Hot days on Poverty Hill

Hello Everyone,
Hope everyone is doing good, Lordy it's been hot here on Poverty Hill, looks like we're in for a hoooooooottttttt summer this year down south. Went down to the creek yesterday and the fish were even sweating.......now thats hot......laffin. I've gone into my summer mode now, I get outside early in the morning and late in the afternoon, I just can't handle the heat like I could before. I'm sort of lost though, this is the first year in a long time that I haven't planted a vegetable garden, this was due to my being sick and not able to do it..I'm sure lost though, cause I don't have an excuse to go to the garden and lean on my hoe...Oh well there's always next year.
I've been watching the news a lot lately and it seems this country is getting into a big mess. The main thing I'm concerned with is that it seems that the people of the US have absolutely no say so in anything. I've heard it blamed on Democrats and I've heard it blamed on Republicans.....and no one seems to know how to fix the problem. Thats the main thing that bothers me, our country is severly screwed with all the politicians that we have in office because none of them seem to know anything except that its not their fault. I think we need to fire em all and just hire a new bunch, Democrats and Republicans. Maybe then someone would know something. I really hate to complain but I've been around long enough to watch this country go from the most powerful nation in the world, that everyone loved and wanted to come to.......to one of the most hated and the least popular in the world. Now how the hell did that happen...........? OK, i won't harp on politics because thats a whole new can of worms.
One thing that I'd like to mention is that I lost a good friend, a twenty year old young man that was wise way beyond his years. He lost the fight to Pulmary Hypertension a few days ago and it has shocked everyone in our PH family. He was a very popular young man that had touched the lives of many, all who knew him loved him and admired his strength and courage. Mason Hoffman we will miss you my friend.
Well I guess i need to get going and make sure everything is going on just the way it should on Poverty Hill. If yall ever by this way be sure to stop by, our door is always open to our friends.

Hugz N Handshakes

TW

Another Day In Paradise

Hey Everybody, welcome back to my ramblings on Poverty Hill. Lordy it's been so hot around here the roosters won't even get up in the mornings, much less do their Cocka Doodle Do's. I've been getting up way earlier than I like to, just to go outside and stir around a lil bit. By 9 O'clock its already getting time to go back inside and do the air conditioning thang. Of course I throw fits and tell Miss Judi that I'm fine outside but I know better than to fuss with her cause she always wins, so I just tell her I was about to come in anyway. It's a man thang, I can't let her know I'm doing what she said...LOL. I went down to the pond yesterday and lordy that thang was so grown up with grass you could hardly get to it, I guess I'll have to break out the bushog mower and cut around it, in the cool of the afternoon for sure. I'm bout ready for a big fish fry. Get the family all together and go catch a mess and cook em, MMmmmmmmmmm ain't nothing any better than that. Bass, Brim, Catfish, french fries, hushpuppys.......Lordy makes my mouth water just to think about it. All yall city folks just don't know what ya missing, maybe yall can stop by some time and we'll do it up right for ya. Of course another thing I noticed while I was ramblin around was that it's the time of the year for snakes to be crawling around, Lordy I hate those dang thangs, another good reason for me to keep it cut around the pond. Of course with all the PH drugs that I'm taking if one bit me it'd probably kill it.....laffin.
Well it feels good to be off that Sub Q Remodulin I was on, now I am getting back to my old self and not having to suffer through all that pain......shhessssssshhh..I can't understand why any doctor would put his patient through that crap. My new Hickman is Painless and I'm still taking Remodulin through it so........everything is gettin better on Poverty Hill. Well except the fact that I haven't heard anything from the President on the bailout money that I needed for Poverty Hill, I guess they used mine for General Motors, oh well, even though its hard to understand that they wouldn't rush to help a thriving community like Poverty Hill, MS, I guess they need to help the little people like GM and the Big Banks.
I'm not really a big Obama fan but he is our President and I'll support him as all American citizens should, but I'm really starting to wonder where he's going with all this. I guess we'll see.
While I'm on here and doing my thang I just wanted to throw out my thanks to everyone for their support and prayers while I've been sick. I truly love and care for all my PHriends and words just can't express my gratitude.....Hugzzzzz and Handshakes to all of Ya.
Well the time has flown by so I guess I need to get off this computer machine and get to my Mayoral duties that I've neglected for so long a time, it's a wonder that this vast thriving community hasn't gone to the dogs since I've been gone. Thats OK though I'll have everything under control shortly. If yall over our way remember that our door is always open to our friends.

Hugzz and Handshakes

TW

Home Again.............

Hey Everybody, it's been a while since I blogged, I'm not sure if I still can...LOL.
Thangs around Poverty Hill are a mess, the chickens forgot who I was, the grass is knee high, I haven't been able to take Levi riding in his truck, just everything has gotten behind. Thats OK though, I'll get it all taken care of now that I'm starting to feel better. Today is the first day that I've felt like doing much of anything, so now Miss Judi will have to slow me down to make sure I don't overdo thangs. We've had a couple of rough months, with the PH thingy but we're gonna be just fine. I got of the hospital yesterday and had to go by one of my buddy's and get a fishin report, seems like theres a bunch of em callin my name, so I'll have to break out the old fishin rods and get to the creek pretty soon. Lordy, there's so much I need to get done though, ya know when ya leave things undone for a few months it tends to get in a mess. Now I hope that Miss Judi can calm her nerves and get back to normal, she's been like a cat on a hot tin roof.
It's been great getting back home and relaxing, the hospital is no place to get any rest. No more 2am and 3 am blood draws or temperatures. A hospital is the only place I know where they wake you up to ask if you need anything to help you sleep.....go figure.....laffin.
Well I can't think of much to blog about as I've been outta commission for a while, there hasn't much been going on but I'm glad to get back home and am waving at every one of you who dropped by to see me. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts while I have been sick. Hugz to all of ya.
Yall come when ya can, our door is always open to our friends.

Hugz N Handshakes

TW

The Hospital Stay

Hello Everyone, Greeting from the Mayoral Staff of Poverty Hill, (Judi and TW). Well the past few weeks have been, howz the best way to put it, "Eventful". I've been poked, prodded, wired, drilled, cut, beat, slammed, snatched, tested, sucked, and a lot of other thangs that I dare not mention. It's been a helluva month for us. Miss Judi took me and checked me into one of those hospitals and they put me in something they call an ICU. Ya know there wuz a bunch of sick people in there and I really didn't feel like I belonged there. Anyway my Doc drilled a hole in my neck and put a wierd looking contraption in that he called a Swan Ganz so that he could keep a check on the pressures between my heart and lungs. Let me tell you somethin, that hurt like crazy, felt like he was jerking my neck clean out but I guess I've had worse. Anyway I had gained something like 16 pounds in just 2 or 3 days so I knew somethin was wrong cause I hadn't been eatin that much. Now I love to eat, don't get me wrong but I hadn't eaten nearly that much...... They started some IV Lasix and Lordy the first night I was there I lost 8 pounds and then 6 pounds the next day. Now I know there's lots of folks that wish they could loose that much weight that fast, but Lordy it sho nuff left me weak.
Well the first night I was there they brought me a plate that didn't have enuff on it to keep a chicken alive. I looked at it and asked the nurse if that was just a snack and she laffed at me, then she told me nope, that was my meal. Yall it just made me that much hungrier. She was a cutie so I wuz nice to her and told her thank you. Well the next morning they brought me another one of those chicken meals with just enuff to wet my appetite. Lordy yall they wuz starving me to death, I knew I'd die of starvation before I got well from all my other stuff.....laffin. Anyway, you know they have those strict rules in the ICU and won't let peeps come and go as they would like to so Miss Judi and Steve and Shane our two boys had to come in at certain times. You know bein a man and all, I'm just about worthless unless I have Judi to tell me when and when not to do things, so I just flirted and laffed and had a good ole time with the nurses until they told me I'd have to be a little quieter that I'd get em into trouble. On the second night I was in prison ICU I told Shane and Steve to bring me a cheeseburger that these people wuz starvin me to death. Man when they came in I smelled the cheese when they came in to outer doors to the ICU..woooohooooooooooo food. The boys came in with a big ole double meat with cheese that looked better than any steak I'd ever laid my eyes on. I unwrapped that baby, checked to make sure all the goodies were on it and before I could sink my teeth into the first bite a big ole nurse came outta nowhere. She reached across my bed to snatch my hot tasty big ole cheeseburger telling me that I couldn't have anything like that. Well yall that made me so dayum mad I could've spit fire....laffin. I told that nurse, "Just try and take this dayum cheeseburger from me and we're gonna have a helluva fight"........LMAO......the thing is I wuz dayum serious about it...LOL. She didn't know whether to crap or go blind, she saw that I was mad as hell....Yall I wuz starvin. Anyway to make the story short my sons took the cheeseburger from me with me clawin and beggin and grabbin for it, and told me that the nurse knew what I could and couldn't have and they didn't want to do anything that would make me worse. I watched with my mouth waterin and droolin for that big ole cheeseburger as they took it away, with my poor ole stomach growlin and groanin and quickly reached and grabbed a handful of fries and threw em in my mouth before they do get em........I wuz desperate.....laffin. I gave the nurse my best evil eye, the one that say you need to get ur butt outta here right now, as she left the room. I guess it worked because I never saw her again while I was there.
Well the doc got most of the fluid off me and told me that my pressures had improved since I started taking the Remodulin, which was very good news. He released me and gave me a bunch of new meds and told me that I'd be started on oxygen. I feel much better now and am glad to be home on Poverty Hill where I rule the roost when Miss Judi lets me.
Glad you could stop by and see me, if yall ever over this way be sure and stop by, my door is always open to my friends.

Hugzz and Handshakes

TW

I'm back..........Sorta

Hello everyone, glad you could drop by and visit. Things here on Poverty Hill are in low gear right now. The chickens are starving, the hound dogs won't hunt, and the Mayor has just been sitting around doing nothing letting the hill run wild. Nope its not the recession, the Mayor of Poverty Hill has been a little under the weather. As many of you know the Mayor has Pulmonary Hypertension and its throwing a few curveballs in his political and social activities. Its not a big thang, just another one of lifes adventures. Theres a medicine that is given 24/7 called Remodulin, which is given in a somewhat painful way, well you know the Mayor hates pain so it's just about whipped him.........You say whatta wuss.......Oh contraire, he's a tuff ole dude, as his friend Jen says, almost comparable to superman, but not quite. Anyway he's going to be fine and I'm sure will be ready to conquer the world.........well maybe the county.....LOL. I'd hate to start off too big.
I just wanted to take this time to thank all my family and PHriends for caring and for their prayers through these hard times. I love you all!!!!!!!
Maybe when I get where I can concentrate I can think of stuff to write but right now...well I'll just hurt for a while.......grinz.....
Thanks for stopping by, remember if you're ever over this way, my door is always open to my friends.

Hugzz and Handshakes

TW(Terry)

Life is good

Heyz to everyone. Welcome back to my lil blog. I'm about ready to do my lil hospital thingy and am anxious to get it over with. Just another thang in the HO HUM life of a PH'er. Laffin don't get me wrong, every day I wake up is a good day.
Heck if I croaked tomorrow, I've saw more things already in my lifetime than most people would ever see. I spent 30 years in the military and have been places most people can't imagine, and done things that I'd never have done if not in the military. So what have I got to complain about....laffin, well with the exception of having PH.
I have a loving wife that has stood by me every step of the way, through the good and the bad and has been my crutch and strength the whole time. She's been my best friend and a wonderful mother to our children. She's been my strength in getting through all this PH, the operations, the different drugs, the doctors, I mean everything. So what have I got to complain about, except PH.
I have two wonderful sons that have also stood by me and put up with all the moving from place to place, the long periods Dad was away from home and now support me through this crappy disease called PH. So what have I got to complain about? Just having PH.
I've made many new friends through PHA that have been a tremendous help to Judi and myself in understanding this disease and supporting us as though we've been friends forever. I thank them and love them very much. So what have I got to complain about. Just having PH.
Overall I guess life has been good, I've got a great wife, wonderful sons, caring and loving friends so what have i got to complain about?......Not a Dayum thang!
Thanks for coming by and if you're ever around my neck of the woods make sure you stop by, the door is always open to my friends.

Hugs N Handshakes

TW

More Ramblings from TW

Heyz to everyone, thanks for stoppin by. I haven't been bloggin much lately, I've just been a little under the weather. Miss Judi has been makin me stay pretty close to home so she can keep an eagle eye on me. Sometimes she can be a pretty tough cookie. Looks like I'm gonna have to check into the hospital and get a lil plumbing installed on the 25th of Feb, I'm gonna try to get em to overhaul me while I'm in there. As most of you know I have Pulmonary Hypertension and its gotten to the point that oral meds aren't doing any good so they're gonna put a Hickman Catheter in me and start me on Remodulin. Hopefully these new meds will make me run like a Chevy.....lol. Anyway thats enuff about me.
Have yall ever seen such screwed up weather in ya life. One day it's freezin cold and the next ya have to run the A/C. What ever happened to the old days when we used to have seasons. And this year with all the record breaking cold temperatures, people dying from exposure and all that. Ya know in my younger days people could cope with things like that because you could always build a fire to stay warm, but nowadays everyone doesn't have fireplaces and most everything is dependent on electricity, which we all know is the first thing to go it seems like. Don't get me wrong I think the guys and gals who work at the Power Companys do a great job, but no one can control the weather, or falling limbs, ya know things like that.
Well I'm ramblin again huh, laffin, they say thats what crazy people do, if thats so I'm complety insane.....lol.
Well i guess i need to get off this puter and do some chores before checkin in to the Med motel next week. If yall don't hear from me for a while I'll be incognito, but I'll be back as soon as I can. Thanks for droppin in, and remember if you're ever this way be sure to stop in, my door is always open to my friends.

Huggz N Handshakes

Terry (TW)

Just Rambling

Hello everyone, hope all of ya are doing good. Things on Poverty Hill have been sorta quiet and laid back since hunting season is over. I've been catching up on my rest. The truth is I'm glad hunting season is over, I was gave slam out. Gettin up at 4 am every morning and hunting untill dark was getting old quick. Both my boys love hunting as well as my oldest Grandson so I figure I have to get up and go with em. Anyway now I can rest up, well that is after I catch up on the honeydo's that I neglected while hunting season was in.

I've been reading and watching on TV about the record colds that they're having up North, isn't that just terrible? I just absolutely could not live in that kind of weather, I'd make a terrible Eskimo. I was talking to someone the other day and they were saying, "Oh they are used to that kind of weather, they were raised in it."
Well I disagree with that, I don't think they've had all the power outages and water outages like they've been having lately. This is serious business when its freezing cold and you have no heat, thats life threatening. I know how the power outages are because of the hurricances we have down here and its terrible, but the fact that its freezing cold up there makes it so much worse to me. I feel for the people up there and pray that they all make it through these hard times ok. I think they need to take some of that bailout money the government is throwing away on these banks and buy everyone up there a generator so that they can stay warm and eat, it'd be a whole lot cheaper and do a helluva lot more good for the people.

Well its that time again, for those of you that don't know I have Pulmonary Hypertension and once or twice a year us PHer's have to have a right heart cath to check the pressure between our heart and lungs. Well its time that time again and although the procedure isn't very painful, I'm dreading getting it done. I know my pressures have gone up again due to the distance I can walk have gotten much shorter and my ability to do certain things has declined. Oh well, my doc was wanting to put me on a different medicine, looks like the time has come...we'll see after the heart Cath. Its just the fact that the options are getting slimmer. The meds he's talking about is called Remodulin, which is taken Sub-Q or by Catheter. Anyway that enuff about that, I'll cross that road when I get to it. It's nothing but a thang.

I've been reading the PHA boards more here lately now that hunting season is over and I see that there's lots of newbies to PH posting. I can remember when I first started posting and asking questions, so I know how scared most to them are. I hate seeing new people join us but I'm glad they found their way to us so that they know they are not alone. I wish I could be of more help to them, but I try to help in any way that I can. Maybe in some way to repay the help that PHA and its member have given me.

Well, I'm ramblin all over the place so i recon I need to just shut up.....laffin.
Best wishes to all of ya from Poverty Hill, ya come when ya can, the door is always open to my friends.

Hugs N Handshakes

TW(Terry)

Catchin Up

Hello Everyone! It's been a while since I've blogged so I thought I'd sit down and scribble a few tidbits. Not much has been going on here on Poverty Hill, the weather seems to be all screwed up this year, it doesn't know whether it wants to be hot or cold. For the last month or two we've had lots of company, LOL, we always do during hunting season. Somehow my sons can get away from their busy schedules that they have the rest of the year to show up around here during hunting season...laffin.
Well, whatever it takes to get em here...
My duck hunting and deer hunting is about over, as much as I enjoy it, I'm sorta glad to see it come to an end, now maybe I can rest a while. My body has about give outta gas, my get up and go is almost gone. I don't think Miss Judi recognizes me any more I've been hunting so much. Anyway now I can take time to catch up reading everyones blogs and reading PHA's Bulletin board.
I'll try and write more a little later, right now I've got the brain cramp and my brain isn't operating too good, must be a PH thing (good excuse anyway).
Guess I'll get to my chores that have been on hold for about a month. Yall come when ya can, the door is always open to my friends.

Hugs N Handshakes

TW

Off to a New Year

Greetings my friends, glad you could stop by. Well it's 2009, a new year has begun and hopefully we will all have a good one. By watching the news on TV I am sorta sceptical about the year. Seems like we have a lot going on as far as our country's financial situation, I'm glad I'm not the new President, he's gonna have his hands full. I wish us all good luck!
Well our New Years celebration on Poverty Hill went well. We had a hill full of people and everyone had a great time. All the kids enjoyed the fireworks and us old Geezers had a great time socializing and eating. Both my boys were here with their families so we had a house full. They stayed until Sunday and Miss Judi and I, although we enjoyed having them, were give slam out. If I'd heard Papa Terry one more time I'd have pulled all my hair out...(just joking, you know I loved it). I had forgotten how quiet it is on the Hill until they left, now i miss the noise and laughter. Its been a few days now and I'm about rested up so its time to get down to some serious deer hunting, that is if I can make myself get up, I was sorta lazy this morning and the bed felt sooooooooooooooooooooo good. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.
Everyone was asking what was my New Years resolution. Well the truth is I don't make em because I never keep em anyway. Its always great to say I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that but who ever really keeps em? Not many people I know. To those that have I say, congratulations, to the others I say welcome to the club..laffin.
This may not be the place to write this thank you because I'm sure noone at PHA reads my lil blog but I wanted to post a big "Thank You", to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association for the great job that they did the past year, keeping each of us updated on new medications and research, hosting the convention, and generally for the support they have given to each of us with this dreaded disease. Keep up the good work, every one of you working at the PHA is greatly appreciated.
Well I guess thats about all I got to say for now its time for me to get to my chores. Thanks to each of you that read my lil blog and sharing tidbits of my life up on Poverty Hill, yall come by when ya can, the door is always open to my friends.

Hugs N Handshakes

TW