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Somehow I messed up an earlier post. I meant to say:
I'm asking these questions to create discussion and get people thinking, not meaning they are about what I should or shouldn't do - but just in general.
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I keep coming in from the heat here in Texas to get refreashed. Man, my ac can hardly stay up. Well I'm glad today bc I'm taking in some of the YY shows from last week bc I've been too busy and tierd and yesterday on the Sabbath I slept and watched golf for most of it.
Well listening to CWs take on David and his flaws, I think I stand in good company compared to this guy. I think of myself walking way in the back when following Moses to the promised land and on occassion the entire group stops and yells, "catch up," while I'm off the path looking at this or that.
I hope I didn't sound as if I was targeting you in any way at all, Walt. We all learn at different speeds, I'm just slower bc of time restaints, it's just that I feel where ever one is in His understanding, just engage and I see you are doing that.
Well back to washing cars and having just one more, Shiner. Just one more!
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Putting away the gear I'm thinking about the medicine issue that Walt brought up. You all know t's hot down here and I'll bet James will agree with me on that one.. Should I suffer this forsaken heat, or get inside in the ac and get refreashed again? Is using ac taking the "easy" way?...more than likely it is, but I think I'll go in have a shower, grab one more and finish my meal watching the PGA Championship while relaxing in ac.
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OK, another update. I found out that besides the blood clot in my leg, and the open wound down to my hip bone from the seroma surgery, I have Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - one of those drug resistant staph infections you get from a hospital (the drug costs $2,955 for a 14 day supply).
I'm running out of steam here and getting wore down fast. The system is killing me one mess-up after another. Mr primary care Dr said that I'm just falling through the cracks.
Also I'm about to run out of sick/vacation time and if I don't get this wound closed up so I can get back to work to earn a pay-check I'll have bill collectors knocking on my door.
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Walt wrote:OK, another update. I found out that besides the blood clot in my leg, and the open wound down to my hip bone from the seroma surgery, I have Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - one of those drug resistant staph infections you get from a hospital (the drug costs $2,955 for a 14 day supply).
I'm running out of steam here and getting wore down fast. The system is killing me one mess-up after another. Mr primary care Dr said that I'm just falling through the cracks.
Also I'm about to run out of sick/vacation time and if I don't get this wound closed up so I can get back to work to earn a pay-check I'll have bill collectors knocking on my door. [color=darkblue][/color]Dang it anyway Walt, this is heartbreaking what you're being put through -- I can totally understand/empathize with you, that all you want to do is get out of the clutches of the beast system and have some peace. All I can do as anyone who can who knows Dad - so I'm asking our Father to touch this whole situation with His power, and raise you up so that it will actually be fun and enjoyable to live -loaded with lots and lots of His peace- as we all wait on Dad coming to get us the heck out of Babylon! 'Amein
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Walt, that is tough news to bare and tough to hear. I would like to see this entire board get beneath my post and onto you with prayer. It worked for the girl hit by the truck and will work for you. It may take a week to ten days for the antibiotic to kill the infection and then your rehabilitation can get back on schedule. I will make prayer for you ever day and ask Yah to intervene on your behalf.
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Brother, it sounds to me like you're not in a position to even buy the vaccine. If that is the case, please say so here in this thread. I'm sure some of us will be happy to ante up whatever we can to help you pull through until you're back on your feet.
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I echo all the statements above, Walt. I'm always good for a few when someones in need. Give me your address on my pm. You are in our prayers.
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Walt, I am so sorry to hear this. Please keep strong, and hang in there. As always I will keep you in my prayers, may Yahowah be with you, strengthen and comfort you. Don't take my word for it, Look it up.
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encounterHim wrote:I echo all the statements above, Walt. I'm always good for a few when someones in need. Give me your address on my pm. You are in our prayers. A PM to me would be okay, too, Walt.
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Oh, no! I'm soo sorry to hear that, Walt. I'm reading a fantastic book by Bruce Fife, NP; it is all about the amazing properties of coconut oil; it supposedly will kill bacteria better than anitbiotics, etc., and without the side effects. You need to ingest about 4 tablespoons daily. Drink coconut milk, and eat natural, unsweetened coconut meat. I hear that the Eastern red cedar has amazing properties to attach MRSA: http://www.examiner.com/...d-effective-against-mrsa
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The insurance is covering the drug, but it blows my mind on the cost.
It's messed up; you get a super infection from the hospital, and they turn around and make $$ to treat you for it.
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Even so, Walt, if your rehabilitation is delayed and you do not get back to work when you wish and contemplate, send me a pm. I would be only too happy to help. Keep your courage and trust in Yah. This, too, will pass. I predict no more than a week for the drug to work. All last month and part of July I was in and out of doctors and dentists offices and the hospital with a gum infection from teeth extractions, about a dozen visits, until finally in week five of this agony the massive doses of antibiotics began to work. One side of my face was grotesquely swollen and the pain was unrelenting. Take some time now to figure out how long it will take to climb that mountain behind you, the number of steps it will take to the top, all the good thoughts as you start that rapid recovery, because it is coming your way now. We are with you as you are with us.
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Walt, I join everyone else in praying for these problems to end for you. If the time comes, send that pm my way as well. “Because he clings to Me, is joined to Me, loves and delights in Me, desires Me, therefore I will deliver him, carry him safely away, cause him to escape from harm making him inaccessible and strong, and delivering him safely to heaven, because he has known, observed, cared for, recognized, instructed and advised others to use, designated, acknowledged, discerned, answered in, My name, authority, character, report, mark, and nature." Psalm 91:14
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Walt, hang in there, you can make it. On a side note I was looking t the picture you posted of the mountain you were going to climb when you get better. I predict you will be able to do it with 6 stops along the way, plus 1 final stop at the top. Don't take my word for it, Look it up.
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Get well quickly, Walt. I feel I am going too far in sharing your pain. Right after my jaw infection cleared, while cleaning the tiles in the shower I lost my footing and fell full body weight on to the side of the tub and fractured a couple of ribs. More trips to the hospital and now I have not the luxury of taking a full breath without too much pain. Looking to the past when saying, "That is the most pain I have ever felt." needs rethinking. I now think breaking ribs more painful. Walt, this whole thread is about you to let you know we are pulling for you, but my latest injury gives me added leverage to say with every breath I am thinking of you. Get well quickly!
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THANK YOU all for your prayers, support and encouragement. It means A LOT.
The hard thing is that I'm recovered from the original injury - what I'm going through is a result of failures by doctors. The drugs they are giving me to cure me are making me feel horrible with the different side effects.
Tagim, you didn't have to go that literal to mean it when you say "I feel your pain", now it's time to send some prayers your direction.
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Does anyone on this forum live in the Eastern US, i.e., New Jersey, etc? Could someone send a box of tender leaves and berries from the Eastern Red Cedar to Walt? The juice from the leaves and berries is supposed to be the best medicine for MRSA. The ERC is considered a nuisance tree; it grows from Kansas all the way to the Atlantic coast. It looks like a scruffy juniper.
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Thanks my sister for asking.
I finished my 14 days on the MRSA drug Tues (the side effects/drug interactions were taking a toll on me) and they re-cultured me Thurs. Since it takes 48 hours to culture, and it being a weekend, I won't know the results until Mon. My concern was that if the culture comes back still positive, I will be off the drug for 5 days, giving the MRSA time to get a stronger hold. This is a bad-a## bug, so even if I'm clean, I would like the Eastern Red Cedar as a precautionary cleanser. It shows the AWESOMENESS of Yah that a drug-resilient bug like this would have a easy natural cure.
On a Praise note, when the surgeon took the wound dressing off, he said "Wow, it's healing good (people's prayer at work!)" with "If you had come to see me 2-3 weeks earlier, I could have closed the wound up".
I see my primary care Dr Wed for a return to work visit. PRAYERS PLEASE, I need to return to work, besides the earning a paycheck issue, I'm going bonkers.
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Walt wrote:I see my primary care Dr Wed for a return to work visit. PRAYERS PLEASE, I need to return to work, besides the earning a paycheck issue, I'm going bonkers.
I hear you, brother. When I had the quadruple bypass surgery back in March of 2008—which turned out to be a triple bypass because one artery/vessel/whatever-the-heck-it-is was too damaged to repair—I was advised that I would have to remain away from work for another 12-16 weeks. I had already been off the job for 2½ months, since late January, so I knew there was no way I could hold out for another 12-16 weeks! So I requested an appointment with the heart surgeon after 2 weeks and literally forced him to give me written authorization to go back to work. Then I had to wrangle with the suits back at Corporate Headquarters to honor the surgeon's authorization. So I showed back up on the job and everyone was astounded. Sure, I had to take it easy physically, but I was there to hold up my side of things once again (I was one of only 2 Global Support Technicians in a region of over 600 PC users). My fellow techie appreciated it, the users appreciated it, and corporate got over it.
So I know what you're feeling, the antsiness and the financial pressure. Press your desire on your PCP, Walt. Don't take "No" for an answer. And may Yahowah grant your petition.
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Walt wrote:Thanks my sister for asking.
I finished my 14 days on the MRSA drug Tues (the side effects/drug interactions were taking a toll on me) and they re-cultured me Thurs. Since it takes 48 hours to culture, and it being a weekend, I won't know the results until Mon. My concern was that if the culture comes back still positive, I will be off the drug for 5 days, giving the MRSA time to get a stronger hold. This is a bad-a## bug, so even if I'm clean, I would like the Eastern Red Cedar as a precautionary cleanser. It shows the AWESOMENESS of Yah that a drug-resilient bug like this would have a easy natural cure.
On a Praise note, when the surgeon took the wound dressing off, he said "Wow, it's healing good (people's prayer at work!)" with "If you had come to see me 2-3 weeks earlier, I could have closed the wound up".
I see my primary care Dr Wed for a return to work visit. PRAYERS PLEASE, I need to return to work, besides the earning a paycheck issue, I'm going bonkers.
Netflix will help! Glad your leg is going better!
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I hear you, brother. When I had the quadruple bypass surgery back in March of 2008—which turned out to be a triple bypass because one artery/vessel/whatever-the-heck-it-is was too damaged to repair—I was advised that I would have to remain away from work for another 12-16 weeks. I had already been off the job for 2½ months, since late January, so I knew there was no way I could hold out for another 12-16 weeks! So I requested an appointment with the heart surgeon after 2 weeks and literally forced him to give me written authorization to go back to work. Then I had to wrangle with the suits back at Corporate Headquarters to honor the surgeon's authorization. So I showed back up on the job and everyone was astounded. Sure, I had to take it easy physically, but I was there to hold up my side of things once again (I was one of only 2 Global Support Technicians in a region of over 600 PC users). My fellow techie appreciated it, the users appreciated it, and corporate got over it.
So I know what you're feeling, the antsiness and the financial pressure. Press your desire on your PCP, Walt. Don't take "No" for an answer. And may Yahowah grant your petition.
Richard
Flintface I have 2 words for you Raw Vegan. It will change your life.
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Culture came back positive, still have the MRSA. Dr said that the rat poison I'm taking for the blood clot they gave me slows the effectiveness of the drug to fight the MRSA.
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Walt wrote:Culture came back positive, still have the MRSA. Dr said that the rat poison I'm taking for the blood clot they gave me slows the effectiveness of the drug to fight the MRSA. I am sorry to hear that, Walt. What a mess! May Yahowah heal you once and for all, with or without involving man.
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Raw Vegan.
Mmmm, they are delicious. All that lean meat... [drool] Nehemiah wrote:"We carried our weapons with us at all times, even when we went for water" Nehemiah 4:23b [center]We would do well to follow Nehemiah's example! http://OurSafeHome.net[/center]
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1 More week to go - get to go back to work a week from Mon Oct 3. Was hoping for this coming Mon, but at least I see light at the end of the tunnel. That will be 5 full months, since I fell May 3rd.
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A long time, indeed, Walt, but nevertheless, done. I hope you return to a restricted work effort so your rehabilitation can continue. We are thankful to have witnessed your progress.
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Indeed it is great news for you, Walt. Leave the 4ft ladders to guys like me, and you stick to the high power line towers. Sounds safer...lol.
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Thank you, Father! That's great news, Walt! I agree with tagim on this: take it as easy as they'll let you, brother. You can be a hard charging go-to guy after you're fully recovered.
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Finally got back to work today. Hallilu Yah
The hip is doing great, no pains or difficulties, even went and did some hiking and climbing with no issues. Wife won't let me climb that mountain alone though, anyone up for a good hike?
Dr took me off the drug for the staff infection today, said it's healing well enough now that I don't need the antibiotic. Because of how oddly it's healing due to the MRSA and the wound vac being on way to long and doing more harm than good, he's looking at cauterizing with silver nitrate (???) in 4 weeks to smooth/level it out The skin started forming down into the wound (it was 7cm deep) and he's concerned that once it finishes healing it will look like a valley across my side & abdomen.
Now just get this blood clot dealt with and it'll all be in my rear view mirror
THANKS everyone for the prayers, encouragement & support
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good to hear, walt; keep giving us good reports.
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Great news there, Walt. Looks like just in time for cold weather. I sure wouldn't worry about any scarring as long as your feeling good. I have similar scarring, but they were from burns when a foundry furnace blew. Just glad I got another day after that. So we can be the Scar brothers now! Just glad to have ya back.
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That's what I told the physical therapist that is treating my wound when she said I have nasty scarring, that it doesn't matter as long as I'm functional.
We're already deeper than blood brothers.
Wish I had a shofar to blow to praise Yahowah that I'm back in action, instead I'm doing a happy dance.
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Awesome news Walt, I wish I lived nearby so I could hike that hill with you. Don't take my word for it, Look it up.
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I'll get mine and blow it for you then. The dog and I will be dancing too and praising, Father.
I was talking with a guy yesterday about tools we use in our everyday lives, and before I never gave it much thought, but after listening to a previous yy show. CW and Yow'el had a discussion on language being our most important tool which would have never crossed my mind as being an aparatus of work. Language is our most important tool. Well we got into what brought us into a era of cooperation, and it was not grunts and hand signs for sure. He mentioned fire as being the most valuable tool man ever had and I begged to differ with him, and the reason is b/c fire was gotten and kept alive in the ancient days by tenderers that had a job to do just that, stoke the fire. Speaking a common language gets work done. This got me thinking on my Father and His Word, and the Implement He used to get His work done. The "Word" is the Implement of language/tool, He sent that should cross all boundries and get the job done. Just too bad we are a world of lazy people that want it handed to 'em.
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That's really good news, Walt! Thank you for sharing it with us! I have scarring from my open heart surgery. There's actually a piece of something underneath the skin that I can move around like a large BB. It's attached in there, but it moves. And it itches like mad. But I deal with it because the alternative would have been death.
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3rd week back to work and my hip is doing fine.
Some of co-workers won't work in the same area/room as me because they are afraid of catching my staff infection. HR reaffirmed through my doctor that as long as my wound is covered (even with just my clothing, even though I have plastic sealing over my wound dressing) - they are still afraid to get near me, and are "afraid" if they touch a tool I touched that they might "catch it". So my boss (who gave me a big hug the day I returned to work, and told my co-workers that, and nothing happened to him) change things around so I work by myself
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Sounds like a natural repellent, Walt. My youngest son had it before, and once you do have it, I heard it's there from then on, but how contagious, I don't really know. His happened while working at a pizza hut. He slipping in the kitchen banging his hip and cutting his rump side and the infection got in there then, but I lanced the thing several times before he ever went to the dr and i never had any symptoms myself.
I told another brother a good practice I do all during the yr is, I use antiseptic moutwash on every thing. Never sick! I never take shots or ever see a dr for that matter. If ppl want nice feet, soak 'em for 30mins (up to a month) a nite and then start working on 'em after a few nites. You can bring 'em back to their child like state. Get you a rubbermaid small tub with a lid and use it over and over. I usually keep it up to a week. By then it starts getting as ugly as feet..lol The walmart generic is fine just so long as it's antisptic mouthwash. For you that go to bed on occasion without showering, pour some on a washrag and just like in the shower, wash with it. You'll start being amazed at it's working abilities. Enough of, "Hint from Freddie"
Nice hearing you're doing, okay!
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Glad to hear apart from ignorant people things are going well. Don't take my word for it, Look it up.
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