Saying See Ya Later...(as in I need a break)
For The Time Being...
Sunday, March 25, 2007 by WebGizmos | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well...I'm sorry to report that last Wednesday morning I suffered a stroke while out working. As you can imagine this is having a dramatic effect on my everyday life at the moment, so my activity here at WinCustomize has been put somewhat on hold for the time being till I can get things sorted out. I just now returned home from the hospital, but I suspect I will be returning at some time since my whole left side is completely numb. So far all the tests that have been done have yielded no definite answers as to what happened or what to expect in the days to come. As it stands now I can get up and walk around for the most part...but like I said...my whole left side is completely numb...so I'm still not out of the woods.
And not having health care doesn't help. It's amazing living in a country with such advances in medicine and yet you have no idea if you will get the help you need unless you can afford it.
Anyway, for anyone interested I will report in as to my progress when I can.
Have a Great Day People!
WebGizmos
And not having health care doesn't help. It's amazing living in a country with such advances in medicine and yet you have no idea if you will get the help you need unless you can afford it.
Anyway, for anyone interested I will report in as to my progress when I can.
Have a Great Day People!
WebGizmos
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DigitalCHET
Reply #62 Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:14 PM
Reply #62 Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:14 PM
Great to hear you're recovering well, Giz.
As scary as it was, you're still alive to tell the story, and will be stronger for it; especially your character as you battle through fear and uncertainty.
I pray for an even speedier and complete recovery and healing of whatever it was that went awry and for a strengthening of all your bodily systems and functions.
Congrats on quitting smoking too!!
A wise decision if ever there was one. Your body will thank you. 
Keep up the high-spirits and faith and be well.
As scary as it was, you're still alive to tell the story, and will be stronger for it; especially your character as you battle through fear and uncertainty.
I pray for an even speedier and complete recovery and healing of whatever it was that went awry and for a strengthening of all your bodily systems and functions.
Congrats on quitting smoking too!!
A wise decision if ever there was one. Your body will thank you. 
Keep up the high-spirits and faith and be well.
WebGizmos
Reply #63 Monday, March 26, 2007 4:49 AM
Reply #63 Monday, March 26, 2007 4:49 AM
Thanks again guys!
Ok...just got back from my first day back on the job. It started off a bit shaky, but everything went just fine except not being able to lift anything yet with my left hand...still a bit weak...but I suspect within the next few weeks it will improve. And I have to say...all things considered...I feel very lucky for it not being as bad as it could have been and for how fast I've been able to get back to work. This is one warning I don't intend to ignore...no more cigs and a change of diet...and in no time I'll have my girlish figure back.
And thanks again for all the support and prayers...you guys are the best! You all deserve a good pat on the back!
Ok...just got back from my first day back on the job. It started off a bit shaky, but everything went just fine except not being able to lift anything yet with my left hand...still a bit weak...but I suspect within the next few weeks it will improve. And I have to say...all things considered...I feel very lucky for it not being as bad as it could have been and for how fast I've been able to get back to work. This is one warning I don't intend to ignore...no more cigs and a change of diet...and in no time I'll have my girlish figure back.
And thanks again for all the support and prayers...you guys are the best! You all deserve a good pat on the back!
Erk.
Reply #64 Monday, March 26, 2007 7:10 AM Awesome news Giz! Glad you're feeling better.
maybe so ...but those legs could use a razor!
Reply #64 Monday, March 26, 2007 7:10 AM
Awesome news Giz! Glad you're feeling better.and in no time I'll have my girlish figure back.
maybe so ...but those legs could use a razor!
Bandit4edu
Reply #65 Monday, March 26, 2007 8:37 AM
Reply #65 Monday, March 26, 2007 8:37 AM
Your in my prayers, WG...I respect your decision to pull back for a while, but I truly respect your drive, your work and you as a person, I want to thank you for all you've done for me personally here at WC and with my work. I look forward to your return, get well soon and God Bless!
jpkylegirl
Reply #67 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:35 AM
Reply #67 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:35 AM
I got the news while working from home yesterday. Just now got a chance to come on here. I wish you the best WG! I hope you're feeling like your old self soon. 
~Nickie
~Nickie
JukEboXAuDiO
Reply #68 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:00 AM
Reply #68 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:00 AM
Get better soon buddy. It sucks to see talent be stopped so abruptly!
Uvah
Reply #69 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:11 AM
Reply #69 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:11 AM
My prayers are with you as well Web...Get well soon as we all need you here with us, God Bless.BTW...glad to hear you're gonna be alright. Now...relax...have some tea...no smokes...listen to some good tunes and then...attack your 'puter with a vengeance hehe. Thanks for everything you do...all the advice and stuff never falls on deaf ears.
seldomseen
Reply #70 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:02 AM
Just remembered, a few years ago I had an MRI. Pain and no strength in left arm and chest,etc. Freaked me out! Docs were puzzled. Pretty amazing experience! Seems the nerves pass thru two vertical holes in the vertebrae, on each side. Holes in mine are not open, but full of bone-growths/arthritis, or something. Nerves rub on stuff in there. From 30+ yrs. of framing, falling off roofs, and walking walls. Dunno...maybe similar prob/diagnosis.
My Cub Scout son loved the MRI! The tech told him to watch, and held a steel-link dog collar out, walking slowly toward the big machine...all of a sudden, the collar whipped straight out and pulled toward the monster magnets!
Voc. Rehab./S.S.D.I. paid for it, and two yrs. computer-electronics school too! Check out all the free options. They're out there, just nobody uses them.
Take it from R. Crumb: "Keep on Truckin!"
Reply #70 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:02 AM
pinched nerve or something
Just remembered, a few years ago I had an MRI. Pain and no strength in left arm and chest,etc. Freaked me out! Docs were puzzled. Pretty amazing experience! Seems the nerves pass thru two vertical holes in the vertebrae, on each side. Holes in mine are not open, but full of bone-growths/arthritis, or something. Nerves rub on stuff in there. From 30+ yrs. of framing, falling off roofs, and walking walls. Dunno...maybe similar prob/diagnosis.
My Cub Scout son loved the MRI! The tech told him to watch, and held a steel-link dog collar out, walking slowly toward the big machine...all of a sudden, the collar whipped straight out and pulled toward the monster magnets!
Voc. Rehab./S.S.D.I. paid for it, and two yrs. computer-electronics school too! Check out all the free options. They're out there, just nobody uses them.
Take it from R. Crumb: "Keep on Truckin!"
YHoliness
Reply #71 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:16 AM
WB,
Never never never never NEVER GIVE UP.
-- W. Churchill
Reply #71 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:16 AM
WB,
Never never never never NEVER GIVE UP.
-- W. Churchill
Wet Monkey
Reply #72 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:23 AM
Reply #72 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:23 AM
I'm very sorry to hear about you health problems. Please take care of yourself and get better soon.
WebGizmos
Reply #73 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:54 AM
Reply #73 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:54 AM
Hi guys & girls,
Well....first day back on the job went relatively ok....second day was a bit rough...so I can see I'm not quite out of the woods just yet. Everything seems to be centralized to my left shoulder, arm & mid section. Pretty much feels like I got run over. To be honest...I probably should still be in the hospital, but when you live alone with no health care...your choices are pretty limited. Stay in the hospital and watch the bills goes up and everything else go down the tubes...or...check out, get back to work, and hope you don't drop dead in the process.
They tell me this stroke was brought on by smoking and stress. And the past 2 weeks have been pretty stressful to say the least.
Started off having what I thought were back problems, which actually turned out to be kidney stone problems again...ahhh...kidney stones...dontcha just love'em...lets hear from the kidney stone survivors out there...what was our mantra...Please shoot me!...now!...lol (side note: just found out that real lemonade contains an acid that apparently dissolves and prevents the reformation of kidney stones...buy stock in lemonade now...I'm buying it up left and right...lol)
Then I got news from the U.K. that my 16 year old daughter (who is in fostercare...long story) has apparently been having unprotected sex and was caught sneaking boys in the window of the foster carers home...and will soon be returned to her certifiable nutcase mother. So lets hear it for the U.K. social services....Assholes!
Then...in the process of performing my everyday duty of the newspaper delivery business...my truck...a 2000 FixOrRepairDaily E250 Econoline...decided it was time for a new transmission...which at a cost of $1691.34 was a real bargain...and curiously the exact amount I had left in my bank account...and was also the exact amount I owed to the IRS.
Enter the stroke! (Billy Squire music playing in the background...Stroke!...Stroke!...Stroke!)
Tune in next week when we hear WebGizmos Say.....Damn hemorrhoids! What a pain in the ass!
Well....first day back on the job went relatively ok....second day was a bit rough...so I can see I'm not quite out of the woods just yet. Everything seems to be centralized to my left shoulder, arm & mid section. Pretty much feels like I got run over. To be honest...I probably should still be in the hospital, but when you live alone with no health care...your choices are pretty limited. Stay in the hospital and watch the bills goes up and everything else go down the tubes...or...check out, get back to work, and hope you don't drop dead in the process.
They tell me this stroke was brought on by smoking and stress. And the past 2 weeks have been pretty stressful to say the least.
Started off having what I thought were back problems, which actually turned out to be kidney stone problems again...ahhh...kidney stones...dontcha just love'em...lets hear from the kidney stone survivors out there...what was our mantra...Please shoot me!...now!...lol (side note: just found out that real lemonade contains an acid that apparently dissolves and prevents the reformation of kidney stones...buy stock in lemonade now...I'm buying it up left and right...lol)
Then I got news from the U.K. that my 16 year old daughter (who is in fostercare...long story) has apparently been having unprotected sex and was caught sneaking boys in the window of the foster carers home...and will soon be returned to her certifiable nutcase mother. So lets hear it for the U.K. social services....Assholes!
Then...in the process of performing my everyday duty of the newspaper delivery business...my truck...a 2000 FixOrRepairDaily E250 Econoline...decided it was time for a new transmission...which at a cost of $1691.34 was a real bargain...and curiously the exact amount I had left in my bank account...and was also the exact amount I owed to the IRS.
Enter the stroke! (Billy Squire music playing in the background...Stroke!...Stroke!...Stroke!)
Tune in next week when we hear WebGizmos Say.....Damn hemorrhoids! What a pain in the ass!
seldomseen
Reply #74 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:04 PM
Reply #74 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:04 PM
Holy Shit! Man, I can't even get my mind around that!
Bandit4edu
Reply #77 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:01 PM
Reply #77 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:01 PM
Seldomseen said a dirty word! HELP! MODERATOR!
WG, how did you get the unprinted copy of "Living with bandit's luck in 12 easy steps"?
WG, how did you get the unprinted copy of "Living with bandit's luck in 12 easy steps"?
MySecret
Reply #78 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:20 PM
Reply #78 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:20 PM
You definitely have your plate full WG...
just a note on the fostercare....no better in Canada....lived in fostercare from 1 1/2 till 17....and only baaaaaaad memories....but I still turned out ok...
Like seldomseen said...check out the charities...even local churches and other organizations....
And keep drinking that lemonade
It's My Secret
just a note on the fostercare....no better in Canada....lived in fostercare from 1 1/2 till 17....and only baaaaaaad memories....but I still turned out ok...
Like seldomseen said...check out the charities...even local churches and other organizations....
And keep drinking that lemonade
It's My Secret
WebGizmos
Reply #79 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:34 PM
Not sure how well this actually works...but its was suggested by some doctors in an article read by a friend. I have to honestly say that since I started drinking this every day...my kidney stone problem seems to have subsided for the time being.
Reply #79 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:34 PM
And keep drinking that lemonade
Not sure how well this actually works...but its was suggested by some doctors in an article read by a friend. I have to honestly say that since I started drinking this every day...my kidney stone problem seems to have subsided for the time being.
Bandit4edu
Reply #80 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:23 AM
Reply #80 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:23 AM
sometime, when you have time, and a kleenex, get Po to tell you his kidney stone story...I'd link to the post where he actually typed it up, but I think he needs to say whether or not that gets unleashed on the public again.
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Reply #61 Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:32 PM