Re: big al I'm sweaty
marika
Nearly thirty years ago, my mother took a glorious two-week trip to Spain
and other countries, as well. She said the most interesting sight she saw
was a young woman riding on the back of a motorcycle driven by her
boyfriend. Instead of holding onto him, she was busily twisting a Rubik's
Cube trying to solve the puzzle while the bike tilted and twisted around the
busy traffic of Madrid.
Meanwhile, my brother, the rocket scientist, was watching over her
home in Northern Virginia in her absence. One evening he decided to make
some tea and placed a teakettle full of water on the electric stove to boil.
He went into the next room to read while waiting for the whistle to sound.
After about twenty minutes, he returned to the kitchen to check on the
kettle. It was ice cold; but my mother's favorite cast iron frying pan was
glowing red from excessive heat. He poured a small amount of water into the
pan and heard loud "pinging sounds" as all the coating popped off the pan.
When my mother returned from Europe, she inquired about the pan, and my
greatly embarrassed brother had to admit that he had turned on the wrong
burner to heat the kettle. Perhaps, funny, but nobody was hurt.
This past week while his wife was working late, my brother put some
bread into the electric toaster in his kitchen and went into the next room
to read while the bread cooked. After not hearing the automatic "pop up"
sound, he returned to the kitchen to find a veritable blowtorch all the way
up to the ceiling! He ran down to the basement, turned off the electric
breakers, ran back up to the kitchen, and saturated the area with water.
The entire kitchen was seriously smoke damaged, smoke and soot were all over
the entire main floor of the house, and worst of all, his lungs so badly
seared that he coughed up black sooty stuff for several days thereafter.
Please pray that he will get better soon since that smoke is potentially
dangerous. You will receive updated news as soon as available. If he is
well enough to travel to Charlottesville on August 5, we will meet at a
family party to celebrate my sister's fortieth wedding anniversary (actual
date July 23).
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> More bizarre weirdness from AL
> All this agida for nasal polyps
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>
> Just wanted to let you know that the surgery was essentially successful
> and without any traces of cancer. The bad news is that the operation was
> more complex than any of us had anticipated. We all knew about the large
> swollen sinus on the left; what we did not anticipate was that all six
> small sinuses directly under the eyes were involved, as well as the two by
> the bridge of the nose. Accordingly, the surgeon had to go into both
> sides and my vision was (temporarily) adversely affected by the changes in
> ball pressures from the nearby invasive techniques. Three days into
> recovery, I was able to read only a single page of a news magazine; two
> more days passed before television was sufficiently clear to be seen for a
> single hour before eye fatigue forced me to stop watching.
>
> Again, thank you for your prayers. Though not fully recovered, I
> returned to work this week to help with the final week of the month. Hope
> we can make our local goal [then he tells me about a coworker with similar
> problems] He said that the Sudafed and other drugs are no longer giving
> him adequate relief; moreover, a CAT scan revealed serious but correctible
> sinus problems.
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