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Comments: John Boy is here to tell you that if you ever have a choice between a root canal and a total knee replacement - my advice is opt for the root canal. Sometime Friday (hey, it IS Friday) the doc and various staff and health agencies will determine if Dru will be sent home or moved to a nearby rehab hospital. I/we are hoping for the rehab hospital, but it all depends on the tricky requirements of Medicare as to whether or not it is a covered expense. Otherwise, she comes home and we have to haul her back and forth to some outpatient physical therapy facility and I'm not convinced her leg can handle the extra walking that would entail. Stay tuned. ps - Contrary to what I expected, my root canal was not as bad as a typical cavity filling. Just way more expensive.
Comments: Glad to hear Dru's surgery went well. How is John Boy?
Comments: I'm sorry Kathleen, I've been trying to stop laughing since hearing on TV yesterday that "some" blame George W. Bush for the breakup of the marriage of "Mr. Internet" and Tipper. Yep, I thought maybe we'd gotten to the end of the blame game with Bush, but I guess not................You asked about a week late about the National Polka Fest. It was last weekend. I put a post on SOC '62, but I should have put it on here too, obviously. There were 30-40,000 people in town for the parade on Saturday. Two of my grandkids were in it, in different entries. There were lots of booths downtown, music, dancing, food, and also at the four lodge halls here, the KJT, SPJST, Sokol and The Knights of Columbus (that's the only one I can pronounce). And of course, one should never forget the theme song (a little polka music, please), "In Heaven they have no beer, that's why I drink it here". Plan on coming down next year, and I'll put a reminder on here.
Comments: Barry...all this was free, yesterday.. I've had to pay for background checks for 2 yrs to tutor Memphis City School students... Probably won't do it this next year... Not through that franchise, anyway..had a bad boss..this year.. We saw a film on 'privacy policy' with veterans... too. My next problem with them is finding the 'volunteer' parking lot... I've looked before.. It's on the opposite side of the VA buildings...I've always parked in the visitors and veterans parking lot...May still...
Comments: TWIC card Even though I am not an illegal immigrant, I had to get another type of ID. Anyone that has even a remote chance of being at a port facility has to have a Transportation Workers Identification Credential. Since I have my OUPV Coast Guard Captain's License, I got to drive to Houston to be fingerprinted and photographed. The card itself is pretty cool. A little bigger than a credit card, it has a chip on it, a magnetic strip, a bar code, my photo (not smiling as requested) and numerous holograms front and rear. In addition to the card, I have to be ready to use my right thumb for fingerprint identification. The card cost $132 and I will NEVER use it. I guess I should complain like all the liberals that I am having to carry "papers". I wish everyone had to carry one. If you are stopped and don't have it, "Goodbye!".
Comments: You can 'scroll back', girls...to see what was said about 'what'.... A lot of people do this including me...If you miss a day or so...just scroll back through the posts... There you would have found the 'weekend warrior stuff'. Of course, it's very interesting and Bill and Barry added more info to their news about the weekend... Happy Birthday...to Jud..!! Recovery wishes for Dru and JS... This is my first day...back in Physical Therapy... First Sierra Club meeting as a member..! Yesterday, I had to have yet...another TB test and fingerprinting to be a VA Hospital volunteer...I've had these before...In the world of children's teachers and workers, we have to undergo this a lot.. Background check, again...in case I'm a 'little old lady terrorist'...! By now, you think they would know that I'm just an eclectic, off-the-wall, little old lady...? They have 575 volunteers at this Memphis VA Hospital.. There was a room full of new volunteers..yesterday..Young and old..They can volunteer as young as 13... 
Comments: That was a great event, Barry. A fishing group that my son and I belong to is doing a similar event this Saturday on Lake Ray Hubbard. Bass Fishing and a big BBQ for the soldiers, with lots of door prizes donated by local retailers and restaurants. The prizes will be for the soldiers only. Unfortunately, I have a wedding to attend and won't be able to participate.
Comments: Yes, I did report on it and it was great. They had 300 soldiers this year and I still don't see how volunteers put this thing together. They had 15 buses from Houston and San Antonio for the soldiers and their families/care givers. Fish fry Friday night and BBQ Sat night. We took two guys fishing, one was a young guy from WI that was in a HumVee hit by an IED. 6 of the 8 in the truck were killed. The other was a 22-yr veteran from IN that is waiting for a liver transplant because of Desert Storm. They had this HUGE sand sculpture and on one area it had a listing of the soldiers from Port O'Connor that have died in the current conflicts. One of the guys was killed in the Hum Vee that our guy was injured in. He got to visit with the parents and aunt and uncle of the soldier from POC. Pretty touching moment. Hope I can do it next year.
Comments: Sam, Do they still have Czech Days in Ennis? My mother who was Czech always liked to go. She grew up in Tabor, S. Dakota which was an active Czech community. She loved to play the accordian and dance the Polka.
Comments: Barry, you may have already reported on the Weekend Warrior project but I have been gone and wondered how it went this year.
Comments: Boy, oh boy...do you guys(Bill, Jud, and Sam) tease John...Ya'll have got to be good friends to tease him like that...! I think I've seen one picture of John with his tin foil hat on... I've yet to make me one...! 
Comments: I'm sure JS has noises in his head all the time-maybe from all the tin foil hat experiments. In fact, when I stopped for a visit last month, he was in the back yard with some kind of tin foil thing wrapped around his entire body with wires running up into the trees. Dru told me that he does this all the time. Otherwise, he seemed quite normal.
Comments: I'm sorry you---two...(Dru and JS). You are going to be a 'pitiful pair' for several days.. I guess you can argue over which feels the worse.. I'm not very fond of root canals.. Especially all that noise they make in your head..Maybe no pain while they're working but the racket and movement they generate is enough to drive one crazy... 
Comments: JS, thank you for the update. I'm happy to hear that Dru's surgery was "uneventful" as orthopedic surgeons say. (Heck, it's always uneventful for the surgeon.) I hope your root canal is painless and fixes the problem. David had one recently and he didn't feel a thing --other than in the wallet, of course. He gave the endodontist five-stars. Just don't plan to do anything this afternoon. Give Dru our best wishes, too.
Comments: Quick update: JS = has a route canal appt. at 9:15am today. Delayed it a day to be with Dru yesterday. Dru = finished her knee replacement at 1:00pm yesterday. Was in much pain and very groggy most of the afternoon. Liquid dinner last night. Physical therapy scheduled for 3 times today - where they attach a machine to the leg to make it flex 40 degrees over and over for 2 hours per session. Hurts like heck. The doctor said the surgery went well with no surprises. Now the long road of rehab. Thanks to all for your concern.
Comments: Okay, John, we all want a report on Dru and of your personal agony with the tooth. Are you both on heavy meds. I bet you have been out buying Jud's birthday present. That special event is just around the corner.
Comments: It's all Sam's fault...Everybody go click on the 62 site from the 63 site and back and forth and back and forth...See if it happens to you...? I don't want to do that.. Sam made it up... Now the next serious question is....Is the plural of thingy....1.thingys or 2. thingies..? The suspense is killing me on the toothache.. Did John go without pain medicine..or not...? Seriously...I hope Dru is doing fine... This is the night of the day of surgery for her.. I can remember those nights... She'll probably feel much better next week.. I don't know about the toothache...guy?
Comments: John, please give us a health update on Dru's knee surgery and your tooth. I hope all is well with both of you.
Comments: Ginger makes thing(y)s up! Not really. What I emailed she and Kathleen was that when I would try to click on SOC '63 from the SOC '62 website, a trojan horse would pop up, and my anti-virus software would abort the connection. It did it three times in a row, over the period of about an hour. (Johnny, don't go to 7-11 asking for trojan horses!!).
Comments: There is no virus on this site. Click the Post Message button only one time and I think it will work out fine.
Comments: Kathleen... When I hit the thingy twice, it would do that.. Lately, it's been saying that it has timed out.... Sam says there's a virus on our site...? Lynell,,do you want to check that out...? I was trying to get on a site from...New York or DC...and I had this alert come on...but Jason checked it out and said it was false...There was nothing wrong with my computer other than ....it is old...I'm old too...I still work...with a slower speed...!
Comments: I am sorry that I keep double posting today. My computer keeps showing no posting. So I hit again and it posts twice.
Comments: I have sad news from my friend Valerie Adamson Bannister. Her younger brother Roger had a stoke yesterday while playing hand ball with his friends. He is in the neuro unit at Methodist Hospital. She just wrote and said that he is brain dead and that he will not get better. This is rather sudden and the whole family is in shock because he has been healthy all his life. Today is his 47th birthday. His wife and their family request your prayers as they struggle with their difficult decision.
Comments: I have sad news from my friend Valerie Adamson Bannister. Her younger brother Roger had a stoke yesterday while playing hand ball with his friends. He is in the neuro unit at Methodist Hospital. She just wrote and said that he is brain dead and that he will not get better. This is rather sudden and the whole family is in shock because he has been healthy all his life. Today is his 47th birthday. His wife and their family request your prayers as they struggle with their difficult decision.
Comments: We've come a long way, baby......but not far enough....yet.. 
Comments: Ginger, I have a friend who was married to a Methodist minister who physically abused her, gave her a sexually transmitted disease and was a mean drunk. After years of enduring an abusive marriage she with the help of their son finally divorced him. She was forced to teach in the same East Dallas neighborhood where he was a minister. Even though the people of his church knew he was an alcoholic they decided to forgive him and blame her for the divorce. Within six months, he had remarried to the wealthiest woman in his church. After seeing what my friend went through, I can agree with you about the pressures put on women especially women who are married to men who have positions of power or standing in the community.
Comments: Guess Tipper was going thru her own climate change! And, it takes guts to divorce the man who invented the Internet.
Comments: It only took me 20 yrs...and I should have done it after...2 yrs... Duh....Before children....Women are under pressure not to separate...or divorce.. Hers was the money and the political family as well as the children... The children under age present a 'big' problem..with a woman... Mine was the religious...thing.. Southern Baptist and marrying into the organization...puts pressure on a woman...family disapproves, church disapproves.. the Southern Baptist Convention disapproves...and then you have the children...thing.. It's very hard to get safely and 'peaceably' out...of a marriage.. Men would tell you the same thing...
Comments: Well, all I can say is, it took her 40 years to come to her $enses! Al Gore, Wife Tipper to Separate
Comments: Well...Kathleen..It's not really on your political views..it's on your papers...ancestors, proven ancestors...George Royalty Hopson worked on this for about 30 years..going to Europe, too.. At one time..they probably asked women, men.. that. Many of the older ones are affiliated with civil war, confederate, etc. etc. I have that ancestor..too. I don't chose to belong to the Daughters of the Confederacy... The times they are a-changing...! It's slow, but they are.. Also, early on, they were 'wealthy' people..I'm not...They don't have summer meetings because they all use to go to Europe, every summer..! Several of my DAR friends know my views and history... My goodness, they might even let Lesbians in...! I'm not one, but truly...the times are changing...although there are some 'fundamentalist' groups' that would prefer we return to our old ways.. Hopefully, we will keep the genuine and worthwhile ways, but lose the 'unhealthy' ways... Now I know there can be an argument there...but I'm not going there.. **I just found yet...another version of the King Ranch Casserole...Looks interesting..a little more involved.. Okay, Ta-Ta for now... G....  |
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