The post whore thread.

[Great-Kazoo]

Yeah...all is swell....middle kid had to have a procedure to correct an irregular heart beat....find the right spot, zap the shit out of it and it is fixed before they even wake up.... We clocked in at 11.5 hrs in the children's hospital....nice place, but I would rather have been the street at DEL taco or the Firing Line

As would anyone..

Yet for the time spent waiting. AS you looked around at other parents and kids being admitted. Knowing, while still a stressful day. It could always be worse.


One day during PT the therapist asked how i felt about having my leg amputated.

I said, take a look around.. (Hypothetical, not disclosing actual people) That lady, stroke learning how to talk, again. That kid, he'll never walk after having his spine severed.

How do i fell about my leg ? Real Good. I 'm alive, it's just a minor bump in life. I could be paralyzed or dead.

[HoneyBadger]

As would anyone..

Yet for the time spent waiting. AS you looked around at other parents and kids being admitted. Knowing, while still a stressful day. It could always be worse.


One day during PT the therapist asked how i felt about having my leg amputated.

I said, take a look around.. (Hypothetical, not disclosing actual people) That lady, stroke learning how to talk, again. That kid, he'll never walk after having his spine severed.

How do i fell about my leg ? Real Good. I 'm alive, it's just a minor bump in life. I could be paralyzed or dead.

That's a really good outlook on life.

[wyome]

Yeah....I pretty much wouldn't have said anything if we were there for something major.....I know one lil kid had open heart surgery that day. In the pre/post op room out of the six or so kids 4 spent post op in the cardiac icu.

We've been really lucky with the health of our kiddos thru the years....

[OtterbatHellcat]

Howdy everyone...

Good news on your boy, Wyome.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Shit, the summer is rapidly waning, it'll be snowing in a couple months.....fuck.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I get comments on my COAR15 shirts frequently, got one tonight from retired military when I was getting groceries at Kings.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Lets watch those big toes, fellas....pain sucks.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Kazoo, you have any of that "ghost" feeling with your amputation? Feels like its still there kind of thing?

[Great-Kazoo]

Kazoo, you have any of that "ghost" feeling with your amputation? Feels like its still there kind of thing?

Still get those phantom pains BUT.........................................I actually feel the weight of the limb.

[Irving]

I know roof and ladder pictures get old, but sometimes I'll get on something that is just damn terrifying. This is a fully extended 40' ladder on a barndominium. The ground was mostly even, but being on the rake, at a slant, with nothing to secure the ladder was very nerve wracking. Just getting that ladder fully extended is pretty much a two person job because it weighs so much and the slightest amount of wind will try to pull it over.



Then on Friday we went to the Cave of the Winds and they built this jungle gym thing where they harness you in and just cut you loose to climb all over it. This is an attraction that was built for people like me. You get up there, and it is NOT comfortable, even harnessed in. Your lead rope is in a track that you push around with you, and if you hold onto the harness lead it's super easy to walk every where. I made an effort to cross everything without touching my harness lead at all, except for to move it when it got caught up in the track. I would have posted some pictures of inside the attraction, but by the time I got on there, it was in the dark and the photos wouldn't have come out. $20 to actually be nervous on a ride? Sign me up!