BS: JenEllen runs away from home

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 12:22 PM

Ricostruisca tutta la speranza, voi che eneter qui!!, reads the sign over the door. The air hasn't moved in a decade, even though the hardwood wainscoting gleams and the ancient Turkish carpeting seems as though it were put down just last year. In the background there is a faint sound of banjo music playing slowly, and a drip of water from somewhere, and the sound of snoring from behind the high, ornate, polished wood desk. It's another day in the sleepy hollow known as the Belacqua Hotel....where the handshake is a little slower.

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:36 PM

(Darn!! I killed it!! I am sorry!!!

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Willie-O
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:54 PM

And so you should be...

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 05:04 PM

Peace and blessings to you Jen.

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: GUEST,John K.
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 05:15 PM

A lunchtime phonecall found everyone doing fine and playing at the lake. Charlotte says to tell Kat's daughter that her cracker-eating idea was well appreciated and there were no morning barfies. Everyone is lounging in the sun, Lake Roosevelt is too cold to swim in, and Jen's teaching the girls a new cheer for when their Daddy runs in Bloomsday tomorrow. Joe and I fly in tonight and will take this with me. Thanks.
    Bill, she is nuts. We just don't use the 'n' word because if we do, we get to hear the 'Harlan Pepper' impersonation for the millionth time. One must choose his battles wisely.
    The kestrel is one I have not heard. Is it anything like the eagle? She had to sit on a pillow for a week with that one. It is one of my favorites.
    John

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 05:39 PM

John:

In case you come back for an answer, the kestrel was a hawk which Jen wrote into a collective fiction thread we had here. But she had her main character set it (the pet kestrel) alight (meaning, "put it down somewhere") which everyone else jumped on for setting the poor bird aflame. She's never lived it down!


A

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:13 PM

Kat's daughter says "Good!"

John, if you are really brave, which you MUST be, and have some long hours to while away, the Flaming Kestrel Saga all started here at the Steamboat Tavern-Albert Hansell

Tell mygoil I love her, willya, please?

kat

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 04 - 12:32 PM

Come in JenEllen.....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 04 May 04 - 12:34 PM

Any news?

A

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Willie-O
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:07 PM

Guess Jen-Ellen's stuck in the Okanagan Time Warp. If she took my advice, maybe even the much deeper Kootenay Time Warp. Usually takes six or seven weeks to get outta that one.

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:16 PM

She's probably taking care of John who is now in a stupor after reading the Albert Hansell thread..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Escamillo
Date: 05 May 04 - 06:24 AM

Warmest best wishes for JenEllen from this far and cold Buenos Aires.

Un abrazo,
Andrés

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 May 04 - 11:36 AM

Wow. Thanks, all. I mean it. I got the thread dumped in my lap this weekend and truly enjoyed it.

I'm bushed. It was a long weekend, got home Sunday night and I was just about sick of people. I sent John packing back to Portland (thanks for the Hansell thread, BTW, just give the guy more ammo, whydontcha?), and got some rest.

My Monday doc's visit wasn't as great as I'd hoped--my spread seems to have been arrested (lovely image, ain't it?) and I get to continue on with my buddies at "herceptin happy-hour" for a while longer, but that's the most concrete they'll give me this week. Honestly, I was so happy to not have to go straight from CT to OR, that I would have taken just about anything as good news.

Does Bert's credit card cover chemo-cocktails? There could be a whole new product line for the Tavern there...

Much love,
~JE

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 May 04 - 12:10 PM

Dearest Jen, how sweet of you to check in and let us know whazzup. We're all still here for you, darlin'- hugs all around!

Love,
Allison

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Willie-O
Date: 05 May 04 - 12:22 PM

Good to see you back...we're all pulling for you as always. (We're getting good at it too)

Bill

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 04 - 01:16 PM

At least no surgery. I will keep you in my prayers.
Love,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:49 PM

Thanks, all. And you're right, Mary, thankfully no more surgery. You of all folks know how lymph nodes are, never know you'll miss them until someone takes a knife to your armpit! *bg*

There was good news after all. My ECG today was bee-yoo-tee-ful. Apparently I have the heart of a healthy 30yr old woman, so we're gonna stick with that! I also lobbied to have the "cozy" taken OFF of my drugs, and finally won (some wiseass crocheted a bunch of IV bag slipcovers with flowers on them---like you won't know what's in them as you sit there---to eliminate the subconscious fear of chemo drugs. I asked what I was supposed to do about my growing fear of gardening, and they finally let me off! LOL)

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:54 PM

LOL! Give 'em hell, Jen!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Morticia
Date: 06 May 04 - 02:56 PM

Jen, I don't know where you got the heart of a 30 year old woman but put it back before someone finds out it was you that took it, you're in enough trouble, ok?

( Sheesh, you let that woman loose in a hospital for five minutes and she's bagging organs like it was a treasure hunt...it wouldn't be so bad if she would wait until people are done with them).

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Megan L
Date: 06 May 04 - 03:05 PM

aw jen while your doing hearts could you find a decent one for a sixt man :)

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 May 04 - 03:56 PM

Good Oh, Jen! (But I still ran farther than you did, BG!)

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 May 04 - 04:15 PM

"S'cuse me, sir, are you finished with that liver?" "Had quite enough of that kidney, mum?" Hardee har har snarf snarf....

...Nah, one of the more serious side-effects of one of the drugs in my cocktail is ventricular myopathy, so I get heart-checked pretty regularly. I don't do ANY running that I don't have to do (i.e.--being chased) and I still stick with the Law of Kodiak...I don't have to run faster than the bear, just you....

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 04 - 04:20 PM

Well, I've updated the prayer chain, and we'll try to keep up with you and cover your back. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: harpgirl
Date: 06 May 04 - 04:47 PM

I have no idea what has befallen you, Jen Ellen but hang in there and get a big red nose and some clown's feet and doctor yourself! My support and sympathies...Abby

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: ranger1
Date: 06 May 04 - 09:47 PM

Sending warm thoughts and positive vibes from the woods of Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 04 - 10:30 PM

Hey JenEllen - you provide the kidneys and I'll bring the fava beans and a lovely chianti.
At least your sense of humor is functional.

Stay strong,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Susan A-R
Date: 07 May 04 - 06:45 PM

Wow!   You have to watch folks around here every minute! Take care and keep on movin' through this.   Wish you well.

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Mudlark
Date: 07 May 04 - 10:45 PM

Good to hear from you JenEllen, and to know that your fighting Irish is still up. A good snit is an excellent sign of good energy, IMO. No surgery is GOOD surgery. Keep up the good work and take care...

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 08 May 04 - 07:37 AM

LOL! I have this great image of JenEllen running around the hospital corridors, johnny flapping in the breeze, pushing a shopping cart and filling it with organs!

Keep good cheer, dear one- laughter is good medicine!

Love,

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 May 04 - 03:59 PM

Somehow I missed this thread before. Your purebred Midwest !@#$-reduction candle will be fired up tonight when I get home from work.

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: GUEST,Jen-sitting Johnny
Date: 08 May 04 - 06:34 PM

Fava beans and a lovely chianti, SINSULL? She's more 'jelly beans and a pint of the black stuff, please.' --dontcha think?
    Allison, she has been cheery enough, of what I've seen (when the johnny flaps, I am instructed to NOT see), but there was a time after the first surgery when her next-door neighbor in the hospital was a confused man who yelled "WHAT TIME IS IT???" every five minutes or so. Our girl had murder in her eyes.
    The Hansell story was good, you guys. I've read the later stuff, and you can see your evolution. I have been tipped off about a Jukejoint story, and I'll read that one tonight.
    Thanks again,
    John

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 May 04 - 07:10 PM

Ah yes, the Mudcat Juke Joint ........that was where we wiped out Gargoyle.........A good read though and a lot of fun trying to hold it together and keep the storylines on time and a bit limited so the thing made a bit more sense. Or at least we were in sympatico on it...LOL......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 May 04 - 07:34 PM

Re: "johnnies". As some of you know, I am rather well endowed. Huge actually. So...this last trip for another mammogram, I followed the required routine: stripped to the waist and put on the gown given to me with the opening to the front. The problem was that the opening was all across the front. No amount of pulling and tying could disguise the fact that it was 10" shorter than necessary in circumference.

I decided to clutch my purse to my chest constricting the appendages as far as possible so that I could maintain a modicum of modesty. The other ladies in the waiting area, all amply covered by their gowns, pretended not to notice. And there i sat refusing to make eye contact with anyone and swearing that I would lose weight before the next mammogram.

Finally my name was called and the technician led me into the examining room. She turned to ask me a question and laughed out loud. I was mortified. Turns out my gown had been mislaid. It was from the Children's Wing. Wrong pattern.
I waited for a new gown to appear dreading the possibility that it too might not fit. Do these things only happen to me?

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 04 - 07:43 PM

Sins:

It takes a special kind of gal to let a child's garment convince you you need to lose weight!! LOL!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 08 May 04 - 07:56 PM

Dearest Mary, having seen you and been blessed with your warm hugs, I read your tale of woe filled with wonder- here on the west coast of NH, I thought, we make our johnnies more than big enough for the likes of thou ("huge"? I don't think so!). I'm glad to hear of the mistake, humiliating though it must have been for you!

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: JenEllen runs away from home
From: Benjamin
Date: 09 May 04 - 01:59 AM

I'm glad to see you've made it back and your doing okay Jenny. Welcome back. Sometime, I might end up running away for a little while myself. It's been a while since I've seen the Okanogan.