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| Pat Flannery |
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| Rand Simberg |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:48 pm |
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:30:43 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
Thanks for letting us know, Pat, despite the tasteless pics.
Quote: Meanwhile, I'm now minus my right upper canine tooth due to decay.
This is really going to cut into my secret life as a werewolf come the
21st of the month.
I have a feeling that will be less than disappointing to your
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| Bash |
| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:51 pm |
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On 14 Mar, 00:30, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com> wrote:
Quote: Some sort of staph infection, but surprisingly maybe not related to his
foot.
We have a photo of the suspected bacteria involved here:http://www.creaturescape.com/interviews/gudmundson/hedorah5.jpg
They are performing endoscopic investigations on him, and you can see
the critter crawling around in him:http://www.cyberphysics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/graphics/diagrams/Light/...
Meanwhile, I'm now minus my right upper canine tooth due to decay.
This is really going to cut into my secret life as a werewolf come the
21st of the month.
Pat
Blimey Pat, is it possible you have leprosy since so many body parts
are falling off your good self? ;-p |
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| Bash |
| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:55 pm |
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On 14 Mar, 00:30, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com> wrote:
Quote: Some sort of staph infection, but surprisingly maybe not related to his
foot.
We have a photo of the suspected bacteria involved here:http://www.creaturescape.com/interviews/gudmundson/hedorah5.jpg
They are performing endoscopic investigations on him, and you can see
the critter crawling around in him:http://www.cyberphysics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/graphics/diagrams/Light/...
Meanwhile, I'm now minus my right upper canine tooth due to decay.
This is really going to cut into my secret life as a werewolf come the
21st of the month.
Pat
Please send best wishes to OM.
If only he had the usenet equivalent of this for the trolls here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-ayCF3RF4 |
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:16 am |
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Bash wrote:
Quote: Blimey Pat, is it possible you have leprosy since so many body parts
are falling off your good self? ;-p
Let's see...so far it's the right big toe, the left big toenail (it's
growing back), and the right upper canine.
I think, like a old car, all the parts are starting to fail with greater
frequency and one after the other.
There's a old Chinese saying: "After age 40, illnesses begin to descend
on a man like a swarm of bees." 
No updates as of yet on OM's condition, but the staph infection was
supposed to be pretty severe.
Pat |
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| Terrell Miller |
| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:00 pm |
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:13tmttr9qc772c9@corp.supernews.com...
Quote: No updates as of yet on OM's condition, but the staph infection was
supposed to be pretty severe.
no joke, MRSA is potentially life-threatening. Hope he fights off the nasty
varmints.
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Terrell Miller
millerto@bellsouth.net
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that
will do them in."
- Bradley's Bromide |
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:52 am |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
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No updates as of yet on OM's condition, but the staph infection was
supposed to be pretty severe.
And still nothing, which is worrying.
During his toe amputation he was sending me daily updates on his condition.
Pat |
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| Alan Erskine |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:44 am |
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
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Pat Flannery wrote:
No updates as of yet on OM's condition, but the staph infection was
supposed to be pretty severe.
And still nothing, which is worrying.
During his toe amputation he was sending me daily updates on his
condition.
Pat
Have you emailed him? |
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| Peter Stickney |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:10 pm |
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Terrell Miller wrote:
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:13tmttr9qc772c9@corp.supernews.com...
No updates as of yet on OM's condition, but the staph infection was
supposed to be pretty severe.
no joke, MRSA is potentially life-threatening. Hope he fights off the
nasty varmints.
No joke at all - my wife went through a bout of MRSA last summer, and into
the fall. Really nasty stuff, involving stuff like surgery to remove
necrotic tissue.
Pat, if you get back in touch with OM, tell him to take care of himself.
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Pete Stickney
Without data, all you have is an opinion |
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:32 pm |
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Terrell Miller wrote:
Quote:
no joke, MRSA is potentially life-threatening. Hope he fights off the nasty
varmints.
He said he didn't have MRS, but still no update messages.
He did say in his original message that whatever type of staph he did
have was pretty severe, to the point when he first went into the
hospital it was considered life-threatening.
He's nothing if not talkative and outspoken, so silence on his part is
very odd, and would seem to suggest he can't write for some reason.
Of course if it was so severe that they amputated his lower leg, we'd
all know just what he'd do.
He'd stick on a bone peg-leg made from the lower jaw of a Sperm Whale
and set forth around Cape Horn and through the Norway Maelstrom to
revenge himself on the trolls that caused his illness by constantly
getting him worked up into a state of high and righteous anger when he
should have been sleeping.
Boy, but I wish he'd taken his demands for bottom posting and editing
unnecessary content of postings over to the other newsgroups I contact,
because they could sure use some advice like that.
He may have gone a bit (okay...maybe _more_ than a bit) over the top
with it, but it's a very good idea as far as getting the meat out of new
postings as far as the time spent reading them goes, and streamlines
things a great deal.
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| Alan Erskine |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:35 pm |
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
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Quote: So send your get-well messages there.
I don't think OM would appreciate me sending him anything. Just the same, I
wish him all the best. |
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:02 am |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
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Have you emailed him?
Yes, he emails me; and I've replied to him.
I don't post his emails to me and mine to him for privacy concerns, but
give the gist of them.
Since the time I had a friend contact him during my toe amputation to
update the newsgroup, we work as mutual contacts to the newsgroups when
either of us are hospitalized, and give condition updates.
He can access his email from the hospital, but not newsgroups.
Apparently, during his toe amputation he didn't even get my "get well
soon" card till he got back home and could download it as a JPG.
He can read his email though, if not attachments, and his email address
is (I hope I don't get into trouble for this, although it's pretty easy
to find on a Google search): om@io.com
So send your get-well messages there.
I'm sure there'd be nothing better for getting his spirits up than "get
well" messages from regular posters, and the lurkers also.
Picture sci.space.history without OM...Christ, it would be like the High
Cretaceous geologic age without a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
That ecosystem _needs_ something like that stalking around, roaring so
load it makes the very air shake, and ready to sink foot-long teeth into
its prey. :-D
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:30 am |
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Peter Stickney wrote:
Quote: No joke at all - my wife went through a bout of MRSA last summer, and into
the fall. Really nasty stuff, involving stuff like surgery to remove
necrotic tissue.
Pat, if you get back in touch with OM, tell him to take care of himself.
He specifically said that the staph infection wasn't MSRA, but some
other form of staph.
On the other hand, it was widespread throughout his system to the point
where it needed a a lot of antibiotics when he went into the hospital.
They were putting antibiotics into me by the pint when I showed up at
the hospital with gangrene. and my doctor (a couple of months later)
told me that if I'd checked in 24 hours later than I did, I'd probably
be dead and gone.
OM's basic problem is that his diabetes has been around for decades, and
damaging his body's protective resources inch-by-inch for all that time.
Right now, a health problem or infection that the rest of us could fight
off with only a little help in regards to antibiotics could be fatal to
him in fairly short order.
I sure hope he gets through this fine; because, vulgar and obscene that
he is, I can't really help but dearly and profoundly missing him if he
goes.
There's a very big, if angry, soul resting in that body.
I've never met him, and only seen some still images of him over the
years, but I can guarantee you I'd like to sit down with him and shoot
the breeze with him for hour upon hour.
That would be a worthwhile and memorable conversation to have in one's life.
He really showed his measure when he stayed awake for 36 hours straight
doing the "Columbia loss FAQ".
That was _sharp_....that was really, outstandingly, _sharp_.
No one whoever posted to sci.space.history ever pulled off something
like that.
Pat |
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| Pat Flannery |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:20 am |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
Quote: I don't think OM would appreciate me sending him anything. Just the same, I
wish him all the best.
Oh, he would.
Even old and familiar combatants are a welcome source of remembrance
when times get tough.
Lets face it, the only problem with "We few; we lucky few" is the fact
that we get a bit fewer by the year.
I imagine that even The Emperor Ming treasured a message from Flash
Gordon in his dotage, talking about the good 'ol days, when they both
weren't wearing dentures and still contending for the control of the
universe. :-D
Pat |
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| Alan Erskine |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:49 am |
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
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Alan Erskine wrote:
I don't think OM would appreciate me sending him anything. Just the
same, I
wish him all the best.
Oh, he would.
Even old and familiar combatants are a welcome source of remembrance
when times get tough.
Lets face it, the only problem with "We few; we lucky few" is the fact
that we get a bit fewer by the year.
I imagine that even The Emperor Ming treasured a message from Flash
Gordon in his dotage, talking about the good 'ol days, when they both
weren't wearing dentures and still contending for the control of the
universe. :-D
Pat
Pat, for the 10 months I wasn't on the 'net, I missed you're imagination so
much! |
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