Daswulf Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Won't we all. Well, most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Get well soon and try to enjoy the times of inertia! I hope when you come back "refreshened" you'll hit the 30 000 posts in no time! Best wishes: Gergely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 I too wish you well, Thomas. Speediest of recoveries to you! Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 This time next week I will hopefully going into surgery---I may like old tools and processes in blacksmithing---but I LOVE MODERN MEDICINE!!!!!!! I hope it will keep advancing faster than I keep decaying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 I'll drink to that! Here's to wearing out at a slower rate than medicine improves! I'm glad I've lived long enough for the parts to start wearing out, I don't know how I made it but here I am. Procedures that were science fiction a few years ago are out patient ho-hum things today. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 My late friend Barry (who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in the 70s) once told me that one of the goals for cancer treatment was to keep the patient alive long enough to die of old age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Your on the list Thomas, also expect to see a few book reviews when yer back in form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Good luck friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 best wishes and a knee bent. For both you and the Mrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Good luck Thomas knee power headed your way, read a lot of books. Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 I trust you will enjoy the reading more than you enjoy the hospital stay. I'm looking forward to the insights you bring back after the reading. Heal well, Thomas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 I've been reading a lot already trying to stay distracted; but mostly old murder mysteries---written to provide distraction during the great depression. My tolerance level is going down for insurance companies and Drs offices automatically assuming that I: must not be at work and must have secondary insurance and it must be due to an accident---got asked who my attorney was! (I hadn't realized I could sue growing older! I am a bit unsure that I would like a summary judgement to prevent that from happening anymore...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackdawg Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 I'd be more worried that the doctor was looking to tailor his quality of workmanship to the quality of your attorney! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 It was the insurance company wanting to know if I had an attorney. We had a previous run-in when I lost consciousness and had a seizure while at a used bookstore. The Insurance company wanted to go after the bookstore and I told them no they had *nothing* to due with my syncope and it would be an abuse of the legal system to try to make them pay anything! (and I'm required by my company to do what's ethical!) They kept saying that "they had insurance for things like that" and I kept saying "You don't really understand about morals and ethics do you..." I'm still welcome at the used book store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steevo99 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Speedy recovery. I owe you a cup of coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 IIRC, tomorrow is THE day. I'll have a word or two with higher Thomas, hope he won't hold that against you. All the best. Frosty the Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.C. Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Your in my mine and my families thoughts. Hoping for a trouble free recovery ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Yup tomorrow is the day. My DW drug me up to our house in Socorro for the weekend, no internet, but that worked out well as I bought close to 500 pounds of stuff from the local scrapyard, half was for her, 231 pounds of used T posts to put up a larger fence for her dog at the casita, half was mine 246 pounds including some real wrought iron, old hand saw---used to separate alloys that don't like to weld to themselves in billets. A dozen 1/8" brazing rods, some muffin tins---great when you are taking something apart and you can put all the nuts/bolts/fiddly bits at each step in a separate depression making assembly much easier as you know the order! Some sucker rod ends with the handy square part and ridge for making hardy tooling from, Finally 2 appx 9" diameter cast iron spherical dock weights with steel hook protruding. I'm hope to pass them on to armour makers; but a 100 pounds a piece they dug into my pocket a bit even at 20 cents a pound! It also helped that I was able to work on the swamp cooler, again, had to ream out scale build up in the spider, but it was cooling the house down nicely when I finished---I won't be able to climb the ladder and work on it for over a month. I also told my wife that when it came time to replace it we were going to mount one on the back porch so all the upkeep could be done on it sitting in a chair! As I expected, lots of new stock that now gets to sit until I get the OK to forge again...A great inducement to heal fast! (Please feel free to consult with a Higher Thomas; It has given me much serenity to know that even curmudgeonly doubters were acceptable and so I have a solid chance!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Good luck Thomas. I use the muffin tins for the same purpose. Makes reassembly a breeze. Hmm. Mention that one to the doctors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Nope I'm going in for a subtractive process. We did discuss writing a note to the surgeon in the general location; but I told my wife I would prefer him to NOT start laughing while wielding a cutting instrument inside me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 I know some poor technicians that do the subtractive process. Guess the engineers added too many bolts for their liking. I just pick up the bolts and fasteners off the floor and hang on to them till the car comes back and I have to work on it so I can put them back in. Most of those guys don't work here any more. You should write the surgeon a note. It'll wake em up better then coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 The Betadine would probably cover it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 9, 2017 Author Share Posted May 9, 2017 On my way! I hope to have a good update late Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Good luck! And if the surgeon says, "Hand me the hot-cut", RUN!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 My father's operation was done by a locksmith rather than a blacksmith I gather.....well they kept referring to it as keyhole surgery... Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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