BS: Mending the Micca:

Subject: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 08:04 PM

Friends of the Micca, our chum has had a rough patch, medically, that is, and I propose we form a virtual healing circle and restore to him to full health and manly beauty.

Gather in close and take my hand and send some warm thoughts and healing vibes to my friend with me.

thanks
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 08:08 PM

Gotcha, Chance. Next person in line?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Tinker
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 08:34 PM

Hand held, energy flowing.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 10:00 PM

Me! Me! Heal fast, Micca.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Richard Atkins
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 10:17 PM

Candle glowing.
May his Yew Staff from our tree be with him on his next visit.
Hand held for Micca.
Richard and Hils

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: ClaireBear
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:20 AM

Holding on and sending energy.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:29 AM

If yer don't git yerself well soon ya bugger I'll sing to yer. like this

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: KT
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:52 AM

Joining this widening circle of loving friends....we gothca covered, friend Micca,....be well.

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 07:16 AM

Joining the circle, with love, song and laughter (never absent when Micca's around!)

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 07:22 AM

Got someone's two hands. Make room.

Hey there, Micca.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 07:26 AM

There is already a thread on this subject

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 10:46 AM

Megan, thank, you, I see now there is another. It's the Micca, however, and there can't be too many healing threads for him.

thanks all.
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Anne Lister
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 10:57 AM

Joining in here, too ... wishing Micca better ...

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 11:10 AM

We've never met but I enjoy his posts. I'll grab a hand and offer a wave with the other until the next Mudcatter comes along to say "get well!"

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 11:46 AM

I've got SRS's hand. Who will grab mine?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 11:48 AM

I'm here & hoping to visit the Gnome himself tomorrow!
Here's my other hand outstreched....

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:25 PM

My guru...

please give him my best and don't annoy the nurses...

chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 06:09 PM

Well, Micca just called and sounds in good spirits. He'll likely be in over the weekend and get some word on Monday.

Keep up the good vibes, friends, and thanks,
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 06:21 PM

"full health and manly beauty."

That is going to need one helluva circle....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,EBarnacle and Lady Hillary
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 06:27 PM

Keep the sod beneath you and remember peat is for flavoring the whiskey.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 06:37 PM

The circle will reach right round the world.
Do you remember a thread where people listed the other mudcatters they had actually met?
Guess who was on almost everybody's list.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 09:23 PM

All best wishes to Micca for full health and manly beauty, as per initial post. Hope to see you soonish!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Cats
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:38 AM

Healing thoughts and Brightest of Blessings. Cats and Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:47 AM

Printed thread to take to him today, this should get him through till Monday, then we all hope he'll be able to go home to his Wugsy!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:53 AM

An outstretched hand reaching from Ireland -

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 08:01 AM

ok, I'll bite. WTF is a 'wugsie'?!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Tinker
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 08:34 AM

Join the circle Dani.... I've sent you your own personal emergancy wugsie, it should arrive soon.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 08:44 AM

I'm in....

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 08:50 AM

The cat, Dani. Right, Micca get well soon and do as they tell you or I might have to come down there and sit on you!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 08:52 AM

Someone try this on Micca. Nothing will get a man back on his feet like having a 4 year old read to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 09:55 AM

best wishes from me.
Sorry if my hands are sweaty.
keith.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 11:40 AM

I'm starting to feel better myself, must be working!

Remember Liz beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the visage of the beholdee!

Electricity moving through the hands around the world...

Hold Micca here it comes!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Charmion
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 12:11 PM

And another jolt of power into the circuit from Ottawa ... Zap!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 12:53 PM

Maybe a mod could combine these two threads?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Will Fly
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 01:04 PM

A comparative newbie, I don't know Micca and haven't met Micca but, what the heck, this line seems too good to miss. So, if you'll have me, from a long, long way away, here I come.

Feels good - the other hand's free...

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:08 PM

Just a thought, Captain. reading to four year olds didn'y help bush off his feet when he heard about the Twin Towers. Maybe they should have been reading to him.

Micca is beautiful inside and out.Come on Liz. If he wereen't, you wouldn't have kept him around so long. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Megan L
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:10 PM

Wan singer wan song combine the flamin threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 04:30 PM

I had combined them, early on, but then the this one got re-started, so I figured there was a good reason for that and decided to leave them alone. Now, they've both become a bit long too combine, easily. Besides that, twice-said, twice mended, eh?:-)

Here's a hand or two for ya in Western Colorado, Miccaluv!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 07:47 PM

Another pair of hands coming in here. Get yourself well my friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 09:23 PM

20% of a hand for you here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,aggy
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 10:02 PM

Here's my hand, from Juneau, too. xoxo Micca from aggy-Sally

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Azizi
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 10:31 PM

Here's my hand from Pittsburgh, PA. Positive vibrations, Micca!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Ghirotondo at work
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 07:22 AM

...and mine from Florence, Italy. Get well soon!
Lanfranco

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: mouldy
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 07:39 AM

...and you can have both of mine, old fruit, if it will help. Just don't give me cause to get them into latex: the P45 came today, so I am not actually OFFICIALLY a care worker any more. However, I haven't yet forgotten what to do with them, and how to do it!

And if the fear of that doesn't get you up and running...

Andrea x

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 07:48 AM

'wugsie' is his cat

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 09:05 AM

Florence, Ottawa, Alaska,Pennsylcania, old friends, new friends joining hands.

The potential energy is immense...

thank you all and keep it coming

It's coming around again, Micca, open wide.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 11:44 AM

Enough of this warm and fuzzy crap. Micca! Get your ass out of that hospital NOW!


Maybe he needs a visit from Alice to cheer him up or at least get him out of bed (a warm and wet bed).

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 12:20 PM

aggy (above) is a synchronized dry-land swimmer extraordinaire. If you want to see such a sight again, Micca, hurry and get well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 02:17 PM

Much mending from Colorado!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: MAG
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 02:38 PM

mends from WW WA

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 03:18 PM

Yeah, Sinsull has it right... cut the cutesy cuddly wuddly crap and get your malingering ass out of there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 07:27 PM

Just spoke with him. I am very worried - he is way too pleased with his private room and room service. I think we need to tempt him home with a good bottle then snatch it away as he walks in the door.
He sounds good.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 08:43 AM

This hand holding thing isn't working, Chance. He is staying in until Thursday. Maybe a kick in the butt is in order instead?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 10:12 AM

Sinsull,

Tough love, eh? He's had his ass kicked before and the positive effects were short-lived at best.

However, I willing to take my turn, if you're sure!

Meanwhile, we'll continue with the circle as long as we can, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:10 PM

Alice is offering all four paws for any takers across the country or the ocean.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 01:27 PM

Had a shower with him at lunchtime. He seems to be keeping his pecker up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 01:53 PM

obviously a good sign. good of you to help him with his ablutions.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 01:57 PM

Therein lies a tail - LOL I made a pun.

Come on! Details! Now!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 02:10 PM

I was in Yorkshire at the time lol but he was using his mobile in the shower room. Even funnier he hadn't a clue who was sending the messages as he hadn't got my number logged into his contacts. Didn't stop him chatting to a strange woman in the shower! He rang this evening and sounds much chirpier than last week. Even commented about his room that he's stayed in worse hotels!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 03:55 PM

glad he's chirping. i just hope chirpes are tweetable.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: John Routledge
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:26 PM

Glad to see you are coming along well Micca

Hope your writing hand will be in good shape in a couple of days to sign some Friends of The Mudcat papers

Cheers John

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 02:10 AM

Ya can't keep a good man down, at least not for long. Keep truckin', Micca.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 02:20 AM

hands that were recently confined to hospital join the circle!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 06:30 PM

Micca, we hope they send you home 100% tomorrow.

Drop a line and let us know you've been liberated.

cheers
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:08 PM

Hopefully wearing purple gloves. I do love the purple gloves.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: KT
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:45 AM

Okay, Micca, it's time for an update from YOU!    Hope you're able to be sprung today, in tip-top shape!
KT

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 02:55 AM

I hope by now Micca, you are ready for travel? Aren't you due back to New England soon? Good to hear you're back on 2 legs again

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:23 AM

New ENGLAND?! I think he needs to come South for his health. ...bask in the sun, local brews, a little pulled pork barbecue, some banjo on the porch...

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:30 AM

Latest news Thursday 11.30am, he's waiting on results of another scan and may be home tomorrow.

There are lots of things he needs to do for his health.... none of which he'll like....

There are lots of things we could do for his own good. He won't like those either.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: bfdk
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:39 AM

Mending the Micca...

I keep getting this picture in my head of someone painstakingly putting the pieces of a busted garden gnome back together with a brush and a pot of glue... Say, I'll send a pot of glue to help the process along.. :o))

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:45 AM

Not to be sniffed at, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:52 AM

You might come to a sticky end.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:24 AM

Could we adhere to the subject at hand?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:28 AM

I understand he has access to a shower so probably not.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:15 AM

Am I about to find out exactly what a sticky wicket is?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:56 AM

Only if someone bowls a maiden over, Mary.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 11:49 AM

sorry he's still delayed, and I hope the doc's powders and salve can cure the warts and lumbago, etc.

thanks Liz for the update.

Perhaps we should modify the circle to include improving self-discipline.

which of course WE'RE all experts at.
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Bert
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:36 PM

One mends Miccas and Mudcatters with brown paper and string. It says so Here and McGrath is never wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:56 PM

Just heard from him - awfully happy and chipper, One more test...ot two and he will be home tomorrow. Damn! I would hate to see that room service bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:10 AM

Can't be anywhere near as big as his phone bill is going to be!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:26 PM

Now Micca can join in the handholding. Make sure he washes those hands first.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:19 PM

Washed and sterilized, yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:23 PM

well well, despite popular demand, he's back home.

thanks all for your good wishes and healing thoughts.

cheers and halucinations.

chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SussexCarole
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 03:55 PM

We have the vinegar and brown paper ready - is Micca ready for this? (Nurse Ratched stand aside)
Carole & Andrew x

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 04:57 PM

There is a snow storm moving into London. Glad to share the wealth, Micca. Dress warmly and wear your rubbers.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Micca
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 05:20 PM

Mary, I have NO INTENTION of indulging in the kind of thing I would need Rubbers for this side of the water until I have a Cast-Iron guarantee from the Consultant on Monday that my heart is A-1!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 05:43 PM

Micca, THIS side of the water, rubbers are used for erasing pencil marks. But take care anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 06:05 PM

You can only make marks with a pencil that has lead in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 06:47 PM

Lead in his pencil is the last thing he needs.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 06:03 AM

But it would stop him rolling out of bed....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 06:11 AM

Do you have a Cellar Liz?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 06:15 AM

Yes, I do, but I'm not going down there.... unless it's to get the power tools.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: BUTTERS
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 06:40 AM

HELLO MICCA - YOU OLD BUGGER, DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE HAD / GOT BUT BEST WISHES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY ANYWAY. ON MY ANNUAL "PILGRIMAGE" IN THE FRENCH ALPS AT PRESENT - SNOW & SKIING EXCELLENT.
SUGGEST, IN EXTREMIS, YOU TAKE SOME OF THE STASH YOU'RE FATHER WORE.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 07:18 AM

scored, BUTTERS. Not wore, scored.

Habasher one might wear, but never Hash. Attracts the wrong sort.

Anyway spoke to the Micca himself and he seems quit well, having conversations with himself concerning health vs enjoying life. Moderation didn't come up but may be looming on his horizon.

cheers
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Pistachio
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 04:02 PM

Take it easy - Luv Hazel.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 06:06 PM

He is somewhat worried about being denied an occasional glass of Rioja.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 03:46 AM

He should be more worried about killing himself, by ignoring doctor's orders!

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 07:54 AM

Yes but at some point life is not worth living. If Rioja is the Quality of Life breaking point, then he is right to worry. I suspect it is not but only Micca knows.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 03:59 PM

He saw the docs today and has been given the OK for wine in moderation! He is a much relieved and relatively happy bunny. Although he's peeved that he left his best snow boots in Maine.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 04:04 PM

100!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 04:06 PM

What's moderation?

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 05:01 PM

Well, good. A teetotalling Micca was not to be contemplated. I don't think I can take the constant whimpering.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 08:20 AM

It wasn't pretty.... really not pretty at all....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: ranger1
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 06:34 PM

So the snow in London is Micca's fault. That's what he gets for claiming those boots were too much for London in the winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mending the Micca:
From: Art Thieme
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:24 PM

Micca,

Get a lovin' spoonful of Chutney from the other thread and be well!!

All the best,

Art