Have you ever been in a Stephen King type situation?

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chief4db

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At 19 and 20 i was in college. Well really I was playing baseball and going to a class every now and then. I was living in the buhl mansion in Sharon pa. It was haunted. Long history. Mr. Buhl owned Sharon steel ECT ECT ECT. They brought maids in that were from Africa and they brought black magic with them. They brought in physic that the pittsburgh police use. She said good and bad there. The buhl spirits were there. Which was the good. I got a ton of stories that 2 long to post. Place got bought and totally redone. It's a bed and breakfast now. 350 a night. I paid 80 bucks a month lol. Basically rented out a bedroom and the rest of the mansion was just gutted and we just partied. Kids from all over would come over just to see. U can look the place up online if u want to see it. Looks like a medevil castle. If anyone wants more details let me know. Each of us had holy water above our doors. Crazy but fun times
 

mal

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And you can watch Porn with a Cookie in every Hand...i heard about your Talents.
Damn wouldn`t you be a great America got Talent Aspirant ??!??
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I love that avatar osnafrank. The annoyed look you have with Kermit reading over your shoulder is classic!
 

Mel217

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Think I hit a woodchuck with the lawnmower once. Accident, was mowing by the dim light of Arc sodiums, ye understand. Peed myself.

Went to the Mellow Tiger, got drunk.

A few weeks ago, they mowed a big field on our property. The neighbor said he saw lots of mice and critters running, which upset me (I love little creatures, so long as they don't come into my house.) I figured all was OK, and as I was mowing along the field I hit a mouse. I wanted to cry :/
I once got drunk and attempted to write a book, like Jack Torrance. It didn't work so well. It turned out kind of like Homers drunk letter to Marge.
 

DiO'Bolic

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Yikes! That qualifies, for sure. Glad you're still with us.
Thank you, Tery. That is very kind of you.

I can understand King’s thoughts after his accident of giving up writing. The pain, the almost complete focus on the situation and healing, and the depression that sets in is devastating to one’s creative ability. Sometime you even question your will to go on. It can take so much time until you get back to feeling ‘normal.’

I remember right before going into the operating room a doctor sat beside me and told me it was her responsibility to monitor the operation because the odds of me becoming paralyzed were fairly high. That damage was threatening to sever my spinal cord, I had nerve damage and had lost 40% mobility on my right side. She didn’t know how much would come back after the operation. I asked why am I only hearing about this now. She said the surgeon was brilliant, coming from the Mayo clinic, but wasn’t known for his bedside manner. I asked her if I would still be able to play guitar after the operation. She said probably, but not very well. I said that’s okay because I couldn’t play guitar anyway.

A six hour operation, and afterward the surgeon called my wife and was ecstatic because the operation was much more complicated and challenging than he expected, and he really enjoyed it. She later asked me why in the world would the surgeon call me and be all giddy about his challenging experience and almost nothing about my condition other than he’s apparently fine. I told her what the other doctor said with the surgeon not known for his bedside manner.

I had an almost full recovery except I lost about 50% mobility in my neck (which makes backing up in a car a pain in the butt because I have to turn my body around to look backwards) and I still have constant tingling in two of my fingers. I did have to give up skiing (which sucked because I was a part-time ski instructor some evenings and one day on the weekend, and had recently bought a house down the road from a ski resort). I also had to give up softball, give up white water canoeing, and give up water skiing (I did hold onto my 20ft 150hp V6 fish’n’ski boat for a couple of years (where it just sat on the side of the house except for the occasional trip to a lake that was limited to the electric trolling motor only, so I could fish), because it took some time before I could part with it.

It did cause a dramatic change in lifestyle which causes depression for awhile, but over time you adjust to life’s circumstances and simply move on finding new interests and rekindling old ones that you thought you had lost.