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Thanks for all the kind words, and well wishes. I just walked into my home about an hour ago, and outside feeling a little shaky, and in a little pain, looks like my surgeon did a bang up job. My surgeon was J. Caruso put me on a strict diet, and a 90 day prescription of Plavix, and told me not do anything that may cause me too bleed, like chasing a grizzly, or buffalo because I could bleed out very easily while on the plavix. My only problem, after surgery is my right ear is now completely numb. I can still hear with it, but everything outside is dead to the touch. Damn little price to pay in the place of a stroke, or death. Can’t shoot any heavy recoiling rifles or get in any fist fights with a Cape buffalo for a few months. ........................................................................  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Wishing you a full & fast recovery.  | |||
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Glad your home Mack, and glad everything went well! Best Regards, Butch | |||
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Glad your back and all went well. You'll be back on the range in no time. | |||
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Great news. Looking forward to your future posts. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Great news. Thanks for the word. | |||
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Good to see you are back. Thanks for reporting./ Tom ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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Good news indeed. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Just said a prayer for you. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Glad to hear you are home and on the mend. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Fantastic news! We hope you continue to improve, and be ready for another hunt soon. | |||
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Way to go, Mac.  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Glad you made it home, Mac! You know Mike Jines and I will be glad to "keep" those "heavy recoil rifles" of yours, while you recuperate! Get well buddy! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Reminds me of that old saying "with friends like you, who needs enemies?"  Rusty, would and Mike like to volunteer to be the first ones to shoot our new invention I shoed in a thread above?  | |||
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Mac, A superficial cutaneous sensory nerve to your right ear skin area has been traumatized, eh? Hopefully some or all of that will come back. Give it a year or two to get back all you can in that little patch. Congratulations on beating the grim reaper. Whupped'im again | |||
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Happy to hear you're home and feeling well! | |||
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Great News Mac. Sorry I missed your pre op post... | |||
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Mac, I am glad to hear your surgery went well....I look forward to our next campfire chat! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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great news - now just listen to the dr and do what he says and in a short time you'll be back wrestling alligators | |||
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Thanks Roscoe, That would be nice as it's been too long! Looks like I may be headed back to the cutting room! I woke up this morning with a bag hanging around my neck! Looks like I've sprung a leak. I've got a call in to my sergeon, expecting a call back as we speak, but it being Sunday........? ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Sorry for the setback, hopefully it will be remedied quickly. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Well my surgeon just called and eased my wife's nerves some.(mine as well!) He said as long as I wasn't having a problem breathing, and from the rest of my description, he said to call his office tomorrow, so he can work me in for an evaluation. Relieved! This type situation is the reason I don't like going under the knife on a Friday, because the surgeon is out of pocket on a weekend. This guy called me right back though. ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Good luck Mac. Keep tough we're pulling for you! MSG, USA (Ret.) Armor NRA Life Memeber | |||
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Mac, I just saw this post and realize my well wishes are more than a little tardy. Wishing you the very best and praying that you have a full and quick recovery. Shawn Shawn Joyce Diizche Safari Adventures P.O. Box 1445 Lincoln, CA 95648 E-mail: shawn.joyce@diizchesafariadventures.net Cell: (916) 804-3318 Shoot Straight, Live the Dream, and Keep Turning the Pages to Your Next Adventure!™ Website- www.DiizcheSafariAdventures.com Blog- http://diizchesafari.blogspot.com/ Twitter- http://twitter.com/DiizcheSafari YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/user/shawncjoyce Facebook- http://on.fb.me/gYytdn Instagram: diizchesafari_official | |||
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These Texans just have to keep things from being too boring! When you're done messing around Mac, can you please get back to participating here on AR again. The darn engine ain't firin' on all eight cylinders without your normal per week quantity of posted words! Now cut the bologna and heal like you're supposed to! (And prayer has been sent up for you from Florida too! )D/R Hunter Correct bullet placement, combined with the required depth of bullet penetration, results in an anchored animal... | |||
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Hi Mac, just saw this post. You're looking good. As Doc says, stay well! Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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Saeed, I've turned into a recoil wuss! Mike Jines, still walks the walk! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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....................................................................  Over and out! ......................................................................  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Mac, I hope you and the boys are perceiving my humor. I just know at work when things were not perfect for a guy, we tried to come up with humorous ways to see the situation so everything did not get all serious and subsequently depressing for the guy going through the issue. One time a guy came into work and told us when he had arrived home the day before, that his wife, his kids, and all their belongings were gone; and HE was in shock. Another guy hearing this dropped to his knees in front of our sad co-worker and pleaded with him saying, "PLEASE, TELL ME HOW YOU DID IT !!! Big laughs resulted by everyone including the main guy... D/R Hunter Correct bullet placement, combined with the required depth of bullet penetration, results in an anchored animal... | |||
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Glad you're home and not dead. Hopefully, the numb ear is merely a stretched great auricular nerve. It very well my get better with time. Here's to a speedy recovery!  Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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Duckear, I finally got in touch with my Surgeon, and met up with him so he could give me a quick evaluation to confirm or deny a leak in the artery repair! It was negative, and he said it was OK for me to drive, but not lift anything heavy. So I guess it is a GO on this one. So I'll sign off on this now! Thanks for all the well wishes guys! .................................................................Good hunting ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Good on ya! I have to ask, how does it feel after having such a blockage removed or maybe it is too soon to tell? | |||
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Glad to see that things went well. Hope you have a speedy recovery and are able to share many more stories and campfires. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Great to have you back Mac! Who else would have been able to teach us on double rifles as well as yourself? Speedy recovery! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling | |||
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Snowhound, for the first few days I was still feeling the effects of the anesthetic , and the fact that they put me back on Plavix ( a strong blood thinner) that made me weak. The surgery was on Aug 2nd, and today on Aug 14 I have noticed a burst of energy. I say "BURST" but I'm in my 77th year of life, so maybe it is more like a little squirt! Still I feel better than I have in years! In any event if anyone is needing this procedure, I say get yourself a good surgeon and don't wait till you have a stroke! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Hah! So the 37 in your username is the year of your birth? You must have a birthday coming up! BTW, is this your surgeon? http://www.healthgrades.com/ph...-joseph-caruso-3jc7d | |||
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Mac Glad to hear all worked. What would the other twin pipe looneys do without you here on AR. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Mac, We would be lost with out your knowledge base. You still got about 20 good years left...good your doing well! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Thanks Lane, Here's hoping this one is the last one! ...................................................................  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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