Anyone remember me?

Family forgive me for I have sinned, it has been 10 days since my last post! Back when I started posting here on HWCP in the middle of a horrable depression and I didn't post for a day or two with no one posting "Where is Pete?" I would get very upset and think that everyone had forgot about me and didn't give a hoot what had happened to me! Then I would write something really stupid like> "This is the last time I'll ever post here because no one gives a dam about me!!!!!


That was the full blown depressed Pete speaking long ago! Not to worry, I'm not like that anymore! I realize that everyone here has their own problems and pain to deal with and forgetting about old Pete for a short time ain't nothin but a small thang in the big picture, right?



I can't write much more even though I have sooo much to tell my family members here who care about me and want to hear what I've been up to and why I haven't been around. I had eye surgery yesterday and had that thing (now being called a tumor) removed from the surface and deep into my right eye. Oh what fun it's been! How does that saying go> Better than a sharp stick in your eye??? Skeye & Chart, I really feel for you!!!! Yes, it sucks big time!



It's early and I've been up all night with what feels like a sand spur in my eye with a big bandage / patch over it so I can't rub or scratch it. I have a follow up apt. this a.m. to hopefully get rid of this patch and will try to post later if I can.

Love Yuze Gize and miss all of you MUCHO!!!!

Your lost Buddy>

One Eyed Pete or Cyclopete!!!

Pete,

I always miss you when you don't post.  I am sorry I didn't think to ask about you.  I don't post much here.  I love to read.  I am so worried about your eye!!!  I want to know what is going on there!  Eye stuff sorta freaks me out.

I lost all the vision in my eye in October.  It has slowly come back after nasty icky horrid solumedrol.  I would say it finally got to baseline about two weeks ago..........yay!!!!  Oh sorry.  Um ....back to you. 

Please know that I enjoy your posts.  Always know that I am looking for them.  I want to know about that eye!!!! 

 

     Hey Petey Buddy!....I hope everything is going well for you. I think all the members here have really been suffering pretty bad the last few months, so I don't think they really forgot you on purpose. It has been hard for me to keep up with you...as the last time I saw a post on you.....I was thinking you were visiting your son at a military ship yard or something. You know....something you might consider is to let one of the members know what is going on in your life, so that they can post if your not feeling up to it. I have a couple buddys here, that I talk to everyday, either by text or email. as we check on each other often. I will take you on for a daily conversation if you would like. Getting on here can be a chore at times, and Im sure depression can play a big role in ones ability to do so too. If the truth were known, I would venture to say that there are several of us depressed here. I have to admit that I don't think that I am, but I think I'm just in denile of it. Chronic Pain is tough to live with, and many of these members have lived with it for a decade or more....nothing fun about that!....and hope seems to get pretty dim too! Also, as we take those ever loving pain meds...it has a tendency to make us forget what is not in front of us at the time. Pete..you are very well thought of here...and I can see that many of the members respect and care for you....so you just have to keep telling yourself that...and may have to go back and reread some of the post..that assured your mind of it. I have to admit, it does make me feel good to hear my wife tell me that she loves me on a daily basis...cause if she dosn't I kinda get worried.....so it is natural to wonder why and if members have forgotten you. Hang in there,.....and again you can email me anytime to talk...I will do it every day for you. One othere thing that has helped me and a few others...is, some of us meet in the Chat room to visit everyonce in a while...even if it isn't chat night....I think we need it a little more often...kinda like a group of men that meet at the coffie shop every morining after they retire. Think about it, and let me know...we can coffie shop it everyday if you want.

   Your buddy, Michael 

 

Post Edited (Screaming Eagle) : 1/14/2010 7:49:18 AM (GMT-7)

Pete,
I knew your boys we're coming in January and that you'd be visiting with them and I was going to ask, How the time was with your boys, but then I got really sick with pneumonia..so I'm sorry, I'm just now starting to get better, I actually slept for 6 hours last night.
Please keep us up to date on your eye and I hope it heals good and that it's not cancer.
Prayers to you my friend...
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Lots of soft hugz.

Pete;

Hey bud! I am so glad that you checked in, cause I was wondering where you were. It's kinda like "Where's Waldo" only throw Pete on the end instead!! LOL Anyway, I am glad to see you back. Keep us posted how things are going and I hope we hear from you soon. I too have much to tell you as its been a horrible year already!!!


Huuuuuuuuuuuugssss

Scarred

My Goodness! Thanks so much for all your loving posts! Please don't think I was upset w/ anyone as it might have sounded that way this a.m. I wasn't and am not upset, I was only stating about how I used to be back when I was working long hours in horable pain every day living w/o my wife and having daily nervous break downs! Some of you who have been here a while surely remember what I'm talking about.


Yes, I had my follow up w/ the doc this a.m. at 9:00am. Actually, it wasn't the doc who did the surgery but one of his partners who was really nice. He took off the bandage/patch and said it looked great! Although my eye was blood red, the insision was hardly noticeable and I could bearly see the stitches> amazing!



The pathology report will be ready at my next apt. a week from tomorrow. I kinda wish they would call me and would have asked them to if my doc was there. Maybe I'll call next week and ask. Some of y'all surely know what it's like waiting for this kind of report> it's nerve-racking!



My pain went way down after he took off the patch which was covered in boggerage & blood. He told me not to touch or wipe it with a tissue but as soon as I got in the car, I cleaned out the inner corner that was just filled w/ yuck & stuff. What a difference!!! The pain went from a 8 to a 4!!! I'm not sure why he didn't clean it out but it sure needed cleaning!!!



Now just let me say that coming from you good friends> Jenna, Scarred, Mikeyboy, Chart, Dani, Skeye, Gretchen & Jag and thinking back over this past year and all Y'all have been through makes me feel pretty humble for making this little eyewart seem like a big deal!! You folks are my heros!!! God bless all of Y'all for taking the time to write me!



My boys left on Sunday! Joe flew back to Seattle and Pete Jr. who bought a car while here drove back to Virginia with a passenger/co-driver> Me!!! We left about 5:30am Sunday and got up there about 7:00pm tired as hell only to find all the hotels near the base full>YIKES!!! It took about an extra hour but we finally landed, jumped in bed and ordered a pizza! My eye was like a pool of blood and I know it wasn't the best of timing driving up there w/ him right before my surgery but there was good reasons. To save him mega amounts of cash, we bought the car and put it in my name so we could add him to our insurance saving him $1,500 for 6 months! Since he only had a temp plate and aplication for registration I didn't want him to have any problems getting a base pass! He had never driven that far by himself before and especially in one day, I just couldn't let him drive alone!! Poor kid, with his new car>(used) and lots of girls chasing him, he is leaving tonight for Hati!!!



He knows they are doing the right thing and is glad to go help all the suffering people there but those kids just got back from deployment and were supposed to have their ship in the yard being worked on for 6+months!!! Joe is also going out on manuvers for 2 months in the Pacific, Pete will be in Hati at least 3 months!



We had such a great time while they were here over New Years!!! Played bocci & horse shoes out back and they even talked old Dad into having a beer w/ them!!! After I kicked their butts of course! It was soooo cold that we didn't get to go fishing at all which was dissapointing but OK cause we did lots of other things together.



My Mom finally got her electric turned on after New Years which meant we all stayed in my little house together for a while. It was cozy for sure but nice. The boys went down to Palm Bch. County and stayed w/y friend jack in my other house for a couple days. I guess Jack didn't see much of them though as they hooked up w/ a couple old girlfriends and got hotel room a couple nights> DoubleYikes!!! They assured me, no babies coming yet!!!



Well Family, my eye is about to give out so I must say good night! Thanks again for being out there for me! Yuze Gize are Da Best!!!!! I promiss I will not disapear again any time soon! It was mostly because the boys were here and I was so busy w/ Mom's house and the holidays!



Hugz & Love from>

Old Red~Eye Pete!

It is nice to see you post again! I always look forward to reading what you have going on. You have a touch of humor that makes even the worst things going on seem much less unpleasant

sarrah

Pete

I am glad you are alright! And your surgery went well! But darnit anyway why didn't you tell us, the last thing I remember you posting was that you were going to wait and have the surgery after your boys left! And I believe the last post I read from you is you were going fishing with your son out in the Gulf! So when pray tell did you actually have your surgery done? Here all this time I still assumed that you were doing stuff with your sons! I know! I know! that is what I get for assuming! But I am turning this back on you my friend, because I could have at least said a prayer for you, or sent you good vibes, or waved my magical make believe wand, or did something to give you good luck through it all! I feel cheated! I did not get to wish you well or say good luck or any of that stuff to you before you went under the knife! I am glad you are back and your OK! I will concede that maybe,..... just maybe I or someone should have posted a "where is Pete?" post! But with that begrudgingly said, You my friend should have let us "your family" here know when you were going to get your surgery done! We all care allot about you Pete! And now that I have spoken my mind! I have one more thing to say! God am I glad you are OK! I sure hope that report is OK too! I worry about that one! Pete you take care of yourself now!

I do wish YOU all the Best!

White Beard

Pete

We all Love you my friend! I am just glad that your OK! So your absoved go in pease! But take good care of yourself! We all worry about You!

White Beard

     Petey Boy!.....arn't we a wonderful bunch! Glad your back and doing better!

     

Pete,
Sure hope that eye is getting better each day, sounds like you had a good time with your boys!
Hope your Mother is doing good now that her house is all set up. Rain is coming your ways from Texas, sorry.
sure is a wacky weather year. Keep us posted when you get your results from the biopsy.
Lots of soft hugz
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hugz