Hi All,
Not to be presumptuous, but in case any of you were wondering where I've been the past several weeks, I apologize for not being in touch. My parents (in their 80's) both needed urgent medical attention following a bad fall down the stairs (they both hold on to each other when walking, and when one fell the other fell too), and it was touch and go for a while. I was down in DC the past 3 weeks with them, and fortunately, they both are now out of the woods and doing fine. They don't have a computer, much less cable, and I rushed down there in mid-July without my laptop, so I didn't even have a chance to set up temporary dial-up service to keep in touch once in a while. Should of called Chez to alert him, but you know how it is when all of your emotional energy is focused on your parents health . . .
Anyway, I'm back, and once I catch up with the lab folks over the next few days I'll be as active a ever on the Forum. The good news is that when I go on vacation next week up in Maine, we will finally have cable to our middle-of-nowhere little lake with high=speed internet access, so being on the Forum will be easy and painless as well as great therapy for me!
Now I'm going to start catching up on all the Forum stuff that happened while I was away . . . [:)]
John
Newton MA
I thought things were a bit quite around here....Glad to see you are back.
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Welcome back John. Glad the folks are OK. A fall at that age can be a life changing event.
Bill
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I was thinking about you yesterday, and was about to send you an e-mail to see if everything was alright.
Sorry to hear about your parents, but glad everything worked out.
glad to see you back and that things are better with your folks.
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John I was just about to call ya....in fact I was going to try your Cell tomarrow--I got that number around here somewhere. I understand about parents. My 75 year old mother does take up a lot of my time. It is good that yours have a Loving Son.
Welcome back friend.
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Thanks, guys! Working about 16-18 hours a day to get caught back up (including today and tomorrow), but have taken about 30 minutes off to start catching up on the Forum.
The Duck-man's food pix were so good I told my wife I had to start smokin' something just to feel back in the groove again, and she said "Look in the meat door in the fridge". She had purchased a 10 lb pork loin for $1.89/lb just the day before in anticipation of my arrival. I dressed up in some Dizzy rub just before heading in to work yesterday, put it in the BS yesterday evening when I came home, and it's FTC'ing as I write. That smoked pork loin will taste awful good when I get home this evening!
John
Newton MA
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<br />Welcome back John. Glad the folks are OK. A fall at that age can be a life changing event.
Bill
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Hi Bill,
I know exactly what you mean--my Dad is a retired doc and he knows the statistics: When you're over 80 and have hip surgery, the average person in that situation dies within about a year. So much of my time was spent convincing them that they are far from fitting into the average category since they are in basically good health, the fall occurred from a slip and not from a stroke, Alzheimers, cancer, or other serious illness, and that one of them fell because they were holding onto the other. By the time I left, I think they were convinced that they would still be around for a while, but I'll definitely need to keep a close eye on them.
John
Newton MA
It's good to hear from you again John!
I'm glad to hear your parents are doing well!
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