Reading from a hospital bed

[hfojvt]

Yes, I have been in a hospital since Thursday afternoon. Did anybody miss me?
Since I have ulcers I decided to read "Bleeding Kansas". I think it may be a little bit pro-Missouri, but I was struck by some of the quotes:

"At a free-state meeting in mid-November, Lane spoke for an hour and a half. It was, Henry Miles Moore wrote, 'one of the most bitter, inflammatory and personally abusive speeches I ever listened to in my life,' condemning Calhoun and others. Despite Moore's dismay, the crowd received Lane's speech enthusiastically....While disavowing violence, Lane nevertheless riddled his speech with talk of choking, hanging, putting to death, cutting throats, driving out, and shooting down like dogs."

And we think the present day hate mongers are bad.
Talking about a session in congress:

"At 2 AM, tension rose when Congressman Lawrence M. Keitt of SC protested that Galusha A. Crow, a Pennsylvania Republican, spoke from the Democratic side of the House. Grow insisted that he had the right to speak from any place on the floor he liked, and that no "ni%%er driver" could "crack his lash" at Grow. Keitt assaulted the Republican, who fought back. Other congressmen joined in until it became difficult to distinguish the combatants from those trying to restrain them. In the brawl, Congressman Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois knocked off Mississippian William Barksdale's wig. When the southerner replaced it backwards, the fight dissolved into gales of laughter."

Maybe we could use a few more bench-clearing brawls in Congress.

[shesemsmom]

1. I am sorry to find you there

I hope you get better soon. In the mean while it sounds like you have so deep reading. GET BETTER FAST!!:hug:

[caledesi]

2. Sending good karma hf....get well soon. nt

[salin]

3. hope that you heal quickly... of congressional brawls

a few years back - didn't b-1 bomber bob darnan try to deck a dem congressman?

[hfojvt]

4. Thanks for the well wishes

I am out now, so I can catch up on my web readings. It felt like a prison cell, being confined to a room, and mostly without food, with this IV line in my arm. Medical people seem to be kinda bossy so I was fighting with them quite a bit. I am pretty stubborn when it comes to being cut and jabbed with needles.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Glad to hear you're a little better now.

I was there last weekend.

That freaking IV was driving me crazy! Then, they had to give me a CT scan, and no one had told me beforehand that I needed to take my underwear off. My bra had underwire, so it was dangling off my IV and looked ridiculous!

Fortunately it was only one full day at the hospital for me.

Hope you bounce back fast!
FSC

[bigwillq]

6. Get well soon!

Hope you feel better!:hug: