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Hi and how are you all doing today. I had wanted to wish everybody here
a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. And to tell you to try and see that you
eat enough Bird and t***s so you'll Pass Out for the next 20 or 30
minutes or more. ... LOL.

It's just a joke so please don't think I am asking you all to over-eat
to that point or anything. Just to make sure you have a really great
time enjoy yourselves totally.
As for me I will hope that there will be a Pecan Pie on the table for me
along with the Turkey and Gravy and T***s as well as lots of Pumpkin
Pie for that night.
I'm going thru a Lot of Health issues right now but I realize I still
have a Lot to Give Thanks for. Because I Still have Option.

I've been trying to hide how bad that my Kidneys have gotten.? I
really didn't want people to know?, but they've gotten really pretty
bad. Way back in September they opened up my wrist to create a shunt.
It's where they cut into an Artery & sew it into a Vein to use it for
dialysis at a later date.
They have got to go back and open up my forearm to raise it closer up to
the surface and leave enough of time for it to heal so they can use it
later on.?

Well , I got a call from my Kidney dr. that both he and my regular dr.
wanted me in the Hospital the next day. My Function had gotten so low
that they now want to instal one of those ''Shunts'' in my neck because
I need to start my dialysis right now. As a formality I guess i'm been
put on the transplant list. But i'm not gonna hold my breath , and I
really don't think that I could go ahead and take one from one of my
children. I don't picture a good
parent letting that happen atleast not now I feel really depressed and
scared about what is going on with me right now.?
I have already had the surgery to have a Catheter put down inside my
neck Last

Tuesday and I had to stay in the Hospital untill Saturday the 19th when
they let me go home.  And i've already had two quick dialysis treatments
in the Hospital and started at the center on monday the 21st from 7 to
10:30 pm. It will be three days a week afterwards. My days will be
Tuesday & Thursday and Saturday from 7 to 10:30.

Sorry i've broken down and let you hear all of this. The folks here have
plenty of things to be concerned with other than hearing about my
troubles. Please don't think Too Little of me over this okay,?

It's just hard right now going thru it I feel afraid and alone. ? Not
really sorry over what has happened.

God knows that I could really use some friends right about now

Thinking of all my Friends

????... Carl ..........

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Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Hey... never feel sorry for talking here.  That's what it's all about.  We
share more then just the latest modeling stuff.  If anything you have
reenforced the fact that we are real people here, not just some mind numbed
electons on a screen.  This is a community... and not just in name.

Have a great Thanksgiving.  We have to have our meal on Saturday.  The
French (the savages [je suis dsol Chris.  C'est un blouge]) don't see fit
to celebrate teh greatest holiday of the year.  No day off... no football...
no overeating....  Having to have our turkey and suplies brought over from
Ramstein!

Heck.. I envy you.  So stop the Pumpkin Pie and Karo Pecan talk.  And Carl,
again, let us know if there is ever anything you need.   I can help get that
stash moved.  Need a place to store it?

Rich

" anything we can do or even just m***support, please ask.' you are
not alone and people DO give a damn. so don't let yourself be isolated
and alone.  write here and trade emails if you wish. i have time to
write.  "

Thanks very much I will need to try to keep in touch with folks here and
yes I would love to trade e~mails with you if you're okay with that.
Because as time goes on I feel I will become more and more isolated
'cause of being tied to the dialysis pump just to survive.  It will help
me survive , but with a lot of trade offs.

Thanks again for being a friend

"  . . .  consider me one of your friends. I know a lot about the lousy
kidney thing myself. I only have the one and it's not in A-1 shape.  I
don't envy you the dialysis. I've known a few folks on that and it's not
the greatest way to live. BUT, you will live and I hope the system can
find you a transplant quickly. . . . "

Thank you for reguarding me as a friend.  Please make sure you try to
take care of the Kidney you have , okay.  It is starting to slowly sink
in just how much I will be tied to that pump just for my survival. :(
But with help from the Great Maker I can
do just that.  I fear not being able to go to any of the places I love
going to such as the "Intrepid" Air Sea & Space museum and the Three Day
"Chiller" convention down at the Meadowlands.  I have done these things
for a long whie now and the prospect of not being able to do them any
more is sort of depressing.  I really love going to Air Shows and to
Museums and stuff like that.  I always have and I hope that I still can
in one form or anorther. :)

Thank you also for your encouragement.  It will mean a lot to talk to
others who do understand some of what i'm going to be facing in the
future.  As for a Transplant I will be trying to see just what some of
the options are after the first of the year.  I will have to be taking
off a lot more fluid and some more weight as well.  Both of which will
make it better to consider me for a transplant in the first place. ..
:)  :)

" We share more then the latest modeling stuff. If anything you have
reenforced the fact that we are real people here, not just some mind
numbed electons on a screen. This is a community ... and not just in
name.  Have a great Thanksgiving. We have to have our meal on Saturday .
 .
No day off... no football... no overeating.... Having to have our turkey
and suplies brought over from Ramstein!
Heck.. I envy you. So stop the Pumpkin Pie and Karo Pecan talk. And
Carl, again, let us know if there is ever anything you need. ? I can
help get that stash moved. Need a place to store it?  "
Rich

I hope it doesn't sound corny but you've made me think there's hope for
us as a Species yet.  We're all brought so much closer thru the using
the Web every day.
And yes I hope to be asking all kinds of questions to do a better job
with all my modeling.  I hope you all don't get tired too quickly of me
doing that.

No Thanksgiving in France yesss that is really Savage. It really Sucks
you have to have to get everything in from Ramstien.
Would you please translate what it is you said in French , it sounds
trashy.  Geee I hope it really is. I would just love to know.

And no , my stash is quite happy where it is right now.  But thank you
for asking. :)

Again thank you all so very much have a Great Day.............

  ...  Carl  ..........

.

Our son, Justin, has had a couple of serious surgeries including one
that cost him the sight in one eye. These guys and gals sent over fifty
cards, photos, a couple of models for him to do while stuck in bed
(snap tites as he is seriously learning delayed) , a photo (now framed
and hung in his room) of the USS Justin, and many e-mails.

The contact with good people (including a couple that I have argued
with over the years) is wonderful. I read e-mails and things such as
funny posts to him all of the time. Sometimes I get a look something
lke "What IS he talking about? Usually I get a least a big smile. On
accason we'll be talking about a specific model or aircraft and he'll
bring me the model that he built or a book from my library on the
subject. He's really good at this when the subject is Disney. :-)

Anyhow, keep in touch with us, both on line and in the newsgroup, and
let us help you to enjoy life.

Very best wishes,
Tom (& Justin)