Real life thread

[Jeff Head]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of my family, friends, neighbors!

Especially friends her on SD (including you...my dear friend Popeye (Gerry)) if you happen to read this.

Despite the issues facing use arouind the world and here in the US...and there are some serious ones, nonetheless, we are among the most blessed people on the face of God's green earth.

I know God has blessed orr nation greatly, and we should always express our gratitude and thanks to Him for it.

We are free. We can freely express ourselves. We can freely travel to and fro. By and large we enjoy great peace and prosperity. The vast, vast majority of us have warm, safe places to stay, sleep, and be together as families.

I am so grateful for all of this and so much more. For my own witness and knowledge of our loving Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ. For my own continued life. For my unbelievably wonderful, loving wife, Gail, who is the best person I have ever known. She has honored me, taken care of me...taught me, and been the best imaginable mother and grandmother. For my wonderful five children, their spouses and our wonderful ten grandchildren.

Let us always remember the blessings we have. Let us take the time to count them and recognize them, no matter our circumstances. For our life, for the breath we draw, for whatever measure of good health we have, for our ability to interact with and help others. I pray we will choose, in our blessed freedom and liberty, to always try and help others around us.

 

[Jeff Head]

Here's our tenth grandchild, Melina Christine Head. 8 lbs and 20 inches long. She was born on September 30th at 11:19 A.M. Joyous, Grateful, Happy, Humbled. Can't wait to see her in person at Christmas!

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[Jura The idiot]

Here's our tenth grandchild ...

congrats!

 

[Air Force Brat]

Here's our tenth grandchild, Melina Christine Head. 8 lbs and 20 inches long. She was born on September 30th at 11:19 A.M. Joyous, Grateful, Happy, Humbled. Can't wait to see her in person at Christmas!

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I'm closing in on 20,000 likes given on others post's, if you guys keep posting great stuff like this, I'll be looking at 40,000 by next year! Blessings to each of you, and thanks Jeff for on of the sweetest posts ever on the Sino Defense, as we welcom our newest poster, LOL. and yes Jeff, you should def open this lady an account, as I'd say she's genetically inclined to lead the next generation of Sino Defense!

I'd still be behind the kindest guy on SDF, looks like Equation (sorry I creeped your page dude) has given nearly 54,000 likes, and thanks, as a fair portion of those have come to me. You guys are the greatest, I very happy that even when we disagree, most of us can still maintain an objective and polite discussion, and I do appreciate it when you guys let me know if I going overboard, gives me a chance to explain myself, and issue an apology.

 

[Obi Wan Russell]

Just had a visitor message from MirageDriver enquiring about my relative absence from the forum (I log in most days to keep up on latest posts, fear not) though I 've always felt if you have nothing to add to someone else's post then just click 'like' and show your support/approval that way. However, I have a valid excuse for recent absence, as a week ago Monday (ie 24th November I was in hospital for a Cataract operation on my left eye (the right eye is due to follow next spring). Not an old codger by any means, I'm only 44! Well 45 next February, but anyway the next day the eye patch came off and for the first time since I was 12 years old I was able to see without glasses! Albeit with just the one eye. It was amazing. I could suddenly see colours again properly, as the cataracts in both eyes make everything slightly yellow or sepia toned. For two days I was in heaven!

I#m sure you can hear an 'Uh-Oh!' coming and you'd be right. Thursday morning I woke up and the left eye started to cloud over. Called the hospital as instructed on the emergency leaflets and the nurse basically said its perfectly normal and not to worry. I worried. Friday it got worse and all I could see out of my left eye was light and shade. Called the Hospital again. Get your ass in here Stat! (or words to that effect!) So Friday afternoon there I am in a treatment room, and they stick two huge needles into my eye, not at the same time, and with the benefit of a local anaesthetic. The first was to take a sample from the eye to test for infection, the second to inject mega powerful antibiotics directly into the eye itself. Scary? You shoulda seen it from my side of the eyeball! I was admitted to hospital at that point and from then until today they have been 'marinating' the eye with steroid drops and others to bring the inflammation down.

The good news is there was no infection, My eye apparently had a 1 in a 1000 reaction where it's immune system went to 'panic stations' after the operation and flooded the eye with white blood cells that completely obscured my vision, but with no infection to fight they just kept filling up. The Quack says we got to it before any damage was done and I was discharged today with a bag full of eye drops (five different ones!) to continue soaking the eye. Currently I can see out of it again, although everything is a little 'soft focus' and will be for a while longer until all the inflammation has drained out. Just hoping next year when the right eye is fixed I don't have to go through all this again...

 

[PanAsian]

Just had a visitor message from MirageDriver enquiring about my relative absence from the forum (I log in most days to keep up on latest posts, fear not) though I 've always felt if you have nothing to add to someone else's post then just click 'like' and show your support/approval that way. However, I have a valid excuse for recent absence, as a week ago Monday (ie 24th November I was in hospital for a Cataract operation on my left eye (the right eye is due to follow next spring). Not an old codger by any means, I'm only 44! Well 45 next February, but anyway the next day the eye patch came off and for the first time since I was 12 years old I was able to see without glasses! Albeit with just the one eye. It was amazing. I could suddenly see colours again properly, as the cataracts in both eyes make everything slightly yellow or sepia toned. For two days I was in heaven!

I#m sure you can hear an 'Uh-Oh!' coming and you'd be right. Thursday morning I woke up and the left eye started to cloud over. Called the hospital as instructed on the emergency leaflets and the nurse basically said its perfectly normal and not to worry. I worried. Friday it got worse and all I could see out of my left eye was light and shade. Called the Hospital again. Get your ass in here Stat! (or words to that effect!) So Friday afternoon there I am in a treatment room, and they stick two huge needles into my eye, not at the same time, and with the benefit of a local anaesthetic. The first was to take a sample from the eye to test for infection, the second to inject mega powerful antibiotics directly into the eye itself. Scary? You shoulda seen it from my side of the eyeball! I was admitted to hospital at that point and from then until today they have been 'marinating' the eye with steroid drops and others to bring the inflammation down.

The good news is there was no infection, My eye apparently had a 1 in a 1000 reaction where it's immune system went to 'panic stations' after the operation and flooded the eye with white blood cells that completely obscured my vision, but with no infection to fight they just kept filling up. The Quack says we got to it before any damage was done and I was discharged today with a bag full of eye drops (five different ones!) to continue soaking the eye. Currently I can see out of it again, although everything is a little 'soft focus' and will be for a while longer until all the inflammation has drained out. Just hoping next year when the right eye is fixed I don't have to go through all this again...

Oh boy, wishing your eye a quick recovery. Chillax immune system!

 

[Miragedriver]

Just had a visitor message from MirageDriver enquiring about my relative absence from the forum (I log in most days to keep up on latest posts, fear not) though I 've always felt if you have nothing to add to someone else's post then just click 'like' and show your support/approval that way. However, I have a valid excuse for recent absence, as a week ago Monday (ie 24th November I was in hospital for a Cataract operation on my left eye (the right eye is due to follow next spring). Not an old codger by any means, I'm only 44! Well 45 next February, but anyway the next day the eye patch came off and for the first time since I was 12 years old I was able to see without glasses! Albeit with just the one eye. It was amazing. I could suddenly see colours again properly, as the cataracts in both eyes make everything slightly yellow or sepia toned. For two days I was in heaven!

I#m sure you can hear an 'Uh-Oh!' coming and you'd be right. Thursday morning I woke up and the left eye started to cloud over. Called the hospital as instructed on the emergency leaflets and the nurse basically said its perfectly normal and not to worry. I worried. Friday it got worse and all I could see out of my left eye was light and shade. Called the Hospital again. Get your ass in here Stat! (or words to that effect!) So Friday afternoon there I am in a treatment room, and they stick two huge needles into my eye, not at the same time, and with the benefit of a local anaesthetic. The first was to take a sample from the eye to test for infection, the second to inject mega powerful antibiotics directly into the eye itself. Scary? You shoulda seen it from my side of the eyeball! I was admitted to hospital at that point and from then until today they have been 'marinating' the eye with steroid drops and others to bring the inflammation down.

The good news is there was no infection, My eye apparently had a 1 in a 1000 reaction where it's immune system went to 'panic stations' after the operation and flooded the eye with white blood cells that completely obscured my vision, but with no infection to fight they just kept filling up. The Quack says we got to it before any damage was done and I was discharged today with a bag full of eye drops (five different ones!) to continue soaking the eye. Currently I can see out of it again, although everything is a little 'soft focus' and will be for a while longer until all the inflammation has drained out. Just hoping next year when the right eye is fixed I don't have to go through all this again...

Glad to hear that you are doing better Obi Wan and that the doctors caught the infection in time. What an amazing experience to be able to see well after so many years. I am very happy for you. Wishing you a speedy recovery amigo.

I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[Air Force Brat]

Just had a visitor message from MirageDriver enquiring about my relative absence from the forum (I log in most days to keep up on latest posts, fear not) though I 've always felt if you have nothing to add to someone else's post then just click 'like' and show your support/approval that way. However, I have a valid excuse for recent absence, as a week ago Monday (ie 24th November I was in hospital for a Cataract operation on my left eye (the right eye is due to follow next spring). Not an old codger by any means, I'm only 44! Well 45 next February, but anyway the next day the eye patch came off and for the first time since I was 12 years old I was able to see without glasses! Albeit with just the one eye. It was amazing. I could suddenly see colours again properly, as the cataracts in both eyes make everything slightly yellow or sepia toned. For two days I was in heaven!

I#m sure you can hear an 'Uh-Oh!' coming and you'd be right. Thursday morning I woke up and the left eye started to cloud over. Called the hospital as instructed on the emergency leaflets and the nurse basically said its perfectly normal and not to worry. I worried. Friday it got worse and all I could see out of my left eye was light and shade. Called the Hospital again. Get your ass in here Stat! (or words to that effect!) So Friday afternoon there I am in a treatment room, and they stick two huge needles into my eye, not at the same time, and with the benefit of a local anaesthetic. The first was to take a sample from the eye to test for infection, the second to inject mega powerful antibiotics directly into the eye itself. Scary? You shoulda seen it from my side of the eyeball! I was admitted to hospital at that point and from then until today they have been 'marinating' the eye with steroid drops and others to bring the inflammation down.

The good news is there was no infection, My eye apparently had a 1 in a 1000 reaction where it's immune system went to 'panic stations' after the operation and flooded the eye with white blood cells that completely obscured my vision, but with no infection to fight they just kept filling up. The Quack says we got to it before any damage was done and I was discharged today with a bag full of eye drops (five different ones!) to continue soaking the eye. Currently I can see out of it again, although everything is a little 'soft focus' and will be for a while longer until all the inflammation has drained out. Just hoping next year when the right eye is fixed I don't have to go through all this again...

Wow, what a strange coincidence, one of my church Ladies has had her eyes fill with white blood cells, and the pressure was 38 in her eye's, down to 24 today, and her vision is returning as well. Shes had bunches of tests, but the opthamologist suspects temporal arteritis, which I had never heard of, also may be referred to as cranial arteritis. She was very sick, throwing up, massive headaches, for a month, they had suspected a major sinus infection, then pneumonia?? Glad your doing better, I will put you on our prayer list as well, praying that awesome vision will be the new deal in both eyes as you have your other surgery, hang in there Obie Wan.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Glad to hear that you are doing better Obi Wan and that the doctors caught the infection in time. What an amazing experience to be able to see well after so many years. I am very happy for you. Wishing you a speedy recovery amigo.

I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

And thank you Mirage for watching out for your bruda's, means a lot to have someone like you on our forum, and we do love our Obi Wan, he's unique to SDF?

 

[Miragedriver]

And thank you Mirage for watching out for your bruda's, means a lot to have someone like you on our forum, and we do love our Obi Wan, he's unique to SDF?

Thank you AFB. I was missing Obi Wan’s superb dry humor, as only the English can do well. By the way I hear he owns a light saber and knows how to use it, so I wouldn't take any arguments outside.

All of you are the best and I really enjoy our interchange of ideas and facts.



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec