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Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
ouch...sorry...
is that the armoured version in the top right?
"That's Hedley"
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Mt. Mashed Potatoes.
Why is there a Triceratops carrying a tire in the back of the shop?!
I didn't think those cars were THAT old!
Summerthyme
I didn't think those cars were THAT old!
Summerthyme
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
This. Means. Something.
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Scary that we remember that.
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
Well, when you have lived in the state as long as I have, certain memories float around all the time.
That was Close Encounters. I can’t wait to see what brain worms Disclosure Day embeds in our psyche…without great whites…
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
This is my Angel. We’re spending today in bed, on a heating pad, to try to de-stress my lower back. Any physical movement… sitting down, getting up, bending over while standing, etc…creates a sharp stabbing pain, centering on my spine at L4 and L5…so, Angel recognizes my hurting, and is staying close to me.
She’s such a good girl…
With one, single, long flowing nose hair.
Her German Shedder heritage is finally relaxing its output…
She’s such a good girl…
With one, single, long flowing nose hair.
Her German Shedder heritage is finally relaxing its output…
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
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Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
mbabulldog
Has No Life - Lives on TB
For the guys;
A pair of boobies!!!!!
A pair of boobies!!!!!
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
One of the most stunning things I’ve ever accomplished in my life.An International Telly Award for a 60 second psa produced with the Riverton Police Department Sgt. Bart Ringer, and the first of a dozen similar videos created with the help of a small group of Riverton High School seniors, starting in spring 2005.
We created a group we called “Young Adults Against Addiction”…or Y.A.A.A., pronounced as a California valley girl.
This came from my return to college at age 43, as a non traditional student, and towards the first degree I earned…Electronic Media Production and Operations (Broadcasting, Journalism, etc.) AAS, with High Honors.
The Wyoming Public Television station was based at Central Wyoming College, where they had been for years. Their staff, mostly students or graduates, had won many Telly Awards for their shows. I was the first student to win a Telly for a non PBS production.
I thought I had put the videos on my YouTube channel many moons ago, but apparently not. So, I’ll get on the desktop, find them, and upload them this evening.
Still, to be recognized for an idea that helps change lives…is a dream come true.
Side note :: this statuette is manufactured by the same company that makes the Oscar and Grammies awards. Imagine that…oh, and when you’re selected as a winner, you have to pay the cost involved in getting one…in this case, $168…which my media professor convinced the college to pay for.
Hognutz
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View: https://twitter.com/presbyinn/status/2045542297245254041?s=61
Old North Church, where Paul Revere started his midnight ride on April 18, 1775.
Old North Church, where Paul Revere started his midnight ride on April 18, 1775.
Hognutz
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View: https://twitter.com/oldnorth1723/status/2045589973324157019?s=61
On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River.
Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.
On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River.
Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.
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thats the flag that got the cops called on me when I sold knives (and flags) at the side of the hwy
TheSearcher
Are you sure about that?
There is a nerve cluster near the site of such pain that you can push that may give you some relief, assuming you're having sciatica. Use a small ball, like a tennis ball, and roll it around on the area. Beware, it will be shocking the first time you try this, but if you can stand it, your muscles will relax.
I've gotten to where I do this by just balling up my fist and laying down on a knuckle to really target rhe cluster. It doesn't always bring things back to a 100% functionality instantly, but it makes the difference between complete incapacity and being able to function.
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
My low back issues developed right after the April 17, 2018 (almost exactly eight years ago). Hit from behind at a stoplight by a distracted drunk driver. I was a passenger in a Dodge Minivan, and the woman never touched her brakes.
I’ve got multiple pics of the damage, lack of tire rubber behind her front wheels, etc. I was middle seat, passenger side, and immediately after the strike at 40 mph (deputy’s estimate) I asked if everyone was ok, and within 10 seconds of the hit, I pulled my door open, stepped out, and walked around the passenger side rear corner.
The woman was sitting there in shock, left hand on the steering wheel, right hand holding her phone face up (apparently in a conversation with her mom) with the back of her right hand on the steering wheel as well.
I went around to her window and asked if she was ok…and I smelled alcohol. Then, I told her “don’t leave…everybody in that van (pointed my finger at it) is hurt…deal with this accident like an adult”…
I then started calling 911. But, right exactly at that moment, looking down the off ramp we were on, I saw a Boone County Sheriff’s deputy take the exit, and come up behind us, as I waved both arms over my head. He stopped right behind her.
Bottom line, spinal damage. Severely herniated disks, between C4 to C6 with those three vertebrae suffering compression fractures.
This is the titanium spinal jewelry installed to fuse those vertebrae after replacing the disks with cadaver bone…
They installed this…from the front, after they cut my throat old school style…
Now, my lower back…
My vertebrae L4-L5-S1 were also badly herniated…tho not as bad as my neck. Here’s the xray…
Three months after the neck surgery, my low back was still killing me. Two more MRI visits, and then my neurologist referred me to a pain management doc. After ablations (twice), spinal block injections (x three), and the most painful medical procedure I’ve ever been through (I think it was a CT scan with injected fluid), laying on a table that rotated like a Hollywood machine when filming some special effects in front of a green screen. When my head was closest to the floor, the extra fluid along my spinal column created so much pressure that I really thought my brain was going up explode.
Bottom line :: after the extra imagery, the neurologist told me, more than once, that having the same surgery that I had on my neck, was less than 40% effective on the low back.
Eventually, with no surgery forthcoming, I was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease, Facet Joint Arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. All three are various flavors of spinal arthritis.
I had NONE of these issues before the wreck…yet no one would listen to me…
THAT’S what is causing the pain 24/7. I’ve been out of pain pills for two months, and I’m on my forth back brace since all this started. It’s not sciatica…one word that seven doctors I’ve seen since the accident have NEVER used.
I’ve got two XL heating pads, one 8” roller I lay on every couple of days to move some of those vertebra a tiny bit, and take exceedingly hot showers with a pulsating adjustable handheld shower head.
Wyoming’s Medicare coverage sucks. That’s the big reason I don’t have a chiropractor, or any doc referrals to get any help with this issue.
My future includes the same tools just above while on the road.
It is what it is…
My new hat…it defines my world right now.
Tristan
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How'd you get pictures of my retreat?
I know the surface looks decrepit, but that's just camouflage, you should see what's below...
Joking aside, what a cool place that must have been 'back in the day'.
TheSearcher
Are you sure about that?
I am so very sorry.
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
Like I said, it is what it is…C’est la vie…I am so very sorry.
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
Rich, I got your back pain right here. Plates in back, T9-L2
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
Yep… it sucks. I can’t imagine the kind of pain you’ve gone thru…during the accident, and the long time recovery.
I’ve got that one bracket hooking C4-C5-C6 together. 2018.
In 1993, our first rear end collision, my whole family was hurt. I had five compression fractures in the thoracic area…but no disk damage…??!!
In 1994, at the very same intersection (the eastbound on-ramp at mm 100 on interstate 20, I got hit again, this time number three out of six vehicles…with the instigating dumbass driver hitting the car behind me at at least 50 mph. I saw him coming and braced for impact. Damn it hurt.
Same hospital again (Bessemer, AL). Diagnosed with severe whiplash. 26 years later, during the hospital ER visit for the April 2018 wreck, the ER doc kept asking me about C3 (the hurt, painful part from the 94 incident). Apparently, C3 was broken…and undiagnosed for TWENTY SIX YEARS!…
So, three wrecks, three sets of compression fractures…none of a repeat of previous damage. I guess I can thank God for that.
So the diagnosis of DDD, FJA, and AS…makes sense…but if that was truly the case, SOMEBODY should have said something years before.
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Preferred pronouns: dude/bro
Hmm, why is there a triceratops in the background?