The liar's bench

[Truckinbutch]

Got a little time to stop for a spell . All I got to share is a drop of AG white dog . Been too busy to put any back to age .
Anyhow ; I'm so happy I got to sit on my hands to keep from waving at everybody . Those of you that made S316 and/or17 will understand . Got the estate settled and my farm is mine .
Got enough machinery to take care of it . The fields we rode around in in my sxs with brush higher than the roof now resemble a golf course .
Starting to look like somebody lives here .
Leased the pasture to a couple of young fellers with integrity and a work ethic . They are busting their asses to help me make this place shine .
SOH is still fat and sassy . Think she may go with me to Jed's in the next week or so .
Life is good ....

[thecroweater]

I thing I could about go a few sips of white dog, don't need to temper it much. Had two funerals to attend on the same day , the first was my grans cousin and he was a lovely old fella that had lived a good life and ready to go. Then in the afternoon good friends of mine lost their grandchild, surely hope I never have to follow another child's coffin

[jon1163]

I thing I could about go a few sips of white dog, don't need to temper it much. Had two funerals to attend on the same day , the first was my grans cousin and he was a lovely old fella that had lived a good life and ready to go. Then in the afternoon good friends of mine lost their grandchild, surely hope I never have to follow another child's coffin

my friend I feel you on the children. I work in a job where I see a lot of kids hurt. never should anyone have to have a child die. I'm sorry. have a drink and find pleasure in the small blessings that we get each day.

[Kareltje]

I see more and more people around me die, but after a lived life it seems natural, although sad.
When a friend of about 40 years died, it felt like a fabric was torn.
A child is even much more painfull. Not only for the pain of the parents, but also the notion of promises that not can be fullfilled.

Life is not fair!

[Bavis54]

Our Prayers with u and ur friends family, that’s a tough tough thing to bear.

[Shine0n]

Here's 2 fingers of some fine for ya brother, never easy my friend.
Peace to the family.

[MichiganCornhusker]

I’ve seen a little coffin. My uncle’s son, Josh.
And I saw my uncle Dave as it was carried out.
Terrible things to see.

A few years later I was of an age to share the load of Dave’s dad, my grandpa Don.
Don was a big man in life, and death, and combined with a suitable casket I remember being more than a little I bit surprised at the weight of that combined burden.

I read once that it doesn’t matter to the person, young or old, that we all lose exactly the same thing at the end.
I’ve never understood that and I still don’t.

My kids are all growed up now but I still sure hope they all live to see me carried out.

No idea how a person comes to terms with the alternative.

A while back a total stranger told me “tomorrow is not a promise”.
I try to keep that in mind, but hell, I’m young and healthy and strong..,

I’ll think about that tomorrow.

[kiwi Bruce]

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it is called the "present.” All we can do is use the time we are given as wisely and as unselfishly as possible...and still an' sip while we can!

[The Baker]

'One day at a time, sweet Jesus,
That's all I'm asking from you.
Yesterday's gone, dear Lord,
And tomorrow may never be mine'.....

Geoff

[Truckinbutch]

Dark , these posts , and true .
Sat up all night with a friend , once , to keep him from killing himself after he backed his dump truck over his 2 yo daughter by accident .
It is against natural order for parents to have to bury their children .

[Yonder]

Was in law enforcement almost 40 years between the military and the state and the only time I ever truly was sick at the evil men do was when I attended the autopsy of a child. Really wanted to do harm that time.
No one should ever...

[The Baker]

Dark , these posts , and true .
Sat up all night with a friend , once , to keep him from killing himself after he backed his dump truck over his 2 yo daughter by accident .
It is against natural order for parents to have to bury their children .

Thank God he had you there.

Geoff

[Truckinbutch]

Dark , these posts , and true .
Sat up all night with a friend , once , to keep him from killing himself after he backed his dump truck over his 2 yo daughter by accident .
It is against natural order for parents to have to bury their children .

Thank God he had you there.

Geoff

Still does . It comes back to haunt him at times ; even after 30+ years . I'm always there for a friend .

[Truckinbutch]

What a last few days ! I mean , DAAYYMMN !
Jed called me last week to tell me he had our hog ready for pickup and I'm one of the last customers to pick up so they can shut down the butcher shop for the summer .
I think that was Thursday . In the middle of spring farm work , I told him I'd be there by close of business Monday to pick up the hog .
Friday afternoon I was doing maintenanence on my tractor and mounting a rifle case within reach of the operator's seat . Never know on a farm when you will run into something that needs to become shot .
Anyhow (I learned that from my buddy 'Arkansas Tom') I was down climbing the back end of my tractor fixing to step down on flat plate on my twin rotor rotary mower top .
Instead , I stuffed a size 14 boot into a size 13 pinch point with 200# driving it down . The toes surrendered first . After the darkness of vision barn talk was used .
Just bruised , I told SOH .
Prying the boot off late that night revealed a series of black toes and a foot that started swelling like some of those 'whoptepop biscuits' left in the sun too long .
SOH, "You got to go to the ER ."
TB,"Just bruised . The toes all move . I got things to do in the next few days ."
Saturday :
Black toes are going to multicolor , but the swelling is worse . House slippers are the foot gear of the day . AND , I GOT THINGS TO DO !
One of which is to drive a Honda CRV with a stick shift 6 miles to the beer store for a 30 pack .
NOTE :
If you are by yourself , you can float gears in a Honda CRV to avoid depressing the clutch when that hurts A LOT .
SOH ,'You need to go to the ER !'
TB ,"Just bruised and I need to go to Jed's and get the hog . Need to borrow your Pilot with the auto transmission ."
SOH (exasperated) " I'm taking Monday off to drive you to Jed's to get the hog if you will agree to see a Dr on Tuesday if the foot is no better on Monday ."
So we went to Jed's on Monday and got the hog .
Dr told me today that I had a seriously swolled up foot and two toes snapped off just in front of the foot joint .Big one and 4th one . Gonna wear a boot for 4-6 weeks .
Asked me why I would put off treatment from Friday to Tuesday ?
Had Obligations ...........................

[Truckinbutch]

I didn't mean to ramble on so long in the last post without mentioning Jed's other expertise . SOH and I have never been in a cleaner custom butcher shop . They work at it .
The way our hog was processed and cured was superb .
Anyone that would have the good fortune to become a friend of Jed could depend on getting a fine pork or beef product from him .

[Truckinbutch]

Jed update :
Told Jed last night how superb his sausage was after supper was finished .
Tonight I got to call him again ................
We had ham tonight . In 50 years of curing and smoking hams I have never outdone what Jed provided us .
My smokehouse beans , SOH's tater salad , and a slice of Jed's ham fried up .
See Rome and die . That's all that's left .....................

[jedneck]

Glad you are finding it edible. I'm pretty sure in your elder age your forgetin how good your cured meats were. But i can see your beans goin good with it.

Hopefully next time the hog is a homeraised instead of a commercial hog. That'll make ya bring back stuff you didn't even steal.

[jon1163]

Off topic but I have to interject I'm hoping with 5400 posts someone will humor me and tell me what SOH means. I'm guessing it means the wife but I can't find any acronyms on the internet that match up.

[contrahead]

I figure it to mean Significant OtHer or Significant Other Half.

[Wild Bill]

Mmmm love me some custom cured bacon. My stillin partner has a butcher shop and makes out of this world bacon. Very meaty compared to commercial bacon and done in fairly small batches in a vacuum tumbler. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

[cuginosgrizzo]

I figure it to mean Significant OtHer or Significant Other Half.

either that or Speaker Of the House.

another acronym is SWMBO. She who must be obeyed.

[jedneck]

SOH:
speaker of house
Signigicant other half
Same ole ho

[corene1]

Well TB I understand where you were coming from , having obligations. I am sitting here on the computer on day 2 of recovery from a full hip replacement surgery done on Tues. 5/22. Doc came in and told me what a mess it was and that I should have had it done in 2015 like he said. Well sometimes you just have obligations that need to be to be covered. Guess I will have some time now to keep up on you yahoos here at the bench.

[The Baker]

Hang in there, Truck.
And Corene.

Geoff

[distiller_dresden]

Hope for your speedy recovery, Corene. My dad needs a knee replacement but doc won't do it until he's lost about 20lbs and his cholesterol and blood sugar is better and holding better consistently. SO I cook for him and lecture him when he reaches for snack cookies, make him have apples or beef jerky. Hypocrite that I am needing to lose 75-100lbs, but I'm 40 and he's 66; he's got type 2 diabetes and higher blood pressure and bad cholesterol. My BP is medium high, take the lowest dose of meds, and I'm not even pre-diabetic (though if I'm honest at my weight now I am DEFINITELY pre-pre-diabetic if I don't fix my ass and lose some gd weight), and my cholesterol is perfect and low.

Funny here I am on the liar's bench, I'm not lyin', but in a way I'm lyin' to myself because in a way I need to lose weight much much worse than my father, but in my head I justify it as he is much older, and his side of the family has always died around 75 because of weight/heart issues. So I am very concerned and vigilant at keeping my old man alive and healthy as I can, I love him to death since he's my one parent and I don't speak or interact with my super ultra horribly toxic mother, she who shan't be named or acknowledged.

Anyway, tangent/digression! Anybody ever have a knee replacement? Wondering what the timeline is like, if he'll be down for weeks or if it's one of those in and out 2 day things these days?

[jon1163]

I've had 2 knee surgeries for meniscal problems and was up in a couple weeks. Never had a knee replacement but I had a friend that had one and they were up and walking in about 2 to 3 weeks I'll buy it with a lot of pain. Knee replacements now aren't always total knee Replacements either. Depends on how it looks, how it's damaged, how well he responds to the medication physical therapy and the general healing process. Best of luck to you and you're living in the best of times for any sort of surgery

[distiller_dresden]

If you've ever seen Ghost in the Shell? -- my deepest desire is to live in that time, to be able to just replace our limbs, even our bodies if they fail us, at a whim and have no drawbacks like now with the severe limitations to limb replacements, being just in the infancy of getting only the most expensive and advanced ones to respond to brain signals and produce 'feeling' as if they were limbs. I want to be in the time of that highest medical science so badly, so human suffering of that kind, missing limbs, body failure due to nerve damage, limb failure, etc., would be completely extinct. It will be so wonderful when we achieve that...

My dad and i both have severe arthritis in our bodies; he also has scoliosis in his spine due to an injury during service in the Navy, and then the Navy doctors SUPERBLY f'ed up his leg repair. He broke his right leg, they set it wrong... Four times. Eventually the bone was mush and they had to remove 2.5 inches, permanently shrinking his leg, and then they never gave him special shoes or anything, nor mentioned this necessity. As such his back is f'ed, his ankle is REALLY f'ed, his knees - f'ed... I have genetically inherited super a-hole arthritis in my left ankle, zero cartilage, which is super fun. My knees both sound like rice krispees when I sit or stand, less so when I walk but I can hear it, and my right ankle is on it's way because I put more weight on it unconsciously.

My maternal family is also racked with osteo-arthritis so I won the lottery with it, but we don't have much if any heart disease and no cancer, so I'll take it! A couple heart attacks and strokes but they were outliers, and caused by obvious life-long dietary and resulting health cascading issues.

Not sure what exact type of knee replacement my dad would get, but I do know his knees are like my left ankle, osteo-arthritis has done ate 'em up, and they cause him more pain than any of his other issues. He also gets weak vicodins, but I have to get on him to take them. I think he's worried about getting addicted, but I tell him 2 or 3 5mg vicodin a day is not going to send you into the street seeking heroin... Sucks when we do shopping and running and then we get home to relax and I see him sit down, grimacing, and notice him rubbing his knee, the short leg one really really bothers him a lot. Leads to his other problem, he has an issue taking large amounts of ibuprofen and tylenol, it would be MUCH MUCH better if he'd take one or two vicodin, instead of 4 500mg tylenol, or 3-4 200mg ibuprofen.

I've been in the hospital before from ibuprofen and Aleve (forget the chemical name, but...pardon me, FUCK ALEVE TO HELL!) which my doctor PRESCRIBED knowing I took ibuprofen daily for pain... I had 3 ulcers open up, got c-difficile at the same time - all in one night lost 3/4 of the blood in my body, um, the HARDEST way. Forcefully, from gravity... Then 11 days in the hospital, after almost dying while waiting 3 hours for a specialist deep vein team to come in to emergency because none of the doctors or nurses could find my veins, too dried up, to get fluids and blood transfusion going into me. Stay away from Aleve, folks, It is a horrible, terrible devil. Stick with ibuprofen/Advil. The mix did it, however docs told me and I've researched since, Aleve has a MUCH much higher rate of limiting buffers of acid in the stomach and on it's own is still very very likely to cause stomach damage and ulcers. It's bad; the commercials are filthy promoters of dangerous medicine.

[Appalachia-Shiner]

Aleve is naproxen sodium and I take 2 every day just to keep going with bad knees and hip joints.
Knee surgery and hip replacement surgery are Routine......
Sure. Until they are cutting on YOU. A friend had Routine hip replacement surgery last year, got severe infection, nearly died then had 3 strokes. He is still on a walker or crutches.

Corene, Good luck and I hope you have a speedy recovery.

[distiller_dresden]

Yeah, naproxen sodium; that stuff is harder on your stomach than any other NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). All NSAIDS block and reduce a set of specific buffers in your stomach which protect it from the acids in your stomach, which is why people taking too much/long term higher doses of NSAIDS will have problems with ulcers. Naproxen sodium is the worst of NSAIDS for reducing this buffer in the stomach, it does it more than any other NSAID. My dad takes Aleve too, occasionally when he's really sore, but typically sticks with ibuprofen.

I always used ibuprofen my whole life and my doctor knew that I used ibuprofen; in fact at the time he had me on a pain management regime I forget the name of the drug but it may have simply been 'vicoprofen', it was 7.5mg of hydrocodone and I'm not sure how many mg of ibuprofen per tablet. I'd also take an ibuprofen with one, and I'd take 2 or three of this cocktail per day (2 or three total vicoprofen per day) because of/for the arthritis in my ankles. I had split open a big toe on one of my feet moving (why I will not wear sandals any longer... bye Birkenstocks!) and he gave me prescription naproxen for the swelling and Keflex, an antibiotic, to prevent infection because the split was pretty bad, and come on it was on my foot/toe.

Anyway, I think prescription strength one pill is 600mg. Yours you take daily are 200 each, I believe. So he had me taking two of those naproxen twice daily, with my vicoprofen regime still, specifically said it would be okay... Anyway, four days into this in the middle of the night I start feeling like crap, sweating like I got malaria, and in the bathroom pushing out the smell of death, and it looks like black death. Must have went at least 10-11 times between 2am and 6am. My then girlfriend (just moved in together, that was the move injury, 4 days ago, when the meds started) gets up to go to work. Apparently I had been more explosive than I knew, good thing...

"Babe, do you know I think you're going all blood?"
"Shit, I feel horrible. What should we do? Get me more immodium..."
"I think you should go to the hospital?"
"Let me call me dad and see what he thinks-"
Keep in mind, at this point unknown to me I've lost 3/4 of my blood, it feels like an elephant is sitting and pulling on my guts simultaneously, my head feels like I'm in a tunnel, and I can't think well. I just want to literally die, not be conscious and have this suffering stop; so miserable.

Anyway I could tell the whole story, but we went to the ER, it was UNfun, and I was there for a week and a half in 'almost intensive care' I think it was called 'critical care' but my room was literally next to intensive care. Oh, lookin' back. I guess this is a liar's bench tale. That's the event, the whole thing, that made me decide to sell off all or many of my collected things from my life, comics, collectibles, all my video game systems, to get 4k together and buy a ring and propose to that woman because of her unfailing dedication and concern for me. She showed real love.

But nothin' lasts. Her mom hated me since introduction, I took her daughter and granddaughter out of the house and moved in with me. Over time her black soul and negativity ruined our relationship and marriage, we married in October 2008, divorced in November 2012. December 2012 was a hard Christmas, lemme tell ya.... But that's a story for a different day.

Digression! So, from this guy, anyhow, and based on real science fact, be freakin' careful with naproxen sodium/Aleve - do NOT over take that stuff, and NEVER take it with ibuprofen/Advil or aspirin or any other anti-inflammatory. Bad things, man. Bad things.

[Bavis54]

Not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but it’s friday, !!!!! Anyone got any good lies or something funny? Maybe like catching a drunk groundhog trying to scrump a fake plastic owl in the flower bed?? .... groundhog found my spent grain pile , n then got a little frisky....