It was 10 degrees, sunny, and calm when I took Colin out at 7:45.
I called late yesterday afternoon to check on Bob. The nurse said he was up in the chair for two hours. Otherwise, things are the same.
Thursday December 28, 2017
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Wow, chilly willy over there.
How is Collin dealing with Bob’s absence?
It sounds like slow but steady progress.
Keep the faith, he’ll continue to improve.
n
Last night on the opening news segment of Coast to Coast (https://www.coasttocoastam.com/) George sNoory talked to Robert Felix who says we are at the start of another Ice Age (https://www.iceagenow.info/). Yes he is promoting his books, but there is some sensible information on his page if you want to click around.
Dilbert (Scott Adams) has a good summation of Trump’s first year today: http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/12/28/the-demolition-president/
Other than that we are bracing for temps climbing to the mid-30s today with “wintery mix” starting about noon, followed by freezing rain, and a rain finale. Fun will (not) be had by all.
I predict we are experiencing the calm before the storm with Bob. He is sitting there rebuilding himself and we will soon see him rise from his temporary reconstruction to let loose an epistle of magnificent proportion.
I do feel the same for OFD and soon we will be having dueling tomes.
Continuing prayers for Barbara, Bob, and OFD.
Peace, Strength, and Love for all.
Speaking of OFD, time to check in buddy and show us proof of life!
Don’t make me send another Christmas card to the hobbit house 🙂
n
Speaking of OFD, time to check in buddy and show us proof of life!
May Xenu show mercy.
(C’mon OFD, tell me where to stick my auditing meter.)
From major surgery to kidney stones, termites and glamping, a good chunk of this bunch is lookin’ a sorry lot. Hopefully the new year will bring unicorns and rainbows to all suffering now!
RT has a discouraging article on the doubled down security measures planned for NYC and LV’s strip this New Year’s Eve. I’m of two minds since I will be in LV for the event, contrary to good procedure. OTOH, it has been below zero here for the last several days. The new staged boiler is being properly parsimonious for the landlord, so I’ve been “baking cookies” with the oven to compensate.
I just shipped to my hotel a Kershaw Cryo via Amazon Prime. So there, TSA! USPS will bring it home for me.
(C’mon OFD, tell me where to stick my auditing meter.)
I keep mine attached to a tomato for calibration.
Last night on the opening news segment of Coast to Coast
My last milspec tour I commuted from San Antone to Fort Hood (had a convenience flat during the week). I’d listen to Art Bell during the trip up. What a riot. I even ordered the CD package when he packed it in. I need to find that and rip it.
Best wishes to Bob, Barbara and Mr. OFD. Check in buddy.
I sorely miss Art Bell. I don’t think many of his fans realized how much Ramona managed him so he could do what he did best, be the best damn interviewer that ever was. Too bad he was never able to recover from Ramona’s death. So many false re-starts and temper tantrums, he lost his fan and support base.
I too have the CD package somewhere as well as a ton of cassette tapes. One of our local radio stations broadcasts Art Bell: Somewhere In Time every Saturday night. Strange how some things never change.
Speaking of OFD, time to check in buddy and show us proof of life!
Perhaps @CowboySlim could work his email magic once again …?
Questionable Content: “Corrosive is just spicy for robots”
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3644
“Perhaps @CowboySlim could work his email magic once again …?”
No arm-twisting required.
OK, email off to OFD. I’ll post any reply here as soon as I receive it.
From OFD:
Howdy!
Variation of Guillam-Barre Syndrome with 45-pound weight loss, weak arms, legs, and hands. Can’t walk or stand without help. Bowel issues, too.
Being treated but it’s gonna be a long haul. Currently at UVM Med Center Neurology and probably being shipped down to a VA hospital in MA or NH soon.
How is RBT doing???
—
David R. Hardy
Hang in there OFD! You’re going to make a come back!
Thanks @CowboySlim.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362793
Guillam-Barre Syndrome is nasty stuff. I have had it for quite some time, progressing very slowly fortunately. Its symptoms overlap with some of Diabetes and Polio, both which exasperate the problems. Add that to the auto-immune disease that is dissolving my joints and I figure I’ll be a quivering mass in 10-years, push me around in a wheelbarrow.
Sorry, all I could find was auto play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYymFWsBxk0
Continued prayers and good wishes for Bob, Barbara, and OFD. May 2018 be better for all of us.
Best wishes to you, OFD.
And to you, Barbara. Please continue to relay our thoughts, sacrificial chickens, drunken toasts, and prayers, as applicable, to RBT. Oh, and the healing crystals arranged into a mystical pyramid, too.
“Exacerbate”, surely. I’m exasperated when I see this error.
Can’t walk or stand without help. Bowel issues, too.
Holy muggles batman. The medical problems, with somewhat quick onsets, to a couple of members of this board is sobering.
I’ll be a quivering mass in 10-years
A future prediction that is not good.
At 67 my problems are relatively minor (not bragging mind you) compared to others. Have all my joints, no real diseases, latest physical a month ago came back clean, I can still walk, run, hike, do physical exertion, and other activities without any issues. Biggest item is the back discomfort, pain in certain motions and positions, that I have learned to deal with over the years.
Bigger pain is dealing with the VA on compensation. I loathe going into more detail as the VA may be searching the internet for information to determine compensation. I know to not do any yard work or other activity when I see a black sedan parked nearby. But that may not be the VA and could just be homeland security spies to determine my association with the rest of you intelligent and opinionated clods. Probably labeled suspicious and on a watch list.
Or in this area it may just be another drug deal going down. Same as I see in empty parking lots except for two vehicles idling next to each other, driver side to driver side, furtively looking around. I doubt they are swapping bitcoin.
Guillam-Barre Syndrome is nasty stuff. I have had it for quite some time, progressing very slowly fortunately. Its symptoms overlap with some of Diabetes and Polio, both which exasperate the problems. Add that to the auto-immune disease that is dissolving my joints and I figure I’ll be a quivering mass in 10-years, push me around in a wheelbarrow.
I’m sorry, but that that sounds nasty. I used to feel sorry for my possible auto-immune disease that I have had for about 13 or 14 years now but you guys make me look like an amateur. I have Pityriasis Lichenoides Chronica which is mostly in remission now since I got allergic to milk (and stopped drinking milk). I still take 50 mg of Doxycycline for my PLC daily. I have had hundreds of the lesions on my skin (looks like a form of chicken pox) but now I usually only get a single lesion once every few months. The big worry for me over the years is that some people get Lymphoma with it and my Dad has had Lymphoma four times so far …
Is there anyone on here who is not older and messed up ?
As ZeroHedge has in their masthead- “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
We are living long enough now to be killed by stuff that never had a chance when we were (collectively) dying sooner, and surviving stuff that would have simply killed us before.
There is a recurring theme on certain other sites that the first, best, and in some ways of thinking only prep is to get in good physical condition. I’m not gonna be humping a pack thru the woods, sniping bureaucrats and living off moss. But if I get winded raking the front yard, how’m I gonna do the gardening and all the physical work in a grid down scenario? Just moving water around is hard…..
n
“Exacerbate”, surely. I’m exasperated when I see this error.
Correct form could be either. I was thinking in the archaic, as in brain fart,
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exasperate
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exacerbate
…driver side to driver side, furtively looking around. I doubt they are swapping bitcoin.
Donuts/doughnuts?
I’m not adding to your “suspicious acquaintances” profile. I’m opinionated, but I’m a dumbass.
By the way, “clods”, as Americans use it, would commonly be “clots” in Britain. Same basic meaning, but the one derives from lumps of dirt and the other from lumps of milk. It caused a bit of confusion a few years ago when various people didn’t realize it was a dialect difference and kept thinking the others were making typos.
I’m doing pretty well, overall, though note that I’m in my mid-50s and thus have more than a decade to decreptify and catch up with y’all. Practically everything physically wrong with me — tinnitus, bad wrist from a break and dislocation in a car accident, bad shoulder from a fight I almost lost, etc — is the result of injuries in my youth or 20s and haven’t notably gotten worse over the years. The only two signs of aging I’m showing are that my beard is half grey and I don’t heal as rapidly as I used to, and that latter is only really a problem because I routinely overdo it when lifting weights because I always used to bounce right back and now don’t. (Ref “dumbass” comment, above.)
Add that to the auto-immune disease that is dissolving my joints and I figure I’ll be a quivering mass in 10-years, push me around in a wheelbarrow.
As I noted before, my father-in-law broke his back in the Army. Twice. The second time, they gave him a medical discharge at 30% disability. The army docs told him he would be in a wheelchair at age 40, he was 36 ? at the time. They were correct about the wheelchair but not the age, he stopped being able to walk at age 81 (3.8 years ago). He just turned 85.
He can get around in a wheelchair somewhat as long as he has a chest strap as he cannot feel anything below his waist (the high side). My wife (his second daughter) thinks that he will live another 10 years. I thought he was a goner 10 years ago. He has buried two wives and has a girlfriend that comes to see him in the nursing home just about every day. One of his brothers and one of his sisters made it to 90+. His mom made it to 94, his dad 84. His only sibling alive is his older sister, she is 89. We got a Christmas card from her (we did not send out any, yet).
Just because you have serious problems does not mean that you are dead. The VA feels that way about him also, they have him at 90% disability but with 100% monthly payment (thanks to my wife playing phone tag with the VA for a year or so). I’ve given up on trying to figure that one out.
-nod- In your youth you learned English as it was spoken in the 1700s. Sounds legit.
Lol, what ^ he said.
C’mon, even OFD wouldn’t buy that crock of shite.
jim~
Lynn wrote:
“Just because you have serious problems does not mean that you are dead.”
Mum outlived my father by 15 years, and she was always saying “I won’t make old bones.” Although she had numerous health problems she almost made it to 89.
have him at 90% disability but with 100% monthly payment
All rates in the VA above 20% have different levels of payments depending on others in the household such as parents, spouse or children.
All rates in the VA above 20% have different levels of payments depending on others in the household such as parents, spouse or children.
And are tax free.