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Post by sksfordman on Aug 26, 2009 22:22:09 GMT -6
Thanks sksfordman. My name is John. I can be fat too. Got up to 270 down to 255. Trying to hit under 250 before another Sawbones visit. UB Ugly goes a long way back. He was among the first legal bow hunters in the state. He mainly deer hunted Chuck Swan and sometimes Catoosa back in the 50's and 60's. Last deer hunt we went on was in 1980 to LBL then up to Chuck Swan. If I go again I'll likely step out the back door I reckon. My free time is kinda tied up most the time but I ought to at least go below Norris and fish anyway. I used to weigh in at 444lbs, I lost down to 300 lbs, and then I got my shoulder injured in a WC factory injury. A few years later I had gotten back up to 340, and got Injured at work again, this one was the straw that broke the camels back, It was a left knee injury, that disabled me from working again. I later found out after being disable fo a year, and having increasing back, and neck pain found out I have 5 blown an herniated disc in my lower middle and neck, and I gained up to 363lbs a month ago. I asked my pasor and his wife to pray for me about my weight, and after a bout of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a couple of weeks ago, and a decreased appetite, I have lost down to 341 as of this morning. God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform!! Randy ;D
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 26, 2009 22:24:33 GMT -6
My papa Cox taught me a lot about finger picking as wellas flatpicking, by teaching me a song called Saidie Brown.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 26, 2009 23:26:01 GMT -6
I've found one thing that seems to work to loose weight. You have to fool the brain. Most persons try to loose weight by eating less food but you don't have to. If you eat less the brain then tells the body to store fat as a self preservation act. I eat like a horse but I eat things of very few calories and especially calories by fat. I also use Splenda for drinks. Basically by avoiding fats and sugars like regular soft drinks and eating all you want of things like veggies and some fruits like apples, grapes etc, it tricks the brain from going into fat storage and you don't stay hungry. If you're not hungry you aren't as tempted for the fattening things. I went from 275 down to 220 once a few years ago doing it. 220 is my manageable rock bottom weight likely closer to 230 now. I haven't seen it lower than 220 since 1980.
Subway is another good thing. If I had a choice of any fast food I pick Subway diet or no. I still eat out sometimes usually a lean steak and salad. I also go through about two water melons a week. They are great for getting rid of fluid. I have edema myself especially in the legs in what used to be my strongest part of my body. Arthritis has hit them now too. Mt Olive pickles I keep the factory doors open especially the dill section. The only bad part is to eat healthy as they say is it cost more. Oh yea a good snack is Food City Natural Light microwave popcorn. Good luck with it. I hope to see 240 by Christmas.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 26, 2009 23:35:28 GMT -6
My papa Cox taught me a lot about finger picking as wellas flatpicking, by teaching me a song called Saidie Brown. I started with just using my thumb and got pretty fast. Then worked in two more fingers. I learned one or two songs then I learned to play most of Willie Nelson's Troublemaker album. Sadie Brown sounds like the songs my dad learned out of the thirties I think. I've been ordering CD's of some of the songs for him. Some you can't find though.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 26, 2009 23:39:03 GMT -6
music soothes the savage soul It sure beats other relaxation stuff they tried to get me to do. Forget that stuff. My concentration is all of 15 seconds anymore. I can pick up the 6 and not have to think about anything or have to concentrate on it.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 27, 2009 0:17:07 GMT -6
Sadie Brown was a Jimmy (someone) I can't think of his last name. My dad, papa, and 4 of dads brother played musical instruments. My moms brothers really got my thinking musically, they had a Gospel group and I played bass guitar for them, and got to sing when they took a break, and play my guitar. My uncles could have went pro at anytime they were great vocally, but all they had was 3 guitars and a bass guitar.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 27, 2009 0:55:45 GMT -6
Jimmy Driftwood maybe? Some sites list Ramblin' Jack Elliott doing a version. Driftwood wrote a lot of songs though. I have two songs by Elliot. Detour and Wreck of Old 97. I think I got them off Amazon but last downloads I tried there were poor quality sounding like skipping records. But that could be because I'm on dial up. Downloads from Wally World do OK though.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 27, 2009 11:14:14 GMT -6
Ramblin' Jack wrote the song, but it was always Jimmie Rodgers That my Papa Cox told me about and played for me and I learned. I loved playing with him, and when he passed away in the late 80's, My dad inherited his guitar, and when my dad passed on Jan, 16, 2006, It wasn't long till my mom handed me the guitar, and told me Papa wanted me to have it. I also inherited my Dads guitar when he passed, and these guitars are not the most expensive, but they are priceless to me. I playe my dads guitar for 5+ years when I had a country/rock band in the mid 80's til around 1996. I had a great band and wwe had a great sound and a huge following in our area which mostly was in west Tn, and West Ky. My sister and I shut down the band in 1996, and went back to church where I was meant to be, The entire 11 years I had the band, I didn't go to church cause I wasn't going to be a hipocrit. I was seeing a lot of things from the stage that I shouldn't been seeing, although my band mate seen a lot more than me. So I had some repenting to do and God forgave me, and gave me a lot of songs in the following years. I'm so glad to be in service to my Lord a Savior, and always pray for a servants heart to serve Him. Randy
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Post by ibugly on Aug 27, 2009 13:24:09 GMT -6
My first wife's uncles used to play in local bands up close to Roanoke, VA. I think one of them finally moved to Nashville I'm not sure though. We went to a few gigs with them to watch and saw some strange stuff. They both are pretty good players or were 25 years ago last time I saw them. One morning after I had left for work God took her home. Within six months time I went through some things I was lucky to make it through. She had a massive heart attack at 23. She had fell and sprained her ankle and was on crutches. We suspect she threw a clot. She had a bad weight problem that surgery now could have helped. We live in a rural area and an ambulance was 15 minutes out. But a guy I met at work who was a paramedic told me years later it wouldn't have mattered if it had been in an ER.
I got through that and met someone else just by chance when I took a job transfer. She was going through a divorce from an abuser and abandonment. We were to meet at at a mall to go to the movies and she collapsed in the food court after she got there. She walked in and I carried her out and made a mad dash toward a near by hospital with a cop running in front of us. She was dieing on the way there and describing it to me. I had her two kids with us. When we got to the ER her arms were drawn to her chest no movement from there down.
She made it through but it was a 6 month hospital stay. She's what is called an incomplete quad at C-5 C-6 level. She got her arms and hands back but not her legs. We married while she was still in the hospital. That was 24 years ago. Two things likely contributed. One was an undetected case of Polio as a child that showed up in her limb measurements the other was abuse from hits to the back of the neck. It took over a year to determine that much.
I reckon my faith such as it is keeps me going. When this happened to her I had to stop running from myself. What has happened since to get us through has been by the Grace of God. Kind of started out like The Pilgrim Chapter 33 you probably know that one. Ended up with Why Me Lord.
In 94 I was forced into medical retirement. I was a maintenance mechanic and boiler operator in a health care facility. It was one of those things that took a year or two to figure out. The short of it is some sensory damage I was likely born with had progressed over time finally reached a breaking point. I lost my ability to concentrate among other things and it causes seizure activity. The onset caused me to be in places not knowing where I was, how long I was there, why I was there, etc and it was places I knew real well. That part finally stopped after I learned to head off the attacks. What didn't help was it getting misdiagnosed and the wrong medications to follow. I'm partially deaf now and one eye functional. I've always been one eye functional but knew how to work around it. The Navy missed it and the Army did later. I didn't bother to tell them.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 27, 2009 14:05:07 GMT -6
You've had a rough row to how there IB, I'm glad they finally found out, and hopefully got the treatment right. Is your wife doing alright now, or is she having troubles of her own? Randy
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Post by ibugly on Aug 27, 2009 14:55:58 GMT -6
She's doing good all things considered. She has an electric wheel chair and once I get her up is pretty well independent. She's had some close calls before but some of them were blessing in disguise for her. It made the doctors look harder and in a few cases their prognoses were changed. One was a heart condition they thought she had and had treated for 16 years. Her hearts fine.
The other blessing was when I went on disability both the kids were getting married and leaving home. I had been working mostly full time and overtime up till then. The oldest one was still living at home then kept an eye on her. My parents also live near by. Me being on disability allows me to be home all the time for her now. I get to slip out every now and then for time away. Cell phones make that possible. She went quad 24 years ago next week. Strange thing was I had just left Caretaker's house and went to meet her at the mall.
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Post by caretaker on Aug 27, 2009 16:50:52 GMT -6
yea john you have been both cursed and blessed. Your first wife was a beautiu girl. She may have had a bit of a weight problem but it did nothing to deminish her beauty. I remember her middle sister totally flipping me out by kissing me one time. I was totally freaked becouse growing up with them next door I always thought of them as kin. Didn`t know what to do or think. I just left.
Your secoud wife is a beauty also. Can`t figgure how sumptin as ugly as you got two beauty`s. musta felt sorry fer ya. Ha ha.
The best part is the love they both have for you. A man is lucky to find that once. give B. a hug for me.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 27, 2009 17:10:12 GMT -6
Caretaker Are you huging IB, or B. lol I dated a few lookers, and my wife is more beautiful than any of those every was, even though she was not a beauty queen, she has always been beautiful to me. Inner beauty is a whole lot easier to love and also to live with and grow with over the years, Then again I ain't no charming prince.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 27, 2009 17:11:49 GMT -6
Kissing you cousing is allowed in this part of the USA, in Tn, And Ky, and is expected in Arkansas. " ;DJoke"
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Post by ibugly on Aug 27, 2009 17:47:26 GMT -6
yea john you have been both cursed and blessed. Your first wife was a beautiu girl. She may have had a bit of a weight problem but it did nothing to deminish her beauty. I remember her middle sister totally flipping me out by kissing me one time. I was totally freaked becouse growing up with them next door I always thought of them as kin. Didn`t know what to do or think. I just left. Your secoud wife is a beauty also. Can`t figgure how sumptin as ugly as you got two beauty`s. musta felt sorry fer ya. Ha ha. The best part is the love they both have for you. A man is lucky to find that once. give B. a hug for me. Both of them was good to me and good for me. First one was a kid when I first met her and was grown and out of high school when I came back home from the Navy. I got to show her a lot of the country her last few months. I was driving a rig and she went on a 3 week run with me. A few weeks later I gave up driving the rig. Very glad I did that. What got me was my second wife tied into my first wife's family. caretaker didn't even know this I don't think. Her boss was my ex-mother in laws friend. She also took care of my ex-in laws next door neighbor family member in a nursing home. Caretaker you remember that truck and bass boat that used to show up at Joe's belonging to his nieces husband? I took that guys job when I transferred. B took care of Joe's mom at the nursing home. That would have taken the patience of Job LOL. To top it off she and Caretaker went to school together. If I hadn't taken the transfer after my wife died I would not have met her. She puts up with the Ugly. Rumor has it she's seen a picture of me without a beard :>}
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