Topic: down for the count..

[spudafett]

man in my life, when it rains it comes a monsoon....

[narceron]

God doesn't give us more than we can handle, but sometimes it sure feels like it,

on the plus side, I do have a box for ya,

[spudafett]

  yay!

btw I have now completely moved out of the appartment.. as has Dawn.  Today was out "last day" together...  it was very very stressfull.  I am now at my parents and for the last 3 hours have been trying to get my room put together and my computer working.

I finally got my busted laptop working on an old monitor I had...  but for some reason it keeps locking up on me.  The fan inside the laptop case is rattling pretty bad and I think that the processor might be overheating...

anyways... I hope to get all my customizing supplies ironed out and in an area in my room where it's comfortable to work.  It won't be as nice as the kitchen table I did have to work on but I'll make due. 

as for Dawn and I... I put "last day" in quotes because over the last week we've both had more of a coming together than pulling apart and I realy do think this "seperation" will bring us closer to the relationship we used to have.  I know that I will probably wind up going to visit her in a few weeks, or her coming down to visit me...

I just hope that she gets everything settled in at her mom's and that her mom isn't too much of a bi#$#% to her.  It took two packed trailer loads of junk to move all her stuff up there...

I think I mentioned in a previous post that the load that my parents took up caused their van's transmission to go out on the way back....

luckilly her mom's boyfriends truck and trailer were alot better off than our old mini-van and made it back just fine.  I havn't talked to Dawn since she arived there and I hope that she got everything unloaded ok and is settling in and doing alright...

I know if she is as emotionally disrupted as I am at the moment she will be having a hard time...

but we both will prevail... I hope...

now I've just got to get back and foccused on school, graduating, job searching, and back surgery....  (the worst part of it is that Dawn was more supportive of me with all these things than any cane or crutch could ever be... I now feel as though I'm facing these endevores alone....)

[Phatty]

Man, buddy, that's some rough news.  I'm a big believer that we can't climb out until we've hit rock bottom, and it sounds like you have, so there's no where else to go but up!

[spudafett]

well... I'm a geologist... so hitting rock bottom should be in my job description.   

[narceron]

I wouldn't say you're alone. . .you might wish for better company, but we'll always be here for ya.

And I'm only, umm, 50 miles away, we can hang out if you need to feel better about yourself. .. i.e. "Wow, that guy is fat, I have smashed vertebrae and I can climbs stairs faster. .. "

And then there's seg, you guys can have a hobble olympics,


Cheer up, mate, hit the books, get your convalescence and get the heck out of dodge, errr, Murray and maybe it'll be just in time to rescue the lady from the Beast(I call my mother in law the beast, lol).

[spudafett]

"and their off...
hobbling forward at break back speeds....
they've gone a whole foot folks! look at that...
oh... and we have a blowout folks... looks like one of the contestants has completely faulted... pushed that disk too far didn't he!"

ok... man I am hurting this morning....  didn't sleep at all last night and woke up this morning at 8:00 and couldn't get out of bed.

I think I'm going to go outside and sit in the hot tub for a while... I'm skipping class and work today so I might as well try and enjoy it.  Now I need to find some grub... I'm starving (and I ate all my hot pockets last night )

[dana.raye.smith]

MMMmmmmmmmm......... Molten lava hot peperoni greaseys........
No wonder you had a hard time sleeping...

[Tamer]

Devin, sure does look like a nice day to skip. Wish I would have, I do plan to skip a bit in a few weeks to go chase some whitetails.  I sure hope your separation does you guys some healing. I hate to think of good folks hurting, both physically and mentally.

[spudafett]

I think if nothing else it will lessen the hurt on our wallets! she won't be paying the 450 in rent plus 200-300 in utilities every month now that she is  living with her mom!

lol dana I ate a philly cheese steak and a BBQ beef... although I definately prefer classic pepperoni myself

[spudafett]

well surgery is tomorrow.  I'm not supposed to have any medicines in my system the rest of the day... I realy wasn't supposed to be taking anything for the last 7 days, not even Ibeuprofin, but I did anyway... Hopefully I don't bleed to death on the operating table...

Right now I'm hurting pretty bad, I went in for preliminary stuff this morning and had to walk all over the dang hospital to get an x-ray, then a EKG, and finally they drew blood.  It took me almost 2 hours at the hospital this morning...

I got to class late and only stayed for the one class... the department was having a pot-luck lunch so I grabbed a bite to eat.> I was planning on staying but got to hurting pretty bad when I got back to my car and decided instead of trying to stay I'd just go on home and crash....

I'm gonna go take a nap and I think later on tonight I'll work on some molds and casts.... since I know I won't feel up to it tomorrow afternoon...

Wish me luck guys. 

The way I see it is expect me not to post much the next few days... or at all....

if I disapear for more than a week though, I'm probably dead! lol.   I know it's no laughing matter, but... as long as I joke about it I don't get freaked out.  I've never done anything like this.  I know it's a routine procedure but I am a little freaked out now that the time is comming near.......

if your the religeous type, say a prayer for me....

[Clonehead]

Good luck, Devin. We will be thinking about you.

[Reconsgt]

Good Luck, Speaking from someone who had parts of 2 vertabre removed, I can say that it will be fine, I had instant relief comming out of surgery. I had a 4 day hospital stay after but other than that it was an easy recovery, hard part is not overdoing it to soon after words.

[narceron]

hehe, its times like this, I wanna make jokes about an Obama death panel.

Good luck man, segnett was afraid of surgery, treatment, needles, being in an mri, his shadow, all of that, and it did not turn out well.

So you manning up and getting the surgery, thats the right thing to do, my friend, good luck.

We'll see you on the other side. .. of the operation, not the grave,

[Tamer]

Good luck Devin. I will be saying a prayer for you.