Shawn Highfield wrote to Dave Drum <=-
Twas pneumonia. Something I have been innoculated against (viral or bacterial) Currently I am recouping at home with anti-biotics and an oxygen concentrator. And hacking my lungs wrong-side out.
Ugh, I've had that more then once, and it doesn't get any easier.
Lungs are so scarred from it now if I even get a cold or cough that
lasts more then a couple days I need to see Doc for Antibiotics.
Dave Drum wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-
A large part of my respiratory woes comes from a 45 year 2-packs per
day cigarette habit. My croaker, several years ago, showed me a print
out of CAT scan of my lungs. It looked like someone had spilled coarse ground pepper in the page. Island of calcium scarring from the nicotine addiction.
Oddly, I'd have been better off being a "stoner" than a smoker. But,
that wouldn't have worked out either. I'm allergic to cannibis - still, that allergy got me out of the Sixties more-or-less intact.
Shawn Highfield wrote to Dave Drum <=-
A large part of my respiratory woes comes from a 45 year 2-packs per
day cigarette habit. My croaker, several years ago, showed me a print
That's a lot of tar and nicotine for sure.
out of CAT scan of my lungs. It looked like someone had spilled coarse ground pepper in the page. Island of calcium scarring from the nicotine addiction.
Wow. I smoked about 20 years, but I quit around 20 years ago.
Oddly, I'd have been better off being a "stoner" than a smoker. But,
that wouldn't have worked out either. I'm allergic to cannibis -
still, that allergy got me out of the Sixties more-or-less intact.
I wish I liked it more, maybe I wouldn't drink as much. LOL It's fully legal here in Stonada. Andrea bakes with it as a friend grows his
legal limit every year and gives it all to us in exchange for half the goodies she makes.
... You're a Redneck if motorcycle gangs are afraid of your
grandmother.
Dave Drum wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-
In retrospect I wish I had never started. Hopefully the essences of the
greedy marketroids who peddled a deadly poison as a "pleasure" will be ground under the wheels of kharma .... for eternity.
... You're a Redneck if motorcycle gangs are afraid of your
grandmother.
I stole your tagline. Bv)=
On 05-26-23 04:24, Dave Drum <=-
spoke to Shawn Highfield about Sick Call <=-
I don't know that I ever "liked" it. It was just more-or-less a
counter culture social ritual at that time
Dale Shipp wrote to Dave Drum <=-
I don't know that I ever "liked" it. It was just more-or-less a
counter culture social ritual at that time
I agree that there was considerable social pressure to smoke. I also cannot say that I liked cigarettes, but then again addiction is hard to beat. What I do recall liking was my pipes.
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