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06 Nov 2007, 9:38 pm

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Thanks, Nan! That's 2 more that I had forgotten about. I have compilations of late 60's and 70's music that I listen to constantly.


Ah. When we pull stuff out of storage and find a record player again, I've got about 500 LPs from that era. I'll have to encode some of that stuff and put it on my server.... :wink:



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06 Nov 2007, 9:44 pm

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Happy (belated) Birthday Richie! :D
I hope you had a great day, and your birthday wish comes true!

Hello to all!

I finished my 6 weeks off with a bang - seven 18 hour shifts. We had (have) a round of CA-MRSA (community acquired- methcillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus) spreading through the area. People coming in with what looks like spider bites on their extremely swollen faces, (a mark on the cheek swells so big it closes the eye on that side). The 'community acquired' types (as opposed to the 'hospital acquired' types) are much more virulent, but luckily, easier to treat.

I apologize for not being here to answer emails and posts lately. All week I just came home to shower, eat, nap and head back in.

Time to crash! I'll catch up with everybody this week.

Take care! (wash 'hands to elbows' with soap and water before eating, or touching your nose (if you are out and about in public in a known CA-MRSA-infested area). Alcohol kills it easily, and the 'personal alcohol gel pumps (and sprays)' work well if you can't get to a sink to wash (hydrogen peroxide and oxygenating agents don't work well). CA-MRSA lives easily for hours on counters, door knobs, clothing... transmission is mainly 'hand to nose'. Transmissible to pets - and can be acquired from a pet.

I'll leave you with a bedtime story: CA-MRSA has begun replicating inside soil-residing Acanthamoebas (growing from one cell into a thousand inside the amoeba), the Acanthamoebas then form cysts containing CA-MRSA, the cysts then catch air currents and go airborn.... ....and can travel great distances with long-living virulent CA-MRSA. So some strains of CA-MRSA are now airborn as well....

The good news: Most people are exposed to various forms of Staphlococcus areus all the time with no ill effect (an estimated 2 billion people worldwide carry some form of S. aureus. Of these, an estimated 53 million carry some form of MRSA. In the U.S. 95 million people carry some form of S. aureus in their noses; of these, 2.5 million carry some form of MRSA. The bad news: of those, 94,000 develop serious infections, and of those, 19,000 die per year (more than those who die from AIDS). MRSA was discovered in the UK in 1961 - approximately 3,000 people in the UK die of MRSA yearly. (Most at risk: The very young; the elderly; crowds (schools, prisons, military camps, etc.); athletes in 'body contact-type' sports locker rooms; those hospitalized with serious illness, burns, or surgeries; the immunocompromised; those with cystic fibrosis; and those with psoriasis, cuts, or dermatitis on their hands).

HA-MRSA (hospital acquired) is a whole other story - REEEEALLY nasty stuff - (with Panton-Valentine leukocidin beta-pore forming toxins, and enterotoxins) - some deadly in 72 hours. But that's another story.

If you get it - I can tell you how to treat it (either type). Best to try to prevent it though - by washing your hands with soap and water before eating, or touching your nose!

Time for bed!

Chuck



CHUCKIE!! !
oh, Chuck, ma' boy, ma FRIEND!
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUGGGGGGGGG!))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

I missed you!

yr gurl,

Merle


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06 Nov 2007, 9:54 pm

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I will be the last person to wish Richie a Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Richie! Scorpios ROCK!


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Thanks, but I don't believe in astrology....





Well, it wasn't like I said "God Bless you!"

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06 Nov 2007, 10:23 pm

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Well, I found out about my father. He is in the hospital, being treated for a second stroke. I did call the police in his city, and they actually called me back and told me that they had gone out to his place, and spoken to him and that he was fine! I couldn't understand why, if he was fine, he wasn't answering the phone or returning calls. The next day, I received a call from a friend of his, who gave me the number of the Rehab Hospital he has been in for a week. Being my father, he is refusing all treatment and demanding to go home. I could barely understand what he was saying, his speech was so badly slurred. I pleaded with him cooperate with the doctors and therapists, but knowing him, I don't feel much hope that he will comply. He has never trusted doctors or hospitals very much, and he is very stubborn about returning home. He even hung up on me. I have been up all night, crying. There is not anything that I can do.


No, hon, there isn't a damned thing you can do. If you were able to prove he was a danger to himself or others and of unsound mind, yes. But if he's coherent enough, there's nothing. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. :(


my heart goes out to you, Harzo'space and I get that gasping sort of heave I get before my eyes spurt tears and I hyperventilate a little - that lets' me know that I have been touched by another human being's distress. All that effort to get to finally know, and then to find you can go no further, all those thoughts and feelings you wanted all to turn out so very, very differently.
I hold you in my Aspie heart my dear. When you are old and rasty and are approached by someone that you feel is overstepping their boundaries, you can remember your feelings now and let them in, and it will save your soul because you will give someone else the love you now crave.
Hence, the experience will not be a loss at all, but your salvation.

that is what I wish for you.
Merle



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06 Nov 2007, 10:48 pm

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Haven't heard these in a very long time....





[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2tYYYlwMc[/youtube]

I feel really old. :?


wow, I feel really young!

Merle



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07 Nov 2007, 12:55 am

:lol: You are a young soul, Merle! :wink:

Here's my favorite song for you!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPeDtCG4FDk[/youtube]


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07 Nov 2007, 1:34 am

Naw still in my cave and staying there, although..... I had to go out today to go to the shrink. It went well considering. The Wife (the b***h) thought it was rambling, but he was following me just fine and I felt it was a fairly good meeting. Med doing some long term over all changes that are taking some getting use to. Hard to explain. Living on Valium it seems like at times but that's something different and we discussed what we may do about it, which believe it or not the bastard listened for a f*****g change about people with AS not reacting to the dose for meds the same and in shorter time frames.

Now as to the typical bull s**t f*****g VA system at work... no councilor, only a temp now that doesn't know me or my story while they try to fill the gap, which could take forever. Now that wouldn't be a bad thing if the doctors in the VA actually did what they do in the real world, but all they do is push pills and leave it to the councilor to do what they should. So it could be a year, it could be months, it could be never for a new councilor. My old one moved "up". He is now is charge of just trying to handle the new ones coming in from the war, corodinating. What and how I have no idea since they're now short at least one more councilor. They need a new waiting room now, the place is f*****g swamped, I think it's called a system in over load and I know they're turning people away.

So as far as leaving Chuck passed out in the bus...I'm about ready to join him. I still know how to self medicate and say what you want about a destructive life style, when you're this age you ain't got that much left to destruct. Since I called The Wife a b***h, all isn't always well in married land and more then a few of us been there, done that one before.

Over all.... The med is still working, just different. The b***h and I will make up, but I may have to kill her if she doesn't stop using the damn co-dependent line on me. I probably won't drink, but it is strong within me to do it, just so I can take a damn mental vacation. The writing is gone, but it may or may not come back. That was always a thing that was never too certain to it's hanging around, so not totally unexpected. I don't give a s**t about ay VA counselor, I've figured this s**t out before and the Doc knows I have, I made damn sure he knew it too and he agreed. I am in a foul mood and I pity that one that crosses me, because I don't have Banphobia on this web site any more. Calandale got banned and I am one pissed off mother f****r because of it.

Now ain't you all just happy pleased I came back to give you an update? Don't really answer, I probably won't see it for a few days if not longer. You guys is friends, always, I'll try to return if life ever hits an even keel again. So that's my f*****g rant for the moment and I will now go find a f*****g snark and kill the son of a b***h and disappear back into la la land.

Eat a muffin daily and be sure to pass them out freely.

DEAD SNARK!! *poof*


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07 Nov 2007, 1:37 am

Thanks for your insightful and caring words, Merle! I have actually cried myself sick. An acquaintance said that this would be a good time for the Serenity Prayer. I have to agree with her, although my usual reaction to being told to pray, has been irritation. I'm going to bed, I think. Thanks, to everyone in the Cafe!


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07 Nov 2007, 5:51 am

CLICK HERE to view a first post/aha moment that stopped me in my shoes.

More than ever, I believe that we are each other's best resource.

postpaleo wrote:
Now ain't you all just happy pleased I came back to give you an update?


Too damn right we are, and that's the gawdz-own truth.

Chuck, I'm glad and relieved to see you as well.



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07 Nov 2007, 5:56 am

Hey, Sleepy Dragon. That thing I was talking about in that thread in the Off the Wall forum, it wasn't a book, it was a boxset of The Young Ones. :P


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07 Nov 2007, 6:01 am

The Young Ones? Heh! Silly of me not to have guessed. And I don't know what Raph is talking about with all the "Last Person to Post thread exploding" stuff. There are so many wet razzberries being blown in there that is it too damp for anything to blow up. :D



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07 Nov 2007, 11:12 am

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Nan wrote:
Haven't heard these in a very long time....





[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2tYYYlwMc[/youtube]

I feel really old. :?


wow, I feel really young!

Merle


Ya got to understand, Merle, this stuff happened when I was, ooooohhh, about 11 years old. So I was watching it from the outside. I missed it, as it were. And it was seen long-distance, on tv and in magazines. It never came to my town. Except for the one asian import store (a Pier One clone) that had a little room in the back with lava lamps, inscense, and bamboo curtains for sale. :wink:

The war and all that stuff was over when I graduated from high school. I got Jimmy Carter, with Dan Fogelburp an AMC Hornet, and gas rationing and run-away inflation with frozen wages and prices on the side. :lol: Shortly thereafter, I got disco, "greed is good" and "climb that ladder."

I felt old when I remembered that the Daughter-person's high school American History textbook mentioned "the counterculture" and had a photo of some hippies in it. A history textbook? Oy. :lol:



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07 Nov 2007, 11:18 am

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Now ain't you all just happy pleased I came back to give you an update? Don't really answer, I probably won't see it for a few days if not longer. You guys is friends, always, I'll try to return if life ever hits an even keel again. So that's my f***ing rant for the moment and I will now go find a f***ing snark and kill the son of a b***h and disappear back into la la land.

Eat a muffin daily and be sure to pass them out freely.

DEAD SNARK!! *poof*



We miss you when you're not around, Postie. We really do. Take care.



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07 Nov 2007, 11:29 am

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CLICK HERE to view a first post/aha moment that stopped me in my shoes.

More than ever, I believe that we are each other's best resource.



oooooooooooo. 8O 8O 8O

Nannarob, about your book... you maybe need to invite Nick. Maybe.



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07 Nov 2007, 11:40 am

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Now ain't you all just happy pleased I came back to give you an update? Don't really answer, I probably won't see it for a few days if not longer. You guys is friends, always, I'll try to return if life ever hits an even keel again. So that's my f***ing rant for the moment and I will now go find a f***ing snark and kill the son of a b***h and disappear back into la la land.

Eat a muffin daily and be sure to pass them out freely.

DEAD SNARK!! *poof*


Yeah, we are glad for the update. What kind of friends would we be if we only wanted to hear about the good stuff? :wink:


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07 Nov 2007, 11:52 am

:?



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