Ebola

PLAY IT! LIKE NOWWWW!!! You will love it! GREAT GREAT story!

 

I've never read a King book but I HAVE watched Misery like a million times though. Does that count? LOL.

 

Dude that's super lame. We had 3 wiener dogs but Lucy was like "mine" ya know? Well she died about 3yrs ago and I still miss her even right now. We were attached at the hip for sure. I had to have her put to sleep and it was awful but at the same time I knew it was time. She had totally lost all body control all of a sudden and I just called my buddy that's our vet and he met us over there at like 11 at night to do it. I just held her little paw while she went to sleep and that was it. I had to let my wife and father in law bury her because I just absolutely couldn't do it. I told them I didn't want to know where she was buried and still to this day I don't want to. It's horrible to lose them but it's a comfort to know they aren't suffering. It's incredible how attached you can become to your pets. I could only do that for a dog though. No other animal sorta "gets me" like a dog does. I don't know why that is.

 

Sorry for your loss. If you have had a pet ((dog, cat or other) that you care for and love for any
amount of time it is truly difficult. The one thing I focus on when I lose one of mine, and that is too frequently with some of the work I do, is that as an owner you gave your animal the best possilble life it could have had. That doesn't make tha pain go away but it makes it a little less bad knowing you did everything for your animal that you could and that your animal knew and appreciated it. Again, sorry for your loss,

 

What kind of dog was it?

 

So you're a "big dog" kinda guy. My buddy used to have a black lab named Otis that he kept in the house. He lived in a trailer and when Otis was in the floor there was like nowhere to walk. LOL. That dog did something REALLY funny to me once. We were in high school and had our own backyard wrestling group called World Champion Street Brawlers or WCSB and we would film ourselves wrestling in the yard and hit each other with trash cans, cookie sheets, wet floor signs, road signs, buckets, chairs, and whatever else we could get our hands on. We would then show it on the school news. Well my name was Crazy Train and I was a member of DVS or Death Valley Squad and we were villains in the vein of DX or NWO. A teacher and football coach from school wrestled with us and his name was Dr. Feelgood and he came out to help my friend named Misery when we were cheating and he DRILLED me with a GREAT DDT and I was laying on the ground and Otis came over and ummm... well... showed me... affection... LOL. Well my buddy was filming and I was "selling" the move so my buddy that owned Otis had to get him off of me. It was SO funny and when we showed that on the school news people thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen in their life. I hope this makes you feel better. LOL. Also an ebola case was just confirmed in NYC!

 

Yep. A doctor was diagnosed with it tonight. Man I bet that is gonna shoot that city in to a panic!

 

Ebola seems to have some similarities to polio in the early 50's, at least in my eyes. I picked up the two most dangerous of the three types of polio. I was only five at the time and was definately not expected to make it to six. I was hospitalized 4 months, quaranteed and had last rites, but it wasn't my time to cash my chips in yet. I remember how contagious it was. The doctors and nurses always had masks and gloves on and did everything possible to avoid contact with the patients. No visitors were allowed. You were in a special section of the hospital.

Being that young I couldn't understand the effect it was having on the non-infected population. My parents told me later about schools being closed, swimming pools shut down, the armed forces not taking draftees from certain areas and much, much more. That was when polio was at its height. I'm sure we all pray that ebola never reaches anywhere near that level in this country.

The worse thing was no one knew what caused the polio and the results of fighting through it were either death, spending much of you remaining life in an iron lung, partial paralysis or a small percentage of full recovery. If you recovered fully or anywher near fully it was a long painful ordeal. Much of this doesn't pertain to ebola yet and maybe won't ever but on the very early fringe of it and remembering how polio started and then developed a life of it own I can only hope it is contained as much as possible and any cures that might be found, like the polio vaccination, can come to light soon.

I was lucky to have been living near Pittsburgh at the time and being able to be treated by Childrens Hospital. They were as advanced in the treatment of polio as anyone in the country. For a few years after recovering from polio I had a tendency to look back at the ordeal and feel sorry for myself having to have gone through the polio disease even though I knew I had been extremely fortunate to survive. Then as you get a little older and more mature you realize that the real victims that had an unbelievable amount of tragedy and suffering were the parents of children infected with polio or a similar disease. I can't imagine standing beside your child knowing it will die soon and not being able to do anything to prevent it.

Didn't mean to ramble on but even though ebola probably won't reach anywhere near where polio was in the early 50's just having lived through it makes me aware of the potential even more.