qbawl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 6:32 pm
Foggy says:
Undoubtedly one of those things being that rowdy bunch of reprobates you let track mud all over the place on Tuesday nights.
No, she loves Fogbow people, honest. The first few years she thought I was becoming a crank. Especially since she knew Orly Taitz was insane.
Then the people here raised a lot of money at the time when I was hospitalized with a nerve disorder (Guillain-Barré) that meant we lost our business (the flower shop) with no foreseeable income and I was unable to walk - or even come down stairs in my own home - for months. The money didn't stop us from meeting with a bankruptcy attorney five times in the aftermath, and it wasn't quite enough to retire comfortably on
but it was enough to stop her panic attacks and made her take a deep breath. People cared about us. It may have saved her sanity. (I was floating on dilaudid in hospital and not a functioning partner at the time.)
So that has left a strong imprint on us both, permanently.
Sterngard Friegen led the effort. I miss him still. Come back, you.
Ol' Wifehorn and I have been through a lot of shit. Both her parents died in our home of Alzheimer's. We adopted a little girl, fell in love with her, and the birth mom took her back after milking us for thousands of dollars. Two children the same age as our boys were killed by a car in front of our flower shop, and ol' Wifehorn was in the street helping a cop direct traffic so the ambulance could get through, and looking at their broken bodies. We still had to rebuild from scratch after the nerve disorder and the loss of the flower shop. In 2014 when Obamacare came on, we were rousting hotel maids in cities as far as an hour away, looking for the low-hanging fruit and signing them up.
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But I don't think anything nicer has ever been done for us than what this community did when I was in hospital and my wife was seriously freaking out, and my kids were too young to understand. And if you weren't here and didn't pitch in, it wasn't really the money, it was the kind of people that participate in this awesome community. And - like myself - ol' Wifehorn will never forget.
And then in October 2012 she came to an in-person Meetup in Myrtle Beach and met a lot of people who she really liked, and that was it. She loves Fogbow and she asks about what's going on if'n I don't volunteer enough. Every time we have a Virtual Meetup, she asks, how many people, what did you talk about, etc.
What a long, strange trip it's been.