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Location: NW Washington State | And I thought the first one was frightening. That's truly scary! |
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| Willa, sorry to hear about your fall. I had a bad fall last January and still feel the effects from time to time.
Take care and get better soon!
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Location: Right now? | I'll give ya tree-fiddy for the eye
darkbar, I'm much more expensive than THAT, honey, and until this damn bruising goes away, I um, need to hide in a um, dark ... bar ... but I don't ... can't ... drink ... it makes me STOOPID.
That looks so much like an awesome nebula I saw once, captured by the Hubble
Iffy, I agree ... and I think I can see some planets, and definitely SATURN.
I wuv you, too.
I've had one of those, so I don't need to buy it, but someone will be very happy with it.
Well, thanks, TJ ... at least now I know you're not the one with the voo doo doll!
:cool: <~ yeah, to cover the two black eyes
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Count our blessings. We just learned that our daughter was in a building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake this afternoon. No word other than she was pulled from the rubble by a local and taken to the American embassy, possibly with a broken arm, plus cuts and bruises. Hope she can still come home Thursday, but so far there is no phone contact. She doesn't know about any of the friends she was with, working in an orphanage, and one of her friends' parents called and they have not heard from their daughter. I'll sit by the phone and keep watching CNN. |
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Location: Right now? | Oh, my goodness, Mark. This is absolutely horrible news; you and your daughter are most definitely in my thoughts and prayers as well as all the other people involved in such a horrible situation, including of course, her friends.
I'm putting CNN on now.
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Location: Ontario Canada | Hello Willa,
I am sorry to read about your unfortunate tumbles, I hope you will not have another ever again. It is certainly a big shock whenever the bones break. I have brittle bones (osteoporosis)
rarely found in males but I didn't eat too well as an infant and kid growing up. Doc said probably lack of milk and calcium etc. I have been getting more unsteady on my feet in recent years so I shuffle along instead of stepping out briskly as I used to do. I really look around me before I move. I fell three times last summer before I cleaned up my den/spaghetti junction as my wife calls it. Lucky me no broken hip. Your looks will be back to normal in no time. You need a little chuckle tonight Willa. Here it is.
"My face I don't mind it.
For I am behind it.
'Tis the people out there.
Who get the scare."
Regards
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Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Count our blessings. We just learned that our daughter was in a building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake this afternoon. No word other than she was pulled from the rubble by a local and taken to the American embassy, possibly with a broken arm, plus cuts and bruises. Hope she can still come home Thursday, but so far there is no phone contact. She doesn't know about any of the friends she was with, working in an orphanage, and one of her friends' parents called and they have not heard from their daughter. I'll sit by the phone and keep watching CNN. Hello Mark,
I am sorry for the anxiety you are having, I am so slow at typing that my reply to Willa was not placed earlier. Good luck and you are in my thoughts at this time.
Sincerely
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Location: Upper Left USA | +1 for Mark and what you must be going through. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Goodness Mark, blessings indeed!
Prayers on the way... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Mark, I just got an email from our church, and all of us are praying for those affected in Hatti. We have a few people over there now and we are uncertain as to their condition. Everyone, please join us in your thoughts and prayers. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Just being funny but now that it got moved over to this side it doesn't make that much sence.
They say these things come in threes.
A friend Darren, his brother died last week, he was 53.
Charley Kelly,52, a friend on the island here died yesterday of a massive heart attack.
And today Joe, from the Florida House called and said he was shutting it down. Not sure if that's the third or not......hope so. It's too bad, I had a good song for the singer songwriter next week. |
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Location: SoCal | Which are you most upset about... 2 people dying or the Florida House not being open? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Rachel had a broken arm, treated by a doctor at the embassey. Don't know which arm or how bad, but it may effect her grad school in physical therapy, which was supposed to start back up next week. I think she'll get the 87C as soon as she gets back into playing shape. Just for reference, she's depicted in Dave's OFC Calendar for sale thread, on the right side of the 2001 Collector, playing it, at the 2006 NW Gathering. Some relief for us, but her friend's parents still haven't heard anything. They have been calling their daughter's cell phone, but it just rings with no answer. Rachel didn't take a cell down there, so we still haven't heard from her, but we get occasional updates from the embassey. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Jeez Willa. I would say watch where you're walking but, ... YOU CAN'T SEE!!!
Seriously, wishing for a speedy recovery from the bumps & bruises.
Mark, hoping for the best for your family and everyone effected by this disaster. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | She called. Seven stories up when the building collapsed into a pile of rubble. She fell 7 floors, but with the help of 3 guys, she got out. She doesn't know if any of her friends survived. It's doubtful, and a miracle she made it with a couple fractures and a huge gash on her face.
Willa, it sounds like her facial wound will make yours look pretty by comparison. She's OK, so pray for her friends, their families and everyone else over there. |
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Location: Utah | Mark, I'm glad your daughter is relatively intact, and we're hoping for good news about her friends. Let us know if there's anything we can do to help anybody out. |
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Location: Tennessee | I believe in miracles, Mark. Glad you got yours. The scene down there looks pretty gruesome. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Mark, Wow, I am so glad your daughter is safe and realitively OK. Her friends will be in my "Thoughts". Here's to hoping for more good news! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Uhhhhhhhhhh...oops! Gotta stop throwing that Pippi Longstocking doll for the dog!
Just kidding!!! Hey, Willa! You can rest easy now... you've done your quota of self-inflicted disasters for the rest of your life!
Smooth sailing ahead! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Mark, that's an incredible story! Thank goodness she's ok! Thoughts and prayers are with you, her and all the others in Haiti. Sad, sad day yesterday. |
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| Mark - hang in there bro. Can't imagine what her friends' parents are going through. |
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Location: Right now? | Mark, I'm so glad she is OK and so sorry for the people injured. I pray they find her friends alive and unharmed. My 'stuff' isn't remotely comparable.
Life is so strange and so precious. As Schroeder wrote, I can't imagine what her friend's parents are going through.
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Location: Michigan | You are just spending too much time here :) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Mark, I am so thankful your daughter is ok...we have a United Methodist compound there and it sustained some damage and from the few messages we have heard from our friends there, some are unhurt but we do have a number missing...Port au Prince is devestated from their reports...Please folks, keep the Haitians and all the folks there in your thoughts and prayers... |
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| Damn, Mark, that is scary. So glad your daughter is (relatively) OK, and may all her friends be as fortunate. |
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