Did I do the right thing?

[spyderknut]

Chad,
You didn't get hurt. I think you did the right thing. Had things gone badly..... .
Watch your back.
K

[DAYWALKER]

Chad,
I just got back on line after some computer problems, & the first thing I read is your post! :eek:

Holy... F*^%&~@... $%#> :eek: :eek: :eek:


Be careful out there buddy!
& YES YOU DID THE RIGHT THING!

Hey thanks for reading and I agree with your statement although there is nothing "Holy" about it :rolleyes:

God bless you bro...coulda used some SWAT guys

[DAYWALKER]

[quote="vampyrewolf"]Chad: both of you, thats why I didn't bother with a name :p

sounds like both of you did a number on your knees, early retirement planed on it yet?


Still wearing my leather brace, still playing the waiting game.
40lbs limit at work (indefinately, might change when I finally see the 2nd specialist)... 55lbs to waist in the gym, 30lbs to shoulders is possible but pinches and burns when I bend my wrist to set it up on that shelf.

pulled something in my back at work today, hurts to breathe or bend at all... pushed for 5hrs with it before I came home.[/QUOTE]

Hey VW!

Well...IF my :spyder: design sells by the batches and batches on a long term basis, who knows...I may be able to leave ****. Although as strange as it may sound, I'd stay even if I could retire early...I'd take the SGT test and run the place like how it should be and then eat all the suspensions they can feed me for doing so!

Dude, you ARE the Terminator man...you just keep going, breaking, straining your anatomy and you're STILL going! ****...I could use a partner like you in ****!

God bless bro :cool:

[DAYWALKER]

Chad,
You didn't get hurt. I think you did the right thing. Had things gone badly..... .
Watch your back.
K

Thanks to you also Spyderknut for reading my thread. Had things gone badly, I'd have had to have used that line from BladeII when he was surrounded by the baddies and he says, "You obviously...do not know...who you are F****** WITH!!!" Then I'd have yelled to my water drinking TA Sgt to throw me a 12 gauge! :eek: :mad:

God bless ya my friend and mahalo :cool:

[vampyrewolf]

finally got to sleep last night at 2am after going to my buddy's and making use of his father...
spent about 10min cracking my back(sounded like a room full of 5yr olds with bubblewrap), and gave me 3x1500mg flexerol and 2 motrin...

took all 5 and waited for them to numb me enough to be able to lay down.

4pm yesterday I was able to touch my toes... today it's stiffened me up enough that I'm pushing to touch my knees.

[Jimd]

Early retirement....ah, yes. That would rock!!
If I could actually sell some of my artwork for money, perhaps I could begin thinking about retirement. Right now, I'm not selling any. The old line about "starving artists"...well, it's accurate.

As of now, I'm 36 years old, and our department's retirement age is 50, so I have fourteen more years to serve in the Seventh Circle of ****. Fourteen more years...I don't know if I'll make it. Most likely, a heart attack will take me out long before then, given the level of job stress.

Maybe if I finish my book one day, I can retire. I just can't help thinking, though, that the book will be about as popular as my artwork (not very), and I'm not going to set myself up for a massive let-down. It can be frustrating at times.

[Simon G]

I'll take an autographed copy! :D

360IJN,

Simon.

[DAYWALKER]

finally got to sleep last night at 2am after going to my buddy's and making use of his father...
spent about 10min cracking my back(sounded like a room full of 5yr olds with bubblewrap), and gave me 3x1500mg flexerol and 2 motrin...

took all 5 and waited for them to numb me enough to be able to lay down.

4pm yesterday I was able to touch my toes... today it's stiffened me up enough that I'm pushing to touch my knees.

**** Pat...and you're like, in your EARLY20's right? cripes man... :eek:

Well God bless ya bro :cool:

[DAYWALKER]

Early retirement....ah, yes. That would rock!!
If I could actually sell some of my artwork for money, perhaps I could begin thinking about retirement. Right now, I'm not selling any. The old line about "starving artists"...well, it's accurate.

As of now, I'm 36 years old, and our department's retirement age is 50, so I have fourteen more years to serve in the Seventh Circle of ****. Fourteen more years...I don't know if I'll make it. Most likely, a heart attack will take me out long before then, given the level of job stress.

Maybe if I finish my book one day, I can retire. I just can't help thinking, though, that the book will be about as popular as my artwork (not very), and I'm not going to set myself up for a massive let-down. It can be frustrating at times.

Hey JimD,

Are you advertising somehow the artwork you have for sale? I bet that one ya did of the airplane w/ autographs would sell well on a different site.

The heart attack thing...IIRC, it is the most common form of death in LEO's. I mean, think about it. We go from 0-200 in a blink of an eye...and that's not good. My LT, Lord rest his soul, died a few days after a fire in **** Unit. I believe that the stress caused it.
Wow, we're the same age and I gotta retire in my 60's Jim, you have survived and assisted in countless incident's and you're still around...so i do not believe that a heart attack will stop you ]drop the negative attitude[/B] towards your book and artwork. The job is negative enough as it is, don't apply it to the success of your dreams. Read my "signature" and apply it WHOLE heartedly..."Mean it" and you'll make it! TRUST me on this one :D

Take care bro, and 360IJN always...God bless,
Chad :cool:

[vampyrewolf]

Jim: got a link and price list to look at? love wildlife and aviation art...

Chad: chronologically, turned 21 in march... mentally, get along great with ppl in thier 30s-40s... physically, I've gotta be 80 some days.

[DAYWALKER]

J

Chad: chronologically, turned 21 in march... mentally, get along great with ppl in thier 30s-40s... physically, I've gotta be 80 some days.

Well VW...considering all ya been through, maybe technically you should be extinct. I mean, really. Thank God though that ya just cannot "kill" a Vampyrewolf!

Take care, and BTW, JimD did do a mean drawing of a WW fighter plane AND an animal of some kind. (Sorry, forgot what animal though :o )

God bless :cool:

[Stevie Ray]

Chad,

I haven't read the whole thread, but here's what sticks with me from your initial post:

I should have left and took the write up for abandoning my post, then fought to have it removed later other CO's said. What the LT and Cap did was blatantly wrong, my safety was jeapordized BIG time, and now they can always say, "Well, how is it that chad ran this Unit alone?" the next time we are running short of staff. *ugh*.

I don't think any job is worth risking your life for. What if ... what if ... what if ... ya know? If the "what if" had happened, this thread might not even be here. Take the writeup next time and let the union help you work the issue. Life is already prudy short ....

[Gerard Breuker]

You speak in past tense...so i assume you are out of the wonderful world of a CO?

DW,

Just for the record I have never been a CO.
When inmates could still claim disability insurance I had to visit them to interview and examine them. I was usually left alone with an inmate in a combined medical, dental and administrative section of the building which I found on more than one occasion to be empty otherwise.
Nothing ever happened but I never turned my back on anyone and always came prepared to hit first if necessary and ask questions later.
Nowadays you can't claim disability insurance while in detention anymore. The law was changed after a famous Dutch murderer was released who had collected over $100.000 at least while in detention which caused some kind of uproar.
Last year a recreational worker was killed with a chisel by a psychotic inmate in the institution I used to visit. Maybe the rules have changed since then but I don't mind not having to go there anymore anyway.

[Ray.Hood]

Man, you did the right thing. The mates must respect you and your position or they would not have behaved that well. Sometimes it takes a thing like this to really appreciate the things that you love. I know this all sounds crazy, but I have a job to do over here. Don't like it, but I have to do it.

[vampyrewolf]

Chad: May not be able to yet... gotta wonder though, what's an OD of percocete? Took 2 last night to kill the pain in my back over a 2hr period, I was good and numb for a few hours :D .

Already know that taking 6-8 asprin/tylonel are needed to have any effect, same as 4 motrin(400mg super strength).
High pain tolerance combined with drug resistance is a pain. By the time it hurts enough to need something for it, most ppl would already be in emerg crying in pain(found that out when I got a chair to the face 4yrs ago and the doc asked how I was still upright[between swelling, blood and the x-rays] when the pain should have had me on my knees or back)

edit: had to do some research... apparently the sweating & nausea are 2 signs of an OD. guess 2 in 2hrs might be a little too much in the system at once.

[DAYWALKER]

Chad,

I haven't read the whole thread, but here's what sticks with me from your initial post:

I should have left and took the write up for abandoning my post, then fought to have it removed later other CO's said. What the LT and Cap did was blatantly wrong, my safety was jeapordized BIG time, and now they can always say, "Well, how is it that chad ran this Unit alone?" the next time we are running short of staff. *ugh*.

I don't think any job is worth risking your life for. What if ... what if ... what if ... ya know? If the "what if" had happened, this thread might not even be here. Take the writeup next time and let the union help you work the issue. Life is already prudy short ....

Hey SR!
Thanks for reading as far as you did. Yeah man, I mean...I know I did the right thing but maybe just not in the right *way*...Thanks for your concern brother, and nail a 300 for me will ya

God bless :cool:

[DAYWALKER]

DW,

Just for the record I have never been a CO.
When inmates could still claim disability insurance I had to visit them to interview and examine them. I was usually left alone with an inmate in a combined medical, dental and administrative section of the building which I found on more than one occasion to be empty otherwise.
Nothing ever happened but I never turned my back on anyone and always came prepared to hit first if necessary and ask questions later.
Nowadays you can't claim disability insurance while in detention anymore. The law was changed after a famous Dutch murderer was released who had collected over $100.000 at least while in detention which caused some kind of uproar.
Last year a recreational worker was killed with a chisel by a psychotic inmate in the institution I used to visit. Maybe the rules have changed since then but I don't mind not having to go there anymore anyway.

Hallo GB,
I know what ya mean about being "left alone". I hope the rules have changed after that chisel incident! :mad: Cripes...and I am happy for you in that you no longer need to go "within the walls".
Dank je wel and nog een prettige dag!
God bless :cool:

[DAYWALKER]

Man, you did the right thing. The mates must respect you and your position or they would not have behaved that well. Sometimes it takes a thing like this to really appreciate the things that you love. I know this all sounds crazy, but I have a job to do over here. Don't like it, but I have to do it.

HEY RAY!!!
Good to hear from you again! Mahalo for your kind words also...and believe me, being a CO really makes you appreciate life in general as well as the blessing within it. I know you're in a different kind of **** brother, so I tell ya what: You hold the fort down in your **** and i will continue to do the same in mine. we'll rendezvous after all this crap is over!
Take care, and God bless you man. :cool:

[DAYWALKER]

Chad: May not be able to yet... gotta wonder though, what's an OD of percocete? Took 2 last night to kill the pain in my back over a 2hr period, I was good and numb for a few hours :D .

Already know that taking 6-8 asprin/tylonel are needed to have any effect, same as 4 motrin(400mg super strength).
High pain tolerance combined with drug resistance is a pain. By the time it hurts enough to need something for it, most ppl would already be in emerg crying in pain(found that out when I got a chair to the face 4yrs ago and the doc asked how I was still upright[between swelling, blood and the x-rays] when the pain should have had me on my knees or back)

edit: had to do some research... apparently the sweating & nausea are 2 signs of an OD. guess 2 in 2hrs might be a little too much in the system at once.

VW,
watch it with that stuff man! You're a type A as it is, ya don't need to get into that stuff CO's here call "Feel Goods". :mad: A fellow CO here took 5 of them things at once and almost friggin' died. If you OD or come close, I do know what CAN kick a Vampyrewolf's Arse, and that'd be a Daywalker! I DO mean this in the most sincere and caring way Pat, don't take it in an ego trip or any other way shape or form. Lotta guys give a $#iT about you bro...do all things in moderation brother. Man, I been worrying about my brothers in the UK, then for some weird reason, The Deacon has been on my mind a lot, NOW you just added to list of worry... :mad: :D Just be *careful* with them Percs...
God bless and take care terminator :cool:

[vampyrewolf]

I usually avoid the high dose stuff unless I'm in really good pain. Usually motrin alone will control pain, since the naproxin my doc has me on for my wrist only does inflamation. The back pain the last few days called for desperate measures. I've had my percocet and codine pills here for over a year and they're last resort meds, hate feeling useless b/c I can't move from muscles melting on me).

No need to worry about me aiming for an OD, or mixing meds and alcohol. Have enough family in the med field that I'd get reamed out really well for it.

now what do you mean about "type A as it is"? are the voices telling you stories again?