The "Shake Off The Bad Voodoo GiveAway"...umm...giveaway

Akapennypincher said:
Good News comes in many forms like a doctor telling you the last test results says you are CANCER FREE. No prize just more life, hopefully.
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Buddy, if there's any semblance to real life in that, a mighty HALLELUJAH is in order. Best thing I've encountered/heard all day.
 
stabman said:
If those results belong to you or someone you know, that is a prize. :thumbup:
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Well I was the recipient of that good News a week a go.. But every time I go down to my Departmet of Veterians Affairs Medical Center, all I need to is look to see how lucky I am compared with others.

I see guy in power self propelled wheel chairs, with oxygen running to keep them alive. I see the amputees from our involvement in Iraq, and Afganistan.

Remember sitting in the prostetics department one day. Young guy come in clean cut, I can only see himi from the waist up because chairs blocks the view of his lower body. He checks in the staff Al know him, he is joking, and lauging, and seem to be in a great mood. I would guess thecguy was late 20's.

He comes over to sit by me,vand wait his turn to see one of the technicians. His shorts that are about knee length, they reveal two hi tech prostetics legs. I do not need to as I am sure he was a victim of war.

VA Hospitals are a learning experience.
 
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Officer's Match said:
Good folks around here, I wish everyone could see that as easily as I can.
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Problem is VA Hospitals are not something people got to in course of normal activities. Like grocery store, gas station, or Wal-Mart.

Trust me , I have been lucky in life. Only time I was ever a inpatient in any hospital was in military service, that was in the 1960's during Vietnam.

Since July I have been a guest of the VA as an inpatient twice, on other overnight stay in what te MEDIA CALLED THE WORST VA HOSPITAL IN THE SYSTEM. I got great care, saved my life twice, and sometimes after these little bumps in life's roads. Just going outside on a humid night to smell the smells of traffic, flowers, the smell after rain those little things are so appreciated.
 
Officer's Match said:
No, nothing like that. Jerry's just getting up there in years.
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Eighteen year old bad a**ed Marines, become old fart with medical problems, and you want to be eighteen again, because you feel faster. Now I put on my leg braces in the am to get around. Not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine.

Have a retired U.S.N. S.E.A.L. I know, he did 24 retired, did another 8-10 do prove security contracting. Now it is all catching up, and he has finally decided to fully retire, as his body don't have it any more.
 
Thanks everybody for the positive comments. Although the giveaway was over quickly the good vibes still continue.
 
RiverRat84 said:
Akapennypincher, I wish you good health brother:thumbup:
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Health is something money can not buy, it is a condition not appreciated by many until you are faced with a medical crisis. My life changer on July 13th of this year, thing are no back to normal yet. I have an appointment in few weeks to be cleared for a surgical procedure that hopefully will fix what is not working as it should. I am told the procedure with all my problems factored in has a 90% chance of being successful.


All I want is a successful outcome.
 
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