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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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Sheesh! Glad you're ok, but that must have been terrifying!
Well... it is scary only in looking at the place I was, and then after the fact.
It wasn't scary at the time, as much as it was disorienting. I have zero recall of anything on the way off the road. When I came to the jeep had already stopped moving. It went from one moment being fine to the next moment sitting there not knowing what had happened.
This is particularly amazing when you see the damage done, and especially the left front wheel. The tire was shredded and the steel whell was bent sortof-- in half. It must have connected full-on with a stump on the way down. You'd think that woulda' woke me up.
shameless...
thank God yer all right... more or less... mebbe He's tryin' tuh get yer attention... (FReepmail me if'n you need any help with that...)
good call on the doc... hec, I coulduh told yuh you were pushin' maximum density... eat a carrot fercryinoutloud...
The answer is several hundred posts back, but I'm hoping someone can help short-circuit the process.
What they said. Squared.
Really glad you're OK.
cain't help yuh bro...
What kind of a diet is that? I prefer the "eat a pound of meat for dinner" diet even if it does get boring.
Can't say I know winmag... hopefully the person who does know will chime in shortly.
Don't recall the name winmag. Sorry.
So... how was everybody else's weekend? :-)
Well...I decided I was going to do a full install of Win98. Then I realized that I've got only the upgrade version of Win 98 and the full version Win95 disk is in NC. Doh!
Thank God you're OK, Ramius! I come back from Tampa and I'm still at work because of it and this is what I read before clocking out? Sheesh!
Seriously though, I'm really glad you're OK.
I'll be back later hopefully. Still trying to wrap things up here at the office so I can go home.
Hair & ecurbh - glad you got it. :-D
Be back later everyone! I still have some hope of catching up on the thread.
*waves at Hobbit Holers*
Have you been sleeping well? Have you considered doing a sleep study? If you have sleep apnea, you may not be getting the rest you need ... leaving you in a state where you might "click off" like that.
When did you last have a full checkup? Treadmill and catscan and such-like?
That's an "oh crap!" moment for you... had you started the install?
My case came so tonight or tomorrow I'm going to start assembling my computer... course, who knows when it'll be in a working state...
Yeah....disk is sitting there all formatted and I've got XP Home on order. Silly me!
In the meantime I'm planning on trying out BeOS.
Ohh... brave woman... I distrust alternate operating systems, they always seem to go badly for me. I laughed in the face of the last guy who told me to put Linux on my laptop.
*Sniff*
hehehe... yah... time fer a couple changes. :-) Just in time, as it would appear.
Holy cow is right!!
Were you doing anything that might have caused your throat and abdominal muscles to be tight? I know that sounds silly, but being tensed up (or bearing down) in your throat and abdominal area causes a response we call "vagaling down", or Vasovagal Syncope where the vagal nerve is stimulated and causes your heart to actually go real slow and you faint. It can happen to anyone, but is especially dangerous to those with a heart condition, because the heart don't speed back up again.
Elvis died from this, btw...he tighened up his abdominal muscles while doing what thenewboy did and vagaled down and didn't vagal back up again.
It's what causes people to faint a lot of times, though...something gets them upset or they just tense up for some reason and down they go. Steve can't stand the sight of blood...causes him to tense up and he faints. It's why he fainted in the ER when Matthew got bit by our dog.
Thanks everybody for the good wishes.
The doc gave me a good checkup, and made some good recommendations. I figure I'll go with it.
Well... Dad's new computer has arrived and is being set up, so I'll be back later once he's all taken care of.
If I go that way, please ecurbh, don't tell anyone.
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