AMERICA - The Right Way!!! (Day 573)[Remember the Trade Center and the Pentagon!!]

Various News Sources and Free Republic Members | Aug. 16, 2002 | All of Us

[Molly Pitcher]

Good FRIDAY morning everyone!

Today mark's the 25th anniversary of Elvis's death.

Israel is preparing for both biological and chemical Iraqi attacks, in additional to all the other kinds of likely attacks.

Another little girl is missing...this time from Virginia, and after her parents were discovered shot to death.

**Prayers** for all involved.....

[lysie]

That's ok,HOB.

I've been thinking about making my screen name easier. What ya think?

[Holding Our Breath]

You should be!!! A new baby is exciting! Is this your first granddaughter?

[lysie]

I was just doing some searching. I can't get over how much this guy looks like Alan Colmes minus glasses.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I wouldn't want anyone here to miss the latest Mark Steyn column...unless they're sick and tired of Elvis.

Mark Steyn: He keeps on cruising

[Holding Our Breath]

Just lysander works for me! Must be getting old, she mutters, can't remember numbers in succession any longer....

[Holding Our Breath]

Couldn't help but laughat that one! He does, he does!

[lysie]

Not nearly as bad as what I did this week. I forgot that Hubby got paid this week....really forgot. It's direct deposit. This is the first time ever I have ever forgotten that money was coming in..not going out. LOL

[Holding Our Breath]

Hummmm, you might need an adjustment of some kind...ummm.

I am at work so i mught not answer as quickly as usual- things going on today...

[lysie]

Back later, friends...good day.

[tillacum]

That was so sweet. Such a wonderful memory.

[lepton]

"Clinton's Somalia Fiasco"--Ranger's letter to WSJ

[bevlar]

Lysie....we thought maybe you could find that picture of Little Tommie and Little Dickie on their trikes to post once again. It was a HOOT and I though I had saved it :-(

It is so perfect for their "childish" attitudes these days....Thanks, B

[DJ88]

I have an urgent prayer request. My Dad is in the hospital in the CCU. He went to the doctor's yesterday to get his cough checked out because it was getting worse (he does smoke but please don't judge him for that, I still love him). The nurse became very concerned when she checked his heartrate, as it was up to 180bpm. The doctor than did a chest xray and they said it was "cloudy". They sent him to the ER at the hospital because the doctor wanted more tests done. When he got there, they gave him some medicine to try and bring his heart rate down but it wasn't working, so they put him on blood thinners. Then they did a catscan (or an MRI) and they found that he has blood clots on his lungs. They also found what my mother described as a "shadow" in his lower left lung. The ER cardiologist listened to his chest and she said it sounded like pneumonia; however, after the MRI was done, another doctor came in and said it may be fluid there or it may be cancer. They can't do anything right now because his heart is pumping with all 4 ventricles and they are concerned that he would not make it through surgery. They have to be very careful about how quickly they dissolve because if they dissolve too quickly it's very possible that one of the blood clots could break free. I'm sure you all know what that means.

They are bringing in another cardiologist for a 2nd opinion and 2 oncologists to look at the "shadow" or "mass" that is on his lung. What has me very concerned is the fact that he lost 15lbs at the beginning of the summer (he gained back 5lbs since then). He did not eat very much when we were on vacation. My Mom said that he has also been very tired.

We are trying to keep a positive outlook and so is he but as you can imagine, our whole family is devastated and very scared because not only is there a possibility that one of the clots could STILL break loose, but also that he may have lung cancer. The doctor he saw last night said that they would have to do some more tests to see if it was cancer and if it is then they have to check to see if the tumor is removable or not and if it has spread to other parts of his body. However, they are not so much focusing on that as they are in getting heart rate down and getting rid of the clots. There IS still a chance that this is only pneumonia and I am praying that it is only that. However, I am absolutely petrified and being down here doesn't help matters.

If you would, please keep my dad in your thougts and prayers. I am scared to death that I am going to lose him. I know I'm projecting into the future but I can't help it. I am trying to take this one minute/hour/day at a time and one minute I will feel positive and the next I will be shaking with fear.

If there is a Prayer thread here that I haven't seen, would somebody please post a message there? I already have him on the church prayer list and the school prayer list. I have not told the boys yet that their Pop is sick, so I just had the Asst. Principal ask the children to pray for the relative of a student.

Deej

[Guenevere]

Thanks ladies :))

Well, off to exercise class!

I've given my back a week to heal.......so will gingerly try to do my exercises today :)

[Miss Marple]

You MUST read this story from the Wall Street Journal...it is HILARIOUS!

News Conference Ends in Melee as Press Refuses to Pay Islamacists

[Miss Marple]

Oh, DJ! Prayers immediately for your dad! Please let us know what's going on, when you can.

[bevlar]

Oh Deej! I just went through a similar trial with my Larry and the love and prayers of family and friends brought him through....we are praying for your Dad.

[bevlar]

NEW WORDS FOR 2002 - Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project
failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then
leaves.

ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by
kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die in the end.

CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's
heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line answer to the couch potato.

SITCOM:
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into
when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the
kids.

STARTER MARRIAGE:
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property
and no regrets.

STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

SWIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic
strip is worn away from extensive use.

XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself
unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trial was a prime example. Bill
Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is
another.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the shit out of an electronic device to get it to
work again.

VULCAN NERVE PINCH:
The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for some
computer commands.

ADMINISPHERE:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate
or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

404:
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

GENERICA:
Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where
one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a
BIG mistake.

WOOFYS:
Well Off Older Folks

[Holding Our Breath]

Deej, Prayers for your Dad. there is a prayer thread. It's called the Daily prayer Thread. I will visit and ask for prayers for your dad if someone else hasn't done it yet.

I know how you feel - just keep your chin up and have faith in the Lord.

[Holding Our Breath]

Prayers just requested on the Daily Prayer Thread 8/16/02 for your Dad. We're with you, and keep us posted when you can.