What if it Snows?

dealing with this isn’t easy.
Dad came down with bladder cancer mid 23. Just had a physical then about a Month later pee was straight blood.
First doctor said he’d schedule him for evaluation in 6 months.. next was an aprn who got him looked at the next week, he was on two different types chemo. Then step outside and smoke.
Still at a carton/week.

they ended up taking bladder, prostate and lymph nodes, surgery lasted way longer than they reflected.
I sat in waiting room in Little Rock for 10 hours. They had him under for 9 hours then hour for recovery.

Since then I go home once a week at least, deadheading sometimes 800 +\- miles if no load going that way, got to change that urine bag k. His stomach, figured out a way to make it last alot better over the time, the nurses didn’t have any knowledge of doing it, using stoma paste.

Now got the ‘wafers’ and alcohol pads, skin barrier prep and sure prep that makes skin sticky so it’ll stick.

After surgery and for about 4 months I stayed over helping him, couldn’t make it to bathroom, so guess who got to clean that crap up from the hallway, and the bathroom floor..

Now they say his white and red blood count is out of whack, they think it could be bone marrow cancer or bone cancer. He said he wasn’t doing any more tests, or being cut again.

It does weigh heavy on one’s mind…
I even have weird, bad dreams now, vivid ones… I told him about one, it bothered me, I dreamed we were in the old place we lived when I was a kid, we moved I was 12-13… anyway, we were sitting and talking, him, me and my sister, then all of a sudden in the dream, he grabbed a pistol and shot him self in the head.. then I jerked awake and had to rush over and make sure it was just a nightmare..

 

I had hoped.....but I really didn't think you would.

 

Enjoying the holidays and never leave the Ranch.

 

Drove thru tain of a hunnert dozen mofos from Gainesville GA to the indigenous shipper in 'Bama.

All along those twisty two-laners GA loves so much.

I got one piece of baked ziti left, and two sets of clean socks and skivvies.

It's time to go home.....

 

I drove down there once. Reminded me of the roads in the PNW. Jakes on and drifting through the chicanes.

 

Ronnie is my hero

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zAZQwZF6-Rs

 

All right. You grillers check this link and get with the daes and info to celebrate. Want to see your best offering posted here. (We can't have grills or open flames here at the home.)

NATIONAL BEEF BURGER DAY - NATIONAL BRISKET DAY | May 28

 

How they remove escapees they have to run down from the(attempted) getaway SUV in TX

Texas video shows high-speed chase that nabbed escaped Louisiana inmates; another alleged accomplice arrested

 

(“French Indo-China”.. Names change, regimes change, politics and kjungle growth prolifirate.

Yes. May have been something to do with my MOS and the Agency not getting a lot of 3 year volunteers. I had extended 6 months in the PI and taking a 90 day early out as NOT going to stay in. Was a last gasp to keep hold. Had no reserve duty as the only place to use me was Ft Holilbird , MD. Not financial expedient to move me and wife/child to MS, then to MD for ?? duty, then back to MS. home. One of the army's more reasonable and logical decisions then.
With longue in cheek and all sorts of disclaimers, we old hands from the 9th USASA Field station offer this...

"Ballad of the ASA"


Drunken Soldiers, Always High
Dropouts from old Sigma Phi
Men who ######## all the way,
These are the men from the ASA


Plastic cans upon our ears,
We've been cleared and
we're not Queers
One Hundred Men will test today,
But only three make the ASA

Trained to go from bar to bar,
That's the life that’s best by far
Men who drink will seldom fight,
And the ASA drinks through
the night


On a Mid, a Trick Chief waits,
Four of his men are coming late
Men who drink among the best
Another drink, their last request


A teal blue scarf 'round
my son's neck
Makes my son a nervous wreck
One hundred men re-upped today,
But not a one from the ASA


Black is for the night we fear,
Blue the water we don't go near.
WHITE IS FOR THE FLAG WE FLY,
Yellow is the reason why.


Red is for the blood we've shed.
As you see, there is no red!
One hundred men re upped today.
Not a one for the A-S-A!

 

Tighten it up, will cost more if you ship a lot of air (space).


Carriers are helping shippers prepare for pending major NMFC changes