Red Mosquito

spike wrote:It’s certainly full of people who didn’t find those Mariners puns worthwhile.

JuanHamm wrote:Stressful day today.

My whole family have been on vacation in South Carolina for the past 10 days. 2 days ago my Mom came down with what we thought was food poisoning.

As it wasn't improving my dad took her to the ER where they diagnosed her with a twisted bowel which required immediate surgery.

She's out of surgery now, but will have to remain in the hospital for 5 more days for observation.

Everyone but my Dad and I left this morning and I'll be flying home tomorrow evening.

Just waiting now until we can go back and see her.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:How does a twisted bowel even happen?

tragabigzanda wrote:How does a twisted bowel even happen?

Rangi Guy wrote:Could be a ligament thing, could be a meniscus thing... I'm now on crutches, have pills abs and start physio next week

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Could be a ligament thing, could be a meniscus thing... I'm now on crutches, have pills abs and start physio next week

Your physio should test for ACL or medial damage. Fingers crossed dude.

Rangi Guy wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Could be a ligament thing, could be a meniscus thing... I'm now on crutches, have pills abs and start physio next week

Your physio should test for ACL or medial damage. Fingers crossed dude.

Doctor checked out ACL.

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Could be a ligament thing, could be a meniscus thing... I'm now on crutches, have pills abs and start physio next week

Your physio should test for ACL or medial damage. Fingers crossed dude.

Doctor checked out ACL.

Oh you've seen an Orthopaedic Surgeon. Thanks comforting then.