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A truly awful and surreal experience. Now 20 years later America has never been the same.
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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer
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Paul B
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Yesterday I went to a Podiatrist. Contrary to popular opinion,
Podiatrists know almost nothing about pods
The nurse came in and stuck my feet in a bucket of something that smelled like Prizapro.
I said, I realize my birthday is on Christmas, but you don't have to wash my feet.
So while I was there he took some X Rays of my feet which are old and I wore them out standing up arguing to people about quarantine,
reverse undergravel filters and home made rock.
Nancy Sinatra once said "These boots were made for walking", Just not this long. The guy wants me to take it easy and rest the feet.
He thinks I should, go to therapy and watch reality shows on TV.
That can't happen so I told him to shoot me.
I mean shoot me with cortisone.
He said it probably wouldn't do anything but he said OK anyway.
He said lay back and this may hurt.
I closed my eyes and then after a few seconds of bliss I screamed "JESUS MARY and JOSEPHINE"
What the heck was that?
That shot really hurt.
Then I realized he didn't give it to me yet, he just dropped a home made bowling ball on my foot that he wanted advice on as to if he should put it in his tank or not or if it would change the pH.
Podiatrists know almost nothing about pods
The nurse came in and stuck my feet in a bucket of something that smelled like Prizapro.
I said, I realize my birthday is on Christmas, but you don't have to wash my feet.
So while I was there he took some X Rays of my feet which are old and I wore them out standing up arguing to people about quarantine,
reverse undergravel filters and home made rock.
Nancy Sinatra once said "These boots were made for walking", Just not this long. The guy wants me to take it easy and rest the feet.
He thinks I should, go to therapy and watch reality shows on TV.
That can't happen so I told him to shoot me.
I mean shoot me with cortisone.
He said it probably wouldn't do anything but he said OK anyway.
He said lay back and this may hurt.
I closed my eyes and then after a few seconds of bliss I screamed "JESUS MARY and JOSEPHINE"
What the heck was that?
That shot really hurt.
Then I realized he didn't give it to me yet, he just dropped a home made bowling ball on my foot that he wanted advice on as to if he should put it in his tank or not or if it would change the pH.
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Paul B
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This weekend a gallery here will feature my work. About 8 of my Steampunk Mechanical pieces and they are having a "meet the artist" thing.
I am hoping Christie Brinkley and some of her friends come by as she lives near here.
(as does Billy Joel, Seinfeld, and many others. )
So hopefully they like "Art"
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I am hoping Christie Brinkley and some of her friends come by as she lives near here.
(as does Billy Joel, Seinfeld, and many others. )
So hopefully they like "Art"
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Paul B
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A guy once worked for me, his name was Warren......Oh wait, lets call him Mike to protect his identity.
We were working at a New York City garbage incinerator. The place was filthy, I mean even the 6" deep piles of maggots you worked in were filthy, every one of them.
Anyway, Mike would come to work wearing dirty clothes, then he would change into different dirty clothes to work in and put on the original dirty clothes to go home in.
Mike used to drive me home sometimes and the first time I got in his car was an adventure.
It was an old Bonneville and I sat in the seat that wasn't repaired with duct tape, it was actually "made" of duct tape. Mike told me his dog ate the seats.
So before he starts the engine, he hands me a bucket.
I said, What is this for? He said it is going to rain and the roof will leak into your lap.
Then he opens the glove compartment and pulls out a light switch, the same type of switch that you turn on your home lights with and switches it on to put the lights on.
We start home and I am getting dizzy. I say, "Mike, I think I am going to die".
He tells me, Oh I forgot, the exhaust leaks into the car under your seat so he gives me a hasmat mask that we wear on the job because of the sulfur fumes.
We get home and my wife is outside. She sees me holding a bucket full of water wearing a hasmat mask. Now she starts yelling and for some reason made me promise I won't ride home with Mike anymore.
Some women are so picky.
We were working at a New York City garbage incinerator. The place was filthy, I mean even the 6" deep piles of maggots you worked in were filthy, every one of them.
Anyway, Mike would come to work wearing dirty clothes, then he would change into different dirty clothes to work in and put on the original dirty clothes to go home in.
Mike used to drive me home sometimes and the first time I got in his car was an adventure.
It was an old Bonneville and I sat in the seat that wasn't repaired with duct tape, it was actually "made" of duct tape. Mike told me his dog ate the seats.
So before he starts the engine, he hands me a bucket.
I said, What is this for? He said it is going to rain and the roof will leak into your lap.
Then he opens the glove compartment and pulls out a light switch, the same type of switch that you turn on your home lights with and switches it on to put the lights on.
We start home and I am getting dizzy. I say, "Mike, I think I am going to die".
He tells me, Oh I forgot, the exhaust leaks into the car under your seat so he gives me a hasmat mask that we wear on the job because of the sulfur fumes.
We get home and my wife is outside. She sees me holding a bucket full of water wearing a hasmat mask. Now she starts yelling and for some reason made me promise I won't ride home with Mike anymore.
Some women are so picky.
Paul B
NJRC Member
It seems I have some little medical issues. I may have some lesions on my lungs and I need surgery on my spine in my neck.
(I am loaded with asbestos and Agent Orange)
All the years I worked commercial construction destroyed the disks in my spine in my neck and my arm is going numb. 4 disks are bone on bone and my neck frowns on that.
Not a big problem but I am not allowed to lift much until I get it fixed. I am just concerned because my wife can't do much on her own with out me.
This will be my 29th operation. If you didn't do anything in your life, you never tore or broke anything.
(I am loaded with asbestos and Agent Orange)
All the years I worked commercial construction destroyed the disks in my spine in my neck and my arm is going numb. 4 disks are bone on bone and my neck frowns on that.
Not a big problem but I am not allowed to lift much until I get it fixed. I am just concerned because my wife can't do much on her own with out me.
This will be my 29th operation. If you didn't do anything in your life, you never tore or broke anything.
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Damn, first off thank you for your service! I recently had back surgery (ALIF fusion), and the recovery was not nearly as horrible as I thought it would have been. Just push yourself as much as possible after surgery. Good luck!It seems I have some little medical issues. I may have some lesions on my lungs and I need surgery on my spine in my neck.
(I am loaded with asbestos and Agent Orange)
All the years I worked commercial construction destroyed the disks in my spine in my neck and my arm is going numb. 4 disks are bone on bone and my neck frowns on that.
Not a big problem but I am not allowed to lift much until I get it fixed. I am just concerned because my wife can't do much on her own with out me.
This will be my 29th operation. If you didn't do anything in your life, you never tore or broke anything.
Paul B
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Thanks Maximus. My wife has a few fused disks in her spine.
Our Daughter lives in Manhattan, 100 miles away has two kids and after 20 years went back to Law school for some silly reason.
She is not coming out here and I really don't want her to because it would be more work for me and my wife.
We have great neighbors who will help with feeding the fish, taking out the garbage and tending to the multitudes of Supermodel well wishers I am expecting so I installed those ropes around the property.
Our Daughter lives in Manhattan, 100 miles away has two kids and after 20 years went back to Law school for some silly reason.
She is not coming out here and I really don't want her to because it would be more work for me and my wife.
We have great neighbors who will help with feeding the fish, taking out the garbage and tending to the multitudes of Supermodel well wishers I am expecting so I installed those ropes around the property.
Paul B
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Paul B
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I know I already told this story so if I did go outside and pull some weeds or treat your athletes foot.
A few years ago (maybe 15) I had to go to Manhattan for some eye muscle surgery. When I looked sideways I saw double. That wasn't good unless I was looking at a Supermodel, then I saw two of her.
If thats not PC exchange Supermodel for Angelfish, but there are many Supermodels in New York and I can't help it
I had to get on the table "naked". I told the nurse, "Are you sure he is working on the right end of me?".
The nurse assured me he was.
The table was polished stainless steel and I could swear they just used it for snow shoveling because it was freezing.
Then they stick the needle into your arm and pump in the stuff that was just in the refrigerator so between the ice covered table, the frozen IV and me being naked was shivering.
One nurse came over to me and thought I was scared of the operation because I was shivering so much and said to me.
"Don't worry Honey, this operation is a snap" or something like that.
I looked around and saw about 6 other female nurses or assistants all of course wearing surgical masks and said:
SCARED! I am laying here naked as a Jaybird surrounded by 7 Gorgeous Ladies, I'm not scared, I'm ecstatic. But cold.
They all were hysterical laughing. (None of them yelled at me for calling them Ladies)
Then the Doctor came in and said : "You have him on the table backwards" which didn't give me a lot of confidence.
They turned me around and had my arm straight out with the IV stuck in it. One nurse said to me, good night.
I said, "Excuse me, when I fall asleep, isn't my arm going to fall down?
She said "Oh My, you are right", and they pulled out the thing that keeps your arm up.
A few years ago (maybe 15) I had to go to Manhattan for some eye muscle surgery. When I looked sideways I saw double. That wasn't good unless I was looking at a Supermodel, then I saw two of her.
If thats not PC exchange Supermodel for Angelfish, but there are many Supermodels in New York and I can't help it
I had to get on the table "naked". I told the nurse, "Are you sure he is working on the right end of me?".
The nurse assured me he was.
The table was polished stainless steel and I could swear they just used it for snow shoveling because it was freezing.
Then they stick the needle into your arm and pump in the stuff that was just in the refrigerator so between the ice covered table, the frozen IV and me being naked was shivering.
One nurse came over to me and thought I was scared of the operation because I was shivering so much and said to me.
"Don't worry Honey, this operation is a snap" or something like that.
I looked around and saw about 6 other female nurses or assistants all of course wearing surgical masks and said:
SCARED! I am laying here naked as a Jaybird surrounded by 7 Gorgeous Ladies, I'm not scared, I'm ecstatic. But cold.
They all were hysterical laughing. (None of them yelled at me for calling them Ladies)
Then the Doctor came in and said : "You have him on the table backwards" which didn't give me a lot of confidence.
They turned me around and had my arm straight out with the IV stuck in it. One nurse said to me, good night.
I said, "Excuse me, when I fall asleep, isn't my arm going to fall down?
She said "Oh My, you are right", and they pulled out the thing that keeps your arm up.
Paul B
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Today is the start of our friends 5 year reunion. Right after high school we were in a large crowd here in New York. In the 60s and 70s most men, or boys were in the Service and many, like myself in Viet Nam.
That left mostly girls who were all friends. A bunch of them took me out to dinner when I got drafted and eventually they got married and that is our crowd.
Some still live here in New York but most moved away. Some in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and one in Hawaii.
They are starting to come back here today and we will pick some up from the airport.
It will be great to see them all but I can't believe how much us "Kids" all changed in 55+ years.
We are all still kicking except one, my best friend Tommy who died last year from Covid.
Almost all now have some sort of medical issue but they are all making it back and I am excited.
I even dated three of them before I met my wife who is 6 years younger then me so was a baby then.
That left mostly girls who were all friends. A bunch of them took me out to dinner when I got drafted and eventually they got married and that is our crowd.
Some still live here in New York but most moved away. Some in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and one in Hawaii.
They are starting to come back here today and we will pick some up from the airport.
It will be great to see them all but I can't believe how much us "Kids" all changed in 55+ years.
We are all still kicking except one, my best friend Tommy who died last year from Covid.
Almost all now have some sort of medical issue but they are all making it back and I am excited.
I even dated three of them before I met my wife who is 6 years younger then me so was a baby then.