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Thread ID: 143511	2017-01-30 05:42:00	"The Women Of '69 - Unboxed"	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1431387	2017-01-31 11:14:00	Here is Fiona Apple singing Across The Universe: www.youtube.com If you aren't using this Addon in Firefox then you are not getting the best out of uTube. barisderin.com Also you need this to download from uTube without fuss: https://www.yourvideofile.org/	zqwerty (97)
1431388	2017-02-02 06:36:00	OK . I see this post went along smoothly so far while I was missing and thank youse guys for the input . I'm out of the hospital now - had a small stroke (again) and it might delay my knee replacement surgeries for a bit unless we (I) get my INR-PTT under control as it should be . My reported INR was 2 . 5, but in reality it was 1 . 4 . That's bad for me with atrial fib and a previous history of a TIA/Stroke a few years ago . Back on subject now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I had my surfboards, '59 Chevy, long blonde haired surfer girls and a loud stereo system in the car for beach parties . We went to Lion's Drag Strip, and 'run what we brung' and cruised Oscar's Carhops where the waitresses were on roller skates . I had a few Yamaha and Kawasaki street bikes and a BSA441 Victor 'Square fin" to play in the dirt . We always partied with our personal cadre of close buddies - none of whom I am currently in contact with nor think I can find . Old girlfriends are married (I bet) and have given up their maiden names for new surnames that make them impossible to say "Thank-you" to for helping me form myself to the way I am now . I wonder how they got along without me . Off topic again - I will digress a bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I went to the Emergency Room - early Monday morning since I was in process of having another stroke (#2 so far) . Right now there is nothing lasting --- other than a devotion to making sure that I say the words I really want to say and don't substitute something else . The reason WHY I went to the ER was that the night before --- I was trying to remember how to take off my pants so I could take a shower . Honestly - I was trying to figure out HOW to take them off - thoughts of crawling out through one leg, or pulling them up over my head were all realized as not being the right way to take them off . I knew I had taken off my pants a number of times before in my almost 71 years - but it just wasn't coming back to me at that time . I sat down and thought about it for a while - and after what might have been ten minute or so - I finally remembered to unbutton and unzip and step out . The shower was uneventful - but later after thinking about it a bit - I called the VA Nightline 24-hour Nursing in Denver Colorado and asked them what had just happened . A doctor called me right back and then I was in the ER . So - now Wednesday evening -- I'm back out of the hospital - prolly with my bi-lateral knee replacement surgery put off for a few extra weeks and that means I'll lose my Spring - (mebbe a whole lot of my Summer now too! CR@P!) The days were blurred a bit - I know what day it is now and who/whom the current president is . Youse guys know that it's not uncommon to misplace one's keys from time to time - but it's totally another thing to forget what they are for . I can't shave --- either with a blade or an electric razor - "they're" afraid I'll bleed uncontrollably . I'll have to grow a short beard fora while . And I have the honor of giving myself 'belly shots' to bring my INR to a closer level of 2 . 5 - this is called a 'therapeutic treatment' and I really don't like to put a needle in my stomach and push (9cc) the Enoxaparin ( . drugs . com/lovenox . html" target="_blank">www . drugs . com) into my belly fat . So - how was your week? .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1431389	2017-02-02 21:19:00	Sounds as if you are having a really rough time of it Joe. Judging from my mother's TIA experiences I think it's a good idea not to stay in low humidity environments (air conditioned) for too long and eat oily food like fish, ie take supplements like fish oil. Don't fly on aircraft. Good luck and best wishes to you.	zqwerty (97)
1431390	2017-02-02 21:45:00	A bit more detail about Mum who was from the "Greatest Generation" and lived a great life fully embracing the changes of the Sixties and celebrating them with us kids. I looked after Mum for 12 years after Dad died from when she was 80 till 92 and she had many TIA episodes. In the middle of this the Christchurch earthquakes happened which destroyed her house of 40 years which her and Dad set up after coming from Northern Rhodesia in 1973. Mum would be befuddled after an episode, some worse than others. Sometimes she could not speak for a few hours then her capabilities would return. Sometimes she would collapse unconscious without warning, fall over and hit her head on hard objects. She always recovered most of her capabilities after a few days. With Mum the TIA's were caused by parts of her brain losing blood supply, in a CAT scan the dead tissue looked like dark isthmuses leading in from the outer parts of her brain. After her final stroke her body lingered on for 10 days with no food or water whilst she was kept unconscious on morphine, she had looked after her physical self very well all her life and maybe that was a mistake in the end. We learned more about the TIA situation after she was dead as the doctors seemed cagey about her situation at the time and were really not very forthcoming. I am just letting you know what little knowledge I have on the subject.	zqwerty (97)
1431391	2017-02-02 23:07:00	Not sure how - but the last post SJ made has broken the page formatting After his post, background has changed to grey and the reply to post buttons and his (Russian) sig is outside the post altogether! 7843	bevy121 (117)
1431392	2017-02-03 02:18:00	Thanks, zqwerty . My first TIA was (natch!) a surprise as I had no forewarning . I have A-Fib and that set me up to create a clot that wound up in my brain which temporarily paralyzed my left side . I couldn't talk, move any part of the left side of my body and was thinking that this was forever and I couldn't play guitar any more . That passed; I got put on warfarin/coumadin and was running clear-n-clean for a couple of years at 2 . 3-2 . 6 on my INR value . Thankfully I live in a very dry climate - drier than what we had in the semi-arid high desert in California . The static electricity sparks here are sometimes a couple of inches long when I slide off the couch --- even going to wash my hands . Ever get a static shock from the water from a faucet? If the handles are non-conductive, then the water is the first grounded item you touch: "Pow-splash!" Хорошо видеть снег, когда я не был уверен, что я буду в состо я нии к снова .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1431393	2017-02-03 05:08:00	в идеть с не г, к огда я не был у в ерен, что я буду в состо я нии к сно в а . Good to see the snow, when I was not sure if I'll be able to again . I hope that is right? It is funny how after a stroke, it is the little things in life that reassure you . Doing simple things that used to be so easy but now are quite difficult . My doctor is one floor up and I was determined never to use the lift (elevator Joe) I never have used it in over 4 years since my stroke . I have problems eating as fork handles are to small to grasp, so SWMBO searched and found some with large handles so there was another thing solved . etc, etc! Ken :)	kenj (9738)
1431394	2017-02-03 05:22:00	Not sure how - but the last post SJ made has broken the page formatting After his post, background has changed to grey and the reply to post buttons and his (Russian) sig is outside the post altogether! 7843 Still like it tonight only on his posts though, I blame Trump	gary67 (56)
1431395	2017-02-03 06:24:00	Yup - you got that translation correct - it's kinda pathetic, I know . I remember my Uncle Kenny when he was dying from things that shorten lives so well - excessive alcohol - too many cigarettes - more than enough motorcycle crashes - boxing professionally when he was younger - it goes on . He would walk over to a doorway and just admire the way the wood fit together - running his fingers over the seams and feeling for the nail holes and the angles of the wood and the intersections of the various shapes - etc . He was dying at the age of 56 - and had no hope for any future as he had not done all the things he wanted to do and had no time left to do them . It was sadder than I could imagine then - but now after I've watched my mom die - and kept my wife alive with CPR until she got to the emergency room --- where she arrived DOA . . . . . and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . watched my oldest son die - his last breath and final deflation . . . . . . . . . watched my dad do the eternal exhalation too . Then just two years ago I watched my oldest daughter die . These are all "Time Stamps" that will live on in our memories as long as we are alive at least - then they go --- P00F! Up in smoke as they die with us . So, yeah - look at the snow when you can and appreciate it even if it lingers long after it's novelty wears off . Snow too - is a time stamp . It's - --- lessee ---- 10ºF/-23 . 3333º C right now and we are weather-guessed to have very measurable snow for the next ten days . "Measurable" means over 12"/30 . 48cm each day . Dontcha just love it!?! (The weather-guessers are usually wrong on the high side - hopefully, that is) .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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