Sorry I havn't been around

[JD]

Sorry all, had a ton on my plate and not much of it was good.

Started out with a sinus infection. That turned into bronchitis. That started to turn into pneumonia. Still coughing quite a bit. Got so bad last week, I ended up in the ER with severe chest pains. That's when I found out I might have the start of pneumonia, as well as cracking two ribs from coughing. That was the cause of the severe chest pain when I would cough. Slowly getting better.

Also had a really messed up situation to deal with. I am not going to go into great details right now, but lets just say some people are lower than a pile of snot. The situation has made me absolutely sick. If I did not fear incarceration so much, I would be delivering the mother of all beat downs.

So, its just been a pretty crappy couple weeks. Although it is mostly improving, just not as fat as I would like on any account. I am hoping to start writing again in the next couple days, but my mind just wasn't at all into it.

Sorry for the vent, and y'all behave. I'll be back as soon as I can, just stopped in to answer all the PM's.

Thanks,

JD

[bertman]

Hang in there Buddy get better.Don't make me come up there.I got your back.

[deerslayer]

Good luck JD, have been thinking for hte last week we havent seen you around. Hope all works out for you bud, we will behave until you get back, so dont rush! On a side note, I had walking pneumonia a few years ago and it SUCKED, I can understand your discomfort. Thoughts and prayers are sent your way buddy!

[hussker]

Good luck buddy!!

[buckfever]

there's nothing worse than a bad cough with a rib injury. hang tough.

[grassi25]

I'll pray for ya.

[allhunter]

sorry to hear that buddy. take them vitamins and get healthy again. me to talk tho i was throwin up yesterday and almost passed out this mornin lol all better now tho

[passinthru]

Keep your chin up everyday things will get just a little better.

[mrdlschmidt]

Good luck JD.

[smokeinthewoods]

Hang in there JD.

As Red Green would say..."We're pullin' for you. We're all in this together."

Smoke...

[JD]

Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers everyone.

The Bronchitis is getting better! Not gone, but the coughing has subsided quite a bit. I also have not had a bad coughing fit for a day and a half now. You know, where you cough so hard you start to pass out. Yeah, those suck big time.

The other thing is finally straightening out, sort of. Here's the deal.

A good friend of mine was in a severe car accident 2 years ago. He crushed his hip/pelvis, punctured a lung, and tore his aorta coming out of his heart. At the time, they gave him a 2% chance of living. After 21 straight hours on the operating table, he pulled through. Ended up with a cow heart valve, and on a ventilator for almost a month. He then underwent reconstructive surgery for his hi/pelvis. He was in the hospital for 2 1/2 months. This happened in California, then he came back to our town to live with his mother. I took him to therapy 3 times per week for 5 months. In that time he went from a wheelchair, to a walker, to a cane. He is disabled still, but can get around somewhat OK. He was denied disability, and is awaiting his final appeal which is a little over a year from now.

OK, that was the back story. His mother, and I use that term very loosely, has gone off her rocker. She takes 20-30 Rx medications, plus she is an alcoholic. She has blamed every one of her problems on her son. She has no money because he is living with her. Mind you, he gets food stamps and my wife and I clothe him, pay for his cell phone, pay for his doctor appointments and meds, pretty much everything besides food. His mother had his sister kick him out, and put him on a plane back to California. They gave him a ticket, and $20. We went out there to see if basically he could survive.

This woman does not care 1oz about her son, and whether he lives or dies. She can not accept any blame her self, and placed everything on him. What kind of person could do that to their child. She even when so far as to tell him he was a mistake, and that she should of just had an abortion. I mean seriously, this woman is nuttier than squirrel turds.

Well, things didn't work out in California for him at all. Remember, he is disabled and not just trying to milk the system. He is asleep on my couch right now as I type this. My wife and I flew him back yesterday. Don't know whats going to transpire in the next year, but there is no way I could sleep at night knowing he was homeless, which was his only other option. I found a like new travel trailer for $3,500. I am seriously considering buying it in the spring, parking it next to our house, and letting him live in there. I think that might be the best option available. This guy is like a brother to me, and I can not just set him loose and forget about him.

So, that is the shortened condensed version. Sorry for the rant, but I needed to vent a bit to some people who are not involved in it.

Have a good one,

JD

[Marine]

Before you purchase and place that trailer make sure that the city does not have any laws against it. Namely having somebody living in it on a semi permanent basis. There may also be HOA bylaws you will have to deal with. I say go for it and help your buddy out, just make sure that you aren't going to be risking and fee/fines and then he would be out of a place to stay and you out 3500 for your trailer.

[JD]

We live in a small, rural town. Basically the city's stance is, your property your business. As long as it poses no outright inherent danger to others. At least that is what I was told when I called and inquired about it.

Thanks for the thought though, and welcome to the board.

[deerslayer]

JD, your a heck of a guy, takes a special person to go out of there way for someone, let alone someone not related to them! Your friend is very lucky. Unfortuanatly, in your friends case, a persons true charactor comes out when they are really needed, sounds to be the case with his mother. It sucks, really does, but at least he has someone like you. Its sad about the disabilty, thousands of dead beats get to claim that, never get questioned when aplying for it, but someone who truly needs it cannot. Welcome to our society aint it grand!!!!! A true test of charactor is doing the right thing even when no one is looking!

[allhunter]

wow JD thats defenatly the working of a saint

[passinthru]

Jd you are a great friend for doing what your doing. Most people would just let things take their course. Im glad to hear there are people that still do the right thing. You the man and i applaud you.

[JD]

Thank you for the kind words. Saintly may be going way too far though.LOL

My wife and I are as charitable as we can be. We just do not give any money to charities. The way we go about it, we know that the person/persons actually get some help. Three years ago this Christmas, I got a call from my mom. She is with a group called "friends of the library". They do all sorts of helping things and hold fund raisers for certain things. She asked me if we had any toys in decent shape we would be willing to give away. When I asked why, she told me a young mother of two had come into the library asking if they were doing presents for children who would not have a Christmas. The library had dropped the program, but my mom took her info. This young gal and her husband had gotten laid off and couldn't afford anything for the children. Four hours later, I was at my parents with two big bags of new toys. My wife and I agreed that children should have new toys to open on Christmas, not hand me downs. Especially when the children were 5 and 7, old enough to know that toys come in packaging. We included a Christmas card for the mom and dad with a $50 gift certificate for Pizza Hut. My only request to my mom was, we were to remain anonymous. I don't know them, and they do not know us. But I do know they were incredibly thankful for us giving their children a Christmas.

As I have gotten older, some things have become more clear. One of which is, when you die you don't take any possessions with you. I would never let my children go without, or not pay bills, but I get a lot more out of helping someone here or there than that little bit of money sitting in the bank. I cannot describe the feeling my wife and I had that Christmas morning, knowing that two young children were excitedly tearing open their presents.

As for my friend, like I said he is like a brother to me. I wouldn't let family get kicked tot he curb, and I won't allow it with him. Ever since we started helping him, he has made me keep track of how much it is. I do that for him. He really wants to pay us back. I could care less if he does or not, that isn't why we gave him the help in the first place. But right now, about the only thing he has left in this world is pride, and I won't do anything to take that away from him.

As far as disability goes, what a joke. It burns my rear that there are people in this country who are obviously, blatantly, milking the system. All the while people who are really disabled get denied, and have to wait incredibly long times for there appeals. We did get some great news yesterday though. He got a letter from his attorney informing him that his court date has been moved up a full year. So, this January we will get to go and find out if he gets his disability. That helped his attitude quite a bit.

Sorry for the drawn out, rambling. I think I may have taken too much codeine. Hope I didn't say something I will regret later.LOL Going to bed, see ya later!

[passinthru]

I still say good for you JD. You are one of the few good ones. Willing to sacrifice for someone you dont know does kinda make you a saint in a way. Keep up the good work and karma will pay you back.

[dagr8bilster]

Last Year I had the H1N1 and it slowed me down a bit but I never even went to the doctor for it. Funny thing is that something like poison ivy sends me to the doctor for shot but the virus that actually kills people just slows me a bit. Ironic huh?

Keep up your spirits and know that we here you're friends are all wishing you well and have you in our thoughts and prayers. Faith in being well sometimes is more powerful than modern medicine...after all faith has been around far longer than modern medicine. Keep the faith.

[deerslayer]

Good luck to your buddy JD wish him the best of luck, I know first hand about peaple not getting the help that they need but seeing worthless pos's living fat on the gov. Things have a way of coming around, stand tall!!!!