Friday, March 10, 2006 

Leaving on a Jet Plane

For the last several hours, I have been listening to Peter, Paul, and Mary’s greatest hit in 1969, Leaving on a Jet Plane. The song was recorded in 1967 but not released until 1969 – it remains their first and last great hit.

What does all this have to do with the moment you might ask? The answer is simple; I can no longer continue Blogging unless my health improves. Said and done! How I wish it could be different. I leave you with a few lines of the lyrics but listening to the song is so much better:

I'm ... I'm ...

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

But the dawn is breakin', it's early morn
The taxi's waitin', he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go

'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
I don't know when I'll be back again
Oh, babe, I hate to go

Posted by Edd|11:54 AM | |

Monday, March 06, 2006 

The Couch, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Me…

Yep, it’s the shower again folks or at least that’s where it began. Just as I was about to step in the shower I looked down at my chest and realized I had forgotten to clean out or flush my feeding tube.

I am alone in the house right so I get the special funnel and a cup with some water in it. Normally it takes two people because my hands shake worse than Elvis Presley’s knees when he sang “Jail House Rock” in 1957. But I have overcome that obstacle by lying on the couch in the den semi propped up; knees bent upward, water in the cup on my left side, and the funnel in my lap.

Then it is easy to pinch off the tube with my right hand, pop open the top with my left and insert the funnel into the tube, grab the cup of water in my left hand while holding the funnel and tube against my knees to steady the shaking. After making sure the funnel is not shaking, I lift the cup of water, rest it against my knee, and pour the water into the funnel filling it about a fourth of the way from the top. After un-pinching the tube, the water flows through the tube rinsing it out. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Try it when you are buck-naked and two Jehovah's Witnesses come to your side door with a slanted view directly to the couch! With flailing legs, torso, and arms, I had water all over the couch, carpet, and me. The look on those poor women’s faces was priceless. By the time, I had run back to the bath to recover my robe, they were gone.

I have no problem with the Jehovah’s Witnesses and if they want to read me, a passage out of Isaiah then that is fine. I am a good Lutheran, I wonder if they will ever be back.

Posted by Edd|8:24 PM | |

Sunday, March 05, 2006 

Least I Should Forget

Never, never should my nitroglycerin be far from my side! A little over an hour ago, the wife and grandson are at church, and while taking a shower, a brutal and vicious angina attack knocked me to my knees. And where was my nitro, in the bedroom of course – it should have been in the bathroom with me.

Always, always the first thought is another heart attack but it could turn out too late. If you are conscious and have least tried your nitro for a total of fifteen minutes (that is the max before calling 911 but me, twenty or twenty-five is good) you can sometimes tell the difference.

It took almost fifteen minutes, although counting I was not, to get just to the bedroom door. After another, however much time and still conscious, I reached my bottle of nitro. Five sprays later, yes I use the Nitrolingual Pumpspray, one spray every five minuets and if the pain does not subside my doctor says get you’re a-s over to the phone and dial 911. Well, like the good patient that I am, it is at least four or five sprays and then you call 911. I HATE the Emergency Room with a PASSION!!

As you can see by these words, my body is still alive and kicking but the nitro-headache has already begun and will last a good 12 to 24 hours…

See you soon…I hope because when the wife finds out my nitro was not with me, more than S-T is going to hit the fan…

Posted by Edd|11:29 AM | |

Saturday, March 04, 2006 

Soccer and Tee

Grandmother and Tee are off to soccer this morning for two games. They are playing double headers one at 9:45 AM and one at 12 noon. Now for the price of outfitting one ten-year-old boy:

New Addis Soccer Cleats $39.95
New socks with shin guards $ 9.99
New Addis Under-Shirt $29.95
New Addis Black shorts $11.50
New Team T-Shirt $ 6.95
New Addis soccer ball $10.95

Total cost: $109.29

And Oh yes, he has guitar lessons at 2:30 PM at $12.50 per 30 minutes – starting this Saturday and every Saturday until I am broke.

Hopefully, his father will make the first game, as he has to be back in Columbia to finish packing. He is leaving for Biloxi, Mississippi, in the morning for training in the latest military satellite encryption methods for three months and then to Fort Gordon, Georgia for an additional three to six months before a possible redeployment to Iraq with the Air National Guard.

See you soon…

Posted by Edd|10:04 AM | |

Thursday, March 02, 2006 

The Oscar and Brokeback Mountain

Having read extensively I remain a mediocre writer and one without the eloquence of words or wit. The following are just some quick thoughts on a post titled Cowpoking by RW over at Chasing Vincenzo:

As for the Oscars, no $4 fee paid, I have never watched one single show but that is in my case only. I know my wife and daughter watch them occasionally when there is a particular movie they are routing to win. A movie fan I am not but that is not to say I have not seen my share of movies and even have favorites. Give me a good book any day and I am completely satisfied.

On the subject of the gay and lesbian world, what two consenting people do in their own home is their business. I have three good friends, two gay and one lesbian, who continue to this day as wonderful individuals. Why is there not four - because “A” took care of her partner for three years until she died of breast cancer?

Do we talk about sexuality? Yes, occasionally but never to criticize. As a person has the ability to not read a particular book or watch a specific television show, they also do not have to spend money on a movie such as “Brokeback Mountain” if it offends them.

Does it offend me if a great leader, movie actor, or politician is gay or lesbian no, because it is their ability to lead, act, or represent me in the best possible manner? To answer one question that may be on the tip of your tongue, I am a Republican not a Democrat.


See you soon…

Posted by Edd|11:37 PM | |