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(Message started by: Tony 18/6 on May 20^th, 2003, 8:25am)

Title: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Tony 18/6 on May 20^th, 2003, 8:25am

Ave.........no, Im not ten times as tough as the rest of you......I didnt mean to inply that I am....I was just relating a story.....let me tell you something....I have had Kip 10's at work and had to continue teaching....people dont come in to relive you two to three times a day for months because you tell them you have a brutal "headache".....Im sure all of us just continue on the best we can....I was a guest in a group of four and could not leave the golf course....it would not have been the right thing to do....besides, not one of the other players would have understood what I was going through....also....I have been in much worse places ( while gettin hit with a CH) and have been in much worse circumstances, as Im sure we all have....again.....I'm not any tougher than anyone.....would I have rather have been home at the time?....yes......Tony 18/6

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Elaine on May 20^th, 2003, 8:38am

I am with Ave on this one. I have preached we have to go on with life. I have fought many Kip 10 in my life and I had to stop what I was doing. Maybe a golf game is different. I got hit playing golf. My eye water so bad I couldn't see and I couldn't think enough to hold the golf club. All I could think about was how to get off the corse myself.
I worked the front office of a vets office for years had to greet people coming in. If I got hit I couldn't stay I had to excuses myself and let the Doc work the office till I was over it. I did work with shadows and a low level cluters, but to tell you the truth I didn't get hit with many low levels in my life. Most all hit level 10 to start with.
Everyone is different they say!

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Charlie on May 20^th, 2003, 9:17pm

Me too.

I used to get hit at antique shows, restaurants and while riding in a van. Fortunately, Dave was a nurse and knew what this horror was. He said he saw it all the time at the State hospital where he worked. He described it almost as well as most of us here. Amazing.

Charlie

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by cootie on May 20^th, 2003, 9:27pm

Brad got hit 'hard' alot at horse shows when we were both raceing.....he couldn't continue and had to tie up his horse and go lay in the truck about an hour or two and I'd scratch his classes for him. Not sure anyone understood back then what was goin on cuz neither of us knew what it was at that time. Plus animals sense stuff goin on so it wasn't a safe thing to continue when bein hit hard like he was and feeling as he did. CH has no boundries Pam

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by cathy on May 21^st, 2003, 2:01pm

Tony...I don't think anyone was doubting that you continued through your Kip 10 while playing golf or while teaching, my thoughts on this are that everyone has different pain tolerances...one person's kip 10 may be anothers kip 6 who knows...maybe you've been really lucky and only ever had kip 6's and cos they're the worst you've ever had they are your kip 10's, but when Wes has had a kip 10 he wouldn't have given a flying duck if the Queen of England had been on the golf course he'd have been at her feet banging his head on the ground...!

Cathy

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Margi on May 21^st, 2003, 2:23pm

I dunno.....I've seen Mike run his finger through a table saw, right back to the first knuckle and ....that HAD to hurt, ok? :o But he sloughed it off. Numerous injuries like that over the years have hardly even put a dent in his day. No big deal. This guy's pain tolerance is incredible. (I think any clusterhead could pop out a 12 pound baby and not blink an eye, actually.)
But, the times i've seen my husband hit a genuine Kip 10? No freakin way could he continue what he was doing......driving, speaking, golfing....life as we know it, grinds to a halt. Whether it's the right thing to do or not!
I was with Elaine when she got hit on that golf course, gang - and I did everything in my power to hustle her off to the parking lot. Clusterheads NEED to hibernate.

...actually, looking back, I'm wondering now if maybe my twisted sister was just a shill for our caddy (DJ) so that he could fill in for her, the lil sandbagger. DJ got a birdie. ;)

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Marc on May 21^st, 2003, 4:31pm

OK, maybe I'm just a wimp - because there is no way that I could continue doing anything remotely coherent with a Kip 10 - and I've never met a Clusterhead (yet) who can.

Marc

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by TomM on May 21^st, 2003, 4:39pm

on 05/20/03 at 08:25:47, Tony 18/6 wrote:

I have had Kip 10's at work and had to continue teaching....people dont come in to relive you two to three times a day for months because you tell them you have a brutal "headache".....

Tony--My CH's started when I was teaching HS and I can relate, although, I was **lucky** enough to get hit only at home. Funny how mine started the year I started teching HS...but wait...I still get CH's and have moved on to database administration. No correlation, dammit. :(
TomM

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by jonny on May 21^st, 2003, 4:39pm

on 05/21/03 at 16:31:12, Marc wrote:

OK, maybe I'm just a wimp - because there is no way that I could continue doing anything remotely coherent with a Kip 10 - and I've never met a Clusterhead (yet) who can.

I guess I join you Marc, the only way I could focus on anything but the pain is if someone fucked with me while in kip 10...in that case I would focus real well with pain driven anger to kill them.

I guess CH would be no defense in court, huh?

...................................jonny

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Roxy on May 21^st, 2003, 4:54pm

I totally agree with the no golf during a kip 10. During my 10's there is no 'conscious' thought.....period, much less anything that required basic motor skills. My golf game doesn't have much hand/eye coordination going on with it anyway. It could possibly help my game.

on 05/21/03 at 16:39:40, jonny wrote:

I guess CH would be no defense in court, huh?

There have been times that I was mad enough to kill someone and put this to the actual test. I'm still saving it in reserve for when I need a damn good excuse....... ;)

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by cbolony on May 21^st, 2003, 4:59pm

Here is my kip 10
Banging my right fist against the wall left hand pushing against my left eye,pacing the floor cursing everybody,
left eye blood shot,left eye lid drooping,sweat poring off me like i took a shower,starting to take off my shirt to hot to wear,go look in the mirror to see if there is something in my eye like a red hot fucking poker,see nothing must be a kip 10 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: For Ave.....re golf quest
Post by Donna on May 21^st, 2003, 5:08pm

Cathy has given the best description that I've ever seen for the difference in pain tolerance and the Kip numbers.

Kip 10's (I remember having a few during my 6 wk cycles, mostly 8 & 9's) would find me just about out of my mind and wimpering...no way in any shape to carry on a conversation.