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05-01-2007, 09:09 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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Thanks everyone
First I want to say thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I am back up and moving around a little now but have to take it slow. I just finished the coursing of Keppra so hopefully my head clears up soon. I hate this light headed feeling. Actually I'm thankful that I have any feelings in my head at all.
I remember looking at the side door openning and the dog coming out and that is about it. We think the door upset the aluminum plank I was standing on and I came down like a ton of bricks. Next thing I know I am in Mass General via a chopper and fighting with a doc about a tube that they put up my nose. (this is what my wife tells me) I guess I ripped it out and they decided it was best to leave it out. Next was fighting about taking out the tube they put in another part of me........ I guess I wasn't the best patient . They told me I seized twice but the great people at MGH weren't to be put off and pulled me through. My hat is off to them.
I've got a bledsoe brace on my left knee to keep it stable as it is about the size of a volleyball and has absolutely no strength at all. I'll be starting physical therapy for that next week. Hopefully it is just damage to the quad and not the knee itself. I guess time will tell.
Again, I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers as they meant more to me than you can possibly know.
Dave
Here's what the side of my noggin looks like now. I guess it wasn't a pretty sight last Tuesday
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05-01-2007, 09:13 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Good to hear from you, Dave. Real good, made my day!
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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05-01-2007, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 690
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Take it easy Dave. Glad to see you on the mends!
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05-01-2007, 09:19 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
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Hang in there Dave. It can only get better.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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05-01-2007, 09:22 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Take it easy and recover Dave! I'm glad you're up and about 
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Domination takes full concentration..
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05-01-2007, 09:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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That must have been quite a fall MAC. Hang in there and get well. 
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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05-01-2007, 09:56 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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Glad you're on the road to recovery Dave.
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05-01-2007, 09:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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wow mac.. get well soon. the fish will be waiting for you 
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05-01-2007, 10:00 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corona Del Mar, CA
Posts: 794
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Wow... thank god your OK... So have you seen the bill for the chopper ride yet?
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05-01-2007, 10:19 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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MAC - glad you are doing better and in recovery - really glad. If there is anything we can do for you - let us know!!!!
Thanks for confirming my fear of ladders 
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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05-01-2007, 10:20 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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That is good news, here is to a speedy recovery 
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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05-01-2007, 10:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 302
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Dave,
The pic looks like a smiling Wookie.
Glad to hear you're doing well.
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Seeing how you're not fishing, sell me all your 65# Whiplash. 
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05-01-2007, 10:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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Glad to hear your doing a little better. You had everyone worried for awhile.
Is the scar an improvement 
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05-01-2007, 10:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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Take it slow Dave. Recover soon - the fish will wait.
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05-01-2007, 10:55 AM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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Glad to hear it Dave -
It may have broken your head but never your spirits!
There aren't enough good people in the world, I'm glad we didn't lose this one.
I'll be making a fresh pot of Squid stew on Wednesday - -- nice n- spicy....just the way you like it. Let me know if I should run you up a bowl.
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 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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05-01-2007, 11:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Man, they can't cut hair for squat at MGH. Glad you're on the mend, gravity hates guys like us. Heal fast.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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05-01-2007, 11:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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What everyone else has said!
Glad your OK pal
VB
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05-01-2007, 11:22 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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Get well soon mac!
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05-01-2007, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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Glad to hear your feeling a little better.. and hope recovery goes smooth and fast!
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05-01-2007, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Pacifica, California
Posts: 357
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Hey Dave,
Just to let you know the westcoast has thoughts and prays for you take care bud.
As someone that has had to deal with a head injury in his life,if you have any questions Dave feel free to contact me. You are one of the true good guys of my invisible internet friends.
PS now would be a good time to ho plugs. You know were a bunch of suckers willing to send pluggage to make someone feel better.
winch
Last edited by winchmaster; 05-01-2007 at 11:48 AM..
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Its only art if it don't catch fish!
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05-01-2007, 11:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Dave good luck in the recovery ... we'll be thinking of you and seeing you fully recovered.
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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05-01-2007, 12:47 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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How far did you fall 20'?
Nasty. You need to spend time on the water after that.
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05-01-2007, 01:05 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Holy crap Dave that looks scary. Glad you are up and moving again. Have a complete and speedy recovery.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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05-01-2007, 01:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: too far from the water
Posts: 157
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Welcome back
Been worried about you dude... Fished with Jig Man this weekend and we were talking about you.. In a manly good kinda way. 
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I might be small.... but I'm slow.
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05-01-2007, 01:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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Recover quickly Mac..It's not the fall that gets you its stopping. My son is recovering from a head injury and that verdigo and fuzzy feeling goes away slowly. Best wishes to ya.
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low & slow 37
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05-01-2007, 01:44 PM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,911
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take it eeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz dave.
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05-01-2007, 01:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Glad to hear you are the mend Dave.
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05-01-2007, 01:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
Posts: 1,031
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Nice to see your up and about Dave. Sounds like you still have a little recovery in front of you though. If you need something or I can help you in any way you have my number.
Look at the bright side, at least you finally cut your hair!!!
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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05-01-2007, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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get some rest dave
glad your capable of starting a thread....thats a good thing
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05-01-2007, 02:43 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Glad your feeling better Dave ...geez you never know .. All the time you spend in harms way and you have to get hurt at home ,, 
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