Pulling so many "Petes!"

Please don't start reading this if you are prone to fits of boardem, this one will drive you crazy!!!!!
Oh yes my Dear back Brothers and Sisters, I'm back and still up to my old antics! I started off the week Monday by picking up some logs from an old oak tree I cut down in my Mom's yard a while ago. She is 83 and has been working so hard raking and planting to make her front yard look nice. These old dead logs were such an eyesore so I picked them up and put them in the bed of my pick-up and was doing OK till I got to the big fat stump! I thought to myself, it's only about 2' I have to lift it to get it on the tailgate and I know I'm plenty strong enough to do it BUT!!!! I looked at it for the longest time, it looked like swiss cheese from all the termite holes in it and couldn't weigh as much as it looked! It really needs to go to the huge burn pile in my back yard. How can I get it there w/o lifting it? I can't think of any other way! One big grunt and 2 seconds later it's on the tailgate! Oh boy, I have that feeling in my back, the same one I was dreading> Yep, I pulled a 2 second blink of an eye "Pete"!!! After carefully emptying the contents of my pickup on to the burn pile I went straight to the house and took a long hot shower mostly w/ the showerhead set on pulse hitting my lower back> maybe I can burn the pain thats starting right out of there???>>>>> NOT!!!

Ok, it's Tuesday morning 4:00am and my back is throbbing so I get up, make coffee, take the dog out who sees the fox & babies over in the field next to Mom's house and goes crazy and wakes Mom and my wife up! I have to go chase her cause she's really pissed, how dare those foxes look at her like that? Yes, by now my back is killing me and I'm limping home w/ Rose the wonderhound in tow on her leash! Time to feed the kitty and birdy's who are now crying too and tell my loving spouse I'm sorry to wake her and to go back to sleep.

Time is dragging as I look at the computer then the TV w/ no sound. Maybe I'll go finish making the spinning rod I'm building for my wife. (I'm thinking she will have to finally go out fishing w/ me when I give her her new custom made rod w/ sparkly thread windings in red, white & blue!) No, I'm too tired and I don't feel like hunching over my work desk and rod laithe so I go take another really hot shower and take some meds. Get myself some oatmeal and rasberry preserves and a big glass of OJ>MMMMM~GOOD!! I linger around in my boxers till about 10:00am and remember that I have this Dr. apt. on Weds. am to have my favorite body part scoped to check out the old scares from my prostate cancer surgery. Oh boy, I start feeling sorry for myself and deside I can sit here and suffer or I can pack my boat and go out to the Gulf of Mexico and sit while doing some fishing in the 20mph winds out of the northeast. Now that will make me forget about this horrid pain, right? That first strong pull on the other end of my line> Yea Buddy!!! Now I'm thinking, I really do owe this to myself, hell I got to get a pencil sized tv cammera stuck up my pee hole the next day! Funny how we justify these little ideas in our mind. I know I'm not the only one who does it, it may be that candy bar we just owe ourselfes or the massage we talk a parner or friend into giving us because dam it, we deserve it> WE ARE IN PAIN!!!! or are and will be worse tomorrow.

So by 11:00am I'm out in it, the boat is rocking and I'm looking for an island or peninsular to hide behind out of the wind, ain't gonna happen cause it's low tide so I take another pill and get tough and macho putting up the bimini roof to get out of the sun! It's me against the water, the wind, the unforgiving sun and oh yea> the fish!!! I know this is getting too long, sorry but I'm on a roll!

I drift w/ the wind in perfect position right off a point sticking out into the gulf where I had lost a huge seatrout a couple weeks ago. I slide the anchor overboard so slow, carefully and quietly as these things are really spooky! OUCH, that stupid anchor , Ouch> my stupid back! Oh what the hell, my neck may as well join in the fun, yep it hurts too. OK now I know there are in there in about one foot of water. I cast a brand new $7. lure in by the point and SMASH! A big seatrout hits and out of the water he comes jumping! Now since I'm alone, I have to get the net w/o giving him any slack in the line, they have very soft mouths and the hooks can rip out of old "papermouth" so easy! I get the net and reach over and net him! Yes!!! then try to right myself from the long reach fall back and sit down on the bench seat below my drivers seat and sit right on a rod w/ another lure that has two treple hooks on it. GEEZE!!! I hook myself right in my butt through my long fishing pants, shorts under them and my underpants! The hook is in past the barb, now what do I do w/ the fish in the net in one hand, my rod in the other and the lure which is hooked to a rod guide and my azz at the same time? I can feel the blood start going down my leg! This story is already too long so after about a half hour, a big deep breath and a big yank I'm standing in my boat naked from the waist down bleeding all over the boat right along w/ the fish! What would you do? I got out my flip cammera and took a video of the fish for my Sons in the Navy of course! At least it took my mind off my back and neck pain for a few minutes!

Boy did that trout as well as the next one I caught which was even bigger taiste goooood for supper>> Yum, ain't nothing like fresh fish especially when you have to work that hard for them!!

Now it's Weds. and off to the Doc's w/ my ever so sore back, neck, hands, knees, hip and oh yea> my butt! Everything went as planned, no need to go into detail there but now I have another body part thats sore! On to Thursday> tax day. I have to drive my Mom to Palm Bch. County to sign the papers, she sold her condo! 250 miles down and get that done w/ all my sore parts! Did I mention that after the surgery on my eye last Jan. I can't drive much more than 20 miles w/o it turning bright red and burning like hell? Down to my old house that my friend lives in to scramble around the house I can't seel and get a bunch of stuff that we have no room for up here at our other house but my wife wants it anyway! I'm dying now, my friend dosen't have the air conn. on! I'm soaking wet and have to drive 250 miles back home and hope the hell I get through Orlando before 5:pm madhouse rush hour! I can hardly walk back to the car. Mom (who lived through the Great Depression) will not let me turn the air conn. on in her car, uses too much gas and I can't argue w/ her> been there done that! No win sittuation! Got home last night, took my hot shower, meds and my wife says, "I didn't finish the taxes yet, I need all your medical paperwork!!" NO>NO>NO>NO>NO!!! OK I'll get it all for you Honey! After midnigjht I'm in bed and of course up at 4:00am and of course in agony! Today, Pete stayed in bed or on couch all day w/ the air conn. on!!!

There's more but I've blabbed way too long and I appologize!! I just had to tell someone and you poor Peeps are the only ones I have!

Much Love>> Big Hugs>> and low pain for ALL!

Your Humbel Brother>

Pete

PS> It still hurts all over! Anyone want to go fishin tomorrow??????????????????

Loretta,
Thank you so much for your hugs and responce to my post! You must be a specisl Lady to write me back! Love and Hugs to you my Dear Loretta, your post means more to me than you'll ever know!!!
Your friend,
Pete (the sad clown)

I love to read your posts Pete! You can always make me smile. I am fairly new here but can tell that you have alot of people on here that care so much about you! You must be a great guy. Take care and I sure wish I could go fishing with you, it sounds like a wonderful day despite the pain!

Mikey, Your crazier than me> a motorcycle show??? Thanks for the words Bro, I hope you have a GREAT time and don't "pull any Petes"!!!!
Big Manhugs for Yuze Dude!
Pete

Awe Pete, sit back and relax for this week, ya know I had to laugh when you hooked your butt...sorry...
I hope you get a low pain day...I had injections on Thursday for my broken ribs and well it hurts me to breathe in deeply,
and I pulled a mini you and had to pick up my big cat Remington as he was miss behaving and hurt, hurt...
I sure hope you take it easy this next week....maybe get your mom to trade in for a greener fuel effencent car,
look at them on www.edmunds.com..take it easy...

 

 

  Pete!

 

    Wow that fish was a pain in the *giggle*! I hope right now you are still relaxing as much as your body will let you. You ve been busy to no end this week! Your making the rest of us look bad! So slow down, sheesh.

 

     When do you get the results back from your tests? How is the SS case going? Do you have a lawyer yett? I sure hope you found a lawyer. You have way to much to do. Dont need to spend all summer stoping and jumping through hoops for SS office.

 

     How is your friend doing in your old house? ...By the way I donno how you can go without air conditioning in FLorida. It hot, not desert hot.. Jungle, sticky, wet, sweaty, kind-o- hot. Bleh! ..and the BUGS.. you guys must feed em radiation or something, bugs that size should be illegal!

 

     Did I mention my husbands family all live in High Springs/ Gainesville? I havnt been to orlando yett and I cant wait to check it out! Rush hour traffic or not, Here come DANI! I bet they have awesome jewelry making shopps there, im excited to have some much needed "me time".

 

     Oh, and don't forget! The tree is mightier than the man. Hehe

 

*warm huggs*

     dani

 

     P.s. Hope you got your taxes done on time!

    

Pete,
I have to say "ditto" to edt's thoughts - we can't stop you from pulling Pete's so I guess you're just going to keep at it even though it causes more pain.

PaLady

Hello again and thanks to Dani, Patti, PA & S/B!!! It means so much to me when you write to me!!! This is my second day of doing almost nothing at all but eating and taking naps. It's driving me crazy already looking around the property and seeing all the chore that need to be done! Just the other day, I trimmed all the low hanging branches on the trees on the west and south sides of our house so I don't run into them when cutting the lawn w/ our John Deer! Piles of branches are still everywhere with dying leaves on them! My garden is only about 1/3 dug up and mixed w/ horse manure (something we have plenty of!) Of course the garden was a big undertaking! I ran a string around stakes in the ground and now I'm thinking I might make it smaller as I've bitten off more than I can chew! I've started seeds of lettus, a couple kinds of peppers, green & yellow squash, watermellons, leeks, cukes, basil> of course and Itallian parsely. There are some I think I forgot too but I'm goona splerge and buy tomoto plants because they take so long from seeds! Oh, I'm babbing again> sorry!
Dani, I do have a lawyer and am waiting for the verdict on my first appeal. I wrote over twenty typed pages for them describing all my pain and how it affects daily life. It took me a whole week to do! I went into great detail because I did not want to think I could have done better but didn't. The lawyer was very impressed! We'll see but I'm not going to get too excited because I know it takes most people 3 tries!
My friend is sicker (so he says)and crazier (I can see the changes) than ever in my house. He's like a hermit crab in there. I don't know what to do about him, he won't listen to me when I tell him he's got to get out of there and do something > anything! He is paying me a small amout of rent. I don't have the time, energy or money to go down there and clean and fix up the house yet so it's still there w/ him in it!
The bugs are not too bad yet but they will be here soon. It is still in the 50's here at night and in the mid to high 80's in the heat of the day. I'm so excited for you> coming to Fla!!! Gainsville is only about an hour+ from me and I will go up there to meet you for a lunch or coffee if you would like me to. I'm about 1/2 way to Orlando from there. Sorry, I don't know anything about the jewelry shops??? The traffic is only bad at rush hour just like Gainsville! Thanks again for the nice long letter little sister!
Patti, Thank you so much but I'm not even close to amazing! Hard headed maybe! You know I do thrive on adventure though. Heck, thats how I got into this condition in the first place> way too much stupid drunken adventure when I was young! It really does make life worth living if you can be a little bit ceribral in your choises! I try to but sometimes it gets away from me in the moment! I still have to ride my dirt bike around the streets here w/ the young kids on their 4 wheelers! I stay on the road so the bumps don't kill my back & neck. I just have to fill that motorcycle jones and get the wind blowing around me even if it's only for five or ten minutes! It feels sooooo good! OK to be truthful, once in a while I go chase the horses around the pastrure too I admit it, w/ Rose the wonderhound hot on my heals! My wife doesn't like it but I know the horses do> They get board too> sometimes they chase me around!
Snowbunny> Thanks agin for your kind words! Yes another fishing lesson, how did you know??? I've been talking to this retired guide on a local saltwater fishing forum and he and I are supposed to go out in his boat (a $40,000. smooth ride!) on Tuesday! He's going to show me some areas to fish, I'm still new around here! I hope I'm better by then! It's the biggest reason I'm taking it so easy this time! Oh, I was lucky w/ the fish hook in the but wound! A lot of times you get infections from fish hook wounds when they have been in the water and in fish, luckily the lure on this one was just tied on but unused yet so fairly clean and also since I had to rip it out as it was in passed the barb, it got torn open and bled alot which is better than a puncture wound which can lock in the germs like a hypodermic needle!!!
OK, Thats enough! Back to the bed and more TV. I'm glad I tvo'ed a bunch of good stuff so I can zoom out the commercials!
Lots of LOVE and BIG BIG HUGS to all my friends!!!
Peter the Fisherman!!!

Good evening Pete! Yepper!.....a motorcycle show!....well, really it was an open House for our local Harley Stealership! That's what we call them anyway! :) No!...I did not drive my bike there, but a very good friend of mine did. My surgeon said 12 months and then maybe! :(
It turned out to be a wonderful day, and to my surprise, several of my friends were there, and some of them from work as well. It has been six weeks since I have seen some of them. Then when I got home, a friend from the church called and wanted to go out for supper tonight. I could not have asked for a better day!
See there Pete!...I'm not the only one you make laugh or smile! :) We all sit in anticipation of your next Tripsy Again! :) Your kinda like "Tim the Tool Man Taylor" of the CP Forum. Now, nobody really wishes any harm on you, but your the only person I know, that when you get an ouchy, it's kinda funny. I guess it's the way you explain it to us all here. I have said before, that humor is a good pain reliever, but not at somebody else's expense. Pete, your a good man, and I'm guessing you have an equally good heart to go along with that huge personality of yours.
Lets hope you get lucky and get your disability approved soon. I have been following several members on this, and I just cant get over the feet dragging that is going on with this. The people in charge of this seem to be crooks, and robbing the members, or for that matter anyone who is disabled. What a terrible shameful thing to be going on in this country.

OK, I'm totally worn out my friend, and need some sleep. Take care now, and I will be shouting at you soon.

SE :)


Hugs!

Dani, I sent you an e-mail, now if you want to edit and take your e-adress off the post> Go for it!
Thanks for writing! More info in E-mail!
Hugs,
Pete

Hi Pete:

You really gave me a laugh and I really needed one. I hope your azz is healingwell!

Lorie

There is only one post that makes me run to see what has been written, and it is "Pete Trips Again"

Then there is my little friend Chartreux cheering the poor man on! :)

Pete, Sharks have more than one tooth, so send me one too! :)

Let's just hope the Trip is Tripless! :)

SE :)

Huggy Buggy Waughy to you my man! :)

Lay some sweat on me! :)