Kevin's Watch

Yes I'm big on pain relief Sarge - it always gets to me when the Doc's won't give you the stuff you need to knock pain for six on the basis that it's bad for you or you might get adicted or whatever. I get gout on occasion ( not the most serious of conditions but it can teach one the meaning of extreme pain), trouble is the only tabs that will take care of it tear your guts to peices if you don't use them carefully. Now I know this and I know how to take the tabs judiciously to avoid it but will my doc spring a prescription for them..... will he hell. I bet he takes them when the gout chews his toes to peices!

peter - i can sympathize. the lower two disks in my back are degenerative. the weight i have already lost helps, but the damage is already there.

sorry to derail the thread for a bit folks. maybe the mod can find a better home for our love of pain meds.

Wow Sarge I'm with you on that one all the way. I had a disk herniate about 15 years ago and have had the most awful sciatica since then. Many days my legs go numb from pelvis to knee. On occasions if I do something silly at work my back just binds up alltogether. Jeeze I wish I had listened to all the people who had told me to take care of my back when I was young!

Alright, I'm putting out a call to all Watchers in the southeastern US affected by yesterday's storms to check-in, please. I know I saw SBG a couple of days ago, both here and on Facebook, but not since yesterday. dlb has posted in the GI thread this morning, so I am guessing all is good in his part of Tennessee. Anyone else in the affected areas, please check in.

Apparently the storm is headed my way today; we haven't gotten any rain yet, but we're already under severe storm warning. Tornadoes are common here, but I have never heard of us getting the giant ones. Here's to hoping these storms pass through with little to no damage...

Be safe Watchers in the affected areas - and as Menolly says 'keep in touch' when time/conditions permit.

texas remains unaffected - so i am fine.

Happy to report that the power is back on and my family is safe. A couple of friends and their little boy are living with us now, their home was in Cordova Alabama and it was demolished. They survived by taking shelter in the basement of the church across the street. We live in west central Alabama and we had tornadoes both to the south and to the north of our home Wednesday. People are finding debris from 50-100 miles away in their yards. We have a Berry High School football jersey in a tree outside, Berry High School is two counties to our southwest.

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Happy to report that the power is back on and my family is safe. A couple of friends and their little boy are living with us now, their home was in Cordova Alabama and it was demolished. They survived by taking shelter in the basement of the church across the street. We live in west central Alabama and we had tornadoes both to the south and to the north of our home Wednesday. People are finding debris from 50-100 miles away in their yards. We have a Berry High School football jersey in a tree outside, Berry High School is two counties to our southwest.

Glad to hear that your family is safe.

Loremaster wrote:

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Happy to report that the power is back on and my family is safe. A couple of friends and their little boy are living with us now, their home was in Cordova Alabama and it was demolished. They survived by taking shelter in the basement of the church across the street. We live in west central Alabama and we had tornadoes both to the south and to the north of our home Wednesday. People are finding debris from 50-100 miles away in their yards. We have a Berry High School football jersey in a tree outside, Berry High School is two counties to our southwest.

Glad to hear that your family is safe.

Thank you LM! Earlier today we took our friends to try and salvage what they could, The National Guard is in Cordova due to looting and it took an act of Congress to get in and out. I am so disappointed that that is happening right here in my county, but I am not surprised. Mission trips to Central America are a big fad among the hundreds of churches here in Walker County but I did not see a single local church helping out, just The National Guard, The EMA, and local law enforcement. Any North Alabama church that does not pitch in here at home NOW and sends a mission trip to Guatemala or Brazil in the next couple of months is not worth a shit.

Thanks for reporting in, SBG! So glad to hear all are safe and well in your family with no property loss.

I agree with you about the church missions, SBG. And glad to hear you and yours are okay.

Likewise. Thought of you when I heard about it. 350 dead so far it appears. Glad you're ok, and hope everyone else is too.

--A

This is a video of Cordova Alabama, it is about 10 miles from my home and is the closest place directly hit by the tornadoes.

www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/cordova-to ... 1_6-51-pm/

sgtkafka wrote:dunno. but Lurch was/is a poster who had long rambling posts that had odd punctuation. fun to read.

so where has lurch been,,,???

Sunbaneglasses wrote:

Loremaster wrote:

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Happy to report that the power is back on and my family is safe. A couple of friends and their little boy are living with us now, their home was in Cordova Alabama and it was demolished. They survived by taking shelter in the basement of the church across the street. We live in west central Alabama and we had tornadoes both to the south and to the north of our home Wednesday. People are finding debris from 50-100 miles away in their yards. We have a Berry High School football jersey in a tree outside, Berry High School is two counties to our southwest.

Glad to hear that your family is safe.

Thank you LM! Earlier today we took our friends to try and salvage what they could, The National Guard is in Cordova due to looting and it took an act of Congress to get in and out. I am so disappointed that that is happening right here in my county, but I am not surprised. Mission trips to Central America are a big fad among the hundreds of churches here in Walker County but I did not see a single local church helping out, just The National Guard, The EMA, and local law enforcement. Any North Alabama church that does not pitch in here at home NOW and sends a mission trip to Guatemala or Brazil in the next couple of months is not worth a shit.

It may be that like my 'home' church in Johnson City NY where hundreds of homes were destroyed by floods, they are busy trying to help their members put their lives back together. (Missions trips are planned months in advance and tickets bought, visas paid for. It would be silly to cancel because of a local disaster, airlines don't usually refund tickets.) If you were part of a local church you would probably know what they ARE doing.

Like you, deer, I was thinking from that perspective... the logistics are already in place... You don't just tell all those people "we're going to change everything now," etc. ...not to mention a whole host of other factors.

otoh, my husband has pointed out that disaster relief is a particularly good place for help to go to; it's more likely to get people "back on their feet" rather than becoming enabling (i.e. taking over responsibility for things that nationals should be taking care of themselves). But you probably DO think about that stuff all the time... and have seen a lot of the good and the bad by now.

I think reading these posts awhile back really made me think a little more about how it might "feel" from the outside (of the church).

We helped our friends rebuild their house after the 2005 floods... and now they have to do it again. That was just before heading to Nigeria. Which is one, great big, ongoing disaster. We have no illusions we can fix it, either, but doing what we can for the children and young people, and hoping their future is better.

I guess from the "outside" of the church, not much we do is ever going to make sense, but we don't answer to them. Sorry if I sound defensive. I missed work sick for the first time in years, today and I feel like the hot place.

My husband teased me because I told him my nose hurts terribly, he said some cocaine would take care of that. I told him, Honey if you had some I'd be snorting lines right now, no questions asked. I'm afraid phenylephrine, chicken soup and honey will have to do.

where is effy?

Since this is the thread for disasters I think... thinking of you this morning, deer...

And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;
“For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!”



For those who haven't heard, there've been... a number of church bombings in Nigeria today.
"...A second explosion shortly after hit a church in the central city of Jos. A policeman died during gunfire."

Linna Heartlistener wrote:For those who haven't heard, there've been... a number of church bombings in Nigeria today.
"...A second explosion shortly after hit a church in the central city of Jos. A policeman died during gunfire."

oh gosh!
*running to dotd's FB wall to see if there is any news there, although I usually get her status updates immediately*