[MonteQuest]

Just got off the phone with Aaron. He is doing great and feeling great.

Says he will weigh in on this thread soon.

[kpeavey]

I contacted the hospital, did some asking around. I found THIS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO of Aaron's hospital visit.

Turns out he was only mostly dead.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Glad you made it, Aaron. We've lived our whole lives during the Cheap Oil Age, might be interesting to stick around and see how it plays out.

[DomusAlbion]

Aaron, I'm so happy you made it through this ordeal and are recovering.

God obviously has other plans for you. Like raising that daughter, perhaps?.

Best wishes, good health and a long life.

DA

[CarlinsDarlin]

I'm gone one weekend and the whole place goes to crap...
What an experience. You are a blessed man. So glad to hear it all turned out well, Aaron.

[best mom voice]
You follow the doctor's advice and do what you're told! Next time you might not be so lucky. Take your medicine!
[/best mom voice]

Glad you're still with us. You have much work to do here - but take some time to recoup and get back to 100% first. We'll hold down the fort till ya get back
Kathy

[jasonraymondson]

You just let me know son, and I will be happy to take over admin duties for you whenever you need me to.


HEHEHEHEHEHE *did I say those hehe's outload... no... I think that was just in my head. Yea, I will just submit this post, i think it is funny. oh well.. anywho time to go look at more porn since I won't get to see any during basic training

[TheDude]

Ack, Aaron, stay on the mend. Don't gnaw on any blocks of cheese.

I had the sudden tightness in the chest a couple years ago on St. Patrick's Day. Laid down after gobbling down 3 asprin. Felt better after a while, when the pipes in the downstairs sink burst! As your favorite filmmakers put it, "Thank you God, thank you so bloody much!"

While you eat tapioca pudding and check out the candy stripers here's something you can peruse: The official 'Unofficial' Monty Python And The Holy Grail script. Some cut scenes in there:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '|') CUT BACK to the forest. The Knights of "NI" are slowly recovering. they
| get up.
|
| TALL KNIGHT
| Well, At least We've got ONE shrubbery.
|
| OTHER KNIGHTS
| Yes, Yes ... We've Done very Well ... NI!
|
| TALL KNIGHT
| Ssh! I think somebody's coming. We'll get them to give us
| another shrubbery.
|
| OTHER KNIGHTS
| Good Idea. More shrubberies. As many as possible.
|
| Perhaps we start to TRACK BACK from the scene as they go on talking.
|
| TALL KNIGHT
| What shall we call ourselves this time?
|
| KNIGHT
| How about "The knights of Nicky-Nicky"?

[mmasters]

Your role here isn't finished yet.

Glad you're still here btw

Mike

[smallpoxgirl]

Holy Cow!

Welcome back!

You're not allowed to die till that baby of yours is grown. Besides, do you know what would happen to this place without you?

[Tyler_JC]

Welcome back to the land of the living!

This website (and the rest of the world) would not be the same without you.

[blukatzen]

Oh Aaron, I am SO grateful that you are here for us...AND for your new little one that is on the way. Your child and his mother need you, please take care of your health.

I have a heart condition, within the last 2 years it's been coming on, plus a family history of Phelbitis..sucks. I am on diaretics now so I don't maintain all the water that doesn't get pumped out.

It sounds now that you will take your condition seriously, but again, I am glad that it was repaired!

Be well Aaron! We are glad you are "back" with us!

XXOO,

Blu

[kpeavey]

Aaron's so tough, even He11 threw him out.

[simontay78]

Do take time to recover ya!?

Listen to the Dr and do whatever you can to stay alive! this forum needs more people like you.

I guess I will add hospital into my list of must have in the sustainability plans.

[lowem]

Man, that was synchronicity all right.

Glad to know you're okay.
The forum wouldn't be quite the same without you.

Listen, we want you to be with us all the way as we break NYMEX records to $200, $300, $400, and well beyond, got it?

[Ivan_M]

welcome back to the world of the living then. enjoy your stay.

[entropyfails]

Aaron! Glad you made it!

All that worrying about the fate of the world and the biggest danger to your life was cheeseburgers! How humans judge risk is a funny thing, even for smart ones like us! *grin*

Apparently, you want to stay around enough that even your slightly confused and somewhat oxygen deprived brain managed to find a hospital without you planning or thinking about it at all. The raw power of the human body to survive on its own is a marvelous thing. I hope that you can learn that lesson well.

I wonder what other wonderful things you would be doing if your ego-mind didn't keep getting in the way. I definitely look forward to your afterthoughts on this issue. For now, rest and relax.

Congrats on surviving a SIG_HUP! I hope your body's -9 signal is far, far in the future.

[Roy]

[MD]

Pretty much what everyone else said. You wouldn't want to miss the show!

[FoolYap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'S')o I sent the class to their lab work and bolted to the local drug store to renew my missing pharmaceutical, and promptly got lost. ...

[Aaron]

Thanks all for your kind words and thoughts...

I knew right where i had to go with this story after telling the tale to my family etc... & of course that was here with you fine folks.

I'm not a stress monkey actually... quite the opposite in fact. And I don't find travel stressful at all despite the obvious stress included in such a lifestyle. I'm a very internal kind of guy, and am content to allow RL to wash over me like a river, while maintaining a rich inner dialogue that keeps me very satisfied and interested. All the men in my family tree suffer to some degree with this small artery thing actually, which is manageable with modern medicine mostly... I was just feeling fine and a bit preoccupied, and got complacent about my meds... I can assure you I'm not any longer!

As far as the experience itself... I'm happy to report that while the events leading up to my "near-miss" were extrodinarily painful, the actual beginnings of brain death I recall as quite pleasant. In fact, that's what I meant when I wrote that I felt annoyed at being revived. I recall feeling resentment at being aroused from a very pleasant slumber... like snoozing on a Sunday morning while an irritating alarm blared in the background.

I never have really feared death per se... just the painful ride which takes you there, so I'm happy to assure everyone that... well... it wasn't bad at all.

Quite nice actually.

No tunnel of light... no singing choirs of hawkmen... just a kind of peaceful sense of well-being.

I take none of this for granted believe me, and am still flabbergasted at the very unlikely sequence of events which precipitated this event. I really don't know what to think about it... but after all... I am only an egg.



I do promise to be more discerning about my choices in diet & such... and as soon as the Doc ok's it, a renewed interest in daily exercise as well, though I have been swimming as my cardio exercise for some time now.

Not a bite of red meat since then... no alcohol... more fish veggies & chicken in smaller portions etc...

And most important, being rigid about my meds.

My job kind of insulates me from the coming turmoil, (at least for some time), since I'm now teaching mainframe and super-computing for what amounts to basic infrastructure and such, including government & military outfits. My students are typically like DOD, Army, VA, NASA, Banks, Power Gen & other social service providers etc... so I'm confident I'll be needed for some time to come. (Even in the face of depletion related turmoil... maybe especially because of it actually) There aren't 40 people qualified to teach this stuff, and I'm picking up the data encryption portion very soon where I'll be one of exactly two folks in the world who can teach it. Unless I miss my guess, data security will enjoy an expanded role going forward as things begin to unravel.

Anywhosit... you folks are the best... I'm proud to know you all & I look forward to serving all of you in the coming months/years.

HawkMan willing...