Gunner:
Glad to read that you are OK. Also very glad that you did not receive any damage from the blockages. You know, after going through the hospital stay without a cig, the nicotine and withdrawals are now done(or were until you pick up another cig.) Now all you need to do is deal with the psycological stuff. That is tough, I have seen it done any number of times. In any case, take care of yourself. (It is the only body you have.)
Rich
Gunner wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
**snip**Good to know your actualy still kicking on . Just keep on doing that OK ?
Glad you are still alive and in a decent shape... Any explanation why all this occurred (given your good blood tests etc)?
i
Welcome home Gunner. What else is there to say.
Live long and prosper. Welcome home.
If you draw your weapon the first shot should be between the eyes.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:06:16 GMT, Gunner shouted from the rooftop:
You found out you're human.
Having had a full-blown heart attack, and angioplasty/stent, I can tell you what you're next move is- quit smoking. Period.
If you don't, you'll most likely be dead the next time. (It's hard not to twist the knife here and remind you of all those tobacco industry supported studies that show smoking is harmless. Think they're still true?)
It ain't easy, but it beats the alternative.
-Carl "If you don't have enemies, you don't have character"-Paul Newman
Welcome home , Big Guy
Glad it turned out OK
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:06:16 GMT, Gunner calmly ranted:
Welcome back, Cot^H^H^HGunner.
The East Coasters won't know what that low hummerditty feels like, but Souwester Desert Rats will know that it feels like East Coast
90%. Having moved to a drier region, I noticed a muggy feeling on Thursday and the gauge read a mere 22%.And you know that the Armstrong Method isn't supposed to be used when the temps are in the 90F+ range. You need a pair of watercooled longjohns fer that, boy.
Ouch! Didja get that elf's name?
Fluoroscope?
Lucky you had fresh nitro pills handy, too.
And familiar tools! (But the grease they use on those things is prolly $70/g.)
Yes, goodonya, mate.
No, you have never quit smoking before. Quitting is a decision which you have never made seriously. I hope you can do so now. After all, who _willingly_ chooses to smell like a dirty ashtray all day, every day? (LJ, who stopped stinking 16 years ago last Feb.)
Most excellent, Gunner. Take care!
All together now, guys: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Congrats on your clear head and loss of denial. Oh, and the wife nagging you to go to the hospital couldn't have hurt much, either, could it? ;)
Hey, it's even in Spanish, for non-English-speaking Americans. Were that in R.O. Kalifornia, it'd be in 29 languages. I got pissed off every time a ballot pamphlet came to me there.
What'd they nail you for, about $45k?
Susie Snibbles? Does your wife know?
Nah, that's just the memory of a morphine buzz. ;)
Back on topic: I've been able to get several coats of Perma Blue on Grandpa's old Winchester. Heating DEFINITELY speeds things up, and I'm surprised at how quickly it warms under the distant tip of a propane torch. I believe I'll have to deal with the deep muzzle end rust at another time. How deep does it have to go to make the rifle (.22) unsafe? I think it's about 1/16" for about
4" along one side, where it evidently sat on a damp closet carpet.--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:55:52 GMT, Alan Connor calmly ranted:
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Although I disagree with your anti-gun stance, Blum has a REALLY good point. We should stop flogging a dead horse in trying to inflict democrazy on other countries. God/Allah/Buddha knows it wouldn't work anyway.
--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --
Morphine buzz... ^_^
But I am sincerely glad to hear you dodged the bullet! Take care of yourself, practice shooting to help stifle the cravings for cigarettes, and understand that your wife is just as rattled by this as you are, and will be VERY concerned about you for a while. If she watches over you too much for your liking, just accept it as another part of the recovery process..
Good luck AND good health!
FW
Welcome back. Glad you enjoyed the morphine. It makes me throw up, as does Demerol. You get all the fun!
Glad you're OK.
Good on you! I was more concerned for Glen, as his philosophy needs ocasional...tuning. God knows what would happen to him without an occasional reality check. Let me know how you do on smoking, I'm next, I can hardly breathe. I hope you told the docs about your Mountain Dew habit, that's the real root of the problem.
Oh, by the way, "Where's the metalworking content here?" (somebody had to say it)
-On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:16:18 GMT, Why calmly ranted:
2 packs or 100's per day for 15 years and I quit cold turkey after tapering down to 1/2 pack/day over a month time. Then I got the flu and decided that was the time to quit. I've never looked back, and now I can smell a smoker from 50 yards even if they're not smoking. (No wonder the VC had such a field day with our soldiers in Nam.)--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:37:00 GMT, "Tom Gardner" calmly ranted:
Gunner's shiny new .380 snub-nosed stent, of course.
And PLEASE learn to snip.
--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --
Great story, glad you're back.
jim
Glad to hear the good news Gunner.
I hope that one of the beneficial results of that escapade is that it will be the trigger needed to make you quit smoking. (PLEEZE!)
I'd smoked for 44 years and tried nicotine gum, hypnosis and a "Smokers Anonymous" group. I always fell off the wagon anywhere from a week to a month after I quit, just as soon a a stressful event gave me an excuse to "need one."
The "trigger" for me was this; 10 years I couldn't find my pack of butts where I'd left it the night before. I learned from a young stoolie that our then 12 year old daughter had swiped them so she could hide behind the big rock out back and smoke with her friends.
I never bought another pack and I've been squeeky clean since that day.
You know why they call it "quitting cold turkey" don't you? 'Cause it's about as pleasent as having a 20 pound frozen Butterball shoved up your ass.
Gunner, You and I can take heart in knowing that it's the good who die young.
Happy Father's Day,
Jeff
Translation of the "various county and state programs" part:
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who didn't save, smoked, had a heart attack, and expects the suckers to pay for his condition.
The Ant and the Grasshopper story comes to mind.
--Tim May
Good luck, take it easy, and next time get to the ER a little faster if you start showing signs of trouble.
316L stainless, according to the manufacturer's data.
Good to hear that all went well, don't forget to enjoy life even more, G.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Don't you think maybe we should keep him away from Michael Moore's new movie for a few weeks? :-)
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