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Post by The Captain on Jun 15, 2017 14:56:32 GMT -5
15 years ago today, I stood before family, friends, and God to exchange wedding vows with my lovely wife. In the ensuing decade-and-a-half, my love for her has done nothing but grow, as she is an amazing partner to me and incredible mother to our daughters. She is my best friend in the entire world, and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for the two of us in the years to come.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 17:06:59 GMT -5
15 years ago today, I stood before family, friends, and God to exchange wedding vows with my lovely wife. In the ensuing decade-and-a-half, my love for her has done nothing but grow, as she is an amazing partner to me and incredible mother to our daughters. She is my best friend in the entire world, and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for the two of us in the years to come. Congrats! Hope you get many more years together.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 19:42:50 GMT -5
15 years ago today, I stood before family, friends, and God to exchange wedding vows with my lovely wife. In the ensuing decade-and-a-half, my love for her has done nothing but grow, as she is an amazing partner to me and incredible mother to our daughters. She is my best friend in the entire world, and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for the two of us in the years to come. Congrats man. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 19:58:13 GMT -5
Quick updates-healing is going well, I have only another week or two on the wound vac, then a week or two with just gauze dressing before I am back to semi-normal. I'll have lifting restrictions for a while afterwards though. Dodged a bullet last week, a CT scan revealed I had developed an abscess under the incision that was going to require the insertion of a drain, but the day it was to be done, a new CT scan revealed the abscess has shrunk on its own and no drain was needed. The other good side effect of all this is that I have dropped 40 pounds since Easter weekend (necessary to take pressure of the muscles in my abdomen moving forward). Still a ways to go though.
So health wise for me things are moving along well. It's been a rough week otherwise though. Found out Tuesday, my mom's significant other woke up paralyzed form the waist down and had a malignant tumor on his spine. Surgery removed it, but he has to go through another few rounds of chemo now after completing a chemo course at the end of next year.
Another issue, but of less significance in the scheme of things-we had the new windows installed on Monday/Tuesday that we ordered just before my surgery, so promptly the next day our HVAC system died Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a near 90's/85% humidity every day for a week stretch here (which adversely affects the vaccuum seal on the dressing for the wound vac as sweat loosens the hold of the tape on the edges), so we went out and got a portable room AC today after having the HVAC guys here and learning we need a whole new HVAC system (going in next Thursday), so it's going to be a lot less comfortable in the house the next week. Of course today my wife's car was in the shop to get a new drive belt, the do was at the vet where we learned he had heartworm, and other various things life had decided to throw at us in this moment.
It'll be a rough few weeks, but we'll survive and we're lucky we are in a position to weather it all, not a lot of families could handle the concentrated drain on resources. But we have good insurance so the medical bills were covered about 90% and health savings covered the rest, we had a house fund set up to cover the windows and just enough to cover the HVAC too, but it is a drain on the rainy day stash and the rest of the year will have to be frugal as we rebuild it.
Other than that, things keep on keeping on. Keeping busy, trying to build up stamina again, and been pretty much staying away from the computer and dong other things for the last 2 months.
Hope everyone is well and I'll see you around when I get through to the other side.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 15, 2017 22:09:38 GMT -5
Glad to hear everything is going fairly well for you mrp.
Gasped as I read a few of the things you listed but relieved that you have a handle on things.
Good to hear from you again as well.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 18, 2017 20:03:26 GMT -5
I didn't know Diana Rigg was still acting. I was reading her Wikipedia page and she plays a character in Game of Thrones. Nice to hear she's still out there acting.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 20:28:21 GMT -5
I didn't know Diana Rigg was still acting. I was reading her Wikipedia page and she plays a character in Game of Thrones. Nice to hear she's still out there acting. A dear friend of mine told me that and she liked to keep busy and she just completed a film called Breathe that she plays a character by the name of Lady Nevill. Her memory and mind is very sharp and she hadn't slowed down at all. And, she only 78 years of age and she's planning on working until she decides to quit; and that's might not happen in the next 3-5 years.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 19, 2017 5:19:28 GMT -5
Good to hear from you @mrp. Those are financial hits that you've taken. I'm glad you can weather them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 8:24:31 GMT -5
shaxper ... I think that avatar of your is the first animated gif that you've ever used here in this Site. Is that true or not?
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Post by shaxper on Jun 19, 2017 8:30:41 GMT -5
shaxper ... I think that avatar of your is the first animated gif that you've ever used here in this Site. Is that true or not? Yup. I actually created it a long while back but never ended up using it. Jesse's SOC Voltron thread inspired me to resurrect it.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 20, 2017 13:47:15 GMT -5
As a Canadian, I wish to apologize to the rest of the universe for the existence of this woman. She throws a tantrum because the clinic she took her kid to doesn't have "white" doctors. "What kind of a horrible country do I live in?" she asks. The horror, the horror... what will it be next? Being seen by a ginger doctor? An overweight one, a southpaw, or even a doctor who roots for the Boston Bruins? The horror! Won't anyone think of the children? I am f**** ashamed to be a human being right now.
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Post by impulse on Jun 20, 2017 14:12:31 GMT -5
I am f**** ashamed to be a human being right now. As an American, this is how just over half of us have felt since November.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 20, 2017 14:31:59 GMT -5
I am f**** ashamed to be a human being right now. As an American, this is how just over half of us have felt since November. So much so that I would like to make America great again.
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Post by impulse on Jun 20, 2017 15:43:18 GMT -5
Okay, I've been trying to lose weight for a couple months. Been doing pretty well tracking calorie intake, but man, it's summer. i just want to eat ice cream every day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 16:25:05 GMT -5
Roquefort Raider - your recent post makes my blood boil over! ... I just can't believe what I just read.
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