Tinkerbelle

The good news is that you broke it rather than spraining it. You'll be up and about in no time. Bones heal fast! I sprained my ankle landing on some railroad ties hidden in the grass years ago, and it still hurts. About a year later some guy broke his leg, or ankle, I forget which, and 4 weeks later, he was doing better than I. Bones heal, ligaments and tendons don't seem to like to. That's why I say, screw the calcium! Better to have the weak point be the bone than the joints. If the bones are too strong, the joints will give! Good luck! Tinkerbelle

What is the definition of a sexual relationship? Well, "that depends on what the definition of "IS" is!" "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lawinsky!" Tinkerbelle Rehab is for quitters.

You don't have to be a dog or cat to not give a shit about anyone but yourself! I know lots of people like that too, in fact there seems to be a disproportionately high number of them in the skydiving community for some curious reason, perhaps it is just the nature of the people that tend to gravitate to our sport. Perhaps that is the answer to my question about cheating and guilt. Perhaps those are the same people who say stuff like: "Hurry up and scrape the dead guy off the runway, we're trying to jump here!" or "Is he dead yet? We're burning daylight! And yes, I have heard both of those things said at the time. The tendancy is for jumpers to just disgard and disreguard the injured and deceased. Where is your humanity, empathy, & compassion for your fellow flyers, people? This is not just my own observation. I wish jumpers could learn not to just be such fair weather friends. I challange you (everyone) to do a random, selfless act of kindness next time you are at the DZ. I always make sure to run out and get flowers, balloons, and a card for anyone who gets hurt at the DZ. Sadly enough, I am often alone with this gesture and sentiment. Tink Rehab is for quitters.

Hey Drunk Monkey, Did you know you have a fellow Rodreguez Brother who is a Lemur? In addition to his countless other skydiving accomplishments and affiliations, Lenny The Leaping Lemur is a proud member of the illustrious Rodriguez Brothers! Lenny The Leaping Lemur was initiated as "THE WHOLE ENCILADA RODRIGUEZ" at the WFFConvention in 2003 by his sponsor, Borrito Rodriguez! There was quite a ceremony complete with a tequilla belly shot on Lenny's little pooch belly. He was even holding the lime and salt! You should have seen his little striped tail wagging as Borrito bit the lime from under his chin! Lenny was thrilled! And yes, he did his initiation jump with a whole gang of Rodriguez Brothers, all decked out! Lenny was even wearing his little red sombraro. Somewhere there is some pretty cool video of the whole shebang, shebang, oh oh shemove shemove, wish I knew where. I think Borrito has it. Lenny loves to do his "La Cockaroacha" song and dance too for everyone he meets! Tinkerbelle P.S. Does anyone know how to get a hold of Borrito Rodriguez? Don't the Rodriguez Brothers have a website? Could someone tell me how to reach the main head hancho pancho in charge of membership details? Lenny wants a couple patches I have seen and any other paraphenalia they might have. Rehab is for quitters.

It depends on the size and shape of the tool you are working with. If it's too big, some of those things hurt! Rehab is for quitters.

I have a really funny video clip of an old lady doing a tandem during which her dentures fly out! They show that part twice in slow motion and her response trying to catch them as they fly up! I will try to upload it to this site, if I can't, does anyone know how to do that? It's in an email someone sent me. If anyone wants to see it tell me, and I will forward the email to you. annbrolly@earthlink.net Tinkerbelle Rehab is for quitters.

For the 2 women who had sex with a friend's husband or friend..... FOR SHAME! I am appauled! I hope you never do that again, that's just wrong! Why did you do it? That is probably one of the worst things you could ever do, second only to perhaps murder! Did you ever hear of the Golden Rule? How would you like it if someone did that to you? NO! BAD! WRONG! BAD PUSSY! Rehab is for quitters.

10 QUESTION for those who CHEAT: 1) Why cheat? 2) Did you feel guilty after cheating? 3) Did you tell your SO later? Did you do it again? 4) Did you love the one cheated with, or just for sex variety? 5) Did it change the sex with SO? Was the sex (better than, worse than, same as) with SO after cheating? 6) Did your feelings change toward your SO after cheating? (increase, decreade, stay same)? 7) Would you except your Significant Other to be faithful even if you cheat or have cheated? 8) Would you feel if the SO cheated even if you did? Would it be OK 'cause you did it? 9) When you cheated, were you really madly in love or just loved the person? 10) Were you in love ( > < or =) your SO's feeling toward you? Rehab is for quitters.

Hey, I'll bet he knows my buddy and most awesome skydiver, Lenny The leaping Lemur, who has almost 200 jumps logged, is a member of the Rodriguez Brothers, alias "The Whole Encilada", a Muff Brother, a Friek Brother, a Flying Hellfish, and illustrious member of Team Funnel, and Team Flail. Lenny also has a National gold medal which he earned on Roger Nelson's team STL, "Share The Love". He has also been on the cover of the Parachutist magazine doing a 3-D dive at DeLand, as well as having appeared in several pictures within. And there is even a picture of him doing a 3-D dive on the wall in the Perfect Spot in DeLand. Yup, Lenny is quite the skydiving dude! Here's to my buddy Lenny, and to all his fellow lemurs! May they live long and prosper! You know they are quickly becoming extinct, overrun my the natives tearing down their jungle habitat. They only exist in the wild in small groups on the island of Madegascar! Rehab is for quitters.

Get him a book by Izac Azamov, I am not sure of the spelling. He was a Biochemist turned Science Fiction writer, so all of his books are full of plausable sci fi and sound science. He'll learn lots of stuff in any of those books for sure. I read one during my college years called "The Left Hand of the Electron" I think. Being a Biochemist myself, I am into good sci fi. I hate all the stuff with slimy creatures crawling in and out through bodies that comprises so much sci fi. That stuff is so unimaginative. Izac's stuff is more thought provoking. I also read a couple great books in a series associated with a computer game called Myst. Those were written by the creators of the game. Tinkerbelle

Two peanuts were walking down the road together,... One was a salted! Did you hear the one about the blond cayote caught in a trap? She chewed off 3 of her legs, and still couldn't get free! Sorry, no roll on the floor ones, I knew some, but can't remember the first part. This is an excellent suggestion though. I would love to hear a really good joke or something to make me laugh. Laughter is the best medicine! The only guys I have ever really fallen in love with were ones who could make me laugh! Unfortunately I let them both go to pursue my education, and now they both have families and kids, oh well. Let that be a lesson for all you guys out there, there is nothing more important to a girl as far as attraction goes than making her laugh, in my opinion.... that, and a nice cologne! Tinkerbelle Rehab is for quitters.

Hi There, There is another similar expression for your repetoir: "Stop the Earth, I want to get off!" And yeah, you're right, it's not so fun crawling around on the Earth with the rest of the animals. I too prefer to be either under water or in the air, as far away from gravity as can be! Of course sometimes I have to remind myself of that song "Just hold on for one more day, and things will go your way!" Luv-n-stuff Tinkerbelle P.S. brownish green female sheep Carl Daugherty

That's right! He told me about that. I had forgotten. But he did manage to get away unscathed for years with a set up that would snap in two the average mortal! Hope he is doing better. Tink

look into the artificial "Pro Disc" that I have been promoting before you ever consider a fusion. The outcome and future after the surgery sounds a lot more promising. Don't get scared by any surgeon into just doing his procedure without looking around at the possibilities and outcomes and thoroughly researching the medic and his record, his history, and success rate. I made that mistake and have regretted it for 4 years. Surgery is never conservative, no matter what anyone says, and you will never be the same afterwards. Be sure it will at least improve the problem without any detrimental affects that may be far worse than the problem itself, as mine were! There is also a guy named Jeffy Saal associated with the SOAR clinic in RedWood City, CA. affiliated to Stanford University Hospital, in Palo Alto, CA. He has a novel technique to resorb discs, provided no previous surgery has been performed. He works with Dr. Dillingham, a top orthopod who worked on the SF 49ers Football team for years. Good Luck to her. That sounds scary. Just let her know, she is not alone! There are others out there with similar problems all seeking some solution. Tink Rehab is for quitters.

Well I did give some good references, all of whom are Professors of Neurology and Orthopedics. Perhaps you could chesk them out Good Luck! Did you sustain any permanent damage or herneation? Rehab is for quitters.

Say there Green light, I notice you registered on my B-day, March 29th. Probably the most memorable thing that happened on my B-day. Also, Carl Daugherty will be having his B-day and a party at DeLand sometime around his B-day the 15th of April. Happy B-day to Annie & Carl, both aries, oohhh! Tink Rehab is for quitters.

Sorry, I posted this again... didn't see your post, but heck, Joe deserves to be mentioned more than once! I loved that guy so dearly! He was one of the sweetest, kindest, gentlest guys at DeLand, or anywhere for that matter. He always had a smile on his face, expect when the manifest didn't work very smoothly, and always called everyone by name. He was always sure to have beer for everyone, always a variety for different preferences in the cooler in his trunk for after jumping. DeLand will definitely not be the same without him! It will be like the sun is missing for a long time! God loves you Joe, as we all do! Love you now and forever, Annie Brolly, AKA Tinkerbelle Rehab is for quitters.

Hi There bbarnhouse, I can not go to the boggie, but please do give Mikey McGowan a big hug and a kiss for me. I love that man! He will always be one of the nearest, dearest, closest people to my heart! Also, please give Katie and SAM the dogs big hugs for me too, but watch your fingers, that SAM doesn't snap them off, you know how tempermental he is. Has he gotten any better recently? is mostly human though. Once I was walking with her outside a clothing store while Mikey was in buying shorts, and some security guard told me I had to put my dog on a leash. I was horrified, and replied, "Why Katie is not a dog, she just looks like one, you obviously don't know Katie!" Thanks! Luv-n-stuff Tinkerbelle Rehab is for quitters.

So tell us, Skyrad, Since you seem to be in argument to everything I say, let us hear what exactly is your neck injury, and how did it happen? I am quite the expert specialist on the subject, having thoroughly examined the issue, and thoroughly researches all the potential solutions, and have in fact tried most of them in the past 4 years, desperate for a solution myself, so I can return to the air in full working order, I would love to advise you in any way I can. Good Luck to you! Neck injuries suck! I feel for you! As our illustrious ex-President used to like to say, "I feel your pain!" Tinkerbelle

No, I am not uninformed in the least! Having had a neck injury for the past 4 years, I have thoroughly examined every aspect of what happened to my body, and how it could have been avoided. Granted no one is immuned to the potential of a neck injury from hard openings, but it is the case that if you are a small person with a tiny neck, and pack on 12 pounds of lead under the backpad of your reserve, you are going to have more stress upon your neck than if you have an opening with proportional weight to neck strength and mass. I have also wondered, but am not sure that having had a larger canopy, I may have increased the force of opening on my neck than if I had a smaller parachute. This is just speculative. If anyone has a better argument about this I would love to consider it. The question is: Is there more force of opening on a small person with a larger parachute than a larger person with a smaller parachute, that will continue to pull down on the parachute as it opens, rather than just being a tiny booble on the bottom of a big parachute. I do know that landing with 12 ponds of lead is far more impactful than landing without lead. I suspect that also translates to the opening shock. Also, the place I had my weights, and the fact that I had an inflexible lead plate of shot fixed in a plastic matrix with a cardboard perimeter affixed to the back of my reserve, the top of which was just at the base of my neck, did in fact prevent my upper back from absorbing some of the opening shock, which instead all translated into my neck, which was just to delicate to sustain such an impact. I also know that Mikey McGowan who jumps with about 20 pounds on his head of camera gear ontop of a motorcycle type helmet, who also jumps a relatively small canopy compared to his size, has never had neck problems. But he is a stout fellow and weight lifts all day long, so his neck is about as big around as my thighs! Tink

Well everyone is entitled to their opinion. I went to Med School at UCSF 'till I got disgusted with all the rhote memorization, and all the stupid people in my class who were not interested in learning the material as much as they were in just passing the tests. I got my graduate degree in Physical Chemistry, so I was more into the whys than just the whats. In Med School there was too much material to delve into the whys. I screwed up by being scared into having an urgent surgery performed on my neck by an old guy who did a technique that was 20 years old, that most do not even do any more because of the advent of better, less invasive approaches with far better outcomes. He even told me he had been performing the same procedure for 20 years! I later found out he was at risk of losing his job being replaced by more modern medics with newer approaches. I was just scared into a surgery to secure his job at the hospital! I have since interviewed many surgeons discussing what to do to fix the problem in my neck. It is just my observation, that the older guys, say around 60, who are still performing old procedures, while better newer approaches are out there, are just too stuck in their ways to be as dynamic and flexible as the field itself. My best friend from college and med school continued on and is now one of the top surgeons at his hospital. That is just something he has observed as well in his colleagues. I am interested in having an artificial disc put into my neck, but if you ask most surgeons about it, they either haven't heard of it or don't even know that it is being done with any success. Perhaps you have a better, more uniform medical system over there. I had breathing problems associated with my neck problems and was told I had primary pulmonary hypertension by some Respiratory specialist. He was ready to send my off to have a heart/lung transplant, but after reading countless journal articles about it, I decided that was not a good idea. I tried to discuss everything I had read with the Respiratory dude, to which he just replied, I haven't heard of any of that, where did you learn all of that? I said, "I read all the journal articles I could find on the subject." To that he responded, "How admirable. I can't even get myself to read all of my journal articles, and that is my job!" I left his office and never returned. It is true that all the youngsters are taught by the old dudes, which sadly often leads to the perpetuation of old info. There is a huge divide between what is possible, what can be done, what is known to be available at research facilities, and what is actually performed. It is sad that there is not more consensus and uniformity in the medical field, and that not everyone is operating on the same, most up to date page, quite literally. If you go to a guy who specializes in blue door knobs, and has been selling the same blue door knobs for 20 years, he is not about to tell you about the new green door knobs out there that you can get from someone else down the road, for that would be to say that his blue door knobs were insufficient or inadequate, which would be to say that he was not performing up to par, which would be to admit he was not the best medic to go to. Too many medics get too narrow minded and miopic in their chosen specialty, and are not willing to keep up with more modern advances. It is often the case that a blue door knob salesman either doesn't know about the new green door knobs, or since that is not what he has chosen for his one trick he has been doing for 20 years, he is probably going to try to talk you into bying his blue door knob rather than refer you to a green door knob salesman, for that would in effect be saying his approach was not up to date. (redundant) Few surgeons alter their approaches to keep up with medical advances. I went to a neurosurgeon at Stanford who wanted to fuse my neck. I said no, that I was interested in either an arthroscopic approach to remove the herneations, or some other alternative. My SO had that performed, and while after my surgery I have been in far worse shape than before, Carl had a more modern approach that was not as invasive as mine, and the surgeon actually removed the herneations. He was up skydiving 2 weeks later, was immediately relieved of his pain, and has not had a single problem since. I asked the guy at Stanford to refer me somewhere else to someone who does arthroscopic procedures on the neck or is looking into the possibility of artificial discs, and he just said "no", he either didn't know of anyone, or just refused to refer me anywhere else. I have encountered that same response from many medics. I have since seen about 30 surgeons who have all agreed I need a neck fusion at 2 levels. Thankfully I have read up on fusions and have refused to have that done. I am thankful I did, because I have since found several groups of surgeons who's mantra is "refuse to fuse". They say that these new artificial discs will make fusions a thing of the past, and consequently will put a lot of people out of business, and that as a result the biggest problem with the artificial disc will be keeping it a secret. Is that sad or what? Imagine the poor people who get fusions and lose their mobility and have an increase in chronic pain for the rest of their lives, and will have to have further fusions within 3-4 years as the adjacent discs degenerate from the stress put upon them being adjacent to an inflexible fusion. Had they just gone to some other surgeon who knew of the artificial discs and specialized in that novel advance, they would have been able to restore their mobility, and have their pain eleviated. The people who have had atrificial discs say after years of pain, they have a new lease on life. I suspect however that while the option of having an artificial disc put in instead of a debilitating cervical fusion, still years from now, while some are getting those artificial discs, yet others will still be getting fusions. It would be great if you knew that where ever you went with a medical issue you would always hear the most up to date info, but that is just not the case. You have to be your own medic and do your own research, so you don't get stuck with some archaic procedure done, which could have been better solved with a more modern approach. Sorry for writing a book, but I feel very strongly about this issue having already had my life destroyed for the past 4 years by having been scared into having an archaic procedure performed by an older surgeon. For anyone out there thinking about having a fusion, DON'T! "REFUSE TO FUSE!" Look into the artificial Pro Disc. It is a fabulous alternative, that I suspect will not be widely performed for a long time, but there is a guy at UCLA who specializes in doing that procedure. He says it is a 10 minute procedure, 8 simple steps, no screws or plates! He even says it will soon be an outpatient procedure, and people will be able to return to full activity within a couple weeks. As it is he is putting lots of these artificial discs into the LAPD. They are standing in line for them, since after having a fusion, they are not able to return to the field, and instead get stuck behind a desk for the rest of their carreers, while those with the new artificial "Pro Disc" can return to full active duty within a couple weeks. References: Rick DeLamarter, MD., UCLA, Associate Clinical Professor, Orthopedic Surgery David W. Newell, MD., University of Washington, Seattle, Professor of Neurosurgery Jens R. Chapman, MD., Professor or Orthopedic & Neurological Surgery Tink

Yeah to the complete elimination of the virus..., The regime is Pegelated Interferon and Riboviron. It has tremendous positive results. It took a couple of months of heavy treatment with that regime, but my friend with a severe case of Hep C and a bad liver from alcohol and drug abuse was completely cured! And for all you sceptics out there, no, it was not a false negative. He is completely virus free, for real! They said he would be severely depressed during the treatment for some biochemical reason, and even screened him for depression ahead of time, but he did not suffer much at all. He said it all went fine, and wasn't that difficult in the least bit! If anyone wants to talk to my friend he said he would be glad to talk to anyone to relate his experience. Just PM me, and I will give you his name and email or phone number, as I think it would be improper to give that out publically. Loads of luck and support to anyone out there with this unique condition. Tink

Cool, how did you do that? R U Magic or what? Tink Say Hi to Bill 4 me, Annie Brolly and Carl Daugherty Rehab is for quitters.

Well then since you know it, howzabout telling me Ottley's #, you can PM me. I want to check up on him! Tink Rehab is for quitters.

For all those with neck injuries, my PTist gave me a good nerve rest position that really takes the pressure off of the nerves running from your neck down your arms: for the right side, put your right hand on your left shoulder, then hold the right elbow up with the left hand at about a 45 degree to 90 degree angle to your body. Then press in on your right elbow toward your shoulder, with the left hand, thus relieving the pressure on the nerve pulling from the neck down the arm. Repeat on the other side. Often with a neck injury, nerve injury, or pressure on the nerve, it does not do well with normal stretching which it should do about 1 to 2 inches without a problem, and instead flares up with any tension what so ever. This nerve rest exercise takes the pressure off the nerve radiating from the neck down the arm. Good Luck to all you neck injury people. I know how it feels, it sucks! See my list of references for artificial discs in lieu of fusion. Even for fusion people, they are often advised these days to have artificial discs, the "Pro-Disc" specifically to be put both above and below the fusion to stop the degredation of adjacent discs, like a snag in material that just keeps on snagging down the line, as is an inevitability with any fusion. Tink Rehab is for quitters.