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John Lear
14 hrs ·
To all of my friends:
I have not been feeling well lately. I have Edema in both legs and are swollen twice their normal size. A nurse comes every other day to change the dressings and I go twice a week to a climic to get my legs massaged. A couple of weeks ago the bridge that holds my 6 front teeth broke off making it difficult to talk. Because of the massive swelling in my legs my lungs have filled with water and my doctor is taking steps to address this issue. I have lost 90% of my hearing and have tried all over-the-counter remedies with no success. I am to see a doctor for this problem next week. The third and fourth fingers on each hand are numb making it difficult to type and I haven't been able to address this problem yet. I tore the rotator cup in my right shoulder a year ago when I fell on my bricked patio and haven't had the surgery necessary to correct this as yet. I hurt my left shoulder working in the garage a few weeks ago. With pain in both shoulders I cannot lie down and keep my feet up to reduce the swelling in my legs. I sleep in my desk chair a couple of hours at a time. About 6 months ago I developed double vision and my opthamologist gave me a prescription for eyeglasses to correct this but they don't seem to work very well. My eyes fill with crud all day long and I have to use liberal doses of Erythromycin ophthalmic ointment along with eye wash to keep them clear. I use a push cart and little electric cart to get around because my legs don't work very well.
As a result of these health problems I have not been able to attend to my Facebook page and several people have taken advantage of this and posted massive information concerning their views. While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with their views this is my page and if I feel the need to address an issue I will do it myself. Beginning today I will take care of some of these FB issues. Please don't feel offended if this affects your posts. Thank you for your support.
John
Wow, it sounds like you are really under the cosh John, I dont know if you need support with costs for medical intervention with some of the medical probelms plaquing yourself? but if you do need some funds I can send some dollars over to you John, just let me know.
Take care John, wishing you a speedy recovery.
Kind regards,
Fansongecho -
I was talking to John a few days ago and suggested what he needed was a Recliner chair. Seeker had mentioned that is what he uses. John said he had thought about it but they are too expensive. I told him you can find them at thrift stores or craigslist for around $50.00
So I posted the need on the FB post John made to ask if anyone could help him get one and deliver it
So a lady PMed me said she could paypal $200.00 if I could get it for him. (I can't my legs aren't much better :P)
I contacted Jax Norris, Johns daughter, and passed on the info. She got with the lady immediately and will make the arrangements...
Jax found one for $200.00 on Craigslist, brand new and electric
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Some other issues developed, but i can't post those details on here. bad timing i hope it didn't interfere with him getting the chair.
But dang NICE chair... I could use that :P
Re those 'other issues' :D
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John Lear
22 hrs ·
Today, May 22, is my 47th wedding anniversary with Marilee. 47 years is a long time and I have no idea how she could have put up with me that long. Maybe if you ask her she'll tell you. (mlear@learenterprises.com). Or you could just wish her Happy Anniversary.
Maybe it was the 34 major household moves we made in 47 years. She could have been attracted to packing and unpacking all of our household items as I moved from job to job, state to state, country to country. Lebanon, Cambodia, Cyprus, Thailand, Egypt to name a few.
Maybe it was the weird and dangerous flights I took her on. I was flying for the CIA in Laos and one day, on my day off, I rented a Cessna 150 from the Laos Flying Club in Vientianne and flew her up to the war zone were we did all of our work. I pointed out Long Tieng, the CIA's most secret base in Southeast Asia. Flew her over the PDJ (Plain of Jars) where all of these huge, maybe ceremonial burial jars littered the landscape. Don't believe it? I have 50 feet of Super 8 movie film to prove it.I never bothered to ask permission to make such a flight because who would I ask? The U.S. Ambassador to Laos? The CIA? The King of Laos? I wasn't sure so I just didn't bother.
Maybe it was watching rockets fly over our apartment launched between the Moslems and Christians who had been at war for 2000 years and had opened a new round of fighting in September of 1975 2 weeks after we got there. Our penthouse apartment was in Hamra, a moslem district near the green line. The green line was the boundary between the waring factions. Every night before she went to bed my 3 year old daughter Alli would ask me, "See fire Daddy, see fire?" I would hold her up to the fence around our apartment terrace and she could see the lines of fire which was burning trash. Since most government services had been curtailed there was no weekly trash pickup, so all of the trash was put on the curb and they would light it, and there it burned for months on end.
Or maybe it was her weekly trip to Frankfurt Germany, one of the places my airlne flew. I checked her out as a flight attendant so she could ride with me where I flew. Frankfurt had a huge American type grocery store on the lower level of the terminal and as we parked at gate C34 she would fly out the door, race a mile down the terminal aisles, take the escalator down 2 levels to the market and do her shopping. We lived in Heliopolis, Egypt and American food was hard to come by, like hot dogs, canned goods, and saltines.Then, because we were only at the gate 30 minutes, race back up the escalator, jog the mile of walkways back to gate C34. Would I have ever left her if she didn't quite make it back in 30 miniutes? Heck no, she had my Mixture 79 pipe tobacco and monthly Playboy magazine.
Or maybe it was the snakes who lived in our house on Soi Hutayon in Bangkok. They lived in the attic. One night we came back from a weekend in Singapore and she pulled back the bed covers to lay Allison down and out slithered a little snake. She jumped back and told me to get it. I reached for a broom but by the time I got to it the snake had disappeared. Boy was she pissed! The next day I had a trip to Dubai. My suitcase was always open on the floor next to the bed ready for my next sortie and that evening in the Phoenicia hotel in Dubai I was washing my socks in the sink. As I turned one sock inside out I found the snake. It was dead. It had drowned in the first rinse.
After each move Marilee would carefully fold and save all the boxes. Once I asked her why she did that. She said to be ready for our next move. In 1977 after we got back to Las Vegas from living in Bangkok I noticed she wasn't saving the boxes. I asked her why. She said she wasn't moving anymore. Actually we made one more move but that was only across town in 1985. We've been in that house 33 years. I continued to fly around the world for the next 15 years but Marilee styed at home to raise our 2 daughters.
There was something she didn't like about the schools in Las Vegas and if she didn't feel that one was worthy of our daughters she changed their schools. Thats why from first grade to their senior year in high school they each went to 14 different schools. When Alli turned 16 and got her drivers license I was trying to figure out how I was going to afford to buy her a car. Not to worry. She got a job as a lifeguard at Wet and Wild and was very well paid. She bought her own.
I know we both enjoyed raising our daughters and teaching them the cool things in life. By the ime they each were ten years old they could drive, navigate, camp, ride horses and and were qualified with a Colt .45 Mark IV Government model. We would take hem out to the dry lake and I would set up a course where they had to drive in a certain direction so many miles and search for a clue which contained another compass heading and mileage at the completion of which there was another clue. Shortly after we were married I qualified Marilee to handle a Colt .45 pistol but couldn't get her to keep the weapon in Condition 1 (cocked and locked). She insisted in carrying her pistol in Condition 3 (magazine inserted, no round in chamber). Her excuse: "Its too dangerous with the kids around." Until one day, at the opening of the Fashion Show Mall many years ago, she had finished shopping and took our 2 daughters and one of their friends back to the car in the back parking lot. As she opened the door, 2 young kids appeared and pointed a .22 pistol at her and demanded money. She told them to let her get her purse and put the 3 kids in the back seat of the car. She reached down and pulled out her .45 (in Condition 3) and pointed it at them and told them to beat it. They got off one shot which grazed her in her right hip (the bullet was later found in her pants pocket). The police quickly rounded the 2 up and they both went to prison for 5 years. Marilee? Ever after carried (and still carries) her .45 in Condition 1 (cocked and locked). Had the pistol been in Condiion 1 at the time of the robbery the 2 kids might not have been so lucky.
Maybe she liked it when the Las Vegas Metroplitan Police Department came to our door, handcuffed me and took me to jail. It was a mistake the Chief of LVMPD Intelligence Bureau lived to regret. He got canned over that little episode.
So maybe you can figure out why she has kept me around for 47 years. Actually 49 years because I had met her 2 years before we were married. I sure can't.
Yesterday Marilee and I had a misunderstanding and she is less than happy with me today so...beware!
John
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I knew about the problems on facebook with your account John. I saw what Zorgon was doing to fix things .
I just saw this thread today (june 5th 2018) . I think the facebook problem has been taken care of by now. I try and send you a private message on facebook every so often , i don't know if you see them or not so I will try and reach you here.
John I also have edma in my legs , my left leg is the worst . Thank God I found Kratom. I can now walk and get around the house even when the edma is bad .
It gets rid of the pain really well ,I am amazed how well it works .
Well , here's to Kratom and hopefully contacting you more often .