Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Wish my own artistic skill had advanced from stick figures and cartoon landscapes... :-)
On another front, I just received this e-mail from my dear old Marine buddy, Hal, and his wife, Betsy... he is stationed at 29 Palms, and his newborn son is dire need of prayers...
Just wanted to let you all know that I've been off line for awhile.
Last Monday, the 28th, during a routine check-up of our week old, Dillon, the Dr.'s noticed erratic breathing and a heart murmur. He was taken to the emergency room and from there medevaced to Loma Linda University Medical Center.
He was examined by a cardiologist that day and found to have some serious heart problems. Initially they hoped that these problems could be dealt with by surgery. On Thursday the cardiologist spoke with us again on Thursday, the 31st, and told us that the problems we're greater than previously thought, and that while they could try a series of surgeries to correct them, his odds of surviving that surgery were minimal. Therefore he recommended a heart tranplant as the best option.
Dillon is on the list, waiting for a heart, as of this past Monday. He is at the best possible place for this, since Loma Linda was the first facility to do infant heart transplants back in the mid-80s. The staff there has been very good and they are taking good care of him. The waiting is the hardest part, since there is no predicting when a donor heart may be available. Also, the greatest mortality rate is during this period, about 20% of all infants awaiting a transplant die before and organ becomes available.
Would appreciate you saying a quiet prayer for Dillon.
Thanks,
Hal
Please let all the prayer warriors know about this...
Maybe I'll kill someone off. Might give me some satisfaction.
ooooooooo.... major dilemma... letting yer buddy shoot yer weapon while your together at the range is like him dancin' with yer wife at a party...no big deal... but usin' it fer huntin' while yer not there is kinda like havin' him take yer wife for a test drive... if yuh know what I mean...
It's yer decision, but I would have a hard time unless I was extremely confident in his abilities... and I'd be darn sure he understands, if he breaks it or in other ways effects its looks or operation, he's replacin' it...
you can bow hunt until the first week in Jan... gun season starts 16 Nov...
You get it from flea bites. I wouldn't be worried.
The couple are from New Mexico and I believe that there are some bubonic plague carriers in the rodent population out there (another reason to hate squirrels.) It's treatable with antibiotics if you catch it soon enough.
See? It's all you HH's fault! If you weren't expecting posted updates I wouldn't be so uptight about writing crap. :)
Any critter that falls into the phylum Rodentia needs whackin'...IMHO...
I just feel like my story is repeating itself and not going anywhere and it's really boring. So I hate it, but if I don't continue, it's STUCK being boring. But it's boring, so I don't wanna write. And on and on it goes...
Logging off now...back to crap production...
Exactly! I'm not sure HOW to write something this long, so instead of coming up with a story that takes 50,000 words to tell, I feel like I'm taking a story that could be told in about 5000 words and padding the heck out of it until it draaaaaaags. I'll learn from this, I guess. I'd better.
Now I'm really going!
Gondor has no subplots... Gondor needs no subplots... or sumthin' like that...
Gondor has all the plots it can handle. :)
Gondor is too shallow for sub plots...
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