Please pray for Escapay

[Flanger-Hanger]

Great story Scaps! Ya, not much has changed here at UD as you can see. I hope you get back to posting on UD regularly soon!

One question though, you liked Grease 2 after you got the fever, right?

[Wonderlicious]

Hey there Escapay! I don't know exactly what to write, because it seems that you've been through a bit of a harrowing time this past month or so. Obviously, this really sucks, especially since you've got tubes and stuff stuck in your body (obviously you can tell that I wouldn't like anybody sticking such things in me ). Obviously in the long run there's not much that I can do (Munich is a bit far away from New Jersey ), but I do wish that you get better and that problems like this don't pop up again. And don't think that you're vain for writing a note like that (firstly, it just isn't and secondly, it's worth getting out).

As for those "25 random things" on Facebook (which are really kinda useless yet addictive...a bit like Facebook itself ), nobody close enough at this moment in time has done them, so I don't ever get tagged. Oh, I can hear Celine Dion's windpipes blowing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPgrhX6rIk

[Elladorine]

Bleh, hospital stays are so not fun to deal with, but you know that from experience. Sounds scary actually, but it's a relief to know that things got figured out and that you've gotten through it ok . . . Grease 2 and all.

I imagine the writing was a good outlet for you and it made for an interesting read. I had a really bad infection throughout February myself (don't ask) and had trouble sitting up for any length of time. Luckily it wasn't bad enough to go to the hospital over (I went to urgent care for the exact same thing last year so luckily I knew what it was this time around), but it meant that I missed out on cashing in on my free birthday ticket to Disneyland, lol.

Anyway, continue to get better, the place isn't the same around here without ya.

[Dottie]

I am glad you're doing better Scaps and that you will be fine once the tubes and the fanny pack IV thingy are removed. I have to say I was worried about you. I think we all were.

[Jules]

*Sigh*

Do we have any updates on Scaps, after his last, really thorough post? I hope he's getting on fine with the tubes and all.

[Escapay]

I'm glad that you're somewhat up and about! It sucks that you have to have tubes and fanny packs and no mashed potatoes for a long time

I know, I think the mashed potatoes was the worst casualty of the whole thing. I love them to death, but after eating hospital mashed potatoes, I can't bring myself to eat the good stuff for awhile.

but you'll pull through it and will have a story to tell for years to come.

I can picture it now: "Hey, remember the time I got a fever that turned out to be a strep infection on my liver and I needed to have draining tubes in me for like a month?"

One question though, you liked Grease 2 after you got the fever, right?

Not only was it after I already had a fever, but I'm pretty sure I was feverish (like 102/103) when I was watching it. Something about having a fever makes young Michelle Pfeiffer look so much hotter than one would expect. Thankfully I dozed off during the dreadful "Turn Back the Hands of Time" song, but woke up just in time for the fakey Hawaiian luau.

Hey there Escapay! I don't know exactly what to write, because it seems that you've been through a bit of a harrowing time this past month or so.

Wondy, I'm just glad that you've posted! I haven't seen much of you (pre-break) so I'm glad to know you're still around, even if you're not in jolly olde England anymore.

Anyway, continue to get better, the place isn't the same around here without ya.

From what I've heard via e-mails and chats, the place didn't change at all. Restorations are still not accurate, Princess and the Frog is still controversial, and people are still buying DVDs, while some are being particularly vitriolic towards Blu-Ray.

I have to say I was worried about you. I think we all were.

Thanks.

Strangely enough, I really wasn't that worried about the sickness (though I probably should have been). I was more worried about the school time I missed and that my student insurance was pretty much eaten up by this (but I won't discuss the financial situation, as that's personal).

Do we have any updates on Scaps

Here's an update, Jules:

The #$^@$@#% tubes still are in me but should come out on the 30th if I'm lucky. However, I can now sleep in two positions as it doesn't hurt as much when I lean on my left side now. So, sleeping on my back or sleeping on my left side...yay. I miss sleeping on my stomach.

The IV will remain in me until after Easter. It's so much fun, especially as putting on anything with a left sleeve takes me an extra 30 seconds. And the best part of all is I've now gotten used to the noise it makes when it pumps my penicillin. I sometimes go to sleep to it, it's become that soothing.

I spent my spring break catching up on school work and watching TV with the siblings. Well, more of the latter than of the former, but I did catch up.

I'm posting on UD again, though I did seriously think about extending my break another couple weeks just for kicks.

Soupy gave me a nice new slave tunic that doesn't clash with my IV pouch. But he took away my midnight snacks for the next two weeks because I forgot to put a second coat of wax on his car.

I haven't bought a DVD since February 11, and I gave up buying DVDs for Lent, so I still don't have Pinocchio: Platinum Edition or "Doctor Who: The Key to Time": Special Edition.

albert

[CampbellzSoup]

Glad that we keep getting updates, please keep us informed Albert we hope that you feel better.

You gave up buying DVDS...but did you give up on buying Blu Rays

You can get the DVD with the BLu Ray

[xxhplinkxx]

You can get the DVD with the BLu Ray

Oh, get off it, Mike!

[SpringHeelJack]

I gave up buying DVDs for Lent

Crazy mickeys...

[Wonderlicious]

Wondy, I'm just glad that you've posted! I haven't seen much of you (pre-break) so I'm glad to know you're still around, even if you're not in jolly olde England anymore.

Even though thou shalt not mention mon nom de famille (wah-ha-ha... ), it's been my aim to get back into posting more on UD. The last part of 2007 and all of 2008 can't really be classed as my most fruitful time at UD, because there isn't that much in the way of fruit at all, so to speak. It is true that I didn't have rapid Internet access between September and January, so I couldn't really post all that much anyway, but I would like to be less of a lurker and more of a poster again, as I still love Disney and everything, and this Internet is still in my top 10 most visited.

Of course, when I return to England come September, and have a million deadlines piling up (final years of uni, don't you just love 'em? ), I might end up reverting to the posting once every three months. But who knows, I could post so much this year that I end up becoming a Platinum Edition!

[Elladorine]

Anyway, continue to get better, the place isn't the same around here without ya.

From what I've heard via e-mails and chats, the place didn't change at all. Restorations are still not accurate, Princess and the Frog is still controversial, and people are still buying DVDs, while some are being particularly vitriolic towards Blu-Ray.

Perhaps, but we're missing out on your commentaries on it all!

[Escapay]

You gave up buying DVDS...but did you give up on buying Blu Rays

No, but some of the Blu-Rays I want include DVDs, so I'd effectively be buying a DVD without realising it. And "Doctor Who" is not yet on Blu-Ray.

Plus, I kinda need a Blu-Ray player first. Care to send one down the NJ turnpike to Exit 3?

Wondy, I'm just glad that you've posted! I haven't seen much of you (pre-break) so I'm glad to know you're still around, even if you're not in jolly olde England anymore.

Even though thou shalt not mention mon nom de famille (wah-ha-ha... )

Hehe. That's what you get for reviewing for UD.

who knows, I could post so much this year that I end up becoming a Platinum Edition!

Perhaps, but we're missing out on your commentaries on it all!

Lol. For some reason I was just picturing like, a video of UD threads where each post is pictured for like 15 seconds, and there's a running audio commentary.

"Hi, this is Escapay and you're listening to my audio commentary as I read UD posts. Now this post here was made by such-and-such and I really disagree with their opinion that Aurora was a..."

(I'd add more but it's quite late and I need to sleep. Plus, everyone knows that sentence would end with "heroine" as I feel she really is just a MacGuffin in her own movie.)

albert