Subj : Re: Daryl update To : DARYL STOUT From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Fri Aug 23 2019 13:17:00 -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 08-17-19 10:01 <=- NB>> Writing this from being away at our camp at Boyd Pond... will upload NB>> when I get home tomorrow.... :) DS> Boy, you're a traveling lady...doing far more than I likely ever DS> will again. And likely to continue doing such for quite a while still... especially this year with my son back in the States (after an absence of almost 4 years) and in residence up at the Pond... I know of at least 2, maybe 3, trips there... and at least one longer trip in late September for the COOKING echo Picnic in NC this year... DS>> I got the computer working again (darn legacy mode got turned OFF in DS>> the Command Prompt window...likely from a Microsoft update). NB>> Good catch... DS> At least it was a simple fix...and didn't cost me any money. My DS> wallet and bank account are screaming for morphine right now. :P Always nice when something can be done for free... :) NB>> My thoughts and prayers have been with you since as soon as I NB>> heard... I've been there, too... DS> Thank you, ma'am. My brother is an emotional basket case right now. DS> As noted, he has always lived for the present, and for himself...and DS> has always had a hard time confronting the issue of mortality...his, DS> his friends, or otherwise. So he's just acting true to form... sadly... my prayers are with him as well... :) NB>> Hope that all went well... and that you are well on your way to full NB>> recovery by now.... DS> The surgery did go well. They blasted the stone to smithereens, then DS> irrigated the bladder to flush it out. But, they gave me a massive DS> dose of Lasix, and combined with drinking 10 pitchers of ice water, DS> I'll give you 3 guesses what I was doing every 5 minutes for 12 hours, DS> and the first 2 don't count. Basically, the nurses brought extra urinal DS> bottles, as I was calling them so often to empty one. They clearly wanted to thoroughly flush out the system so that there wouldn't be any scraps left behind to give you grief.... NB>> It's good to have regular things to keep one going.... and you've NB>> also been preparing yourself for the eventuality... I sincerely doubt NB>> that it will ever quite hit you like it is affecting your brother.... DS> It nearly hit me last Wednesday, but it may do so at the viewing, DS> and at the service. Possible... and grieving is even a good thing... as we do (and will) miss the loved ones... but it doesn't have to devastate... DS> While there may not be family from out of town DS> coming (I understand my brother and I, the last of our line, are the DS> YOUNGEST of all the family members), there will be a lot of friends DS> locally...including from square dancing, the church, and from high DS> school...the kids that lived in the neighborhood. I've got to prepare DS> a brief eulogy, but when I noted that, a friend of my brothers lamented DS> "Crap!! We'll be here all day!!" You'll have plenty of support there then... and they can just live with the eulogy... DS> I likely will be down at the DS> funeral home EARLY Wednesday for the viewing, because of rush hour DS> traffic...and EARLY Thursday for the service. The weather looks stormy DS> as well, so I hope I can get to and from the funeral home OK. I trust it all went well... :) DS>> þ OLX 1.53 þ 97.6% of my taglines are borrowed...including this one. NB>> Good one.... DS> Thank you. Tagline procurement isn't stealing...it's an art and a DS> science. :) Hmmm... that looks imminently taglineable itself... ttyl neb .... More taglines are found within messages than as taglines ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .