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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 12, 2010, 11:05:21 PM
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Oh my.
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-12-10 06:32 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
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Well, the hits just keep on coming. I got hurt really bad this time.
I have severe postural hypotension, meaning when I stand up too quickly my blood pressure craters and I black out.
Just like that. No warning, no dizziness, just like a light switch shutting off. Or like when you're going under general anesthesia and they tell you to count backward from 100, and you don't even get to 99 before you wake up in the recovery room.
It hit me just over a week ago when I got up from the couch in my outer office and started to walk into my inner office, and because it's so instant, I didn't even have time to put my arms out in front of me, so I hit the floor with my chin leading the way.
The blackout only lasted five seconds or so, but when I woke up I found I had to spit some bloody Chicklets into the sink (which the same turned out to be five teeth). Then I got to work cleaning the blood off the hardwood floor. That wasn't easy, because I kept pouring more blood from my chin onto the floor. I did get the floor clean, though.
Fortunately, my older son was home that day, and he looked at the gash on my chin and insisted that I let him take me to the emergency clinic. (Even though I, as usual, insisted "Just give me a Band-Aid, would you?)
Good thing I let him take me there. Turns out that I had broken my jaw in six places (in addition to knocking out the teeth), gained my eighth concussion, and had broken three ribs. (That's in particular no fun; I've broken ribs before but they were lower ones - it's a different deal when you break ribs up high, it seems.)
So the emergency clinic had the ambulance cart me off to the Big Hospital, where they kept me in a neck brace for five days, and wired my jaw shut.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever have the choice, do NOT get your jaw wired shut. It's ****ing miserable. The only good part (this is true) is that the doctor prescribed two cans of Bud for me with each meal of mush...he said that beer is a good way to get some carbs onboard and that it helps the pain medicine work, and gives the kidneys some work to do.
It was kinda neat, though, to spend five or six days talking like the old jaw-clenched Clint Eastwood; I was able to keep the nurses entertained with that. ("Ya feelin' lucky, PUNK?) Unfortunately, I looked like a criminal who had been hanged, because during and after the mouth / jaw surgery, a gallon or so of blood leaked down into my neck and upper chest. I was about 4/5th body and one-fifth bruise. Not to mention the swelling where they installed plates, screws, etc in my jaw during the 3 hours of surgery.
I wouldn't let Mrs R visit; I didn't want her to see me looking like that.
And, dammit, I didn't even have the pleasure of getting drunk before I fell. That would've made this story a bit more interesting, but I was stone sober when it happened.
But, hurrah, I got the vertical wires removed today so I can move my jaw and slurp down my pureed dinner much more efficiently. I don't mind so much having to eat / drink slurries for my meals because the process is much less messy now. And I still have the stabilizing wires in my teeth - now I know how the kids with braces must feel.
So it's going to be kind of a long road back; I'll need some heavy-duty dental work next month and of course ribs take forever to heal. But I have Mrs R and the Visiting Nurses who are going to set me up with some therapy to deal with my balance and blood-pressure problems.
I may be beat up, but I ain't dead yet.
That's the spirit, Redstone.
Our sincere and heartfelt good wishes for a rapid recovery, as we miss you.
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-12-10 07:05 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #4
8. That's what they kept on telling me: "Stand up more slowly," but:
when they ran the tests on me, they had me sit for TWO MINUTES, then stand for another two minutes, and I STILL dropped 40 points of blood pressure.
So I asked them "how the hell MORE slowly can I get up?" And of course they didn't have an answer to that.
So much for modern medicine.
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-12-10 11:35 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #26
36. oh, yeah, I was the favorite of all the nurses because I NEVER complained, was unfailingly polite, and always thanked them for everythiing they did for me.
Oh, and I also taught myself not to flinch years ago, for reasons long forgotten. That made IV / blood test needle insertion much easier for them.
An ideal patient from a nurse's point of view, if I say so myself.
Yeah, yeah. Sure.
mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-12-10 09:25 PM
THE mike_c PRIMITIVE, WHO'S FATTER THAN franksolich THOUGHT HE WAS
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28. wow, that sounds BRUTAL....
I broke my ankle around the same time, but I've got to tell you-- it's NOTHING compared to what you've endured! Damn! That hurt just reading about it.
Glad to hear that you're on the mend, although it sounds like it's going to be slow. Take care of yourself and work on healing!
Again, get well, Redstone. We all miss you like you wouldn't believe.
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Now they're bouncing injuries to get on our top DUmmie list?? They learned from Pammy well it seems. What's next? Calpiggy breaking a hip? Stinky getting castrated by ass suction and a flushing toilet? Beth breaking her fool neck while riding dressage? Ooooo maybe Pittstain can regain his ranking with a good assassination attempt!
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Now they're bouncing injuries to get on our top DUmmie list?? They learned from Pammy well it seems. What's next? Calpiggy breaking a hip? Stinky getting castrated by ass suction and a flushing toilet? Beth breaking her fool neck while riding dressage? Ooooo maybe Pittstain can regain his ranking with a good assassination attempt!
That shit's funny! :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
H5!
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Let me get this straight.
Guy says he faints and falls on his face (not sure if a person passes out falling forward downward but for the sake of argument will accept it),knocks out 5 teeth,breaks his jaw in 6 places and has three broken ribs from it??
Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever have the choice, do NOT get your jaw wired shut. It's ****ing miserable. The only good part (this is true) is that the doctor prescribed two cans of Bud for me with each meal of mush...he said that beer is a good way to get some carbs onboard and that it helps the pain medicine work, and gives the kidneys some work to do.
What the? ::)
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What the? ::)
Neighbor, alcohol helps opiates work. It does this: :fuelfire:
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever have the choice, do NOT get your jaw wired shut. It's ****ing miserable. The only good part (this is true) is that the doctor prescribed two cans of Bud for me with each meal of mush...he said that beer is a good way to get some carbs onboard and that it helps the pain medicine work, and gives the kidneys some work to do.
OK this is why I posted before that this bounced. The only way a Doctor is going to talk about beer is if the DUmmie brought it up first. Since he is an alkie, I can see him doing it.
Seeing that he's on a liquid diet for a broken jaw there's no reason for beer with it. The food will provide all the carbs he'll need since alot of it will be Ensure ect.
Beer would enhance the pain killers. I was once told by an ER doctor to go ahead with my bachelor party plans the night after I injured myself. He did say the alcohol would help the pain killers....that night. He also stressed A)absolutely no driving and B)no more than just this once, that night and C)absolutely NO driving.
The kidneys are going to have plenty of work to do on a liquid diet. So much so that beer isn't needed.
Mr Wino here is lying to rationalize getting hammered while on drugs, if this even happened. Just like a DUmmie.
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Seeing that he's on a liquid diet for a broken jaw there's no reason for beer with it.
Yeah, but do we know how often he masturbates? He might need the carbs! :jerkit:
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Yeah, but do we know how often he masturbates? He might need the carbs! :jerkit:
Well.....sitting around with a broken jaw, nothing to do and an internet connection....
He should easily be able to keep it under 10 times a day. :rotf:
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I call bullshit.
Now, don't get me wrong, i believe wholeheartedly that this DUmbass suffered some heavy injuries shortly after election day, but i doubt it was from a hypotension episode.
I am thinking he got his bitter, old, tantrum throwing, drunk ass beaten like a drum after venting his spleen to the wrong person.
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It's hard to believe the 'no warning' part, but the rest sounds possible. When my second kid was a few months old, I once got up in the middle of the night because the older child was crying. I got the "head rush" symptoms that I'm sure most people have had, but ignored them and kept going...woke up face down on the floor, trying to figure out why the water bed was so hard!! My kid was still crying, but his dad finally took care of him. I was in a pool of blood, had a broken nose, broke off one front tooth and, as time went on, figured out I'd cracked every molar in my mouth. They did a bunch of tests on me, never figured out what happened...but I have never again ignored the head rush when it starts!!!
I'd have to say the "drunk" explanation is far more likely than the "no symptoms" story. :lmao:
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Time for him to get a new name, Frank.
CHIEF SITTING BULL, THE TOOTHLESS BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
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Time for him to get a new name, Frank.
CHIEF SITTING BULL, THE TOOFLESS FLOOR-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
:hyper:
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Redstone sounds an awful lot like TiT...
I have the same issue, because of my blood pressure medications. But I know better than to just hop up and go for a stroll without first grabbing onto something for a few seconds. Some people are just too stupid to cope.
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Redstone sounds an awful lot like TiT...
I have the same issue, because of my blood pressure medications. But I know better than to just hop up and go for a stroll without first grabbing onto something for a few seconds. Some people are just too stupid to cope.
That's how I'd do it. This remeinds of the one the other day where DUmmies were bitching about hitting their heads on the freezer door handle.
Der, don't stand up when your head is in the fridge.
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It's hard to believe the 'no warning' part, but the rest sounds possible. When my second kid was a few months old, I once got up in the middle of the night because the older child was crying. I got the "head rush" symptoms that I'm sure most people have had, but ignored them and kept going...woke up face down on the floor, trying to figure out why the water bed was so hard!! My kid was still crying, but his dad finally took care of him. I was in a pool of blood, had a broken nose, broke off one front tooth and, as time went on, figured out I'd cracked every molar in my mouth. They did a bunch of tests on me, never figured out what happened...but I have never again ignored the head rush when it starts!!!
I'd have to say the "drunk" explanation is far more likely than the "no symptoms" story. :lmao:
My wife occasionally has this problem. She actually passed out on me while I was working on a car. She got up from inside, and was standing there talking to me one second, the next second, it was like all the life went right out of her. I was scared to death!
We were told by the doc that one way to help prevent this is that if you feel the head rush coming on, to tense up all of your extremity muscles and core muscles, to stop the blood from flowing out of your brain.
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I'd have to say the "drunk" explanation is far more likely than the "no symptoms" story.
That's exactly what I'm thinking, madam.
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I call bullshit.
Now, don't get me wrong, i believe wholeheartedly that this DUmbass suffered some heavy injuries shortly after election day, but i doubt it was from a hypotension episode.
I am thinking he got his bitter, old, tantrum throwing, drunk ass beaten like a drum after venting his spleen to the wrong person.
Yeah, I found this hard to believe too. Before My mother passed away she would faint all the time too. I know the sound of a falling body. She never suffered such massive injuries like this. (breaking ribs?)
I wanna give sympathy where it's due-even to DUmmies. Buy after wading thru so many lies at DU, I'm hesitant to believe anything like this. I still don't believe the Andyscam thing.
Jaw broke in 6 places? That's a beating. In his case I tend to think it was the bad end of a drug deal or he made a gay pass at a guy in a Biker bar.
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Yeah, I found this hard to believe too. Before My mother passed away she would faint all the time too. I know the sound of a falling body. She never suffered such massive injuries like this. (breaking ribs?)
I wanna give sympathy where it's due-even to DUmmies. Buy after wading thru so many lies at DU, I'm hesitant to believe anything like this. I still don't believe the Andyscam thing.
Jaw broke in 6 places? That's a beating. In his case I tend to think it was the bad end of a drug deal or he made a gay pass at a guy in a Biker bar.
Since this seems to have happened about the same time as the recent elections, I suspect Chief S itting Bull actually shot off his mouth to the wrong guy. And he was probably rabidly drunk at the time, too.
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Unless he passed out at the top of a flight of stairs, but who would leave something interesting like that out of a story. Drunk or not, if I fell down a flight of stairs, I would mention it to somebody. :-)
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Since this seems to have happened about the same time as the recent elections, I suspect Chief S itting Bull actually shot off his mouth to the wrong guy. And he was probably rabidly drunk at the time, too.
Ya think?
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Since this seems to have happened about the same time as the recent elections, I suspect Chief S itting Bull actually shot off his mouth to the wrong guy. And he was probably rabidly drunk at the time, too.
I think he just made it all up, because he read your Election Day thread about him.
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I think he just made it all up, because he read your Election Day thread about him.
Thank you for reminding me, madam.
So Chief S itting Bull, in case you read this, read also:
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,50652.0.html
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I'm thinking wasp is right. Vented his spleen to the wrong person shortly after election day. We've seen that guy's temper. Those are some MASSIVE injuries for just falling on the floor. I've been banged up like that before, but it was a car crash.
Also, when you fall down drunk, you tend to have a soft landing. "God looks out for small children and drunks" the saying goes.
At any rate, get well soon, Birdsmacker.
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If he is an alcoholic, that *might* explain his massive injuries from a simple fall. Having dealt with my Grandfather in the last several years, alcoholics lose bone density and mass at a much greater rate than others, making their bones brittle and easy to break. IF the doc perscribed two beers with meals, it was probably to stave off DTs, not to give his kidneys something to do.
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I call bullshit.
Now, don't get me wrong, i believe wholeheartedly that this DUmbass suffered some heavy injuries shortly after election day, but i doubt it was from a hypotension episode.
I am thinking he got his bitter, old, tantrum throwing, drunk ass beaten like a drum after venting his spleen to the wrong person.
I think he fell flat on his face drunk! :-)
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I think he fell flat on his face drunk! :-)
Before or after the ass whuppin'?
:lmao:
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Redstone
... gained my eighth concussion...
That explains a lot about why his political are so wimpy.
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Let me get this straight. Guy says he faints and falls on his face (not sure if a person passes out falling forward downward but for the sake of argument will accept it),knocks out 5 teeth,breaks his jaw in 6 places and has three broken ribs from it?? What the? ::)
I know, right?! Did he lean too much off of the second story porch? :???:
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Only 3 broken ribs?....frikkin wimp...
Try 9 then ya got somethin to bitch about
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I had 2 cracked ribs once, didn't know about them until 2 days after it happened, when I helped my dad change a transmission on a combine, and I was having a hard time breathing.
Apparently, I cracked them when I caught the crossbar from my handlebars across the chest during a motorcycle race.
Not much pain, but it was very hard to breathe when laying down. Felt a lot like after having the wind knocked out of you.
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I broke a rib once. Said rib then lacerated my right lung to the point where it collapsed. Also cracked a rib at the same time.
Thing is, I had been knocked unconscious from the fact that my GTi's roof had come in when it hit the tree. The medical staff at the hopsital I wound up at kept me in a medicated coma for six days. No, I wasn't drinking.
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I broke a rib once. Said rib then lacerated my right lung to the point where it collapsed. Also cracked a rib at the same time.
Thing is, I had been knocked unconscious from the fact that my GTi's roof had come in when it hit the tree. The medical staff at the hopsital I wound up at kept me in a medicated coma for six days. No, I wasn't drinking.
I don't believe, not for one minute, that the hospital allowed Chief S itting Bull to drink beer while there.
I speak from intimate experience with hospitals; after all, my parents ran hospitals.
I don't think any hospital in the United States--I could be wrong, but I don't think I am--would tolerate it.
If a physician thought some sort of alcohol would ease things for the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive, it probably would've been given him in some form other than a couple of cans of Budweiser.
I've never in my life heard of beer being allowed in a hospital.
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I call bullshit.
Now, don't get me wrong, i believe wholeheartedly that this DUmbass suffered some heavy injuries shortly after election day, but i doubt it was from a hypotension episode.
I am thinking he got his bitter, old, tantrum throwing, drunk ass beaten like a drum after venting his spleen to the wrong person.
Seems to be some holes in it as related, I agree. The concussion, sure. Normally, though, your slack body curls as it folds and it would be your forehead hammering the floor first, so the 'leading with the jaw' part while kind of unusual is not impossible. However, unless your chest actually falls right on some hard object sticking up from the floor (Which he surely would have mentioned), it is extremely difficult to break any of your ribs in the way he describes, especially upper ones.
Personally I think the Audubon Society and assorted renegade birders found out where he lived, and gave him a blanket party for throwing rocks at that hawk.
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I don't believe, not for one minute, that the hospital allowed Chief S itting Bull to drink beer while there.
I speak from intimate experience with hospitals; after all, my parents ran hospitals.
I don't think any hospital in the United States--I could be wrong, but I don't think I am--would tolerate it.
If a physician thought some sort of alcohol would ease things for the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive, it probably would've been given him in some form other than a couple of cans of Budweiser.
I've never in my life heard of beer being allowed in a hospital.
Back in the 70's my mom was hospitalized for a serious kidney infection, and towards the end of her stay, they had her drink a couple of beers. Supposed to help flush her kidneys and check their function or something. I was only 10 or 11 at the time, so I don't remember too much about the reasons.
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Lets take him down to the airport and run him thru the metal detector.....watch 'em pry his mouth open.
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I broke a rib once. Said rib then lacerated my right lung to the point where it collapsed. Also cracked a rib at the same time.
Did they have to insert a tube to drain the collapsed lung? I used to watch that show, Trauma in the ER on Discovery Channel?, and that looked/seemed very painful. :o
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Did they have to insert a tube to drain the collapsed lung? I used to watch that show, Trauma in the ER on Discovery Channel?, and that looked/seemed very painful. :o
Yes, and the site became infected. When the Army doc popped the boil, . . . well, let's just say that it was infected waaay more than he thought. :puke:
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Back in the 70's my mom was hospitalized for a serious kidney infection, and towards the end of her stay, they had her drink a couple of beers. Supposed to help flush her kidneys and check their function or something. I was only 10 or 11 at the time, so I don't remember too much about the reasons.
I'm trying to picture it as Chief S itting Bull described it, but still am not "getting it."
The bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive makes it seem as if he happened to have a couple of cans of Budweiser beer on him, or that the hospital kept a couple of cans of Budweiser beer in the refrigerator, or that a visitor was allowed to bring in a couple of cans of Budweiser for him.
I don't see it.
In the case of your mother, I bet it wasn't an instance of, "oh, here's a couple of cans of Budweiser, as we need to check out how well the kidneys work; drink up." I'm sure the beer was presented to her in a, uh, more formal and professional manner than that, and probably in glasses, not cans. And that she was closely monitored.
To her, it was probably nothing, nothing at all, like sitting in a bar putting down a couple, or at a backyard party with friends putting down a couple.
I've always hesitated to say this, but Chief S itting Bull is an alcoholic.
Alcoholics have a tendency to find excuses for drinking, in this case Redstone saying "the doctor said it was okay."
Because of my own experiences with drinking--none of them especially bad; I never got into any legal or academic or financial trouble stemming from it, it was nearly totally an "interior" issue with me--I've always been hesitant to criticize or belittle primitives trying to quit the bottle (which is why I stay out of the "alcoholism" forum on Skins's island, lest I be tempted to do that).
But I suppose it's reasonable to make an exception here.
The bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive is an alcoholic, and a hard-core one.
One hopes his parents of blessed memory, his parents who gave him much (at much cost to themselves), his parents who had high hopes of him, his parents who wished him to be the best possible person he could be, are no longer in this time and place to see what a catastrophic physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wreck their son has voluntarily on his own turned out.
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I've always hesitated to say this, but Chief S itting Bull is an alcoholic.
Alcoholics have a tendency to find excuses for drinking, in this case Redstone saying "the doctor said it was okay."
:rotf: You just reminded me of old man Monroe. He would have these coughing fits when he drank. He said the only thing that would stop them was another good drink of liquor....which caused him to cough more. Needless to say, old man Monroe coughed an awful lot....but drinking and coughing wasn't what killed him.
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:rotf: You just reminded me of old man Monroe. He would have these coughing fits when he drank. He said the only thing that would stop them was another good drink of liquor....which caused him to cough more. Needless to say, old man Monroe coughed an awful lot....but drinking and coughing wasn't what killed him.
Ok, I give. What killed old man Monroe?
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Ok, I give. What killed old man Monroe?
Possibly a bus that he staggered out in front of?
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Well if he's drinkin beer he's not on any heavy duty pain meds...Coz beer and morphine(the strong stuff) kinda makes ya wanna yack... :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
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"bump" in memory of Redstone.