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1. about 15 hours ago on Pickles

   If I hadn’t have looked on your profile I would have missed your reply. Another notification I didn’t get.

   Today (Wed) I spent 8 hours either on the phone and taking notes. Or making notes. And writing a 2 page letter to the Wound VAC company with all the dates, times, who I talked to, what they told me etc. I listed in these order including the dates of the correspondence they sent me, when I got it, the dates, times and who had called who hadn’t responded to me.

   I told them they needed to change their company letterhead that said they enjoyed taking care of their customers if they didn’t respond to their customers!

   I’m going to try to look up your Church on YouTube so it will be in my history. That is IF I remember to.

   Tomorrow I’ve got to call the state worker who called me Monday as I was leaving out the door with barely time to make it to town to go to the pharmacy and credit Union. Told her I had two appointments Tuesday. Wednesday I would be calling the state SpendDown unit & the nurse was coming to change my Wound Vac so call me Thursday.

   Guess who called today while I had the another state agency on the line while the nurse was working on my arm as I was trying to take notes? I couldn’t do call waiting with the speaker on or I would have lost the state worker I was talking to. And it wasn’t Thursday yet!

   So tomorrow I have to call her and get that out of the way so I can make phone calls to four other providers!

   The Wound Vac is slowly pulling tissue up into the gap from the bottom. It’s a slow process that goes faster as time goes along. It’s still as wide and long just not as deep. It feels like 10,000 tiny Tomcats are fighting in there! It’s only very painful if I managed to push on the suction connection over the gash!

   As Jimmy Buffett said If we weren’t crazy we would all go insane. Take care of yourself my friend!

2. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   Look up what he said about her doing away with Farley. It’s been discussed SEVERAL times in the comments here since this story arc started.

3. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   No he’s not. He just went back to his home planet!

   We were on vacation Dad, Mom, Little Brother & I. I’d been 16 about 7 months. I was driving Mom’s 68 Malibu with my CB radio put in it. We were about 3 hours from Memphis when a trucker coming from there said his sister worked for the Sherriff’s Department & had called him on his radio phone to tell him Elvis was dead. the closer we got, the crazier the CB traffic got.

   By the time I drove into Memphis, the place was nuts! EVERYBODY was crying or walking around like they were on Zombies. People were driving while bawling their eyes out. I stopped to fill up the gas tank & the attendant was crying so hard he was blubbering!

   One memory that stands out was the little old white haired man & woman who were behind us going through Memphis. I could barely see her frizzy white hair sticking up over the steering wheel so she had to be looking between the dash & steering wheel to see to drive! You could see the bottle in the brown paper bag pop up when they passed it to each other to take a drink. EVERY stoplight they’d lock up the brakes & skid to a stop just ALMOST rear ending us. My hind end was puckered TIGHT!

   When we hit 5 Highway North in AR they were working on both North & Southbound lanes, switching both lanes of North & Southbound traffic back & forth into 1 lane each going both ways in either the North OR Southbound sides as they worked on the other side. Dark night, raining & NO LIGHTS on the signs with the arrows directing you to go back & forth from North side to South side on the rough dirt & gravel crossovers.

   This went on way up into MO, for a total of 200+ miles. It was the most stressful driving I’ve EVER done, eyes watering, back & shoulders knotted & cramping. NOT a job for a 16 year old boy!

   The last 20 some miles of Northbound 5 before you got to East-West US 60 were ok. Once I hit 60 it was a 30 minute drive home.

   That’s why I’ll NEVER forget the day Elvis died!

4. 4 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   How long will it will be before those I referred to will recognize their description and reveal themselves by their childish reply?

5. 4 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Yes chief tommy, that would simply be good manners, AND the decent thing to do. MANY people have asked for NO SPOILERS, which is simple decency.

   But there are two notable Sons-of-Mothers-that-bark that have already proven they are incapable of doing that. Being decent human beings is beyond their capabilities. What’s worse is that they seem to proud of being immature and antagonistic. Obviously children who were never taught to behave by their fathers. Probably because their Mothers didn’t know who the Fathers were. There’s a name for those.

   Thank goodness for the people who raised their kids to not be brats as children OR adults!

6. 4 days ago on Pickles

   A few days ago there were several commenting on For Better or Worse that were

   A. The products of inbreeding.

   B. Keyboard cowards.

   C. Just obnoxious by nature.

   D. All of the above.

   I say the answer is D.

   I let one of the worst get under my skin and told him he was like a bad fart. Foul and offensive. Unpleasant to be around. Noxious and not liked by anyone. Then I told him how I really felt. I made another comment to one of the other ones that the F.B.O.W. comic was about life AND like life. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. We have to take the bad as it comes because of this fact.

   We can’t all be farting rainbows all the time! That comment had 59 likes before I noticed all of my likes and replies, even that whole huge block of comments and replies in that section had been taken down. Your reply to me about Here I sit whining was the only notification that was left showing.

   Anyhow, after thinking I had a grip on the spenddown situation under control I got two letters Saturday that were in conflict with what the State worker had told me! Here we go again… Call them tomorrow morning several times and see what the story is now according to the NEXT State worker…

   I just don’t want to end up without Medicaid coverage next month and get in a bigger jam. ESPECIALLY after finding out I shouldn’t have been paying since February 2023!

   This Wound Vac is driving me bonkers with all the leaks, everything in the world that makes it shut down. I fought with it for 14 HOURS Saturday night till Sunday morning when I finally got 3 almost hours sleep. Tomorrow and Tuesday will be a royal pain with all the different things I have to get done. IF everything goes smoothly, which it won’t.

   Bedtime for me. Arm still smellin, feet & legs still swellin, brain cells are jellin!

   Take care my friend.

   P.S. How do I find your Church on YouTube? I’ll figure out the link. I think. If I don’t blink. My poetry stinks!

7. 4 days ago on Pickles

   Let me know if you get this, I may be banned.

   I had a reply typed out but when I hit comment it wouldn’t send.

   It’s 2 days after Groundhog day.

8. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   You just don’t forget that… aroma. I know, I had to go in to help a friend of mine identify his Father. Unpleasant over 45 years later.

9. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Be glad it wasn’t a freezer full of smoked pork that’s been thawed out for about 3 weeks before the lid is opened…

   Now that’s a smell you won’t forget. It’s been over 40 years since that happened and just typing this has put a bad taste in the back of my throat.

   We piled about 4 pickup loads of old fenceposts, scrap wood and cedar stumps in and on that freezer, then burned it. IT STILL HAD A TINGE OF ROTTEN!

10. 5 days ago on Pickles

    Here I am whining about all this when I have a roof over my head, good cold well water to drink, a well-stocked pantry & everything else so many in the world don’t have. OR know when they will have even ONE of those things.

    Humble pie can be hard to swallow when you stop to think about it. Just keeps getting bigger the longer you chew on it.

    So will that be Saturday the 20th? I guess that makes you a 58 model. I’ve got it in my calendar.

    As my buddy Stevie would say (he’s a 57 model). Well, you missed being a Classic by ONE year. His Dad had several 57 Chevys over the years & always said they were Classics, just like his boy!

    As always, I thank you for your prayers, empathy & friendship.