BS: One more time, for Spaw, please

Subject: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:12 PM

I wasn't going to post this until after he came home, but after talking with "KarenSpaw," this evening, I think we'd better ask for some good ol' Mudcat help.

Spaw went in hospital, last Thursday, aenemic and hypoxic, with signs of internal bleeding. He is in ICU. Here's the scoop, as of tonight:

Because his lungs seem to be quite weak, they put him on a vent in order to do an upper GI, to find out where he was bleeding. Found three ulcers in his stomach, two of which they cauterised, the other was somewhat inaccessible, so they injected something to constrict its vessels. His hemoglobin went up, which is a good sign, after that treatment. He may be off of the vent by now. Karen will be going back up in a few minutes and will keep me posted.

They've taken him off the heparin to slow the bleeding problems, but that also carries a risk of blood clots. The cellulitis he's been battling is getting better and the swelling in his legs is better since he has been off of them.

He's been on a BiPap (pressurised breathing machine, kind of like CPAP) and without it, his o2 sats are okay on a cannula, but he becomes disoriented, etc. so they are thinking he needs the BiPap to help get rid of the Co2 in his lungs. (Been there done that! I know how it feels!)

Although his heart has been enlarged for quite some time, he does not have congestive heart failure, so that is good, too.

Their friends, Connie and Wayne, are helping out in every way possible. Karen hopes he will be home for Christmas. I told her I'd put out a call to Mudcatters to get their "mojo risin'" and she said she KNOWS that when Mudcatters do so, IT WORKS!

So, please, folks, light yer candles, send good thought, cuss him out for not taking care of himself, and/or say a few prayers for Spaw and Karen, as well as their boys. Like before, this one doesn't sound good, but there IS a will to live which will benefit from a good Mudcat BOOST.

Thanks so much,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Peace
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:20 PM

Spaw, you have been such a booster and supporter for so many folks here when they have been ill. More people are gonna get sick, so you have to get well ya old fart, get off yer arse and get home with Karen for the holidays. I don't know where you stand on prayers--but I'll do that. God may listen to me, because if you are talkin' with the Big Guy while you're in that hospital bed you're likely telling Him dirty jokes or outrageous stories. If good vibes is your thing, I will send you a ton of 'em. I'll bitch at you about not taking proper care of yourself another time. Say just after Christmas when you can bitch back.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:22 PM

Thanks, Kat for letting us know.

OK, Spaw, listen up.
You are a beacon of Music with a waiting audience!
Listen to the Music within you and your body will
    feel better.
Tap your toes to Music and the rest of you won't be far behind.
You have Music to share! Hurry up, we're waiting.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:25 PM

Spaw, you overly flatulent broke-dick mamalucca! Get the fuck well! Now, goddammit!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: kendall
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:37 PM

Jacqui and I plan to head south in January. We will be visiting Bobert and it would be fun to meet you somehow. So, shape up!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:44 PM

Get offa yer ass...we've been waiting for more Cletus and Pa stories!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 07:52 PM

Only in Maine and Alaska do we say we're going SOUTH to Ohio. *G*

May Kendall and Jacqui find you, Old Spawner, not only in good spirits but in good health. You've jumped the scythe so many times it's become an unbreakable habit. DO NOT TRY to break it, OK? That is one good habit. That is one good habit. That is one good habit. That is one good habit. That is one good habit.

Love
Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Alba
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:00 PM

Candles lit and nothing but very positive energy heading Spaw's way.
Come on Spaw....you've taken the Elephant ride so we all know you can do this.
Sending Love and Light to You and Karen and holding you in my thoughts.
Kat ma Darlin thank you for keeping us in the "know"..xx
Blessings and Love
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:09 PM

cri-ma-nent-ly JAKE! That's about enuf of that, you old reprobate! You still owe us one trip to the Getaway to be properly inducted into the "been there, done that" crowd....and we won't appreciate it if you mess up our plans! (Gawd, I hope it wasn't the Marmite!)

get over this, dammit!

(and Karen gets an extra special hug for tolerating it all!)

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:14 PM

I can't add anything.....just DO it, Pat....just do it.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:16 PM

Much love from me.
I joined Mudcat because one of Spaw's Adventures in Hospital-land, but I'd just as soon have him stay out. I look forward to him feeling better and coming back here to tell us all the intimate details of the latest medical procedures.
Listen to Karen, Connie, Wayne, the nurses, the doctors, the Keeper of the Bedpan,... basically anybody that tells you to do anything, and HEAL!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:18 PM

The Dancing Chicken will just have to wait. Can't imagine they would tolerate him in the ICU. Damn it, Spaw! Get yourself well and stay that way!
Karen - I have candles lit for you tonight. Take care of yourself.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:19 PM

Kat.... Kat. Thank you for letting us know. Be sure you are taking care of yourself.

As for Spaw-- well, we've got his back. It's stinky back there, but we've got it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:19 PM

Nevermind the candles - you can have all the Christmas lights on my house, and I'll throw in all the others in the neighbourhood as well. Place is starting to light up every night now, and it's all for you, Spaw! You gotta get well. We need ya!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:19 PM

Well, I was gonna just let this one pass bvut my couzin Rufus and his wife, Rether May, stopped by just long nuff to read this thread so Rufus would like to say somethin'....

Mistr Spaz you need to get good beecauz I god a storee ta tell ya that yo aint believd an seeinz dat my wife sayz that her is related to di Reg boyz I think that you jus mite well stck roun ta here et

Rufus

Ahhhh, Spawzer, hold the phone... Now Rther Mays gonna talk to ya...

Hello, Mister Spaw. Don't pay one bit of attention to either my dumbass husband or his dumbass cousin, Bobert. These two old goats think they know everything in the world but between you and me, between the two of them, a box of animal crackers has more sense. And, please, don't believe anything that Rufus says. He drinks a lot. So does Bobert. Might of fact, Saturday nights for them two knuckleheads usaully means drinking up behind the Sweet Springs Store until they fall out on the ground! Yeah, you folks have probably been duped into thinking that Bobert has a brain. Believe me, he doesn't. And as for those stories he likes to tell about me weighing 400 pounds and driving around in a Chevette with the driver's seat moved to the back? That is pure foolishness on his part. I drive a very respectable '99 model Caprice. That jackass Rufus is the one with the Chevettes. Why I married that man is perhaps a question for the ages, Mister Spaw? Hey, I graduated in the top 10 at Mary Washington University in 1976 with a degreee in Psycholgy which has come very much in handy6 in dealing with both of the psycopaths.

And as for being related to the Reg Boys? What a load of Bobert'sd imagination. He would love to be realeted to anyone whoes entire claim to fame revolved around flagilation or getting drunk.

I'm real sorry to hear that you are feeling poorly but trust you will recover fully so you can kick the crap out of my husband and his dillusional cousin, Bobert.

Retha (not Rether or Rethar or what ever else those two call me)

Now Bobert has one more thing to say.

Okay, Spawzer, don't pay no attention to that woman!!! Talk about dillusinal... She wrote the book... Hey, she was part right 'bout that upper ten at her college... Yeah, the way I heard it she was in the top ten in the ugly contest...

(Bobert, Bobert, Bobert... That ain't true... She was a real looker back then... Still ain't half bad...)

Nevermind that, Spawz... You just get yer butt well... Okay get everything attached to it well as well 'cause we ain't done yet...

Sniff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:26 PM

Thanks, so much, folks. I've always teased him about being the evil twin of the two of us. I vow, here and now, to never, ever call him that, again.:-)

It sure helps to share this and know Mudcat Love is working its magic. I know it will give Karen a lot of comfort, too.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: curmudgeon
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:35 PM

Y'r Most Royal Flatulance,

You guided and advised me well when I went on the elephant ride. Now do remember and participate in thos e same admonitions as youe sent me, and keep in your heart that old Norse dictum, "Gnagede in gangbredde i son (sp?)"

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:35 PM

Kree-Gah!!! This is disturbin' news. I know this guy has been an icon around here for years and years. I was figurin' to get his help settin' up a home for retired chimps and other primates who can't get good housing in Chicago...the JWCFTTA (Johnny Weismuller Centre For Totally Trenchant Apes). Well, jeez, all of us primates here are gonna be beatin' the dum-dum nightly and holdin' prayer meetings for you, old pal. You are one human who almost makes it as an ape, and we hold you in high regard.

Even Shatner ain't got your moxie, man. Only Kong is bigger than you.

If you need grooming, I got a pal I can send over. Just let me know.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: InOBU
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:38 PM

SPAW!!! In order to hold thee in the proper light, I am going to have beans for lunch tomorrow and light a match...

seriously, dear dear fellow... thee is dearly in my heart and in our disorganized religious Quaker way, holding thee dearly in the light
lor

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:38 PM

Spaw-

We're pouring a jigger of Maine's best Cold River Vodka off the porch for you as a sacrifice to the Old Gods. May they help drag you back healthier in body, if not in mind, to our wonderful virtual world.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:44 PM

Yo Kat,

I remember when Claymore was sikly and there was a thread like this one and I ran it off on my printer and took it to him in the hospital...

Now, Claymore and I had had a few squirishes before that vist but we've been friends since... I've even forgiven him for jumping from his hospital bed and tryin' to strangle me with his feeding tube...

Jus funnin' 'bout that...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM

I'm giving thanks for the wondrous body Pat has, his amazing construction (natural and augmented), the inherent vitality that WILL NOT let him get down too far, the miraculous healing ability he has, his ability to think outside any box presented to him, and the healing power flowing through him and around him and for him.

I'm giving thanks for the strength he has and has had, and for the strength he will be receiving in the days, hours, and minutes ahead.

Mostly I am giving thanks that he is so well loved, and that he knows it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: jaze
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:46 PM

Spaw, we've all missed your humor around here for a while. Please get well and come back and make us laugh! All the best to you and your family. James

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Hollowfox
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:57 PM

Wow,I just snuck onto the 'Cat before closing up here at work and...good thing I did. Well, you *know* that there's gonna be a #@$-reduction candle for you, Karen, and each of the boys, and a few for the critters (dogs, etc, your parasites are on their own, kid). They'll be fired up in about 20 minutes when I get home. Jeez, you haven't even met my kids yet!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Seiri Omaar
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:25 PM

SPAW!
SPAW!
SPAW!
SPAW!
SPAW!
SPAW!
... I'm gonna keep doing this 'til you come back, so hop to getting well!

Cheers, Seiri.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:41 PM

Being relatively new on Mudcat, I don't know Spaw as many of you do. But it is obvious that he is well loved.

I pray for his speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: annamill
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:50 PM

Good thoughts and lots of love 'spaw.

Love, Annamill

tsk! Now I'm going to worry. Please get well.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:58 PM

HMMMM Does this mean that Cletus, Paw and the Reg Boys don't have a place to snuggle in on Christmas? Something else to worry about.

Hope Tris and Michael are OK. This has to be stressful for them. Damn!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:08 PM

Tris is loving it at Aunt Connie(comma)s and Michael is having a safe and comforting time at his best friend(comma)s. (For some reason when I hit my comma key I getthe Find box instead.)

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Cletus
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:08 PM

Pa jist bought a brand new pickup truck and he was comin to give you a ride. Well, it's really a 1971 Ford, but its you know, new to him. The motor's pritty good, too, and it don't make too much black smoke since he put the oatmeal in the crankcase. Now you're in the hospital and you can't take a ride. So Pa's gonna bring you some of his famous barbequed chicken and hog meat. The stuff he marynates in the stuff he makes in the henhouse, with cabbage. So you git ready since he'll have to sneak in. You know they won't let him in the door since the incident with the cigar and the rooster a couple years back, even though it wasn't his fault the M-80s went off before they was supposed to. So if yer up to it he'll help you sneak out and take a ride. He's put a piece of plywood over the holes in the floor and the front seat where the spring sticks up.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:10 PM

You guys really ought to party with Shane some time and compare notes on living "the good life".

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Naemanson
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:17 PM

Gee, I haven't seen much of Spaw on the threads I've been following but that may not be unusual. Over time a person seems to vacillate between activity and lurking. I know I do. Still, whenever I think of the Mudcat Spaw is one of the people I think of. His presence was a big reason why I spoke up after lurking for a long time. And the concentrated effort to support him through his previous hospitalization was very impressive to me.

So, Spaw, I hope you are doing better, I wish only the best news for Karen and the kids, and I hope you are being a good patient for the nurses (or is that expecting too much?).

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:33 PM

Best wishes from Pip and myself.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: M.Ted
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:45 PM

That's not the sound of flatulence that you've been hearing from Spaw for all these years, it's a bassoon reed--Now stop fooling around practice--it's the only way you can get better!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bert
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:54 PM

Come on y'ol fart. Get well soon.

Love and kind thoughts from Bert & Tree.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Tinker
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 11:20 PM

Just got in from DC after using my 18 year old daughter as a navagator... Spaw it was nearly worthy of Reg and the boys ...and then, the snow started falling just as we headed home tonite. Can't quite believe how the District deals with snow. More idjutts per mile than I've ever seen before. But hey we made a four hour trip in eight hours and found this news We'll keep some candles burning and send out all the good energy we can find.

Blessings and Light

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KathWestra
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 11:21 PM

Dear, dear Spaw, sending you love and light and my fervent hopes for a complete and speedy recovery. Please get better, buddy. Karen & kids, I'm thinking of you too. xo

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 11:23 PM

Be nice, GG. I cant say I enjoy fart filled stuff either but I think spaw has a caring side.

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 11:23 PM

Jaysus CHrisat, Spawser, when they said they'd pay ya for sitting around and doing nothing this is NOT what they had in mind. You get yer butt back in the computer chair or we'll send the Bedpan Washer from the NYCFTTS after ya, and back you'll come kicking and screaming, just like olden times. We're saving the Mrs. Robinson suite fer ya in case.

You are well loved and we'd like your body operational a while longer, please, you broke-dick mammalucca!


A

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bert
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:10 AM

'Be nice, GG' Uh Oh! did someone delete a message?

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:15 AM

Yes Bert. Perhaps my reply should also go - I won't make a fuss if it does...

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:16 AM

Get well Spaw!!!! I miss ya!!!!!

Cheers
Susan

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:42 AM

Spaw,

I'm gonna rip a major fart in your honor this very minute......wait for it....
BBRRRAAAPPPPPH!

Dammit! I believe I've shit myself!

Oh well, I better leave it to the acknowledged master.

Get well, soon, Pat, and come back and cut a few.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: KT
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:46 AM

Spaw, I've been missing your posts around here, as well! Heal well and swiftly, and grace us with your presence again. You've no idea how important you are to this place.
And I second what BillD said. I want to meet you at next year's GETAWAY!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Lyrical Lady
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:10 AM

It's been ages since I've visited this site and one of the reasons I check back every so often is to see if there is anything new from Pat! This is a upsetting turn of events. I remember very well the last time I was ill, Pat picked up the phone and called me here on Saltspring Is... just to check in with me. That phone call meant the world to me and I wish I could do the same right now...Pat!! I'm thinkin' of ya and sending every good positive thought I can muster your way!!! Please, get well soon!
Barb, from Saltspring!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Blake Madison
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:14 AM

Blake Madison, private investigator, stumbles into the bar looking like a cruel experiment to study the long term effects of alcohol and disappointment. "Usual, Blake?" says the bartender. "yeah, but make it two," replies Madison, the Pall Mall between his chapped lips bobbing, lurching, and dropping a two inch ash caterpillar on the bar, which Madison ignores, accidentally mashing it into the soiled elbow of a 16 year old trench coat purchased for him in New York's Chinatown by an ex-gal pal who fell for him before suddenly wising up and sobering up simultaneously.
"Expectin' a friend, Blake?" Madison drains the tumbler of its precious 4 ounces of Four Roses and smacks his lips. "No. I'm drinking for two tonight, Max. Me and a wounded compadre, fellow seeker of truth, y'know." Madison downs the second drink, belching "set 'em up again for me 'n my pal." The bartender upends the quart bottle, which bubbles merrily in the subdued amber fluorescence of the back bar. "He a crimefighter?" says Max.
"Nah. He's a bullshit fighter. Got a nose for it. Unfortunately, he's got a tricky ticker. Kinda like one of those old fashioned alarm clocks...every once in a while the alarm goes off, and he's got to go in and get it rewound. Somethin like that, anyway. If you ever met him, you'd remember him. Funny fucker, sees flatulence as a practical joke that pizza and beer like to play on us. Drives a big nasty looking stroked and bored Chevy. Got a weird thing for possums."
"Possums?"
"Yeah, possums. He likes Patrick Sky and Lenny Bruce, too."
"Sounds like a complex guy."
"Not really." Madison knocks back the last Four Roses, and wipes his mouth on his sleeve, transferring the smudged cigarette ash to his upper lip where it gives him the look of a rather seedy Clark Gable. "He sure can drink some whiskey though. Better set 'em up again. Bastard's liable to keep me here all night."

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: GUEST,Fossil in NZ
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:27 AM

Adding nothing at all to what's already been said - take the ride, Spaw, old chap - pay the dues, suck it all up - and get back out of that there hospital asap, man! We need you here... the trolls are circling!

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:07 AM

I dunno, Spaw. This health stuff is a concern. I hope you get better soon.

It's not something I ordinarily do, but I thought I'd have a big, long, musical fart in your honor - but then I see that Seamus has already offered to do that, and he can do it far better than I.

I know what I can do - I'll hold the match......Boom!

But get well, hey?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: Bert
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:11 AM

Hi jon, It's a shame someone deleted that message, Spaw would have got a kick out of reading a message from Mudcat's own "Spaw Wannabe".

Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please
From: suzi
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:52 AM

I dont know you spaw , but I tell also that you are well loved and missed here....so come on you are needed home for christmas where your wonderful family awaits you..... I will light a candle for you too....love and light
suzi