Status reports

[altivo]

Gary saw his doctor this morning. All the blood tests and EKGs came out normal, so he is not having heart symptoms. They took him off the nitroglycerin about 2 am because (as I predicted) it gave him a headache. They've held him at the hospital for a stress test just to double check, but he should be released in an hour or two.

Thanks to everyone who expressed concern and good wishes. I do appreciate it. If any of you have some 36 hour days you could spare, I could use a couple of those. Fortunately I don't stress out as easily as Gary's family members do.

On a totally separate topic, the report is back from the weather service on Monday's tornado. It reached a strength level of EF3, which means winds up to 125-165 mph. That's just a moderately strong twister, but enough to do plenty of damage and definitely a rarity here at this time of year.

For the curious, the full report, with damage photos and charts of the storm track and wind strengths, is online here. The photos are interesting and disturbing. There were five people injured, none very seriously, but the potential for much worse is clear in those photos. Don't ignore the warning sirens, folks. When they say take cover, they MEAN it.

Comments

[moth-wingthane.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear all is going well with Gary.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, back to "normal" whatever that is. ;p

[herefox.livejournal.com]

I'm glad things are going well, I didn't see the first post till this morning.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Whatever "normal" is, we seem to be going back in that direction.

[wolfgrowl.livejournal.com]

Good news.

I've put my family on a do not inform basis if anything ever happens to me again. Michael had enough on his plate the time I landed in the hospital.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd have delayed notifying any of Gary's family too in this case. Unfortunately his mom was sitting right there in the room and had been with him all day. Then this morning while I was tending to the animals outside, she called his sister-in-law so the panic has spread.

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Whinnyhi.

Next time I will grab all of you up on my broad back and we will fly up over the storm so you will be safe and as secure as you can be on the back of a pegasus. Trust me I will never let any of you fall. Never.

Glad it worked out ok for Gary's brother. Seems too strange to me since my bro is ten times the hunk I will ever be and he actually has the nads to raise a kid (Kaleb loved the trucks I sent him for Christmas btw). There are few people I will give even my life to... my parents, my sister and my brother-in-law. Probably even you if it comes down to it (not that it ever will).

Funny, in a way, how and when you fall in love with someone with an entirely different set of circumstances, life, family, etc... you get to be a part of them just as they become an integral part of you and then we all work things out together. Really, when push comes to shove, the more family we have, the better and the worse both at the same, exact time.

Imperator the imp

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You'd have to fly really high. Those storms top out at 10,000 feet or more. I think I'd want to be wearing a fursuit for sure. :)

Now as for hunk-ness, I find you quite sufficient as you are.

Love,
Rider

[corelog.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad to hear Gary's okay. *snugs*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thanks. *hugs back* Now if they'd just let him out of that place (still waiting for the call.)

[scruff.livejournal.com]

*thinks warm, fluffy thoughts at you both*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks, we appreciate the support. I hope you're fully recovered now from your "social engineering" incident.

[scruff.livejournal.com]

Getting there!

And I'll be keeping my whiskers crossed that your family all make speedy, full recoveries :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Good to hear Gary's doing well. *gives you both a snug*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It took them forever to release him (we got home at 5 pm) but he's fine and just needs some sleep.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*nodnods*

"Normal"

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

Your responses lead me to ask you what may be a personal question, but I'd not be myself if I didn't probe- and of course, you can choose not to answer- but without getting any more detailed than you care to, how was/is it for you living with someone as high-strung as Gary, anyhow? Was it difficult at first? How did you adjust? (and)what was the first moment you realized living with someone else caused your behavior to change?

That aside, I'm always glad to hear someone is dong better than they thought they were.

Re: "Normal"

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You probably never have seen the old George Burns and Gracie Allen television shows from the 1950s, but that's what it's like. I'm used to it the same way George was used to Gracie (who was his wife in real life.)

We aren't opposite in all ways, not by any means. But the areas in which we differ greatly probably help make us fit together and stay together so well.

I learned that living with anyone made me change my behavior probably from my own family when I was in junior high or thereabouts. Certainly I learned a lot more about it when I got in college. Dealing with football players and hockey players as roommates taught me a lot, believe me.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Gary is okay....scary stuff :/

[altivo.livejournal.com]

He's fine, I'm exhausted. They gave him a prescription for an antacid, a bill for what his insurance presumably won't cover (ouch) and sent us home.

While waiting for Walgreen's to fill his prescription, I did find a large and very cuddly plush pony to rescue, and he went home with me. Mom is a basket case, but hopefully she'll recover by tomorrow now that he's back home.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

*big wuffhugs* to you and Gary (and Mom)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*struggles not to keep all the wuffhugs for himself*

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Go Gary!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually more like "Slow down, Gary" I think.

Good Morning - I found this and thought of you and your gang

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1034417.html?style=mine>

Strange one this!

Re: Good Morning - I found this and thought of you and your gang

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's really odd. I wonder what the background story was.

[dongstyle-ltd.livejournal.com]

Slow down Gary and the rest of your family! sounds about right. Good to see he's safe and well.

Also, 165mph. Damn. That's still strong. I'm imagining what would happen if, like, a ZR-1 or an NSX hit me in full flight.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, slow down is the right advice. I doubt it will be heeded, though.

For a tornado, 150 mph winds are only modest strength. The big ones that develop out on the plains here can reach 300 mph or more, and yes, those are truly ugly. Fortunately that windforce is confined to a fairly narrow track in most cases. This tornado was only about a hundred meters across in most of the areas where it did any damage.

[kildoo-lonewolf.livejournal.com]

I am just catching up with my LJ.

I know how stressful it can be when a love one is sick and how awful it is to feel powerless to help them.

I am glad that everything seems to have come back to normal.

He is very lucky having you to love him. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

And I'm lucky to have him. Thanks for your good wishes.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry that I haven't been keeping up with your journal lately as there seems to have been a lot going on. I did glaze over it and got a basic idea of what was going on but not the details.

I'm glad that you and your mate are okay and that the tornadoes missed you. I have lost one friend already. I don't need to lose another one.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your thoughts. Everything seems to be fine now, I hope.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear about Gary :) I think I misread your last post and thought it was Gary's Brother again O.O. I shall be sending you some kitty time slowing power and good karma. You should get it in about 3 days.

Yipes that was a big storm O.O and that's moderate you say.
Another symptom of climate change having them at the "wrong" times of the year.

Summer has been very mild here in QLD much milder than previous years and its been pouring with rain O.O More than for the last 20 or so years. Winter last year was the coldest I can remember.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're getting the rain. You needed that.

Here in the US it's business as usual. The Republican candidates still deny that there's any global climate change and insist that we should not take any action because it "will cost too much money." It's utterly amazing to me just how dense and stupid people can be.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Won't it just cost more in the future then? o.O

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Sure it will. And the damage may not be repairable. But this is the kind of short-term thinking we get from business and politicians all the time. These are folks who figure "I'll be dead by then, so who cares?" or "I'll already be out of office and living somewhere else, so what?"

Meanwhile, Joe Stupid sitting at home in front of the TV figures it can't really be a problem because "they" are saying it isn't. After all, if the president isn't worried about it why should he be?

On the other hand, we have nutcases on the other side wanting to do things like outlaw all incandescent light bulbs, forgetting that the fluorescent ones, nice as they are, pose recycling and disposal problems and don't work well at all in cold environments, like my barns are right now. They won't start well, or if they do start, it takes them ten minutes or more to warm up enough so they produce usable light rather than a dim glow.

Try to get either side to actually support public underwriting of alternative energy development and you'll see them run like a mouse from ten cats.