BS: Rick's health Update

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 01:54 PM

Rick ... Reading your recent posting regarding your taste in humor (thank you, by the way) I thought you might enjoy a little Finnish humor! Lappish, actually. The Northern Finns are known for their reticence, as demonstrated in the following classic stories:

Two brothers leave their home for their two week trapline. Four hours up the trail, a rabbit runs across the snow in front of the brothers. The one brothers say,"Look! Kani!" Two weeks later, as they were returning home, they came to same same place where the rabbit had crossed their path. The other brother said, "Yaaaah!"

That night, the one brother cooked their meal. After supper, he asked his brother, "how did your like supper?" The next morning, the brother was gone, but there was a note. It said, "I didn't want to argue!"

CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Janie
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 10:27 PM

Rick and Heather,

Each night of the Getaway, one, some, or many of us will go out and sing our love and caring for you to the moon and tell the moon to beam it on to you. If you can, go out and look, and catch it full in the face and heart. Even if you can't look, feel it all shining down on you.

Matter of fact, anyone who is so inclined can start doing that right away--no need to wait for the Getaway. It is what we have to offer.

Strengh your way,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 10:59 PM

Moonbeams heading your way!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Chris Amos
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 01:29 AM

Rick,

I have been away from the cat for a bit so I have only just caught up with this thread, keep positive, my thoughts are with you.

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Willie-O
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 06:14 AM

So, Rick I'm going to be working in Toronto the next couple of weeks or more, I'll try and come visit if you're receiving company.

Best
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:00 AM

Hi Rick--the moon was about half last night.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Dani
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:52 AM

...and very, very bright. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 12:06 PM

Hmmmmmm....forgot to check out the moon.

For some reason, my appetite has come back. Eating like a hog. Guess the body is saying "enough weight loss, gotta put some pounds back on!"

Cheers and thanks

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 12:10 PM

it's a good sign!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 12:48 PM

There ya go, champ!! Chow down!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 02:14 PM

Good to hear that, Rick!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 03:20 PM

I was about to make a smart-ass comment about eating, but as my mind wandered through it's quagmire of "Vaguely Related Things I Find Mildly Amusing," it happened upon the "all you need is" syndrome. You know, well meaning folks of course, but always telling you that "All you need is ___________," and you'll feel better right away.

The world seems filled with people who for various reasons seem to believe that the solution to whatever ya' got is ______________(fill in the blank). Some are food freaks of several ilks. From the specific foods ("You need to eat 36 ounces of Brussel Sprouts each day") to the general ("All you need is a good meal"). There are too the exercise nuts with both specific and general suggestions. Then you have the herb folks, the vitamin supplement kooks, the general lifestyle changers, bone crackers, and a whole slew of of others.

On Chris Rock's HBO stand-up he says that since his family had little money and no insurance, the answer for everything medical was Robitussin-----Got a cold? Take some Robitussin. Got a stomach ache? Have some Robitussin. Got a broken leg? Pour some Robitussin on it. Got cancer? Drink lots of Robitussin" This reminded me of a friend's step-Dad who believed the answer to all of your medical ills was a "good physic."

I dunno'....Maybe the guy liked salts, castor oil, and enemas, but you could count on him in any conversation regarding someone's ill health to say, "All that boy needs is a good physic." After awhile I began thinking about this guy and his wife and what their life must be like.............Anyway, it ain't the answer I'm sure as this guy died of stomach and colo-rectal cancer a few years later.

Glad you're eatin' ..... Don't do the the "physic" thing though.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Tinker
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:42 PM

Good news, I'm always glad to hear to hear about a few healthy cravings ... You and Heather are both in my thoughts daily....I sat and watched a bit of last year's Getaway today,I'll do my best to capture some of it to send your way along with the evening serenades...

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Celtaddict
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:15 PM

So, Spaw, for reasons I cannot begin to comprehend, your comments about rummaging through what is at least at the moment amusing made me think of the thought of the day yesterday:
Pity the poor insomniac dyslexic agnostic: he lies awake at night wondering if there really is a dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: kendall
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 07:08 PM

Good news man! Just keep thinking of that Apollo 12

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 09:07 PM

Apollo 12? That would be the second moon landing with Conrad, Bean, and Gordon. Help me out here Kendall.........What am I missing?   Or are you talking about 13 with Lovell, Haise, and Swigert? O2 tank blew up on that one forcing abandonment of the moon landing and being a "successful failure" as they brought the crew back alive.

Here's another one instead more appropos to you Kendall......Remember the Maine!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 09:24 PM

Hey Rick, time for some cornbread and BUTTER eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:01 PM

Hey Rick . I just found this thread. My daughter Elizabeth had three portacaths before she was done and when they took out the last one she asked if she could keep it. She realy was glad to have it and missed it the first year out and about. (MRI's are easyer with them ) ( 4 a year)
          Its such tough work your doing now but your doing it. On the sidelines we cheer ! . As one who helped a loved one going through it I wish for you the insperation that brings the magic needed. Great good things to you !
   
               In the kids chemo room at Yale was a list. Here are the first 3 >> "You know your the parent of a cancer kid when>>>>"
             1 Kids with hair look goofy to you.
             2 THe ride to the hospitol in the middle of the night seems great cause theres no trafic .
             3 Your childs room has more toys then Toys R US.
               Anyway tons of good wishes and more !   Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: bbc
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:34 PM

Enjoy that good appetite! Thanks for letting us know; Caroline was just asking about you today. Thinking of you often.

love,

barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 02:23 PM

Good to hear of this. Have a big mudcat breakfast of Spawcakes with MMaple syrup, then an Indian lunch of ken-Dal, and for dinner, a big bucket of Mary in KFC.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 10:28 AM

And Marmite. It will put some weight back on. Nothing sillier than a skinny folkie.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 11:53 AM

I think I'll leave the Marmite alone, thank you Sins! MIlkshakes are shaking big time around here though. I've had two straight weeks where I've been feeling pretty good. The big picture is still a tad grim but I appreciate the present.

Cheers and thanks

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:09 PM

Hey RICK! WHile yer feeling hungery... how about Venison and Yorkshire pudding! Make a glaze of Dejon Mustard and a splash of Creme Sherry and cook the pud in the drippings... Bon appitite!
Feel better and better,
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:25 PM

cook the pud in the drippings that's a set-up for Spaw if I ever saw one! **bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: curmudgeon
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:32 PM

A culinary treat I have yet to try was explained to me by old friend Pete the Spy.

Make a large kettle of Welsh Rabbit with lots of butter, cheddar, and ale. In it, poach the eggs, prior to placing the entire lot on good toast . Wash down with more ale -- Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 09:57 PM

no....what you do is fry up some bacon then fry potatos and mushrooms in the grease and mix everything up....mmmmmmm...

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 09:40 AM

... saw Sonny Ochs and Rich Warren this weekend, Rick. Both had good Rick stories/comments and wishes well. Nice folks. All the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:52 AM

Ummm...SINSULL...I am a skinny folkie. What does this mean? :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 09:38 PM

You have a tape worm?????

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:57 PM

Hey Rick! You need to try some good Guamanian food. Some beef kelaguen with red rice and fine dene sauce topped with a pile of barbeque and finished off with casava. If you like vinegar and soy sauce then Guamanian food is right up your alley. And if you like fish, generally fried, then head on over to your nearest Guam Restaurant.

Seriously I only just found this thread and was deeply affected by the news contained herein. Good luck with the fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Dani
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 12:48 PM

Wish I could make you a great big malted milkshake, Rick. But I know you're in good hands. I will think of you with every shake I make at our ice cream fountain, though!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 12:59 PM

Ok... add a verse

Our Rick had a little lamb, a little pork a little jam
a little quail on toast, a little potted roast
some bacon and some eggs done right
cause Rick had a little appitite


I forget the orginal author,,, (Mary had a ...)

Well add a verse for the rickster....

Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 01:09 PM

I considered the tapeworm idea, SINSULL, but I think I'm just naturally skinny. The only time I ever started to get a bit of a tummy was when I drove a taxicab for 6 months, and spent 12 hours a day sitting in the wretched thing, eating junk food on the run. That sedentary a life can cause anyone to get a potbelly. It vanished quite soon after I quit driving cab.

There's another factor too. I have never married. I note that nothing on Earth can put weight on people like marriage does. I think it's psychological.

* * *

Thinking of you often, Rick...I hope you're doing better.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 04:12 PM

LH,

How do you reckon? Lying around on laurels once the prize is won?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Celtaddict
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:31 PM

Good to hear it all. I am getting hungry just reading so hope your appetite is holding up. Sounds like no use at all thinking about the big picture anyway; and it is glorious September, spectacular time of year to be alive. Keep soaking up the garden and the skies...our love follows you.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Annie
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 10:17 PM

Ice cream. You gotta do more ice cream. They don't call it Chunky Monkey for nothin.

And how about that harvest moon tonight. Not a cloud in sight.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 12:08 AM

I don't think LH is too far off since a guy who marries more than one woman is called a bigamist.......Must be something to it or he'd be a thinmint or something.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Annie
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 09:36 PM

Was driving with Rick in my ear this weekend. Not a pretty picture, I know. Thought about you two a lot and hope you're making out OK. Will miss not seeing you at the Getaway!

Wishing you the best each day has to offer,
Annie

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:14 PM

Hanging in pretty well these days. No energy (for long drives) but if I didn't know there was a tumour growin' in me, I'd be feeling OK. Damn! this is a bummer!

Love to all!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:57 PM

Good to hear from you! Take care buddy!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 03:01 PM

"Damn! this is a bummer!"

now there is the understatement of the year!...But I'm glad you keep popping in to say hello and comment on the world. You make this tedious business easier on those dozens of folks who are proud to call you a friend.

take care...and KNOW how many are thinking of you!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 03:36 PM

Rick,

All I can say is what Bill already said so very well ! Just know that we are here for you if not actually with you.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 03:43 PM

Amen to that.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: jbailes
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 03:49 PM

me too for what art said about what bill said.

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 03:58 PM

...what Bill said!

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 04:01 PM

Well, Rick, you could always ask for Alzheimers...true story...an elderly woman in a nursing home was told she had inoperable cancer and would not live past a few months. She never remembered anything they told her and lived for about ten more years! It's really true! reminds me of the old Ruth Gordon quote, "How old would you be if you didn't know?"**bg**

Ah, well, you know you've got a permanent spot in my heart and what Bill and Art said, too. As well as lotsa love and energy for Heather, too.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Carly
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 08:31 PM

I can't do better than to agree wholeheartedly with Bill and Art, and send back love to you and Heather.
Carly

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: bbc
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:59 PM

Love you, dear. Do your best to enjoy each day. We live in the illusion that we have a long time, but, truly, we each live just one day at a time.

Holding you & Heather in my heart,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: hesperis
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 11:47 PM

I just converted a friend to the joys of listening to live music by dragging him to Chopin when I was playing there... you still pickin' anywhere, Rick? He'd totally be blown away if he heard you. :D

Subject: RE: BS: Rick's health Update
From: Áine
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 12:41 PM

Hey there, Rickster! ;-)

It's nice to hear from you every once and a while. And I'll echo Bill and Art's words, too. Thinking of you often with warm regards and great affection -- ya buggah!

To paraphrase my dear ol' daddy - 'As long as it's tickin', I'll keep on kickin!'

Kick away, dude!

Luv ya, Áine