Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six

[Debadoo]

@Uncle Willie and @2legsshrt;

I've got my DVR set to record "The Finest Hours" today. I could have paid $4 to watch it but waited until it was scheduled to be shown for free. I'm looking forward to watching it!

I've had that one on my netflix list for 2-3 weeks I think. Not sure when I put it in there, but it looked good

 

[3mg Meniere]

I am on meds and can't be in the sun as much as I used to be able to do. I also just can't do as much as I used to be able to do. I work for 5 minutes and have to take a break. There for it takes me longer to get my yard done. That doesn't include the fact that for the next two or three days I am laid up and can't do anything hardly at all.

Can't you schedule yard work so that you do a little bit every day, rather than every thing every week or so? If it means a lot for you to do it yourself then change the task so that it doesn't take so much out of you.

 

[Janet H]

D-rats, just lost a bunch of quotes that would have near challenged Deba's record... (ya'll been chatty while I 'slaved' at da office dis PM)

Besides my earnest, heartfelt and posted concerns/encouragements for our porchers and their dire issues, must say...

Oh, how I wish we could divert some of our tax 'donations' to Semi and his bride's efforts. Believe me when I proclaim that their efforts are more worthy than any of US/UN/tithing efforts; with no other authority than their belief, love and faith in our Lord!

My dearest Phil and sweetest bride, I know you both may/will cringe with my platitudes for your humble, but yet noble and impactful mission! I know that your odysseys are not 'vacations'! NTL, you both are two of my life HEROES!

Just had to jump in and reveal, with appropriate real life punctuation, Semi & bride's selfless giving and loving efforts...

Very well said and so true.

 

[2legsshrt]

@Uncle Willie and anyone else ran across this gal on YouTube. She is amazing and only 16 years old.

 

[2legsshrt]

Good Morning Porchers.

 

[2legsshrt]

Heres another by her for any Metallica fans.

 

[2legsshrt]

Man that gal can make that guitar sing. It's just amazing to me that a 16 year old girl from France can do this.

 

[2legsshrt]

Some big band is going to lose a lead guitar player and they need look no further. She can play anything as good or better then the original even David Gilmour. Man I wished I had that kind of talent when I was 16.

 

[MikeE3]

Some big band is going to lose a lead guitar player and they need look no further. She can play anything as good or better then the original even David Gilmour. Man I wished I had that kind of talent when I was 16.

Yeah ... but ... can she wrap a .12Ω coil and vape it on an EveryReady AAA batt?

 

[2legsshrt]

Maybe if I come around again. Wouldn't it be something if you came around again in the same era you just lived through. I often think about that. Whos to say you have to come back further down the road.

 

[Semiretired]

Who watches the Food Network?

They got a new show they are introducing - Worst Cooks... LOL where do I sign up...

 

[3mg Meniere]

Tina is better than Hendrix!!

 

[Kaezziel]

Praying.

Ya'll got 'em!

It appears that you are going for the best, but prayers always help.

Man, I just can't help but think we're cut from the same cloth! I do a lot of scale modeling and I've been known to strip a paint job 2 or 3 times if there's even the slightest flaw that I can't sand or buff out.
Sorry I didn't get here before you left but you know our hearts and positive energy are always with the two of you!!!

Mr. & Mrs. V V

Prayers from here will be following you.

Absolutely! Continuing on their way.

Lots of prayers and best wishes for you both, Kaez & Legs.

Prayers darlin........you got em! Surely hope they can find something!

Thank you all so very, very much! The prayers have worked, and we have been blessed with a small miracle. My Beautiful Bride has been accepted into a clinical trial. And not just some brand new trial that rarely has results. This trial has been going on since 2013 and is either considered a "mature" Phase I or some form of a Phase II trial... this is a good thing. She will be getting full therapeutic doses, and they have seen positive results in past patients. It is not a trial of new drugs, but a trial that combines two drugs that have been previously approved by the FDA for other uses. The trial is for the combination of the two. Basically, one of the drugs blocks the cancer cell's ability to process its own waste; so the cell dies from its own toxicity. The other drug targets the cancer cell's DNA and prevents it from being able to split and divide; stops it from reproducing. So the combination of the two drugs prevent them from making new cells, and kills the existing cells. We are both super excited right now!!!

Love and Hugs to Everyone!!!

That is why doing it for charity is much better-- you don't have to stare at the flaws.

Very true! Put the labor of love into it, then let someone else enjoy it!

I'm the same way with some things. Sometimes something just draws my attention everytime I look at it & it must be corrected. I know when something is going to irriate this nerve, so I fix it at once & move on. But precision is why I like handwork. Really wish I had a place for a small shop or just a work bench.

Tell me about it. I'm still working on getting the house and the garage setup the way we want it. As soon as I can manage that, then I'm going to set the garage up as a small work shop with wood working equipment. I want to get a small milling machine and a little lathe. Maybe a decent belt sander for shaping. I'd like to be able to start making a few wood mech mods... not to sell or anything like that, I just want to be able to do it and give some away to friends.

I have one just like this. Used it for many years before I bought a power 'chop saw'. There was just something 'old timey' feeling when using it.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the tools!!! I have a power compound miter saw, too... but there's just something about the 'old timey' tools and ways... forces you to slow down and take your time. Allows you to appreciate the piece that you are working on that much more.

Flaw avoidance is so completely beyond my abilities that I learned a long time ago to embrace my flaws. Then I found out that once in a while, this caused others to embrace my flaws too, which was a nice side effect.

Philosophical preachy mode off.

I need to take my car back to the shop again tomorrow for replacement of a totally ruptured CVJ boot, but once that's done, I'm as cross-country ready as I'll ever be. Everything else is fixed, at least for the moment. They couldn't do the boot today because they can't get the part today... has to come from Subaru.

Happy with the prices and the work. Total cost for everything to get fixed, including a new battery and 4 Michelin Defenders, just 5% of what a new $23K vehicle would have cost me.

I just ignore my flaws... it's the flaws in the things I make that bug the crap out of me...

Glad the repairs went well! Sounds like you'll be all set very soon!

Well I finally got my labs back from the VA and faxed them to my cardiologist. He wants to see me so I go in the 30th. I already know what he wants to talk to me about. He thinks I have Aquired Hemolytic Anemia caused from the leaks in my Aortic valve. He told me last week that depending on how this Haptoglobin test came out that I might need another valve replacement. I'm just about sure that is what he wants to talk to me about. IDK if I'm ready for that again. It seems that my Aortic Valve that they replaced and has Paravalvular leaks because of the calcification that couldn't be removed are causing my RBC to be sheared and destroyed faster then my bone marrow can produce them. So I'll have to wait and talk to him. I am not even sure if I am a candidate for rereplacement or whether I want to do it. IDK if there are any doctors here that would even consider it but I'll have to wait till I talk to him. I'm pretty sure he'll want to do a procedure called a TEE which will give him a lot better idea of the leak. That stand for Trans Esophageal Echocardiogram where they go through your throat and get better pictures of your heart without the lungs interfering with it. Well I'll just have to wait and see what he has to say but I figure it is not going to be good. I just faxed the Labs in this AM and they got right back to me to set me up with an appt. Oh well will hope for the best.

Prayers are with you, Legs. Hopefully they will find a solution that works for you.

soooooooooo you end up with a really beautiful toothpick????

Hahahahaha! You have no idea how often that statement is closer to the truth than you might believe...

that's where my dad went. I wanted him to move up here with me, but he trusted his docs, and didn't want to leave them, which I totally understand. So I drove down there on avg every other weekend when I'd get off work on Friday.

That's where we've been going for 3+ years now. They have excellent doctors there, and apparently run more Phase I clinical trials at any given point in time than any other facility in the country (according to one of the doctors). Pretty much, at any given point in time, they are running around 125 different clinical trials simultaneously. My Bride was loathe to have to go somewhere else, so the fact that they found something for her there took a lot of stress off of her shoulders.

I think we all do. Of course, like bells said, I try to look at the flaws as character. You know it was something handcrafted when it's not perfect. Many Indian people will do something specific that doesn't belong because only God makes something perfect. In my case it was a single blue bead. I didn't have purple beads at the time. The blue bead came from an arm band that was black and red that I'd done when I was a teenager and then found that blue bead I'd accidentally put on. It was all done in single bead, so would have taken me forever to take all that out and re-do it when I finally noticed it.

That's awesome! I never really thought about it like that, but that is a beautiful way to look at it... and I love how you came up with your own personal signature.

 

[Semiretired]

Tina is better than Hendrix!!

Be careful who you say that to...

 

[2legsshrt]

Yeah ... but ... can she wrap a .12Ω coil and vape it on an EveryReady AAA batt?

Probably not Mike but she doesn't need to. I've been thinking more and more about what is to follow. Do we come back and if we do as what and when. Guess we won't know till we cross that bridge. And do we remember anything from the previous life.

 

[2legsshrt]

Prayers are with you, Legs. Hopefully they will find a solution that works for you.

Thanks and with you. You have a lot on your plate. I'm not looking forward to my appt. because of what the surgeon told me after last time. I had the most calcified heart structure he had seen in 20 years of doing heart surgery. Seems like it one thing after another. I'm not even sure what hes going to say but when he saw my haptiglobin test from March he told me what it looked like and that is why they did it again and came out the same <10 which is not good.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Be careful who you say that to...

How about Hendrix reincarnated??

 

[2legsshrt]

Ahh crap I'm just sitting here thinking the worst and it hasn't come. Maybe it won't,,Right? Who's to say what the next year will bring. I hope it brings relief to you Kazz. I am so tired of medical crap. Now I have to go for some special Xray of my esophagus and a lung specialist and cardiologist. I am tired of it.

 

[Kaezziel]

Thanks and with you. You have a lot on your plate. I'm not looking forward to my appt. because of what the surgeon told me after last time. I had the most calcified heart structure he had seen in 20 years of doing heart surgery. Seems like it one thing after another. I'm not even sure what hes going to say but when he saw my haptiglobin test from March he told me what it looked like and that is why they did it again and came out the same <10 which is not good.

Thanks, Pat. Just try to not stress yourself out over it as you wait for the appointment. That is honestly the best advice that I can give you. Worrying about it isn't going to help anything, but trying to stay calm and keeping your blood pressure down will do your body a lot of good. Whenever the appointment comes up, then you'll sit down with the doctor, hear what he has to say, then make a decision on possible treatments. Honestly, take it one step at a time, one day at a time. That's the only way we've been able to get through the things that we're dealing with. I try to keep my Bride focused on the "here and now" and we'll worry about tomorrow when it gets here. Prayers are with you, with us, and with everyone here. We'll get through it.

Ahh crap I'm just sitting here thinking the worst and it hasn't come. Maybe it won't,,Right? Who's to say what the next year will bring. I hope it brings relief to you Kazz. I am so tired of medical crap. Now I have to go for some special Xray of my esophagus and a lung specialist and cardiologist. I am tired of it.

Exactly! The news we got yesterday was better than anything that we expected to hear... we were truly surprised by what was offered. The same can hold true for you as well. But, I hear you... the constant dealing with medical crap wears ya out like nothing else can. I can completely understand that...

 

[MikeE3]

Thank you all so very, very much! The prayers have worked, and we have been blessed with a small miracle. My Beautiful Bride has been accepted into a clinical trial. And not just some brand new trial that rarely has results. This trial has been going on since 2013 and is either considered a "mature" Phase I or some form of a Phase II trial... this is a good thing. She will be getting full therapeutic doses, and they have seen positive results in past patients. It is not a trial of new drugs, but a trial that combines two drugs that have been previously approved by the FDA for other uses. The trial is for the combination of the two. Basically, one of the drugs blocks the cancer cell's ability to process its own waste; so the cell dies from its own toxicity. The other drug targets the cancer cell's DNA and prevents it from being able to split and divide; stops it from reproducing. So the combination of the two drugs prevent them from making new cells, and kills the existing cells. We are both super excited right now!!!

Love and Hugs to Everyone!!!

How very, very nice to hear some positive news from you Kaz. I'm truly happy to hear this for you and your bride. Best wishes and prayers with the new treatment.

Listening to your story and Pat's and others on the thread I feel fortunate to be in relatively good health. If I cross the line and have to deal w/ issues I can only hope I approach it with the strength and attitude you all do with you trials and tribulations.