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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: Sumner on April 04, 2007, 12:12:24 PM

Title: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Sumner on April 04, 2007, 12:12:24 PM
Last night on chat Glen told us he was going in for triple by-pass surgery today.  It sound as if he has not had a major problem, but this was preventative.

I'm going to send the old fart some flowers this coming Monday.  He seems to be a flower type guy  :evil:.

If you want to chip in a few bucks and have your name on the card PM me with the amount you are sending to me and let me know what name you want on the card (real name, your name here, etc.).

I'll take names up to Sunday and then will have the flowers go to him on Monday, so if you want to do this PM me soon.

I'll pay the bill and you can send your pledge to me at:

Sumner Patterson
790 S. Main
Blanding, UT 84511

Freud, Glen said that you would up-date us to how things are going with him and maybe you could let me know where the flowers should go.  I have his home address.

Let's all be pulling for him today!!

c ya,

Sum

P.S. Jon could you put a "sticky" on this for a couple days, so it stays near the top??
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Bob Drury on April 04, 2007, 12:32:32 PM
Glen, good luck to you.  We need you on the salt in August, and on this site as we speak, so don't let us down!  Get well............
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Larry Forstall on April 04, 2007, 12:46:03 PM
All the best for your surgery Glen. Just like changing an oil pump in the pits so you can run more nitro.  :-D  May your recovery be as fast as the cars you have timed.    Larry
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 12, 2007, 01:50:06 AM
We lost the updates regarding Glen in the hospital. He's home now.
He didn't have a computer in the hospital but is back online.
Send him a PM or just shoot holes in him here on this thread
so everyone can read his reply.
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Reverend Hedgash on April 12, 2007, 07:49:53 PM
Glad to hear you are home Glen, best wishes with the recovery.

Reverend H+
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: narider on April 13, 2007, 08:38:54 AM
Yes, welcome home Glen!
We're both very relieved(to say the least), and look forward to comparing scars someday.
Todd and Debbie
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: JackD on April 13, 2007, 10:09:06 AM
Did you guys think he wanted flowers ?
You can't eat flowers.
He wants something good and made with flour like SOS or Pizza.
I know I did.
Sami rather enjoyed the home delivery and the take out.
Sometimes she also wished they would take me out or deliver me to somebody else.
But once I learned her new house rules, things were better.
Glen will need some time to adjust but will never admit it. :wink:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: narider on April 13, 2007, 10:36:42 AM
I agree WHOLEheartedly Jack. Doctor said "anything he wants" after the surgery... kinda wish I would of thought of SOS as it would of been easier then that pie at the time.
The nurse in ER let Deb get me a Kit-Kat bar from the hallway machine within minutes after eating four nitro pills, having a nitro patch applied and them finally putting in the nitro drip to relieve my heart failure symptoms.
But the best was seeing the nurses' (overly round)faces on the cardio floor after the surgery when Debbie brought in a loaded 18" pizza(they took it much better once they figured I could only eat a couple pieces and I was going to give the leftovers to them).

Glen, I had a triple and understand you had seven bypasses done :-o ... where did all the grafts come from for this?

My surgeon told me to "Recover slowly... trying to be tougher then nails is what got you here." Words to live by,
Todd
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Elmo Rodge on April 13, 2007, 12:09:00 PM
Doggonit Glen, quit fakin'. You're just trying to get out of mowing the lawn and you know it. You need anything, give me a holler. Wayno
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Speed Limit 1000 on April 13, 2007, 12:24:23 PM
Glen, Get lots of rest, and I hope you will be as good as you were 20 years ago. Wish you all the best. John
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: JackD on April 13, 2007, 12:40:33 PM
Shhhhhh, We don't talk about mowing the lawn.
Todd and Glenn mustabin first timers.
The nitro was for them because your monitor kept ringing the bell at the nurses station during the important Soap Operas.
The Kit Kat bar was to shut you up.
The whole floor chipped in and you should ask Deb what she did with the other $37.
Rather than wait around to see how much emergncy pizza I was going to eat, my nurses speant the time giving me stuff to make me sleep and then just took it all.
When I woke up , they had me convinced it was all a dream. :wink:

Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: DahMurf on April 13, 2007, 06:39:06 PM
Very funny Jack! :-D
(I'll remember that if there's a next time! :evil: )
Deb
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: narider on April 14, 2007, 12:13:05 PM
My cardiologist made Deb and I fully aware of the national (if not worldwide) understanding across the medical field concerning lawn mowing specifically (it was at the top of the list).  And (like the many other comparable life threatening chores on the list), that it can be resumed by the patient just as soon as all of the scars from the surgery have completely disappeared.

Damn, I knew (like all the other women in the world), that those nurses were just using me Jack!
Todd
(rookie at life and everything in it thankfully)
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Stainless1 on April 14, 2007, 02:54:02 PM
And (like the many other comparable life threatening chores on the list), that it can be resumed by the patient just as soon as all of the scars from the surgery have completely disappeared.


Todd, I trust you tipped the Doc for that statement.... no not like cow tipping, like waitress tipping.  As I remember, those scars never disappear  :roll:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Speed Limit 1000 on April 15, 2007, 12:33:02 AM


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Todd, I trust you tipped the Doc for that statement.... no not like cow tipping, like waitress tipping.  As I remember, those scars never disappear  :roll:
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 Stainless, how many people outside Kansas know how to Tip a cow. :?
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Lynchy on April 18, 2007, 03:09:22 AM
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Stainless, how many people outside Kansas know how to Tip a cow.

Quite a few rural Australians know how to tip a cow.......

In New Zealand they tip sheep........ :wink:

Lynchy
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Reverend Hedgash on April 18, 2007, 03:24:31 AM
Don't they "share" sheep?.
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Lynchy on April 18, 2007, 03:30:59 AM
They don't "shear" their sheep with anyone!!!

Bwahahahaha  (spell check didn't like that!)

Rev - Thanks for the warm up, we're having a BBQ at Don Noble's workshop this weekend with Bob Ellis.... :evil:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 21, 2007, 02:30:30 PM
I talked to Glen Friday. He sounds strong. His daughter, Tami, and I talked Saturday morning. She was very comfortable leaving his place when she did. In her opinion, he was recovering well. It is now the end of his TIME OUT. Anyone can hurl rocks and barbs at him w/o feeling any guilt.
Let the slander begin.
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Glen on April 21, 2007, 06:56:34 PM
Remember the pay backs can be nasty, I learned from Jack D. the wonder dog. I am ready so start tossing them at me. Thanks for all of the kind notes, cards and fone calls, makes it a lot easier to get thru the long days Took a long walk today and still a little weak. Start the physical trearipy on Monday.
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: 1212FBGS on April 21, 2007, 08:22:37 PM
wrong already glen... its physical "terrorist".... comin' to the dirt on the 6th?
kent
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 21, 2007, 09:57:34 PM
It's great to see you back at it, Pal.
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Elmo Rodge on April 21, 2007, 10:03:02 PM
Glen, you need anything I'm coming by Friday on my way to the Pasadena Roadster Club Reliability Run.  :-D Wayno
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Tom Shannon on April 21, 2007, 10:57:59 PM
 :-D
Glen;

So good to see your're up and about!! Received my latest BRN today and more of the "Glen" story. Welcome back buddy!
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 21, 2007, 11:05:52 PM
Wayno...drop off a 55 drum of diesel and he'd quit telling stories about you.
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Elmo Rodge on April 22, 2007, 10:04:25 AM
Freud, it'd take more than that. Wayno
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 22, 2007, 10:40:59 AM
What about 55 gal of gin?
freud
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Bob Drury on April 22, 2007, 11:56:14 AM
Glen, welcome back.  The natives have become restless.  No cigar smoking to celebrate..............
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on April 30, 2007, 12:50:26 AM
Todd, you seem to have had a hidden meaning in your post.
When I talked to Barrett today he was MOST interested in
comparing scars with Debbie. I didn't get that offer out of your
post but it was all that stood out to him.
Is there any chance she has had vericose veins surgery and not
a by-pass procedure? That would  set him back a few days if that's
what she could show him.
Always looking out for my Pal,
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: DahMurf on May 10, 2007, 06:13:58 PM
Todd, you seem to have had a hidden meaning in your post.
When I talked to Barrett today he was MOST interested in
comparing scars with Debbie. I didn't get that offer out of your
post but it was all that stood out to him.
Is there any chance she has had vericose veins surgery and not
a by-pass procedure? That would  set him back a few days if that's
what she could show him.
Always looking out for my Pal,
FREUD

hmmmm, now how did I miss THIS one?  :-o
No bypass scars here but the ones I do have require stripping down to the bikini level!
(oops we're in a heart surgery thread, I shouldn't have said that!  :evil: )
:-D
Deb
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: JackD on May 10, 2007, 07:18:41 PM
RELAX
Freud wears bikini bottoms all the time as primary clothing , or so I am told. :wink:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: DahMurf on May 10, 2007, 07:52:41 PM
RELAX
Freud wears bikini bottoms all the time as primary clothing , or so I am told. :wink:

 :-o
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on May 13, 2007, 01:11:09 AM
There is fotografic evidence that sometimes I don't even wear bikini bottoms.
FREUD
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: JackD on May 13, 2007, 01:32:13 AM
There is fotografic evidence that sometimes I don't even wear bikini bottoms.
FREUD
Marcia took the famous picture when Ferd was in the early days of developing his streamlining skills.
You have heard of using small strands of yarn to check airflow, well he had a similar method all over that he was testing.
However well it worked, he was never able to sell the concept, but has never given up on the idea. :wink:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Stainless1 on May 13, 2007, 09:31:55 AM
There is fotografic evidence that sometimes I don't even wear bikini bottoms.
FREUD

Now there's a scary thought!!!   :-o  And now the site must be rated something worse than PG ...   :roll:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: JackD on May 13, 2007, 11:40:41 AM
There is fotografic evidence that sometimes I don't even wear bikini bottoms.
FREUD

Now there's a scary thought!!!   :-o  And now the site must be rated something worse than PG ...   :roll:
"Duz ya meen its gonna go fum PG (purty good) ta R (reality) ?" (me) :roll:
Title: Re: Flowers for the old fart....Glen...
Post by: Freud on May 13, 2007, 12:01:31 PM
My grandkids reclassified the ratings (PG) pretty gross and (R) to rank.
The vernacular  still doesn't describe the satisfaction from feeling the air flow over the unique aero shape.
The closer to the tank the less sound you hear. It's impossible to get down tight enough on the tank to eliminate the sounds of the cars along side as this riding style is used on the freeway.
freud