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On Nov 20, 3:30 pm, "Matthew"
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On Nov 20, 2:40 pm, MLB wrote:



hopitus wrote:
On Nov 20, 1:13 pm, "Granby" wrote:
If you think the pills wee fun, you should do the stuff they run
through
your veins. Next day they gave me potassium all day."Lesley"
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On Nov 20, 3:12 am, "Granby" wrote:
Then, they gave me lasix and ruined the

whole thing!
Years ago my mum decided that I didn't have puppy fat I had "water
retention" and she got her hands on some Lasix from a friend of hers
and made me take it as this was the weekend when my dad was
redecorating the bathroom and the toilet was disconnected from the
water supply I suspect it was an act of sadism on her part

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

OMG that drug has some very unpleasant plus dangerous side effects.
And all these many years, I held a grudge...beyond the grave...to my
mother for shoving *butter* down my throat at 3am to attempt to lower
my 108oF fever when I had the Asian flu at age 15, instead of getting
a doctor! Your mum tops that.I am glad you survived to be with us.
one AFAIC.

108 degree temp? You are lucky to be here. It would be interesting if
there were a way to go back and check some mothers' IQs.When I think of
some things my mother did, I wonder! MLB

My parents were just dumb. Father a mountain man from Tenn. hills, 7
of his
siblings died when he was 17, including his fave 15-year-old bro, from
typhoid
fever spreed by their family's cistern well (12 kids,2 adults). Mother
from the
LA delta 'Cajun towns where they wouldn't know a doctor if one ran
them over.
Today they call it criminal negligence. People like this are still
raising kids, but
many of them landed here from foreign countries with lower living
standards.
Which leads to a current, up-to-the-minute health care argument which
I refuse
to enter here.

We just lost a family member a couple weeks ago due to stupid stubborn
mountain idiocy. He had the Flu ( not swine) so bad that it went to his
heart. He refused to go to the doctor or hospital even though he was laid
up
in the bed barely able to breathe. The true stupid thing; which I think
their side of family is looking at charges to be pressed or should, is
that
his wife is a long time Nurse and did not call 911 or the doctor because
he
said not to that he was fine. The worse thing is that their son is a
doctor
and was away. He found out that his father was sick than died. He was
irate
that no one called him or a doctor. He said dam his father's pride he
would
have been in the ER. If he had to drag him there.

My friend May he rest in peace pasted away a couple months ago due to
lung cancer. The doctor told him to stop smoking that if he did not stop
the chemo he needed would not work. He refused still went through the
treatments. He died a few weeks later. May he rest in peace but I have no
sympathy for or his wife; she knew but ignored the situation.

Mountain pride as it is called I would love to take a baseball bat to
them and people like that. Ignorant pride needs to be beaten out of people
IMO plain and simple.

But it is how they were raised. I met both sides during travel when I
was younger.
Both, in different ways, were among the finest people I ever met. All
distant and
not-so-distant cuzzins whom I enjoyed thoroughly. They just lead much
more
simple lives than we do. We citified kin have gained so much more in
knowledge
and utilization of the modern innovations....but we've lost a few
things of value
they still respect, IMHO.
BTW Matt I have some friends, not relatives, from Bowling Green rural
area, who
I value highly as longtime pals in Miami. Mountain pride is not all a
bad thing
socially. I have had some of the best times of my life with these
friends.

Not what I meant my friend. There is major difference in Mountain pride and
mountain stubborn pride which is what I meant. My apologies for the
misunderstanding. These people I mentioned were citified country people who
knew better but their mountain stubborn pride got in the way. No excuse for
them they all knew better.

I do miss the simple ways and the fun we had. What you can do with stick,
safety pin and some string but would I take it over having healthcare and
veterinary care close by in case of emergency. Never again

I have talked with Mom about going back to Kentucky to our family farm and
living there again but we both agreed it would probably kills us to keep up
with it ;-)