Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Paul Burke
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:41 PM

I happen to know that Spaw was restored in 1849- I've got the photograph to prove it (available on demand)- so he should be ready for another lick of paint now. Someone will cure the old bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:43 PM

Bobert, I am shocked, SHOCKED you would swear like that in poor old Spaw's thread!

Maybe they should take some duct tape to the hospital...

Chill, dude, and concentrate on not leaking.
Love,
Jeri

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:45 PM

Leave it to Spaw to celbrate a mid-life crisis by menstruating...the best I could come up with at the moment.

Michael is amazing. I am not surpeised that he has stepped in to master of the house.

Prayers from one atheist to another.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:48 PM

Get well and get back here fast Spaw! Your eloquent expression and insightful advice on the Mudcat is a work of art! I hope that you won't be missing for long!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:53 PM

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Damned "enter" key.

SINS, I think we got an atheist prayer chain going here.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:06 PM

We atheists 'believe' that OUR prayers are just as good as anyone's!!

Pat will agree when he's out of that place! I just 'feel' it.....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:27 PM

Stop doing that in public, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:36 PM

Hey Spaw.....

   I'm wishing I had something silly to add but the truth is I hope you get yourself well and get home ASAP. Quit makin' us worry.

Much love to you my friend,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 08:40 PM

Pat, if there's anything we can do from a distance that will help you feel better, have someone let us know. Springing a leak is not, in general, a healthy thing to do, so like Rapaire said, don't make me come back there . . .

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Dharmabum
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:05 PM

Spaw,the place ain't the same without ya.
Slow the flow & git yer ass back here!

Sending best whishes.

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Janie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:09 PM

Come on, 'Spaw............

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Neil D
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:11 PM

Hang tough Spaw. You wouldn't let Neil bow out so easily. Tons of positive energy coming for you and your family. Kat, is there an address where we can send cards? Thanks again for the updates.

                               Christina and Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:13 PM

Good luck and get well.
Russ (Permanent GUEST)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:23 PM

Geez! One can't ignore this forum for half a day without another catastrophe.

Kat, thanks for your updates.

I hope the egregious sod gets better fast.

I'll pour a libation of mead at the foot of our old maple tree to the Old Gods just for you. They'll love the attention.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:44 PM

adding my good thoughts & best wishes to the world-wide mix

love from sandra to spaw & family

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:49 PM

Haven't heard anything more, yet, folks, but am sending your messages to Connie. Thanks so much. You are a grand lot, you know that?! As soon as I can, I will post an address for cards and such. Thanks for asking.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 10:39 PM

My wife just finished a two hour nosebleed (no, I didn't hit her, it's an old baseball injury, it really is!). I do NOT want to have to deal with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named back in Ohio. I strongly urge him to knock it off; he can get plenty of attention in other ways.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 10:58 PM

LOL, that's kind of what Connie said to him. He likes the slipper socks they pass out in hospital. She'd gotten him some for Christmas. She told him he didn't need to go to such extremes to get a new pair. Then she asked him if it was an "only child" thing...just have to be the center of attention!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM

I know what the trouble is: barometric pressure. As the weather in Ohio clears and calms so will Pat. You heard it here first.

Grab the barometer and give it a shake, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM

Spaws one of my favourites around here....when I am feeling for the need to laugh I just look up one of his posts and I get my fix. It's a shame that he's had so many serious problems over the years. I hope you get better soon, Pat. We need ya back here to put things into proper perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 11:11 PM

You know I love you my friend. You are scaring me! I call ya and talk to you and Karen and we joke and laugh and a couple of weeks later I read this stuff. Now knock it off - don't make me come over there and kick ya one. If you or Karen needs anything at all you call, you have my cell.

you are in my prayers

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: BlueJay
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:08 AM

I know it's been awhile, Spaw, but I want you to know I'm still rootin' for you. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: ragdall
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:54 AM

Spaw,
Stop that silliness and clot, dang it! We all need you back here, ASAP.
Good thoughts and prayers are coming your way.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: maeve
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:07 AM

Even the coyotes are howling tonight. "Get wellll...get welll... Hey 'Spaaaaawww...Get, get, get welllll. Yap yap yap yap yap yap."

Don't look at me. That's what they're saying right now. Listen: can't you hear 'em?

Bright moon tonight, and cold.

"Clot, clot, darn 'Spaw" Wm. Shakespeare, 'Macbeth'



So I can't sleep. I guess Pat had better pull himself together.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:26 AM

Well....I was farting earlier....and each spurt of gas from my ass said get better old man!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:37 AM

I was going to agree with Amergin from his post before this. (17 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM) I'll let you two put your heads together about farts and stay out of that one.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Little Robyn
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:31 AM

Greetings from NZ.
Hurry and get home - it's almost Christmas and you don't want to be in there for Christmas!
(Tho' I'm sure the nurses are all very nice but it's not the same.)
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:25 AM

Ah Spaw, Ya gotta get home for Christmas! Hang in there and get better quickly.

Another atheist prayer on the chain!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:37 AM

Lookit that, Spawdarlin'...you've even roused folks we don't see much any more! Heya, BlueJay!! Okay, Spaw, that's enough, honest...it's good to see them and all, but you don't need to get their attention this way!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Hollowfox
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 08:02 AM

Hey, Spaw - as the newest member of the Mudcat Coumadin Club, can I take your turn on nosebleed shift and let you go home this time? Or, I could sic Amy on you. You saw her sweet, quiet, nice to pets and her mother side, but she can be terrifying. She narrows her eyes like Lee Van Cleef in a spagetti western, raises her eyebrows, and then she'd face down a mountain lion with a buggy whip and a small smile.
Love to the family, and the $#@!-reduction candles continue, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 09:49 AM

Rec`d this from a good friend via e-mail. Here ya go, Pat.


An ad found in the Canberra Times, Personal Section:

I reckon this bloke should have got a few replies simply for taking the time to think of this!

Wanted A tall well-built woman with good
reputation, who can cook frogs
legs, who appreciates a good fuc-
schia garden, classic music and tal-
king without getting too serious.

Interested?
Then please only read lines 1, 3 and 5;
still interested?
Call me at...... 4321-1234

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:05 AM

Please be well, Catspaw, we all need you...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:46 AM

Looking for a progress report on the ol' Spawser. It's Saturday, that has to mean things are looking up!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:22 AM

Be well, please. The catbox needs you.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:32 AM

Always said you were a silly bleeder,'Spaw. Get Well Soon! The Feds are looking into the accounts of the NYCFTTS- something to do with laundering Madoff funds, get back & sort it!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:50 AM

Just spoke with Karen who spent the night at Connie and Wayne's.

He had a rough time in surgery. He had been in huge waves of pain from the haematoma and when they went in there, they took out a litre of blood from both sides of his belly. They've been having trouble with his blood pressure because of his haemoglobin, so they gave him two units before surgery, during surgery and after surgery. He spiked a fever last night and there is a bit of pneumonia in the upper lobe of his lung, left side, I think. He is on a vent, but they are starting to wean him off of that. He is in ICU. I forgot to ask about cards, but will send Connie and email and ask.

Despite all of that, Karen sounded very upbeat, though tired, and Connie did, too. Karen is going to go see him, soon, and then will go home for the first time in a couple of days where she will spend the night. She hasn't seen the boys in a couple of days and is looking forward to it.

Please keep sending your best, mostest powerfull Mudcat mojo and let's push him over the hump (oh, that's a camel, not an elephant, huh? Well, let's just give him a huge lift, what say you?!)

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 11:57 AM

I don't think he's in any condition for humping right now. He's got to get a lot better for that sort of thing. So, he's got to get better. That there is known as "logic."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:03 PM

you've got it.......well, no, Pat and Connie got it but you know what I mean.......be well, my friend and much love

Terri x

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:05 PM

Look at it this way...the guy represents job security for surgeons and nurses..

I'm sure he'd be proud...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:32 PM

As was said above, it is Saturday, the ending of each week, bitter or sweet or blah. This is GOOD. Now you can mend, Pat. As fast as you can gather the strength to, do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Noreen
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:33 PM

I say

Get well soon, Catswap!

(I wanted to say "Get well soon, Catspaw!" but my keyboard translated it- and I think I like the new name xx)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:50 PM

So how many Christmases has Karen celebrated in a hospital? Or with Spaw in bed?
Enough of this crap. Get your lazy ass out of bed and take care of yourself.
Auntie SINS, in mothering mode

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:05 PM

I am having a hard time to stay at "level CRAP". Any more of this, Spaw, and I am skipping levels damn AND son-of-a-pup! You don't wanna make a half-grown man cry do ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:25 PM

This is a helluva way to get out of decorating the tree. If you don't want to do it, just say something and someone else will do it. Or just get one already decorated. (I never take mine down.)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:30 PM

The only way to decorate the tree is by sitting in the recliner with some ales and telling the wife where to put this and that.

You are welcome in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 03:34 PM

Too easy?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: olddude
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:57 PM

Lord Jesus, you went about doing good and healing all, we ask You to bless our friend Pat who is ill. Give him the strength in body, courage in spirit, and patience in pain. Recover his health and watch over Pat , Karen and the rest of his family. He is a beloved friend to us all. Restore him to health, bless and protect him, and grant courage and strength to his family while they are caring for him during this time of trouble. In Your Name, we ask for Your help. Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:06 PM

I ain't much fer that kinda stuff, Dan, but, AMEN!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:15 PM

Sending more good thoughts too....what would Mudcat be without the occasional blast of hot air from Ohio?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts etc.
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:16 PM

Amen