My feelings
See ya around gang I really looked forward to looking at the board in the morning, to see what has been going on in the lives of us fellow CABG patch kids. We do have lives and try to live them as normal people, not being continually reminded that we have sometime wrong with us and that is all we are suppose to write about. And heaven forbid if a person sometimes would get carried and talk about a friend of a friend or a uncle or aunt, but it really for the patient itself. How would someone know that? And not 1 joke has been written in here for 2 years till lately. Now that is really very sad, that the only thing people on this board hope for is others to continue to get sick so they can talk about their ailments. What a downer! If this is what this board is all about then fine, but I sure as hell don't want anyone to get sick so they can post here and keep the board going. It appears that bad news is good news here cause then people will post. Well, when I get sick or have an ailment Donna, I'll be sure to post so everyone can get their jollies. It's so sad to enjoy getting off on other peoples misfortunes, I sure wouldn't want to live that life. And "again" I'm going to ask, where and when did I make fun of you or made you the brunt of any joke or do you just make unsubstantiated comments about people if you don't like what they do? Are recipes allowed, they have nothing to do with sickness and laughter has also been shown to be good for the heart, especially bypass patients. How many recipes and jokes can we tell a week. What can we talk about and what's off limits? I'll stop, cause All I'm doing is getting more pissed off by the this. I'll miss the friendship and closeness, this board has become in the past year, and when someone did have a heart question, most of us fell all over ourselves to help them. Try helping people Donna instead of complaining all the time. And apologize for the jokes to people, what audacity and a self righteous attitude. Who died and made you the conscience of this group. I don't need fopr you to apologize to for me. Rus Future Lurker, unless I'm sick, then I'll post so Donna can get off on someone elses misfortune.
Rus, Don't you dare drop out of sight. You are a very important contributor to this group's life flow. Connie Rus Adkins <rus.adkins@... See ya around gang I really looked forward to looking at the board in the morning, to see what has been going on in the lives of us fellow CABG patch kids. We do have lives and try to live them as normal people, not being continually reminded that we have sometime wrong with us and that is all we are suppose to write about. And heaven forbid if a person sometimes would get carried and talk about a friend of a friend or a uncle or aunt, but it really for the patient itself. How would someone know that? And not 1 joke has been written in here for 2 years till lately. Now that is really very sad, that the only thing people on this board hope for is others to continue to get sick so they can talk about their ailments. What a downer! If this is what this board is all about then fine, but I sure as hell don't want anyone to get sick so they can post here and keep the board going. It appears that bad news is good news here cause then people will post. Well, when I get sick or have an ailment Donna, I'll be sure to post so everyone can get their jollies. It's so sad to enjoy getting off on other peoples misfortunes, I sure wouldn't want to live that life. And "again" I'm going to ask, where and when did I make fun of you or made you the brunt of any joke or do you just make unsubstantiated comments about people if you don't like what they do? Are recipes allowed, they have nothing to do with sickness and laughter has also been shown to be good for the heart, especially bypass patients. How many recipes and jokes can we tell a week. What can we talk about and what's off limits? I'll stop, cause All I'm doing is getting more pissed off by the this. I'll miss the friendship and closeness, this board has become in the past year, and when someone did have a heart question, most of us fell all over ourselves to help them. Try helping people Donna instead of complaining all the time. And apologize for the jokes to people, what audacity and a self righteous attitude. Who died and made you the conscience of this group. I don't need fopr you to apologize to for me. Rus Future Lurker, unless I'm sick, then I'll post so Donna can get off on someone elses misfortune. Connie Turner
In a message dated 3/19/2005 5:06:54 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, connieque@... writes: Rus, Don't you dare drop out of sight. You are a very important contributor to this group's life flow. Connie Rus who is donna? well anyways we need you here we need more then to wait for u to be sick..we need the fun...so lets go here buddy ;) star
Donna, I was going to ignore these arguements because I don't need to be upset but since you mentioned me in this e-mail I decided to comment. I really enjoy the jokes, I don't need to talk about the complications of a bypass all the time, I much prefer to focus on the positive. If I have complications I have medical staff to get me through them but if I am feeling sorry for myself there are no doctors that want to listen to complaints. The laughter and amusing stories on the board have made a big difference to me but maybe it is time for me to go as well. I don't think you should assume we think like you do, Connie, Deb, and I all enjoy the humour that we find here. As for new members if they take a few minutes to look back at the posts they will soon see we discuss everything. The discussion about sex I think is far more important than the pain we are feeling. ex is part of life and as long as we can enjoy then I say go for it. Enough for now Gail
Thanks Gail....you expressed it very well! Connie Gail <whiskers7@... Donna, I was going to ignore these arguements because I don't need to be upset but since you mentioned me in this e-mail I decided to comment. I really enjoy the jokes, I don't need to talk about the complications of a bypass all the time, I much prefer to focus on the positive. If I have complications I have medical staff to get me through them but if I am feeling sorry for myself there are no doctors that want to listen to complaints. The laughter and amusing stories on the board have made a big difference to me but maybe it is time for me to go as well. I don't think you should assume we think like you do, Connie, Deb, and I all enjoy the humour that we find here. As for new members if they take a few minutes to look back at the posts they will soon see we discuss everything. The discussion about sex I think is far more important than the pain we are feeling. ex is part of life and as long as we can enjoy then I say go for it. Enough for now Gail Connie Turner
Rus, I don't even drink and I wanted a beer after that pep rally! Or at least for us to have a virtual huddle, and all stick our hand in and give it the "1-2-3 Let's GO team!" rah rah! Just teasin'.....and you are right. And as for talking about normal things, that's one reason I wanted to do this online instead of attending Mended Hearts. There is a group in my area; they came to the hospital to leave literature, and I received meeting notifications for a while. But I couldn't see myself going to meetings with a bunch of people sitting around and talking about their operations. The bypass itself made me feel "old and like I'd left part of my youth behind". Even at Rehab....I was the youngest one there at 54. I felt like an outsider, and I'm the type person that has never met a stranger in my life. I guess this was just a club I didn't really want to join....like I could "will this bypass away" if I didn't have to be constantly reminded about it. And that's why I enjoy the normal talk, and sharing. Connie Rus Adkins <rus.adkins@... Sometimes the truth may hurt but it may need to be said. And a little debate about something besides our aches and pains makes this place alive. We're normal people, with normal feeling and want to live a normal life. So we have normal thoughts about what goes on in the world. And normal people talk about more than there health problems. Our health problems is the main reason this board was formed and it should be the main subject matter, but to vear off onto another subject that normal people talk about shouldn't be any cause for conflict or censorship. We have used OT in the subject line at one person's request and I think that was a great idea. That gives people the option to blast past this post until they find on on sickness and health that they like. THERES TO MANY NICE PEOPLE HERE THAT WANT THIS PLACE TO WORK. SO FOLKS LETS MAKE IT WORK!. Well I never did say I had inspiration half time speeches. lol Well I've talked enough and probably repeated myself several times, but it's because this is a great board going thru some growing pains, that we can overcome, because we are adults and we want to. Whew if isn't wasn't 8 am I'd get me a beer after this tome. Hey doesn't spring start today? Yippeeee! Rus Connie Turner