Boys and girls

[dwalt]

Where are you??  I was down  3 days with my back. Go to a surgeon the 14th.  Hey wake up ya'll!!!!

[flippr 2.0]

i'm here at the shop.it's a slow day.

[Lifesighs]

What is the surgeon going to do? Hope it's successful I know you've been suffering with it.

[dwalt]

I honestly don't know.  He is a spine sureon and a fried of mine used him.  Got to go get my records from another place to take.  Keep ya'lls fingers crossed!!!!

[flippr 2.0]

good luck..fingers crossed

[dwalt]

Ok, so where is Wayne?

[flippr 2.0]

it wasn't my turn to watch him...was it?

[Shadowman]

I am also here at the shop so to speak. Ordinarily I do not check in much in the first half of the week due to work coming in and I have some demanding attention.  However, it has been increasingly difficult to force myself to do it this summer. Last week Monday I would not let myself have a cup of coffee until I graded a paper, and then another, and then another. Eventually I didn't want anymore coffee (hard to believe I know).  This is a sign so people say that one should move on to something else.

dwalt: Hope the modern day version of "Beads and Rattles" (as Spock used to call it on Star Trek) works out for you.

[crestofwaves]

Shadowman, take it from one who recently retired.  YES, that is a sign.  I could not STAND reading any more badly written, boring papers.  I had no desire to help anymore, I just got angry with the incompetence I was reading and knew it was time for me to go.

I was called back and just finished four months as a permanent sub, and, OMG!!!  I resented every second of everything I did.  I was  a wonderful, engaged teacher for decades. Then, suddenly,I wasn't anymore.

[dwalt]

Thanks, I'm not really in the world for this type of medical services (Seattle) but time to get serious about this while I have good insurance.

[Merry]

I'm taking a break from going completely OCD. I hope you feel better dwalt. Gorgeous here in Maine.

[Shadowman]

Merry I stayed in your town after finishing my long, long hike. It was in a place owned by a guy that worked at a supermarket or store there in Millinocket and he let rooms for the night to hikers. Then next day I took a shuttle service to a shuttle bus that came to a convenience store outside of town, and that took me to Bangor and a Greyhound which took me back to the Country of the Midwest.

[frenchy]

i hope it comes out ok for you dwalt .. them back surgeries can be great or just more bad news .. debbie , who is a member here , but don't come here all that much had a few and they still wanted to do more .. poor girl .. she finally said no more .. you ain't touchin me ever again and she has to bite the bullet everyday .. if you know whats gonna be done i can ask her if its the same thing she had done .. its always good to get it from somebody who's been there .. and not just from the dr. .. i remember i had a cystoscope once and the dr told me i would have some mild discomfort .. mild discomfort my ass .. when i woke up and had to pee i ripped the toilet seat offa the toilet still half under anesthesia i was in so much pain .. i wanted to punch that dr in the nose really hard and tell him did you feel that ?? thats mild discomfort .. and then bounce him offa all four walls in his office and say still mild discomfort .. now you wanna go for what i feel like right now or would you like to ammend what you think mild discomfort is .. ehh.. i'm over it now ..