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24122. anomie - 5/30/2008 5:00:57 PM Yeah, AC. Sounds stick and tricky. I hope your girlfriend appreciates it. 24123. alistairConnor - 5/30/2008 9:30:38 PM Oh, girlfriend appreciates it. When things get tough she tells me I should get out, protect myself, protect my kids. I tell her I'm sticking to her, she's stuck with me.
We didn't go to Barcelona. He chickened out, said he's not ready to meet his father. I wonder if he ever will be. I spent a fairly torrid afternoon trying not to hit the little prick (and succeeding). 24124. anomie - 5/31/2008 1:33:25 AM Oh, and be careful pleasing the girlfriend too. My stepfather role was clouded by trying to please the wife/mother. She convinced me that a strong male spanking would do the trick. I never spanked my own kids, and I wish I'd never spanked hers. 24125. alistairconnor - 5/31/2008 1:18:57 PM Thanks, Anomie, for those wise words. I'm even more glad today that I didn't.
The aborted Barcelona trip has had some positive consequences, though. For one thing, the start of a dialog with his father. He has even promised to come to Lyon to see his son (I don't know how much that promise is worth).
But perhaps more importantly, we have learned about a major family history of bipolar disorder, or manic depression as they called it in less politically correct times.. The boy has several uncles and aunts who are pretty much disabled by it, and live with their elderly mother under heavy medication. Apparently it's a thing that manifests itself at adolescence, and can be treated at that stage. We will be learning a lot more about it, obviously.
I feel a lot less angry and a lot more optimistic now. 24126. judithathome - 5/31/2008 5:18:50 PM Well, it's good to know that might be the problem...just be aware that it may take several tries to get the correct medication he will HAVE to have for it. And I'd advise you get started on that task soon. 24127. jexster - 6/3/2008 8:24:17 PM My cousin just sent me a picture of our grandfather
Louis V. Pourciau
1889-1975
 24128. magoseph - 6/3/2008 8:42:23 PM This Pourciau, Jex?
[Jan 1, 1918] Louis Vilas Pourciau in the World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. The World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 indicates that Louis Vilas Pourciau served in the military, and lived in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana. 24129. jexster - 6/3/2008 8:49:38 PM The VERY SAME!
I've copied and sent to my cousin who with her parents have traced the line all the way back to a village near Lille circa 1750 where a fire destroyed the parish records 24130. jexster - 6/3/2008 8:55:14 PM Taught me how to fish, hunt, ride horses, crawfish as well as everything a white boy needs to know about colored people
24131. Ms. No - 6/6/2008 9:11:05 AM Off to LA tomorrow to see my brother's sketch comedy show and catch up with friends. Fortunately I've got a travel buddy or it would actually be cheaper to fly. $4.39 for gas today. It just infuriates me.
Hold down the fort. Be happy, be well and have a good weekend all! 24132. alistairconnor - 6/6/2008 9:20:06 AM Lille??
Jex, you're a Ch'ti!
Film came out this year... second biggest box-office of all time in France (behind Titanic)
It's already part of the national folklore...
Banner at a football match : "Welcome to the Ch'tis ... paedophiles, unemployed, inbred..."
Nothing personal! 24133. alistairconnor - 6/6/2008 9:22:59 AM $4.39 for gas today. It just infuriates me.
Don't get mad. Get ... um ... philosophical. Obama's not going to bring the gas price down... Nobody will.
Do your cheap flying now, before the airlines all go bankrupt.
Have fun... take lots of photos... so you can remember what it was like when you could afford to travel. Not joking. 24134. magoseph - 6/6/2008 2:26:45 PM I just talked to Judith--she and Keoni just saw Leslie wheeled into the OR accompanied by a large staff. The operation is slated to last at least nine hours. There won’t be any updates for them during that time. The surgeons will remove some bone material from the back of his head and work from there.
24135. jexster - 6/6/2008 2:28:21 PM Flash Fun
Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire 24136. thoughtful - 6/6/2008 3:22:19 PM Best thoughts heading out to J@h and family. Scary stuff. 24137. arkymalarky - 6/6/2008 3:25:54 PM I second that! And Bob and Mose third and fourth it! 24138. jexster - 6/6/2008 4:08:03 PM 24132
Why do you think they all moved to Louisiana? It was the pits then 24139. Ms. No - 6/6/2008 5:07:00 PM I'll be thinking of you and yours, Jude.
24141. magoseph - 6/6/2008 10:32:29 PM David, I think you wanted #24140 in Movies--if not, I'll move it back here.
24142. judithathome - 6/7/2008 4:33:33 AM We picked Leslie up at 4am today and drove to Dallas...he was rolled into surgery at 7am. At SIX THIRTY PM, we saw the neurosurgeon...after 11 hours of surgery. He said the surgery went "fairly well". Evidently when they tried the bypass, they discovered the artery was too short to reach the one they wanted to hook it up to so they had to go to plan B: he "forged" two veins onto the good artery and said at the end of the operation, the blood flow was good.
Les had to have two incisions and bone removals and they patched the missing bone with some sort of miracle "putty" that hardens to the consistency of bone and then covered it with the flaps of his scalp. He will have two scars but he's the kinda guy who will love that (a quote from his doctor).
Because of the extensive work done to the brain, when he wakes up after the next two days of sedation and breathing tube apparatus, he will have many of the symptoms of a stroke...the brain "thinks" it has had a stoke but it hasn't. The doctor said Les can overcome this more easily than he did the original strokes by retraining his brain to understand it did not have a bona fide stroke.
He will be in ICU for 5 to 10 days and then be transferred to the physical rehab facility in Fort Worth where he did such good work after the stroke last August.
It was an absolutely exhausting day so please forgive me if I sound incoherent...I haven't slept since Wednesday night. In the waiting room, I was reading a book I'd brought along and suddenly I snapped to and realized it had slipped out of the book jacket and onto the floor, hitting my feet...I guess I dozed off while reading!
We aren't going over to Dallas tomorrow because they told us he will still be sedated; we're planning to go on Sunday night and I will give y'all an update then.
He looked pretty good considering all the tubes and incisions on his skull! One of the male nurses was telling the others that "when this guy wakes up, he is going to be "wild and crazy!". Evidently Leslie is a pretty fun patient in ICU. Ha!
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