{"id":53793,"date":"2023-07-13T03:46:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=53793"},"modified":"2023-10-13T03:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T07:03:46","slug":"jul-13-23-somewhat-somber-onward-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=53793","title":{"rendered":"JUL 13, 23 .. SOMEWHAT SOMBERLY .. ONWARD WE GO"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sit down here, all I know is how I am going to begin this Post. THAT I know.<\/p>\n

Then where will I go? Does The Shadow Know? If so I’d appreciate it if he would tell me!<\/p>\n

Subtitle : DOES MISERY LOVE COMPANY<\/span><\/p>\n

Does it, can it, actually help us to know that we are not alone as we all wander through our “Golden Years of Being Seniors”<\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n

I know, I understand, we NEVER know but come on!<\/p>\n

– – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n

Frostbite Frank, one of our VERY close friends is flying down to a prestigious medical center in Southern California to undergo a complicated, multi-hour (12 or more) surgery on his spine involving several highly skilled surgeons with space-age medical devices in their hands. As they operate on his spine, they can see what they are doing in three-dimensional views.<\/p>\n

Get it? Got it? Good!<\/p>\n

At 11pm, this past Tuesday Evening, July the 11th<\/em><\/span>, our friend (literally moments before his ride to the airport was due at his home<\/em><\/span>) did “one last small chore”.<\/p>\n

To refresh you : Our friend is about to go to the airport to fly down from Anchorage, Alaska, to a prestigious medical center in Southern California to undergo a complicated, multi-hour surgery on his spine.<\/p>\n

His words..<\/p>\n

I was taking out the last little bag of trash after packing when a flock of Terns landed in the yard, so I opened the door carefully. I took the first of 2 little steps onto my porch, moving slowly so as not to scare off the 20 or so birds. I was so focused on them that I missed the second step. I flailed my way across the 12 foot wide porch, trying to regain my balance. I crashed into my work table and I think I separated my ribs, then I finally stopped my headlong free-fall with my forehead against the porch rail. All the vertebrae in my neck, mid-back, and lumbar sections went off like Gatling gunfire, and my right leg popped out of joint. Current status: my entire spine is sore, my ribs hurt, and my right hip is unstable. The cut on my forehead stopped bleeding after about 10 minutes. It is hardly noticeable if I pull my hat low over it. Wonder if I tore my hip labrum.<\/p>\n

In the above condition, his ride to the airport arrived. He then flew (a red-eye) from Anchorage, AK to Portland, OR, survived a 1-1\/2 hour layover in Portland and flew on to Southern California.<\/p>\n

His surgery is this upcoming Monday the 17th of July!<\/p>\n

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First thought Patti had was “He could have hit his head and died.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t know what to think, nor where to go with this Post. This is too close to home for me to contemplate more deeply.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Shadow? Where are you when I need you?<\/p>\n

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So I dashed off into my photo gallery.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco 49ers vs the New Orleans Saints at The Superdome on November the 25th of 2012. Patti and I were THERE!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Final Score: San Francisco 31 – 21 New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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A-h-h, New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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Yep! Forgive me but this is it for this Post!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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