[Thinkpad] FYI

[Ellis Weiner]

Don't you mean, "F--- you, and the horse that rode in on you!"?

Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> Of course I'm sitting here eating potato chips for lunch as I read this.....
>
> Keep your damn horse away from me!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Canyonlands Computer Raypair" <canyonlands at gmail.com>
> To: <James at thinkpads.com>; "ThinkPad Mailing List" <Thinkpad at stderr.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] FYI
>
>
>   
>> Thanks for telling about this scarey event...  You don't sound as if you
>>     
> are
>   
>> built like a thinkpad T-43. Who the heck would we use for our expert if
>>     
> you
>   
>> kicked the bucket. I suppose this was just another adventure to Dr.
>>     
> Elaine.
>   
>> Was this experience worse than having a teenager?  I have heard it is not
>> nearly as bad.
>>
>>
>> RayBay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/11/07, James H. E. Maugham <james.h.maugham at verizon.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Thought you might find this of interest.
>>>
>>> Last Thursday I was happily preparing the old abode for the arrival of
>>> family members for the weekend. I was busy scrubbing the large expanse
>>>       
> of
>   
>>> kitchen flooring with the Hoover cleaning machine, when a horse decided
>>>       
> to
>   
>>> sit on my chest!
>>>
>>> Of course, Dr. Elaine wasn't home and didn't have her cell phone with
>>>       
> her
>   
>>> so
>>> I sat there on the horns of a dilemma. Call 911 and hope she returns
>>> before
>>> I'm whisked away? Or await her return and then leave for the hospital? I
>>> sat
>>> and suffered with the phone in my hand hoping she'd come right back from
>>> her
>>> "quick trip", which she eventually did.
>>>
>>> She loaded me in her truck and got me to our local hospital quicker than
>>> the
>>> ambulance could have, I have no doubt.
>>>
>>> Upon arrival she figuratively threw her weight around sufficiently that
>>>       
> I
>   
>>> was taken directly into the emergency room and had an EKG started. Based
>>> on
>>> that readout, an ambulance was called and I was thereupon transported
>>>       
> the
>   
>>> few miles down the road to Deborah Heart and Lung Center. If you're
>>>       
> gonna'
>   
>>> go, go First Class!
>>>
>>> After three angioplastys, I am now the proud owner of two stents.
>>>
>>> The worst part of everything was being forced to lie immobile on my back
>>> for
>>> two days after the initial catheterization had to be repeated.
>>>
>>> I was released Monday morning at 11AM and am slowly recovering at home
>>> surrounded by family and friends.
>>>
>>> I am in good shape, pain free, but running on a slow bell.
>>>
>>>       
>> -- 
>>
>> "To be is to do" --Socrates.
>>
>> "To do is to be" --Jean-Paul Sartre.
>>
>> "Do be do be do" --Frank Sinatra
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