Obit: Pat "Catspaw49" Patterson - June 20, 2014

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 12:37 AM

Heel! boy! Heal!!!! Stop trying to upstage Kendall and old dude and HEAL!!! you hear?

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Megan L
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 04:52 AM

Do not worry about gargoyle Gnu, you know where I was coming from and a bit about the scenery of my lovely island home.

In my mind the moors have nothing to do with death they are calm and peaceful a place my mind could go to. Even while sitting in a busy city hospital alone over 200 miles from home I could let my mind escape there for a few minutes to calm and find peace.

Anyone who has sat with an unconscious loved one in hospital know there are times of complete nothingness where time is only denoted by the buzz and beep of machines. There are also times where you are being bombarded with information or questions till your brain feels punch drunk. At those times we just need a few moments of peace to let us pull all the threads of our being together again to be able to go on.

Gargoyle if in times of trouble if you have family who can sit with you and help with all those things that need to be done then you are blessed do not spew your vitriol on those who have to find other ways to cope.

To Karen and Pat sorry if my prayer upset you that was never my intent.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:07 AM

Hope Karen has had some rest and Spaw some happy dreams. Garg's suggestions are not half bad. Something to plan for once he out of the hospital. Too bad he and Dude can't share a room...
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:55 AM

Karen -- whisper in his ear that without his support OSU is going to lose ALL of the games they play this year. In every sport, including checkers and marbles. Wait, I'm sorry...OSU lost their marbles years ago. You can tell him I said that, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Amergin
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 10:00 AM

Well, fuck, Pat....you're not suppose to get sick! Get the hell out of that place, but not until after you've pinched a few bums...go home to Karen...she needs ya.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 10:48 AM

Now, now, children. No sniping in the waiting room. Go get a cup of coffee and calm down. We are all here to support Pat and Karen, and I have every faith that Pat can discern good intent, however it is delivered.

Hot sunny North Carolina morning, and I am sending off prayers for all for contentment, peace and light.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 02:23 PM

another prayer, another UP!.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 06:09 PM

Spaw you are an institution my man. Keep on keeping on. You have my best wihes and strongest vibes for a good outcome. Let the goodtimes roll!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 07:36 PM

Pat, I haven't prayed for years.. But I Bloody well will today!

Sending love to you and Karen, from your friend in OZ!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 08:47 PM

Okay... Here's the deal, Spawzer...

You get yer ass (and the rest of you) okay and this ol' hillbilly will drive (12 flippin' hours), stop a couple blocks from yer house and pick up a case of Iron City Beer and...

...you and I will sit in your back yard, drenk and scratch...

Oh, and tell a few lies...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:28 PM

Spaw, I've been away for a few days but have kept you in my thoughts and prayers. I will continue to do that while adding love and hugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:31 PM

Time it right and I'll join you.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 10:20 PM

That was a lovely poem, Megan. And Garg, your care and concern came through.

Spaw and Karen....just love and light. Blazing light thoroughly infused with care and concern. From all around this globe.

I ain't scratchin' nuttin' on Bobert, Spaw or Rap, but would love to sit back and listen to the lies.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 10:45 PM

Bobert, I would imagine that Spaw won't be up for beer any time soon but set the date and a number of us will join you and Rapparree in your efforts while Spaw looks on yearningly. For the company, you know. (I've never tasted Iron City Beer- is it as bad as people say?)

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:42 PM

Damn it Bob,

Here we are trying to get the lad well and you have to go and threaten him with Iron City Beer, the pale dry stale ale with the head on the bottom.

Getty him some decent brew, like Kohler or Rolling Rock.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:44 PM

Update from Karen.

Pat's about the same. A little better, he is off one of the BP meds and they decreased the sedation so he is responding to commands. Able to get some Lasix to start reducing the edema. Still has a low grade fever. He is still not strong enough for another procedure to deal with the gallbladder. It's slow going, but he is still fighting. The boys and I are doing okay. Tristan is in Georgia with my sister getting spoiled rotten. Michael and I are hanging out at home. I'm keeping busy around the house. Plenty to do there. I work and visit Pat. He's at my hospital so I check on him at night and in the mornings. It makes me feel good to know there are so many people who care for Pat, me and the boys. Please let everyone on Mudcat know how Pat is doing and I will try to be better about updating. Thanks for all your thoughts. ...Karen.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 05:33 AM

Karen - update when you can. No-one here is expecting you to spend your precious time just keeping us in the know. We can wait. Take care of yourself and give Spaw a big wet kiss from me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 06:56 AM

Ditto jacqui except the kissing part. A firm, gentlemanly handshake will suffice. Well, a gentle hug too... but in a manly way, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:03 AM

thanks for the report, Karen & Janie

love from sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:12 AM

"he is responding to commands"

Well - that must be a first for our Spaw.Here's hoping he gets back to "normal" soon.

I'm rooting for you.

Wesley and family.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:22 AM

Karen & Pat...Ann & I send love & greetings from London. You are both in our thoughts, every waking moment of every day. Respecting Pat's Celtic heritage, we offer a Celtic blessing:


May the strength of the wind and the light of the sun,
The softness of the rain and the mystery of the moon
Reach you and fill you.
May beauty delight you and happiness uplift you,
May wonder fulfil you and love surround you.
May your step be steady and your arm be strong,
May your heart be peaceful and your word be true.
May you seek to learn, may you learn to live,
May you live to love, and may you love - always.

                                                                         With Love,
                                                                                        Nigel & Ann Paterson

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 09:34 AM

Just checking in.
Karen, take care of you and Spaw. We can wait.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 09:40 AM

+++

~Greg and Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:27 PM

".....May the storm that comes your way.......clear the air for a brighter day....."    From sammy horner, the blessing.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: bbc
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:47 PM

Thanks for the update, Karen & Janie. Although we don't want to be a nuisance, it's hard, waiting, with no word. Sending much love!

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 08:40 PM

I want to hear any news Karen may pass along, but I hope not to add to her stress. We don't hear anything, and it's probably because there's no news.

I'm here, and I will be here. We're all here, trying to helps in whatever way we can as is our nature. Prayers, visualizing, focusing, maybe singing-- whatever we can do, and it's all good. We're spread out all over, but we're there with you Pattersons. Love.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 09:16 PM

Thank you for the news, Karen, and thank you, Janie, for passing it along.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Stewie
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 09:26 PM

Get well, Spaw. Best wishes from the top of Oz.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Janie
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 09:56 PM

G-night, Spaw, Karen, Tristan and Michael. Rest well.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 10:38 PM

I've been here since Gargoyle used his real name, and, this is a first. Don't fault him, though, I'm there too. Hang on, Pat. We love you, and we still need you...

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: KT
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 11:35 PM

It's so good to have an update, and to hear from Karen, though, as others have said, we can wait and don't want to add any more to your already full plate. Just know that there are a whole lot of us sitting out here in the waiting room, pullin' for ya....Come to think of it, I see a whole lot of the old gang here in this waiting room. That'd make Spaw happy! We're with you, Spaw! And with you, Karen. Hang in there!
Thanks Janie, for keeping us posted.
KT

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 07:56 AM

Not much for me to add except that I check this thread first every time I bring up Mudcat. Then Dan's thread. Then Kendall's thread but thank goodness that had a frightening title with a good news first post. I wish youse guys would stop this shit, magically rise UP and rejoin us but, as said by many others, it takes what it takes. My thoughts, prayers and love to youse and yours.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 08:31 AM

So many have already said anything I could, and probably better then I would have.

I should have known something was up when he last that last game of "words" and didn't start another...

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 09:37 AM

Just checking in...

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 09:59 AM

Thinking of you both and wishing you the very best

love

Pat xx

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 10:07 AM

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

UP YOURS, SPAW!!!

And the sooner you get yours up and outa there the better1!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 10:36 AM

Nothing articulate I can add to the great (and some not-so-great) posts above, other than the weight of one more voice lifting you and Karen up to the light... get better, Spaw!
-Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 10:52 AM

Indeed....all thoughts winging their way from here too.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 12:43 PM

Thinking of you, Pat.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 12:43 PM

If sheer numbers of concerned people & sincerity can help, Pat will get through all this- ---

As Karen says, he IS a fighter.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 01:21 PM

Here, pullin' for ya, every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: maeve
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 02:40 PM

Checking in, Pat and Karen. Blessings and rejoicing to you and yours.
Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: bbc
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 06:47 PM

Sending much love from New York!

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 08:35 PM

I composed a long post and then deleted it. Here is the nutshell.

Spaw... yer one of the good ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 05:11 AM

Still here...still thinking...still hoping...continuing to hold you both in our daily thoughts.
    One 't', two 'ts'...doesn't matter how you spell Paterson (and it's many variants)...Pat, you're entitled to wear the tartan of the Clan MacLaren. The MacLarens fought with distinction at the Battle of Bannockburn in June, 1324. It's June, 2014...time for you to fight with distinction again, not to defeat the English, but to regain your health & stand tall, once again, with Karen by your side. "Huc Tendimus Omnes"("We all strive for this")
                                                                                          With Love,
                                                                                                 Nigel & Ann Paterson xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 05:51 AM

A Gaelic Proverb for Spaw:
                                        Bidh an t-ubhal as fheàrr air aímheangan as àirde.
                                        The best apple is on the highest bough.

      Pat, you are our 'best apple', resplendent on the highest bough of our Love & Care.
                               With Love,
                                              Nigel & Ann Paterson xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 06:07 AM

Mornin, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 11:16 AM

Nigel - Sappho wrote about the ripest apple on the topmost limb of the tallest tree. So far up the pickers did not notice it ... no - they saw it but could not reach it.

Morning, Karen and Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 12:01 PM

Perfect, SINSULL, just perfect & so redolent with meaning.

Subject: RE: BS: Spaw needs all mojo we can muster
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 12:33 PM

Tu chante sa pomme.

If yer from northern NB.ca, you will know it's not literally 'You sing her apple.' but is meant to say 'You shine her apple.' No cheek intended... just came to mind. I think of a lot of useless pieces of drivel.

I do wonder how Spaw is doing but I'll go for 'no news is good news'.

I miss ya, bud.