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)