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SandySu

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Glad to hear that you're fighting the good fight, Poppie! I didn't even scroll down to the comment section when I read the article!

Sorry I haven't been around much, lately. I'd blame school, but I'm not doing so good with that. Quite a few health problems hitting me all at once. The biggest one right now is grief. I know it's been ten years since I lost my father (tomorrow), but I still haven't gotten over it. So it's around this time of year I tend to keep to myself. Hope you all understand!

Miss you all! Have a great Wednesday and happy vaping! :vapor:

I agree with FaniFox. You never get over losing a loved one, but you do adjust to not having that person in your life after a while. I feel the same about losing my mother. All I can say is, she still lives in my memory of the good times, the love, the things she gave me and taught me. I'm still sad to not have her to talk to, but at the end of her life, she was suffering, and now she's not, so I can remember better days and let her go. I know she's not suffering anymore.
 

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Sorry I haven't been around much, lately. I'd blame school, but I'm not doing so good with that. Quite a few health problems hitting me all at once. The biggest one right now is grief. I know it's been ten years since I lost my father (tomorrow), but I still haven't gotten over it. So it's around this time of year I tend to keep to myself. Hope you all understand!

My father passed unexpectedly a couple of days after my birthday a decade ago. I still don't celebrate birthdays. I totally understand where you are at right now. Just take your time and do what you need to do. Remember to keep living life, though. It must go on and one would believe that any father would want their child to live life to the fullest. I tell myself that it's OK to be sad but that it's not OK to stop living the life he gave me. My dad wouldn't want me to do that. ((hugs))
 

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Glad to hear that you're fighting the good fight, Poppie! I didn't even scroll down to the comment section when I read the article!

Sorry I haven't been around much, lately. I'd blame school, but I'm not doing so good with that. Quite a few health problems hitting me all at once. The biggest one right now is grief. I know it's been ten years since I lost my father (tomorrow), but I still haven't gotten over it. So it's around this time of year I tend to keep to myself. Hope you all understand!

Miss you all! Have a great Wednesday and happy vaping! :vapor:

Tina - I feel for you, I lost mom 4 years ago now and sometimes it just hits me hard. Take care of you and I am sure everyone here understands.

{{BIG HUGS}}
 

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My father passed unexpectedly a couple of days after my birthday a decade ago. I still don't celebrate birthdays. I totally understand where you are at right now. Just take your time and do what you need to do. Remember to keep living life, though. It must go on and one would believe that any father would want their child to live life to the fullest. I tell myself that it's OK to be sad but that it's not OK to stop living the life he gave me. My dad wouldn't want me to do that. ((hugs))

Unexpected deaths are harder to deal with, I think. I had a very good friend, Linda, who died unexpectedly, and it was very hard on me. She was my mentor about horses, and we rode together several times a week. When I had a question about Penny's welfare, she would come to the barn and look at her and give advice. She was so big-hearted and had so many friends in the horse world it awed me that she deigned to be my friend. Often, we'd spend an evening chatting on the phone about horses and the people we knew involved with them. One weekend, we went horse camping together at Otter Creek, a really great place to take horses and ride, and while all our friends were sitting around the campfire, she was off by herself, sitting on the wheel well of her trailer. I left the happy group to join her, she looked so sad. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she didn't feel well. Later, after the weekend, she told me that she had felt wrong for a while, and I urged her to go to the doctor again -- she had been there once, and the doctor said it was the flu -- and get a blood test. She did, and it turned out to be leukemia. They rushed her up to a hospital in Rochester, and that next Thursday, I visited her. I brought her gifts, wrapped in paper and ribbons, and she was tickled to open them. I said that going to Rochester was a long drive, and I'd come weekly to see her. We planned a day in the following week when other visitors weren't expected. That weekend, she died. I was shocked and devastated. This was the first close friend I had who had died. She was only in her 40s. I never expected it. Sure, I knew leukemia was serious, but I expected her to come home after chemotherapy or something, to recover, to ride with me again. It was hard losing her so suddenly. My only comfort was that she didn't suffer very much before dying. She didn't go through horrendous treatments and debilitating convalescence. It was hard on me, but the comfort I got was thinking how easy her death was. She didn't spend long suffering, and that is my greatest fear, when it comes my time. I hope I go as quickly as my friend Linda.
 

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SandySu, I have a friend who regularly goes to Otter Creek who tells of the great adventures there. I hope it didn't make you stop going. It is doubly hard when the person you lose is such a resource to you. Not only are you left with the loss of a friend but also the comfort that their wisdom provided you. When you do not have time to mentally prepare (as best as anyone can) you have to deal with it in crisis mode. I am very sorry for your loss, and I hope that you can continue to do the things that you used to do together. As long as you do those things with fond memories in your heart, you honor her contribution to your life.
 

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SandySu, I have a friend who regularly goes to Otter Creek who tells of the great adventures there. I hope it didn't make you stop going. It is doubly hard when the person you lose is such a resource to you. Not only are you left with the loss of a friend but also the comfort that their wisdom provided you. When you do not have time to mentally prepare (as best as anyone can) you have to deal with it in crisis mode. I am very sorry for your loss, and I hope that you can continue to do the things that you used to do together. As long as you do those things with fond memories in your heart, you honor her contribution to your life.

Now I can do that, but mourning Linda took a long time. It was such a shock, and she was such a close friend that it hit me really hard.

I went to Otter Creek one time after that with another friend, and somehow, it just wasn't the same. I haven't been there since, though I'd go again if I had the chance. It hasn't turned me off to Otter Creek or anyplace I used to ride with Linda. In fact, in the Finger Lakes National Forest, where we rode, they named a trail after her, which I thought was fitting. She was very active in preserving the trails for riders.

Some while ago on this forum, I mentioned going to a meeting to determine trail use where they had conflict resolution people from Cornell. It was Linda who got me involved in that. I'll never forget her contribution to my life and knowledge about horses.
 

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It is so troubling reading about all of the losses here. I lost my mom unexpectedly 10 years ago, and I think of her daily. Holidays, and her birthday, etc. are particularly difficult. I know what you all are going through. You never get over it, and those that tell you to have either not experienced it, or they are just emotionally different, or emotionally absent.
 
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There is no activation processor.. It is all handled by the asic inside the mic style airflow sensor on the bottom. On the upper side only the connector is present with a yellow and black wire.
I just figured that applied to the MANUAL battery, which I thought did have one up there...
 
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