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hey moose , it's been a long time and i believe your not too well so i guess i'll kick off with my genuine well wishes .. i haven't read the whole thread and i doubt i will mate but i get the gist .
i can understand your frustration with the medical institution , even here in oz where really , some say not , we have an excellent system . we are deducted a percentage from our taxes and everyone has accessible medical help . as you know i've had a serious accident and after six months of operations and home after care it hasn't cost me a cent ..certainly the lucky country moose .
i am now in the queue for further operations and it's a long shuffling line but there's certainly far more worthy than me . so take heart moose and i hope your very well encouraged with the generous feedback you have recieved from ICMAG members .. be strong moose and if you can't , then be funny !!! lol
Thanks Rod.
You were likely one of the most generous folks I have encountered.
When I had written you asking if what I saw another joking about was what it seemed, and you didn't answer, I figured I'd either offended you with the query, in what ever way, or there was something else there between you and you. I still owe you, and have thought many times about making good on my obligation for things offered.
I have a nice Aussie-made cowboy hat here (Akubra) my wife did some very nice custom cosmic bead work on for a head-band around the crown that I considered sending with gifts..
We spoke a bit ago on the phone, and I had read of your accident, but hadn't been aware of the specifics. Sounded horrible when we were done, though I know I'm long-winded, and you seemed to be in a hurry.
I hope you're healing well.
For me, well, part of this trip is staying in a holding pattern until you know, and there's LOTS of those moments built into it.
I'm in and out of hope and strength.
Life is love and pain, and it can grow us, then hurt us, and where it ends, we often don't get a say, or forewarning. As a controlling kind of guy, I don't always do so well with that.
I used to tell folks, "You know, if there is a Supreme Being, they're going to send me where they do, and no doubt, if that takes place, I'll likely deserve what ever I get. but I want an opportunity to ask the Dude in Charge to step outside, so I can take a poke at Him/Her, just to let them know what I think about a Being that can know so much, and do so fucking little, when there's so much carnage about, and they're supposedly all-knowing, and all-powerful. We call such benevolence either laziness or sociopathy in my 'hood."
Not everyone takes that perspective kindly, but it's mine.
I truly hope you heal well, that your wife is well, that your projects are proceeding as you'd like (not withstanding your accident, and what ever disruption and time that causes and takes).
As for me, if this trip stays abysmal, and I meet the Grim Reaper in the current frame of mind, I'm giving them, or trying to, the same treatment and set of questions I have for The Big Guy. "What the fuck were you THINKING??!!" I KNOW what you -weren't- doing!!"
You take care Rod. Seriously.
The fellow below, I had no clue who he was until you and I took a back-road and you mentioned his name; I couldn't recall ever hearing of him before.
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