To whom it may concern

[muggsy]

A certain old grizzled moderator's inquiring mind wanted to know why I haven't been contributing my fair share of wit and wisdom to the website. I thought up a myriad of plausible excuses, but Jocko, being the boy scout that he is, told me that the simple truth is the best. I went to see my Dr. concerning a chronic cough. An x-ray prompted a CT scan that indicated a mass in my right lung the size of a baseball. I'm at home, I having no pain and I'm receiving IV antibiotics. The game plan is to cure the infection and to start a course of Radiation and Chemo. If possible the tumor could be remove. I'll chime in from time to time with and update, or on a subject that interests me.
Muggsy
P.S.Being sick sucks.

[TD2K]

we miss you around here, muggsy. hope you get to feeling better soon, prayers and warm fuzzies headed your way. keep us posted as you feel like it.

[kenemoore]

Muggsy, when I get off work today and arrive at my humble abode, I will hoist a tankard in your honor and wish you all the best.

[Nimrod]

Sorry to hear this muggsy. I'm wishing you the best and I will keep you in my prayers.

[Alfonse]

We really do need you back to full strength. Your wit and wisdom is missed. Glad you are getting it taken care of and wishing for a speedy recovery while sending prayers.

[Bawanna]

I thought I was a friend, now I'm a grizzled moderator....I'm ok with that.

Sounds like many unanswered/unsolved questions to me. Don't let the doctors jerk you around or put things off too long.

Cure that infection, if that tumor is contained in the one lung, cut that sucker out, you only need one.

You have a large support group and we're not above a little doctor arse kicking to get things done.

Had an uncle I had to break out of a hospice rehab place. My aunt called me, told me the doctor to him he could go home, no issues. Hospice place wouldn't let him out, apparently wanted a few more days insurance money or something.
Doctor even suggested that she tell them he had a doctor appointment and then just not go back.

Met her there an hour later and they were headed home about 15 minutes after that. I enjoyed explaining to the head administrator what was going to happen and how it was going to happen. They caught on pretty quickly.

You are your own best doctor, you make the calls.

[wyntrout]

Sorry to hear that, my friend. Good luck. I hope your treatments work and you can be completely healed. We've definitely missed you around here.

Wynn

[DavidR]

I'm very sorry to hear this. Glad you're comfortable now and praying for you to recover. Your straightforward willingness to share your knowledge and opinion is highly valued here. Please post as often as you can.


Dave

[Longitude Zero]

Prayers headed your way.

[SGT5711]

Stay strong and you will beat this!

[skiflydive]

Muggsy - I have to say I think you're sort of a dick but I figure it's OK because you think I am too. Probably better to say we disagree on some stuff. All that said, I truly hope you recover in fine form and keep on contributing your wit and wisdom to this great board.

[Bawanna]

Wow, that teared me up a bit. Yall feel the love in that post or was it just me.

I have a love affair with true honesty and this nails it.

I bet Muggsy gets a big smile when he sees it too.

[Alfonse]

I got a laugh out of both of those last two posts.

[ripley16]

Sorry to read about your health woes. Modern medicine works many wonders... hope there's one in store for you. Wishing a speedy cure and recovery. Prayers for you and your family.

[ltxi]

Crap...skiflydive got there first. Get better, Muggsy! And, sadly, that be sincerely wished.

[leftysixty]

Prayers sent for a swift and complete recovery.

[berettabone]

Hang in there............................................. .................................................. .

[getsome]

Happy positive thoughts and prayers to you brother man....You're gonna beat this, I just know it....The Duke had some serious lung problems you know and he just said: "Get the hell outta here death" and sure enough it did and I'm purdy sure you're about as tough, mean and ornery as he was so you can do it too.... I suggest you take about 20 or 30 grains of Bullseye powder a day and wash it down with a pint or two of some single malt scotch and it should knock out any infection you might still have and make you feel pretty peppy too, just stay away from any open flames till it cures what ails you!!!...

Seriously though we all have your back on this and you are truly missed here so if you need anything at all just let us know and we will figure out a way to get it done....You have many friends here who have you in our prayers so get yourself well and get your ars back here on the double!!!....:biggrin1:

[muggsy]

I'm going to give beating cancer my best shot. I've even enrolled in Jocko's advanced class on shooting prowess. Talk about irony I learned bout the cancer on my Birthday and a day after I picked up my new boat. Murphy's got nothin on me. I have no hard feelings towards anyone on the board who doesn't agree me. Hell, I thought that I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. Life's to short to waste it on anger.

[deadeye]

Sorry to hear this Muggsy. For what it is worth, keep a positive attitude as hard as it may be. My uncle who got cancer in his mid 40's beat it. He always said he believes to this day his cure was as much in his mind as in the medicine. Not that you are, but he was a cantankerous old fart and very strong minded. He died last year at the age of 92 - natural causes. Never give up!!!!! Keep us posted.

[Bawanna]

Cantakerous Old Fart? Sounds like Muggsy to me. There I said it.

Maybe pissing you off will bring on your war face.

[GROTMAN]

Sorry to hear the news as well mugs. Wishing you the best and will keep you in my prayers as well. If you survived putting up with the Browns all these years, chemo should be a piece of cake. :D

[jocko]

Most of us have alot of practiice and experience in beating sumpin. Just sayin

[jocko]

Sorry to hear the news as well mugs. Wishing you the best and will keep you in my prayers as well. If you survived putting up with the Browns all these years, chemo should be a piece of cake. :D

wow, ain't that the truth. no pain cold be worse..



get well muggsy

[jocko]

Cantakerous Old Fart? Sounds like Muggsy to me. There I said it.

Maybe pissing you off will bring on your war face.

I have never seen u pissin off anyone on this forum. its just not in u. U an Hillary have alot in common. Just sayin


Now that outta piss u off. Just sayiin



GET WELL MUGGSY

[b4uqzme]

Get well muggsy!

[downtownv]

Arms around you.
But ornery fuggs like you and I don't ever give up. It's 99% attitude, and you have one!

[Baklash]

You can do it Mugs. Get well. I'm bettin' on you. :amflag:

[AJBert]

Muggsy, I'm sure you seen this before but thought I put it on here so you can remember the hell you've already been through. Beating this will be a piece of cake compared to what you've already been through!


Snipes Lament

Now each of us from time to time, has gazed upon the sea.
And watched the warships pulling out, to keep this country free.
And most of us have read a book, or heard a lusty tale.
About the men who sail these ships, through lightening, wind and hail.

But there's a place within each ship, that legend fails to reach.
It's down below the waterline, it takes a living toil-
A hot metal living hell, that sailors call the "HOLE".

It houses engines run by steam, that make the shafts go 'round.
A place of fire and noise and heat, that beats your spirits down.
Where boilers like a hellish heart, with blood of angry steam
Are of molded gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream.

Whose threat that from the first roar, is life living doubt,
That any minute would with scorn, escape and crush you out.
Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in hell,
As ordered from above somewhere, they answer every bell.

The men who keep the fires lit, and make the engine run.
Are strangers to the world of night and rarely see the sun.
They have no time for man or God, no tolerance for fear,
Their aspect pays no living thing, the tribute of a tear.

For there's not much that men can do, that these men haven't done.
Beneath the decks, deep in the holes, to make the engines run.
And every hour of every day, they keep their watch in hell,
For if the fires ever fail, their ship's a useless shell.

When ships converge to have a war, upon an angry sea,
The men below just grimly smile, at what their fate might be.
They're locked in below like men fore doomed, who hear no battle cry,
It's well assumed that if they're hit, the men below will die.

For every day's a war down there when the gauges all read red,
Twelve hundred pounds of superheated steam, can kill you mighty dead.
So if you ever write their sons, or try to tell their tale,
the very words would make you hear, a fired furnace's wail.

These men of steel the Public never gets to know
So little's heard about the Place, that sailors call the hole.
But I can sing about the place, and try to make you see
The hardened life of men down there, cause one of them is me.

I've seen these sweat soaked heros fight, in superheated air.
To keep their ship alive and right, though no one knows they're there.
And thus they'll fight for ages on, til steamships sail no more,
Amid the boiler's mighty heat and turbines hellish roar.

So when you see a ship pull out to meet a warship foe.
Remember faintly, if you can, the men who sail below.

author unknown



Prayers sent and best wishes to a full and speedy recovery.

[muggsy]

Most of us have alot of practiice and experience in beating sumpin. Just sayin And some of us have damn near become experts

[muggsy]

Muggsy, I'm sure you seen this before but thought I put it on here so you can remember the hell you've already been through. Beating this will be a piece of cake compared to what you've already been through!


Snipes Lament

Now each of us from time to time, has gazed upon the sea.
And watched the warships pulling out, to keep this country free.
And most of us have read a book, or heard a lusty tale.
About the men who sail these ships, through lightening, wind and hail.

But there's a place within each ship, that legend fails to reach.
It's down below the waterline, it takes a living toil-
A hot metal living hell, that sailors call the "HOLE".

It houses engines run by steam, that make the shafts go 'round.
A place of fire and noise and heat, that beats your spirits down.
Where boilers like a hellish heart, with blood of angry steam
Are of molded gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream.

Whose threat that from the first roar, is life living doubt,
That any minute would with scorn, escape and crush you out.
Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in hell,
As ordered from above somewhere, they answer every bell.

The men who keep the fires lit, and make the engine run.
Are strangers to the world of night and rarely see the sun.
They have no time for man or God, no tolerance for fear,
Their aspect pays no living thing, the tribute of a tear.

For there's not much that men can do, that these men haven't done.
Beneath the decks, deep in the holes, to make the engines run.
And every hour of every day, they keep their watch in hell,
For if the fires ever fail, their ship's a useless shell.

When ships converge to have a war, upon an angry sea,
The men below just grimly smile, at what their fate might be.
They're locked in below like men fore doomed, who hear no battle cry,
It's well assumed that if they're hit, the men below will die.

For every day's a war down there when the gauges all read red,
Twelve hundred pounds of superheated steam, can kill you mighty dead.
So if you ever write their sons, or try to tell their tale,
the very words would make you hear, a fired furnace's wail.

These men of steel the Public never gets to know
So little's heard about the Place, that sailors call the hole.
But I can sing about the place, and try to make you see
The hardened life of men down there, cause one of them is me.

I've seen these sweat soaked heros fight, in superheated air.
To keep their ship alive and right, though no one knows they're there.
And thus they'll fight for ages on, til steamships sail no more,
Amid the boiler's mighty heat and turbines hellish roar.

So when you see a ship pull out to meet a warship foe.
Remember faintly, if you can, the men who sail below.

author unknown



Prayers sent and best wishes to a full and speedy recovery.
Outstanding, AJ. Once a snipe always a snipe. Much appreciated.

[kwh]

Getting older is not for sissies. I have never heard any one call Muggsy a sissy. No words to say, but you are in our thoughts.

[OldFatGuy]

This sucks. Get well Muggsy. Just got to this thread, been wondering what was going on from posts on other threads. Wishing you the best.

[b4uqzme]

... I've even enrolled in Jocko's advanced class on shooting prowess. ...

Here's my vision of the results of that endeavor: "I (muggsy) can empty my entire p380 magazine, completely missing the broad side of a barn, in under 3 seconds."

Get well muggsy!

[Bawanna]

Probably so, probably so.

[TheTman]

You can beat this Muggs. A lady friend had a tumour cut out of her lung 3 or 4 years ago, and she is still kickin and being a pain in the ass. I expect no less from you.

[Armybrat]

Well Muggsy, one of my cousins got a lung blowed out by the same artillery shell that killed General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. in the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Last I saw him 20 years after that he was still kickin' fine.

The docs pretty much know what they are doing these days, but be wary if they bring out a jar of leeches.

Seriously though, best wishes for a speedy recovery.

PS - Any good-lookin' nurses to mention?

[340pd]

I just stepped into this thread. Sorry to read of your issue. Hang tough, medicine and doctors are amazing.

Multiple prayers sent for your full recovery.

[RevRay]

Muggsy, sorry to hear about your being ill. We all look forward to hearing better news down the road. May God grant you peace and comfort in the meantime.

[Longitude Zero]

Cantakerous Old Fart? Sounds like Muggsy to me. There I said it.

Maybe pissing you off will bring on your war face.

Precisely.

[jeepster09]

:cheer2:You can prevail Muggs....just think of it as putting Jocko in place...we are all rootin for you.

[DanTana]

Muggsy,

Sometimes God presents us with challenges we must overcome, we take them head-on and wait for the next one. Just look at it as another challenge you've had to face, and I'm sure it is one of hundreds you've overcome before. We all know you can get through this in flying colors so don't worry, this is just another test of your strength and courage you've had to do many times before. We are all behind you!! Just speak up if you need anything from us.

Dan

[Planedude]

Best wishes and prayers sent Muggsy. I'll join the choir here in singing that a positive attitude (ok... in your case really ornery attitude) is as big a factor in beating illness as any medicine.

Stay strong and hang out here when you can.

[CJB]

First off, they still use leeches, in reattachemnt after amputation, especially in hands, fingers, and feet. Leeches act as artificial veins, when only the arterial blood supply can be established, drawing off excess and congested blood which might otherwise clot, until the point that the human body can regrow its veins. With all our modern marvels, leeches work best.

What ya really gotta be careful of, is if you have surgery.... and wake wuke up with a dry mouth and the feeling that there's a sorta hairball lump in the back of your throat.

You will be tempted to cough and spit it out. DO NOT DO THAT.... oh crap no....

What you're feeling is the other end of your large intestine. It you spit that out, besides the nasty taste, they're gonna have to take a button hook and thread it back inside. Trust me... just leave it alone.

[jocko]

:cheer2:You can prevail Muggs....just think of it as putting Jocko in place...we are all rootin for you.

ur so fokking kind. Just sayin


GET WELLMUGGSY

[DeaconKC]

Praying for you here Mugs!