldy... we got "the little engine that could" trying to get up that bank and hopefully the big banker will help him up.