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Re: RIP Dad

#26 Post by littlebeast13 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:56 pm

Thanks to everyone for their kind words and dog licks...

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Re: RIP Dad

#27 Post by Ritterskoop » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:56 pm

Sending a hug.
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Re: RIP Dad

#28 Post by AlphaDummy » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:03 pm

Sorry to hear this, bud...thinking of you and your family.
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Re: RIP Dad

#29 Post by lilclyde54 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:50 pm

I am sorry to hear of your sad news lb. Losing a a parent is a tough thing to endure. Both of mine are gone and I still miss them. Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.
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#30 Post by SportsFan68 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:33 pm

LB, I'm so sorry. I remember your telling us about the lunches -- what a great guy. Sending all my good thoughts and best wishes at this difficult time ...
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#31 Post by hermillion » Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:53 pm

So very sorry to learn of your father's passing, LB. Wishing peace to all of you.
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#32 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:31 am

I'm so sorry, lb. Condolences to you and your family.

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#33 Post by earendel » Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:08 am

My condolences to you and your family.
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#34 Post by tlynn78 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 9:14 am

Beast, I'm so sorry to hear this. You were a good son.
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Re: RIP Dad

#35 Post by Rexer25 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:19 pm

My family sends their thoughts and prayers to your family.
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#36 Post by Hotseat Or Bust! » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:58 am

I am so sorry, LB! You and your family are in my thoughts. Love, Hottie. xo.

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#37 Post by clem21 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:10 pm

Sorry to read this LB. Hope you're doing okay.
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#38 Post by TheConfessor » Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:14 am

Bill, I'm sorry I just saw this news, and I want to add my belated condolences. I know your dad was a big presence in your life and I'm sure he was proud of you. He and I had something in common, if Bob Juch's post was accurate about his fondness for Golden Corral. I eat there almost every week, though I try to only eat the healthy stuff. I'm sorry to hear your family tends not to have great longevity. Please take care of yourself, physically and emotionally. We want to see you on the Bored for a LONG time!

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#39 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:41 am

So sorry for your loss, lb.
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Re: RIP Dad

#40 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:36 am

TheConfessor wrote:Bill, I'm sorry I just saw this news, and I want to add my belated condolences. I know your dad was a big presence in your life and I'm sure he was proud of you. He and I had something in common, if Bob Juch's post was accurate about his fondness for Golden Corral. I eat there almost every week, though I try to only eat the healthy stuff. I'm sorry to hear your family tends not to have great longevity. Please take care of yourself, physically and emotionally. We want to see you on the Bored for a LONG time!

Thanks Ed, and it was actually Ponderosa me and Dad ate lunch at weekly for 13 years (this wasn't the thread for a BJ correction)... and then only stopped going because they shut it down. We did often go on my other day off as well, and the places we ate at regularly changed throughout the years, but for about two years earlier this decade, we did go to Golden Corral until we decided it was just too damned expensive even with a coupon.

Smoking has wiped out my Mom's side of the family (She was the ONLY one who never smoked), and diabetes (hereditary, not the kind you just get from a piss poor diet) my Dad's side... but thanks to refraining from the former and being lucky enough (As have been my four sisters) not to be inflicted with the latter, I might make it around longer my Dad and grandparents did. Well, if Mecca doesn't kill me that is....

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Re: RIP Dad

#41 Post by ghostjmf » Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:35 am

Seriously: Not the thread to do it in but anyway: Lotsa things can trigger diabetes besides bad eating habits. It's a big unknown. Might be one of those epigenetic switches that suddenly make you vulnerable. Meaning "no-one knows what happened or how to switch it *back*". In my case, a cancer operation created a hormonal imbalance & zap I'm horrifically diabetic. For a friend, it was their thyroid cancer treatment that triggered the diabetes.

Keep getting your blood sugar levels checked.

I had to hit official old age to have all this happen & the docs say "aren't you glad it didn't happen when you were younger". It's not fun *now*.

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#42 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:53 am

ghostjmf wrote:Seriously: Not the thread to do it in but anyway: Lotsa things can trigger diabetes besides bad eating habits. It's a big unknown. Might be one of those epigenetic switches that suddenly make you vulnerable. Meaning "no-one knows what happened or how to switch it *back*". In my case, a cancer operation created a hormonal imbalance & zap I'm horrifically diabetic. For a friend, it was their thyroid cancer treatment that triggered the diabetes.

Keep getting your blood sugar levels checked.

I had to hit official old age to have all this happen & the docs say "aren't you glad it didn't happen when you were younger". It's not fun *now*.

I can't imagine it's fun at any age... but the issue in my Dad's family was they all got it young, and the Type 1 insulin injection kind. It skipped his brother, but that brother's daughter was stricken with it at age 6. No matter how well you maintain it, the cumulative effects of decades of diabetes are just horrible. At the very least, I'm grateful to have missed out on that...

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#43 Post by ghostjmf » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:38 am

Amazing things are coming down the pike, we all hope, for type 1s & 2s both.

A brain neuron transmission chemical, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), is also produced in the pancreas & can turn alpha cells, which don't produce insulin, into beta cells, that do.

I'm scared of going out & getting some though; with health supplements you are not sure you are getting what you think (there is no independent-party testing legally required). I wish I could get it on prescription.

A lot of the research should be in time to help your cousin.

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#44 Post by Bob Juch » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:22 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
TheConfessor wrote:Bill, I'm sorry I just saw this news, and I want to add my belated condolences. I know your dad was a big presence in your life and I'm sure he was proud of you. He and I had something in common, if Bob Juch's post was accurate about his fondness for Golden Corral. I eat there almost every week, though I try to only eat the healthy stuff. I'm sorry to hear your family tends not to have great longevity. Please take care of yourself, physically and emotionally. We want to see you on the Bored for a LONG time!

Thanks Ed, and it was actually Ponderosa me and Dad ate lunch at weekly for 13 years (this wasn't the thread for a BJ correction)... and then only stopped going because they shut it down. We did often go on my other day off as well, and the places we ate at regularly changed throughout the years, but for about two years earlier this decade, we did go to Golden Corral until we decided it was just too damned expensive even with a coupon.

Smoking has wiped out my Mom's side of the family (She was the ONLY one who never smoked), and diabetes (hereditary, not the kind you just get from a piss poor diet) my Dad's side... but thanks to refraining from the former and being lucky enough (As have been my four sisters) not to be inflicted with the latter, I might make it around longer my Dad and grandparents did. Well, if Mecca doesn't kill me that is....

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