Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 08:26 PM

Oh you good people, this is hard...Pat is having a tough time. I just talked with Karen. The fever is back up. He is on BiPap to keep stress off of his heart. He's having a lot of diarrhoea, but did test negative for c-diff(sp?), which I think is some kind of bacteria and it is good that he tested negative.

They are going to do another blood culture, tomorrow, as well as a CAT scan of his belly. One of the people Karen spoke to told her there is "something cookin' in there, they just don't know what."

He is on a lot of morphine. Karen has always, always been upbeat and positive. She knows him so well. I asked if she is frightened and she said yes. She is also tired. She and the boys are at Connie's and Wayne's for Christmas nad will go see Pat, tomorrow. Then, on Sunday, she is going to take a day of rest and stay home. She may also come visit Mudcat. I told her not to worry about it. He's got the whole world holding him and we'd do the same for her. Let's let that Light shine in whatever way we know/believe or not and see him through this!

Karen, you are everything Spaw has said and more. With much love and gratitude,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 08:42 PM

Thank you, Kat.

Karen, we're still here with prayers, laughter, comfort, concern...Many people are pulling for Pat and you, as well as your family and friends there.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:16 PM

...kat is right...so many are watching.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:18 PM

What the hell have they been feeding him, kat?
Poor Karen.
Poor Spaw.
Miss Kitty, we are all grateful for your updates. It is important that Karen be able to filter reports through just one person rather than answering or being forced to ignore multiple emails, calls, etc. Keep yourself well and safe and your family too. Spaw has gotten through worse. One day at a time.
Merry Christmas, Pattersons, and the La France's too.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:21 PM

(((Kat)))

(((Spawluvs)))

(((Spaw)))

~S&G

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:24 PM

Ohhh, fuck... c'mon buddy... fight. Fuck, fight and hold the light.

Sorry, but that's what they said in the back woods and in the trenches when the going got tough... and this is tough. Hang tough buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:33 PM

No apologies necessary, gnu. I've just got one question:

Fuck, fight and hold the light.

In that order?





:-)kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:54 PM

Who's he supposed to fuck, gnu? Karen might not like that at all. And as to that light - he's on oxygen for pity's sake. Don't light anything!
Spaw - I want no details about your diarrhea. Just get better...and cleaner. OK?
Much love,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:01 PM

Sending all the good stuff I have winging its way to Ohio. I'm damned near speechless.


D

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: BlueJay
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

Thanks,Kat. I'm usually lurking, and this really upsets me. I feel like Spaw is an old friend. I only know Karen from what Spaw and all of you have said. She sounds like a SAINT!

C-diff, (clostridium difficile) is a bacteria that is normally present in the gut, but sometimes they overpopulate when competing bacteria are wiped out with antibiotics. symptoms range from mild to lethal, and can be treated successfully if caught in time. It is indeed very good Spaw's test for c-diff was negative.

Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:10 PM

Thank you, BlueJay! You ARE an old friend...luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:11 PM

sending more good wishes to Spaw & Karen & family & friends from australia, half a world away

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amos
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:14 PM

For god's sake slip him some broccoli. It'll piss him off so much he'll haul up and walk out.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:22 PM

Love, love and more love to you both.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:46 PM

Feel it, Spaw? That's love. We won't let go, you know. so rest and come back roaring, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 10:48 PM

Thanks for the update, Kat. Keep up the good fight, Pat and Karen.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Janie
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 11:11 PM

Oh dear. Here with the rest as we hold the entire Patterson family in our hearts and minds.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: mg
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 11:50 PM

mrsa bugs can be killed with various essential oils used in aromatherapy..tea tree is one. I have read elsewhere thyme and clove are among the most powerful. http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/mrsa_wounds_essential_oils/

http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/mrsa_wounds_essential_oils/

If you are visiting, take all precautions to protect yourself. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:35 AM

Good wishes

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Neil D
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:40 AM

Thanks again Kat for the updates. What can we say? Spaw, Karen, and the rest of the family, we are keeping you close to our hearts and in our prayers along with everyone else.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: KT
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:27 AM

You know those by-lines that sometimes run across the bottom of the television screen on certain news stations? I wish we could run this thread across the television screen in Spaw's room, so he could see first hand, his fan club and cheering section. Whatya say,
mud-techies? Get on that, will ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:50 AM

Come on old Buddy. Lick this thing and get back up where you ought to be.

EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Micca
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:09 AM

Spaw, ya old villan, hope you are feeling better by the time you get well enough to read this and compose your own inimitable "Fuck You" in reply, the diarrohoea is as , mentioned probably due to the destruction of the intestinal flora by the anti-biotics, been there got the T shirt (and the stained underpants) but a Nice bucket or 2 of Live Yogurt will restore it!! YECHHHHH, I know you are using it to get revenge on the hospital staff (Us Pattersons DO love getting even) for the many indignities they perpetrate on you when helpless!! but You Hang in there and get well, there are a whole bunch of folks out here pulling for you and your family, Karen, Tris and Michael and we look forward to Good News for and about all concerned.
Your Cousin Micca

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:18 AM

Maybe one of those singing fish will get him to fight harder?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: ClaireBear
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:22 AM

Prayed for healing for you at midnight mass tonight, Spaw -- and I haven't been in a church since June, so I expect extra credit for that. (Sorry, that was beginning to go all maudlin and I had to fix it quick.)

Love,
ClaireBear

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:25 AM

Good oh, Claire. I've a feeling tonight we could all use a redouble on efforts.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:46 AM

Heavyweight burst of energy being sent to Ohio, for all the Pattersons. This is a very happy household this morning so, hopefully, the energy will be well charged.

Keeping a close watch on this thread.

Unless Spaw wants a visit from members of the Evil Sisterhood he had better get his act together and get his arse out the hospital in short time.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Lox
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:51 AM

Keep it coming dude - nearly through.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Morticia
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 06:26 AM

thinking of you Uncle Pat.....and the rest of my honourary family

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 06:48 AM

Good thoughts and prayers coming express delivery!

Andrea.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: skarpi
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 07:06 AM

sorry just saw this thread , Spaw my thought are with you
sending prayers and light over the ocean .
kv Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:28 AM

I stopped in for my Christmas visit and found this thread . Get well and heal soon Pat . Tons of good wishes to you from so many years of fun together here !!! Yours Guy ><><><>

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: kendall
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 08:37 AM

You aint kidding me, Mate;I've been there and I know what goes on in that private room! Why do you think they call it private?
We peons are out here freezing our asses off while you lay there being waited on hand and foot!
Karen, get a 4 year old to read to him; that will put him on his feet right quick!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 09:48 AM

One more pull for the long haul!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 09:56 AM

Last night's midnight Mass here too, and again this AM. Pat and Karen.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Dharmabum
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:00 AM

Sending you all the good thoughts that I can spare.
Kick this thing right square in the ass & get yourself back home!

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:01 AM

If he don't get outa there, reasonably hale and hearty soon, I'm gonna go to that hospital and start reading him the entire, unabridged, uncut version of "Moby Dick."

Call me Fishmeal.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:23 AM

Continued healing thoughts comin' from this mountain holler and...

...don't make me have my Couzin Rufus and the Reg Boyz come down there, Spawzer. 'cause if you think things is funky now, they'll bring funky to a new level... Ya' hear???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 11:42 AM

Call me Fishmeal. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having as usual little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore (her father having caught us in the act), I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation of my splendid genes around the world. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I feel a burning pain when I urinate; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my typos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically passing large volumes of malodorous intestinal gas - then, I account it high time to get to sea or at least out of town as soon as I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 12:13 PM

Wow. You are well on your way toward composing a classic, my good man. Generations of future students will no doubt be forced to plow their way through it. The Coles Notes version will not do it justice.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:26 PM

Y'know, I was thinking...what if we all send him one of these to cheer him up:

Eeeeek!!!! Eeeeeek!!!!

They could be arranged in a sort of ring around the bed, and the nurses could activate them whenever necessary. I think it would do wonders for ol' Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:31 PM

ohmygawd, LH, that would send him right through the roof. That is a fright!

Rapparee...keep it up, that's good stuff...way better than the original!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:42 PM

I really dislike mokeys. Does that make me a bad person?
Remember the one who tore off the woman's face recently? Nasty things.

On another note, Netflix is shipping me Songcatcher which of course will trigger a review. Hope Spaw is well enough to contribute.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 01:53 PM

Well, now it feels like Christmas, you know, with LH draggin' out some home movies of Chongz at his 1st birthday party... What next???

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 03:29 PM

More and more kind thoughts from Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:54 PM

You are a brave woman to order that to watch, Sins. Odious movie, imo. And, just what we need, another review of it!*bg*

No news must be good news, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Janie
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 04:58 PM

That's my hope, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:36 PM

Thinking of Spaw and you-all on Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Amos
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:46 PM

Hey, Pat, see if they'll let you watch a re-run of "Being John Malkovitch". It will really make coming back to your own skin seem like a good idea!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 10 - 05:50 PM

Well, I consider my cat comin' home to be a sign that 2 other things good are going to occur as things, good or bad, come in threes... So, I proclaim that Spawzer gettin' his innards squared away (for him, that is) as #2 and I'm now awaiting #3...

But sho nuff be nice to have that #2 in the books and have Sp-awzer home and healthy for New Years 'cause word on the street the Reg Boyz gotta somethin' big planned... That's all I can say...

B~