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RE: Breakfast on the Grill - 5/27/2009 10:58:21 AM
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I don't think we have honeysuckle up here. The last couple years there's also been some sort of thistle. Haven't bothered to ID it, but it's hard to keep up with. Normally I try not to use weedkiller.
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RE: Breakfast on the Grill - 5/30/2009 9:27:45 AM
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Godspeed to you, we'll keep ya'll in our prayers. Pop in some time for an update as you can.
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RE: The Garage - 6/2/2009 9:24:45 PM
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Thanks for all of the prayers. Tooshy is doing very well. Her surgery wasn't until 2:30, so kind of a late start. She was in for about two and a half hours.
It was a total replacement of the right knee. Plus they had to straigten the leg some. The joint had been bone-on-bone for some time, and had begun to wear down in a pattern that made the leg crooked. That was repaired in the process...a little extra work.
After the surgery, she was in her room and wide awake and alert. The nurses were amazed. Most people are groggy for a while. She was watching the ballgame and making intelligent conversation about the game. She has a pain-block so she's not in any pain right now. Tomorrow will be more difficult than today.
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RE: The Garage - 6/3/2009 10:53:32 PM
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She doesn't have a 'happy button'. I did when they put a plate in my wrist, so I'm very familiar. They have her on a couple different pain meds though.
Her left knee is nearly as bad as her right. Soon she will start Synvisc shots in her left knee. It won't be too many years before she will need the left knee replaced.
She did really good today, despite a rocky start.
Her pain block wore off last night. This morning they flexed her knee joint for the first time and the pain was considerable...enough to bring tears. It was really tight. Plus she hasn't been able to straighten her knee for years so they were moving it in directions that it truly was not accustomed to being moved.
They had her up in a chair for a while and that went well. She was able to lift herself and use a walker to position herself in and out of the chair.
Then they put her back in bed and installed an electric machine that bends the knee slowly zero to 60 degrees continually. At first it was quite painful. As time went on though, the joint limbered up some and she actually liked it.
Later in the day, they had her up again and she walked as far as the door to the room and back to her chair again, doing well...better than expected.
Praise God!
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RE: The Garage - 6/5/2009 3:32:27 PM
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How's the PT going? Painful I'm sure, but is she out of bed walking around?
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RE: The Garage - 6/9/2009 11:02:03 AM
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She's been home since Friday. I've been caring for her.
Yesterday her physical terrorist came out for an evaluation. Today begins the real torture.
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RE: The Garage - 6/9/2009 11:03:03 AM
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Not sure how much national news this story has made, but a local five year old girl came up missing from their apartment parking lot. Eleven days into a massive search for the girl, her body was found in cement at the bottom of a local river by a fisherman.
When the news first broke with an Amber Alert, my heart sunk because I had helped a family through our church who has a young girl with the same first name. While it was somewhat of a relief to find that it was a different girl, we still know people who know the victim.
My heart goes out to the little girl. Every time I see her picture, I wish that I could protect her. 
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RE: The Garage - 6/9/2009 9:27:06 PM
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Well I used to be in the navy, so I'm particular to keel-hauling. Now I work for an electric company, so I'm in favor of the electric couch. Also drawn and quartered comes to mind as just punishment. I suppose we could keel-haul him and then put him on the electric couch.
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RE: The Garage - 6/9/2009 10:15:15 PM
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Sounds good to me... keelhaul, couched, AND quartered if there is anything left. 
We have a small share of "southern thumpers", as I call them, who tell me how corporal punishment is wrong, no longer legit by the New Testament, and that I'll go to hell for believing it's okay.  Well, you know me well enough to know that I relish moments like this to push buttons.  I just smile and say... well, IMNSHO the guy is broken and needs a face to face talk with The Maker. God wants him back... to fix him, or dump him as seen fit in God's just way.
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RE: The Garage - 6/10/2009 8:57:52 PM
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Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
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RE: The Garage - 6/16/2009 5:57:33 AM
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Apparently so. 
We saw a Beatles tribute band a few years ago. They even had a left-handed bass player.
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RE: The Garage - 6/21/2009 2:32:05 PM
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Happy Fathers Day to ya' Ray. How's DW doing, gonna make it to the camp out?
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RE: The Garage - 6/22/2009 11:44:41 AM
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Oh yeah. She's doing great. She gets around with her walker pretty good now. And she can get in and out of bed on her own.
Each day she gets a little more movement out of her knee. The PT people come to the house, but we also do exercizes between visits. As soon as she can get 90 deg. out of her knee, she'll go to outpatient PT instead of at home.
For me, it's back to w*** today.
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I can't keep that stuff from trying to climb ever red oak at the corner of my yard, and they planted it in their flower garden? They like the way it looked and smells around the patio when in bloom.
Can't move too fast, so I'll be sitting in the hammock on the dock all day. 
I ain't as good as I once was 
