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110 Dave

110 Dave

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to all my friends and fellow knife lovers,

i did some thing i have not done in so so many many years today >>>

i went out and layed down in a field with deep grass with my two yourkey puppyes in the warm sunshine under auzzer blue skys and let them attempt to lick my face, i rolled over and laffed and ....

- sudlenly recalled a time manny manny years ago when every thing was still NEW and exciteing with diffrent dogs but same auzzer blue sky ...
and i thanked god i could....and hope you all can do some thing much like that some time soon also... you see...

i was going to florida to set up a homesite for a few years down the road but had a bad time getting there... a medical emgerncy almost cancled every thing...

NOTE: i am doing fine now and have congrats from many of you and i thank all of you for the kind reguards!!!

i am posting this message as i wanted to share with my friends experance that may have some meaning some day...>>>

I had been feeling badly for days... but had no idear what it was ... i thought exteration packing and maby some stress with the preperations and to top it all off - a fuss with the wife ...

i sweated some on a cool day packing and also did the lasy way of carring the largest load i could and thought my self week as i got winded some... we left and things seemed fine... but half way ...

I had a chest pain i had not experanced before it was like a lite jab with a ball point pen - not very hard but enught to cause some concern.
i took a nitro and on a thought i also took a reaglur asprin... pain went away so good - no problum... not on your life...

1/2 hour or so later it hit again enught for me to say ouch and look down... but nothing there and it hurt again ...SO another asprin and nitro...
and again it went away and felt good for another 45 min ...

then it jamed me a 3 ed time the hardest yet and did not let up much and i could not pull out the ball point that felt like it was stickingf out from my chest and i could not touch the pain it was not close to my finger tips no mater how hard i tryed to get to it...
by grace we were able to turn around and get to the past exit and get me to a hosp... were it happened yet 3 more times in the er while on nitro patch!

a test and sure enught a good chunck of heart was getting very little blood at all in rest and none in stress...

after a few days to stablise and a trip to a diffrent hosp - a coated stent was in place holding things open for flow ... with no heart damage !! at least they dont think so from what they can see...

they think it may be because i used nitro and 325 milgram asprian two times.. so i will always keep them close now!!
but strangley ?...

i find myself feeling my chest every time i have any discomfornt and seeing if i can 'touch' it or not as that was the only way that i findley thought sometihing was truly wrong and the doc said it was not a bad thoght that he had heard of that before ....
it makes the wife nervours and leaves me feeling silly when i do it... but damm the fear is to great to not to ...

i wanted to let you all know of the flags i did not see ... a extra thought and and some thing i did right ...
and started with the good news first to show how much life can be in a simple moment of enjoyment... i have hope for many more moments of enjoyment that are as filled with life as that last was and i hope for you all also such moments...

i share this experance as i care of thoes i know and if i say any thing that sould possablely cause them to act in time to live then it was worth the breath...

your friend and fellow knife nut
dave
 
chickentrax said:
Well, it's good to hear you're alive!!! :thumbup: :D

Somebody must like you!!! ;)
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Yea - the guys i cant bid agenst now!;) thx trax!
any one else out there ever have moments like that? come on share if you will!!
 
334dave said:
any one else out there ever have moments like that? come on share if you will!!
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Dave, thanks for sharing and continued good health. I have had something like that turned out to be heartburn...but was mild compared to what I've been told the pain of a real heart attack would be. Preston
 
...I get 'em now and then Dave...But I couldn't possibly talk about it better than you just did friend...Who ever thinks that age will catch up to ya and the "immortality" of youth goes away??...Glad you're here Dave...
 
334dave said:
Yea - the guys i cant bid agenst now!;) thx trax!
any one else out there ever have moments like that? come on share if you will!!
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Dave,
The only think I've had to compare is numerous kidney stone attacks. None in the last five years due to some lifestyle changes. If I could say one thing here it would be not to neglect your health. Now that I'm older, I really try to exercise four or five times a week, eat right and see my doctor every year. I even had the old colonoscopy and they found some polyps. I have to have another later this year as a result. I hope all you guys pay attention to your health so we can keep buying Buck knives well into the future! :thumbup:
Mike
 
334dave said:
i wanted to let you all know of the flags i did not see ... a extra thought and and some thing i did right ...
and started with the good news first to show how much life can be in a simple moment of enjoyment... i have hope for many more moments of enjoyment that are as filled with life as that last was and i hope for you all also such moments...

i share this experance as i care of thoes i know and if i say any thing that sould possablely cause them to act in time to live then it was worth the breath...

your friend and fellow knife nut
dave
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Dave, thank you for a wonderful post. I have Congestive Heart Failure and they didn't think I'd make it. The doc had thought I had pneumonia and by the time it was figured out that I had CHF I ws two days from dying (that's what they told my family).

Anyway, I share your thoughts about life. My fiance wonders why I am so laid back now. Well, I have a different perspective on life. Certainly from reading your post, you do too.

In reading your past threads it truly seems as though you are a good man...and there aren't too many of those left. God has blessed you, and us, with a second chance...and part of that is to share the beauty of life and get some perspective that you may be able to help others with.

Every day is truly a good day. As for me, while I feel blessed to be here, my second chance may be considered to some to be the forum's "fresh hell".

God blessed you Dave and I hope for that to continue for a long time.

Love and Respect,
Goose.
 
Dave, glad you're doing well-we just got a puppy recently so I can understand the joy you expressed.
 
334dave said:
Yea - the guys i cant bid agenst now!;) thx trax!
any one else out there ever have moments like that? come on share if you will!!
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I get a tiny pain like that Dave, mostly whenever I see 334dave bump one of my bay bids. :D

But now I will be glad to see it. Will tell me you are doing good!!!
Hang in Bud,,,!!! :thumbup:

lfh
 
well well i truly have friends i have not had a chance to shake hands with ...yet!
i pray for health and joy to you goose and mike and all others...
yes i am laying back more now but have not forgot what needs to be done... is jest that i make time for a moment to happen as i hope all you do also, even to beating me on a snipe on that like new one liner with box and paper work ;<)!
 
:thumbup: :) Dave...When you do get down here to Florida, I look forward to shakin' yer hand my friend. I used your method on a bid for a small drop point 442 tonight, using multiple screens. I got that "puppy" with sero seconds left on the "bid clock"...LOL. Worked like a charm. Just hadda thank you Dave. Now if I ever get out of this bed ( been sick like a mongrel dog ) I may end up with a drop point 112. :eek: :rolleyes: That's IF I ever get around to it...:rolleyes: ...LOL...Take care friend...
Darryl
 
Didn't know of your plight, Dave. Glad to hear you're doing good! I went to see the doc about 6 years ago complaining about a cold. I just happened to mention to him how I also got real tired walking the dog around the block and had to rest for about 5 minutes and then I was fine. He set me up with an appointment to see a cardiologist and he had me running on that danged machine. Well sure enough... he found a blockage in an artery & I wound up with a stent! I'm predicting we'll be bumping into each other on ebay for quite a few years yet! ;)
 
Glad that you're still with us, Dave! You should stop carrying those pens in your shirt pocket! ;)

When I was a kid, I'd climb as high as I could in this 60-foot Catalpa tree. There where these three branches that were perfect. My feet stood on one, the next was perfect for sitting on/leaning against, and, if I felt bold enough to lean back, one supported my back. I guess I climbed twenty to thirty feet up in that tree, and I could see everywhere...well, as far as "everywhere" extended, when you're 12-years-old. No one knew I was up there, so it was my place to get away, like you in the middle of the grassy field.

I'll have to try laying down in a grassy field now, since I haven't climbed twenty to thirty feet up a tree since I learned about falling. ;)

GeoThorn
 
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