I'm finally home(well, at the in-laws) from Sloan. Things have gone a bit better than expected and I got out a day early due to quicker progress in the physical activity area.
First and foremost,
Whatever happened between my pasty ass and FrankSquid...I want to thank EVERYONE for the visits, prayers, well wishes, calls and the collection to help us out in a tight time.
Every visit just lifted me imeasurably. Seeing poeple from the board did wonders for me and filled a lot of voids. And it did wonders for ARFCOM's cred in my wife's eyes. Prior to this AR15.com was kind of a time wasterin her eyes, now I think she grasps the concept of what a family it truly is and how we really are there for each other when someone is in need. I don't think my wife or I could have guessed how much you all really helped out prior to going in to the hospital and I can't thank everyone enough for everything you all did for me.
Thanks especially to Hoplite for the visits, helping my family out in a tough situation with the death of my wife's aunt and helping her get to and fro in the following days. Thanks to FrankSquid for the visits and voodoo doll. Thanks to Frank(bear3351) for the visit and straightening out my busted cell phone.
As for the collection....
Thanks to Rob for running it and getting into see me to present it personally. It meant a lot to me. It was wholly unexpected. There were so many unfamiliar faces coming in every day invariably they were all docs who wanted to look at me, poke me(for medcal reasons) or look at my incision. So Rob was a welcome change, the Bushmaster shirt swas the first indicator I had the he wasn't a doc.
I was competely taken aback when I opened the card. I knew I drank a lot, but I didn't know the beer industry need me so much.
The money will go a long way to backfill some voids created by expenses like meals, parking for the few days the car was in the city(25-45 bucks a day), taxis and a pile of other odds and ends, so again thanks to all.
I'd put your names here but the card is burued in my bag an I can't get to it now,
Also, what ever happened between my pasty hairy ass and Franksquid I'll blame on the Morphine, Dilaudid, Percoset and Fentanyl. Now I wasn't on all those drugs at once, but Frank visted a few times. so I'm saying I believe an excuse exists for each occurance.
So now it's two months of nothing really. I have to wait for the bone graft to heal up before I can PT and rehab.
Thanks again
Jon and family