Happy Thanksgiving!

[Platefire]

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Getting ready to take my 22lb Butterball off my Cajun Smoker after it smoked all night. This old boy is truly thankful of a lot of things but regarding tube amps and their works am truly thankful this forum that Doug & all you guys help me get through my tube amp issues that I can't figure out myself. Thank you and Thank you Jesus. Hope all of you have a blessed Thanksgiving. Platefire

[kagliostro]

Funny Thanksgiving Showdown - Farmer vs. Turkey


K

[DummyLoad]

happi turkey day y'all! 


--pete

[Ritchie200]

AMEN!!! Brother Plate!


Jim

[SILVERGUN]

Thanks Plate,
It is great to be around a bunch of like minded individuals.........(even Jim)

I am truly thankful for the space that Doug has provided for us, and for the help that I receive so generously from all of you!

Dave

[jjasilli]

Happy Thanksgiving  to all!

[PRR]

Thanksgiving came early here. We had a reservation at a classy joint, but the weather forecast turned sloppy (rain on snow then freeze) so we went Tuesday and called it Thanksgiving. Had a salad with some turkey on it.

Why the salad? I am thankful that last week I went in the hospital at dawn and they threw me out before noon. I've been having biliary colic (gallstone pain). They took out my gall bladder with a periscope. I've had major gut-surgery before and I am VERY thankful this time was in-and-out, not a week in a strange bed with heavy drugs, that I have minor itches instead of a row of stitches.

[billcreller]

Good to hear that you had a more or less quickie stay instead of the long pain in the ass ( & other places ) stay in hospital PRR   

I've had good news every two months since a year ago, with cancer checks from surgery.  Now it will be each 3 months.

Thanks giving wise......my wife, who is much younger than I, like 22 years, is the greatest cook and baker ever., and we had the usual turkey, as well as ham, and gravy with pineapple chunks in it !

So the oldest son & wife & our only grand kid were over.  Grand  child is a girl who is 4 3/4 years old....going on 15 I think.  Too smart......

[DummyLoad]

Thanksgiving came early here. We had a reservation at a classy joint, but the weather forecast turned sloppy (rain on snow then freeze) so we went Tuesday and called it Thanksgiving. Had a salad with some turkey on it.

Why the salad? I am thankful that last week I went in the hospital at dawn and they threw me out before noon. I've been having biliary colic (gallstone pain). They took out my gall bladder with a periscope. I've had major gut-surgery before and I am VERY thankful this time was in-and-out, not a week in a strange bed with heavy drugs, that I have minor itches instead of a row of stitches.

glad yer OK and watch out for fried food...i guess that's the reasoning for the salad...so, you had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. i had one of those. they kicked me out the following morning. i'm told it all depends on how confident the surgeon is if you're kept overnight for observation... i have have a history of CHF, my guess that was my surgeon's reason. i was told the scar fades: my scar is still there. yes it's gonna itch for a couple of weeks, at least until the last of scabs fall off. they gave me a tube of some sort of topical to help with the itching: can't remember what it was called.

--pete

[Willabe]

Glad to hear your OK PRR.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!!!!!!


             Brad     

[AZJimC]

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

I'm very grateful for you guys, and this forum where I can talk about what is gibberish to most of my friends. Very thankful for the knowledge shared here, every day. A life of gratitude is the best anti-depressant available.

Thanks,
Jim

[kagliostro]

Glad to read you are OK now PRR

the friend with which I go to alla Hamfest in this last years, 20 days ago had the same problem

but he do the week of holiday at the hospital

what a pain 

Franco

[shortfuse]

This old boy is truly thankful of a lot of things but regarding tube amps and their works am truly thankful this forum that Doug & all you guys help me get through my tube amp issues that I can't figure out myself. Thank you and Thank you Jesus. Hope all of you have a blessed Thanksgiving. Platefire

Ditto

Happy belated to all

PRR glad to hear it was less invasive and you are doing well

[shooter]

This a great place to be thankful for, after a corporate downsizing I loaded the truck and livin homeless sheik till the snow goes away, I spent the holiday with a homeless cat eatin turkey bacon n turkey n cheese sandwiches, he re-paid me this morn with a squirrel tail n entrails!!  Glad ur ok PRR especially with the modern medical system!  they got rid of the good to make room for the profit

[PRR]

> laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Yeah, if you like $10 words that don't spell-check.

> the following morning

Better than a week; but no fun, agreed. You never see the pretty nurses. You are too groggy and sore to flirt. Your room-mate has some horrible disease and a running cough.

> i was told the scar fades: my scar is still there

20 years ago they opened me like a fish for a leaky infection where my appendix used to be. Had to clean my entire insides. Yes it fades-- in 100 years it may be hard to see. (But it is much less gross in 1 or 10 years.)

This one is more like a couple of sharp letter-opener stabs. I can do worse wounds just working on a Ford or drilling a chassis. Nothing.

> some sort of topical to help with the itching: can't remember what it was called.

They gave me a bag to hold ice, and an Rx for a small opiate. Didn't do either. I had MAJOR 8-hour pain and 3-day weakness 3 times in 6 months from attacks. The post-op pain and weakness was far less.

The technique (today?) is odd. The gall sits behind the liver and it is tight in there. To get room to work they blow you up with CO2. That was the main sensation post-op: swollen, bloated. Not that I could see, but I felt like a used inner-tube. That goes away, of course. (This might not be wise for some patients with other conditions.)

> good news every two months

Keep on keeping on! I have two loved-ones going on several decades of good news.

> friend..., 20 days ago had the same problem - but he do the week of holiday at the hospital

Sorry that he had the 7 day 6 night deluxe package. That is what I had feared, what I did 20 years ago, and why I am thankful that I could plan this surgery for a calm period, and it turned-out best-case.

> glad to hear it was less invasive

Hell, I can't even be sure the cuts are more than skin-deep. Maybe he just nicked me so he could nick my insurance. (Though the inflated feeling says they did "some" thing, and occasionally I think I feel my stomach and liver setting into the space where my gall used to be.)