I was on my way to a job had to stop and get gas, out the Connor of my eye I see a man who looked bad. He looked like he needed some food and something to drink. I tell Joe say nothing to me, just do what I say! We got a big bottle of Gatorade and some food. After getting gas we drove a block, I stop the van and get out to give him this. To me he still looked drunk, but no matter he needs some food and drink. He looks at me with a dumb look or drunk look and walks away. I see him cross to the gas station and puts the food and drink in the trash!!!!!!!!! I became ACRIMONIOUS ! at what I saw, and to think how hard I work. . . .I mean how hard Joe works. So I pull back to the Gas Station and retrieved the drink and food. There was two men who saw this as well, and saw me get it out of the trash. They made a comment on the deal, and I explained what just took place and they too was shocked at what they saw.

The Osage orange (sometimes hyphenated) or Osage apple or simply Osage (Maclura pomifera) is an ornamental plant in the mulberry family Moraceae. It is also locally known as mock orange, “wild orange“, hedge-apple, horse-apple, hedge ball, bois d’arc, bodark (mainly in Oklahoma and Texas), bodart (in northwest Louisiana), bodock (mainly in Tennessee and Alabama), and bow wood. “Osage” derives from the Native American people inhabiting the valley of the river of the same name in Missouri. Slang terms for its inedible fruit include monkey brain, monkey ball, monkey orange, and brain fruit, due to its brain-like appearance.

The species is dioeceous, with male and female flowers on different plants. It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8-15 m tall. The fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in diameter, and it is filled with a sticky white latex sap. In fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor similar to that of oranges.^[1]

Maclura is closely related to the genus Cudrania, and hybrids between the two genera have been produced. In fact, some botanists recognize a more broadly defined Maclura that includes species previously included in Cudrania and other genera of Moraceae.

Recent research suggests that elemol, one of the major components of oil extracted from fruit of Osage orange, shows promise as a mosquito repellent with similar activity to DEET in contact and residual repellency.^[2]

   I pulled this root ball out of a sewer  from the roof top. No clean outs and did not want to pull a toilet. We re-piped this house about 2 months ago, we ran a ton of water checking things. When the tenants moved in paper was used and stopped up on the roots. . . .Now a good shot of www.rootx.comwould be the thingto use here. I’ve used rootx for  years and it does what it says!!  I save a lot of sewers by using rootx, most plumbers will sell a sewer, I care about my people, if I can save them money they become lifers with me.

                       I keep a case on hand the 4lb jar. . .I like to nuke the line!!!!!!!!!!

I have a few Deer Heads with some good Antlers on them. I have made a few pens out of them, and I must say they turned out nice. . .I”m getting better! These Antler pens are going only to family. My friend Brian has  giving me the Antler to make pens with.

                   I’ve made hundreds of pens of all kinds and never sold a one. . .well I sold Opie’s to a fellow who knew they had flaws in them. . . but still nice looking pens. You had to look hard to find the imperfections but I knew.

                  I have a lot of people that want to buy pens from me, I think it’s time? I think I need to go full speed ahead! Bob has the Cigar Pen, and John has the slim line pen. The next picture is the Antler’s they came from, and if I understand this right they were present when this Deer was harvested from Colorado, and many years later they got a pen made from this.   I need time to set up to go ahead with this!!

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsassemblya.htm Opie’s first car has been found and in great shape! Police have arrested 50 year old man from the mid west and are holding him with out bond. He was found on a goat farm hiding among the older goats! His red goat Hair and shifty looks got him busted! After a small chase ensued the old goat him self gave up with out anymore trouble.

                        It was reported that a handy-cap man with Polio caught him in a flat out run! He was Hailed as a Hero!! The handy-cap man’s name is being with held due to his good looks.

                      We spoke with Opie in a exclusive interview about his ordeal. He has sense sold his other cars. I asked him why did he sell his other cars? His words Quote: Dan: 7:9  You will need a bible to look this one up.

         

 I was told that this was my first gun. . . .well could be? I’ve hit my head four time now and few that know me, know that not  but a few years ago for days I could not remember things, for a few days. Anyway I get this picture of a old gun that Opie sent me. My first question is how old is this gun. . . .and what are is he trying to saying?

                           I did a lot of work today. . no, I did not run a call, I worked in my back yard all day. Joe had the pond clean and Loki and Katie and my buddy Pete come over with his dog. He just got her today and what a fine ADA Dog she  is going to make. So to say the least, they all three was in my pond. I had the water coming out of a Lava rock and got to thinking? I said self!! why not make it come out of a live tree? And I did! The water hitting the pond is louder and I think cooler. You know I could make a paddle wheel and run the pump water over that and turn the wheel to make my pond lights come on. . . .now that’s  not  a bad idea?

                  

Elizabeth Kenny

 

 

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Elizabeth Kenny (1950)

Elizabeth Kenny (20 September 1880 - 30 November 1952) was an Australian pioneering physical therapist.

Contents [hide] 1 Youth 2 Work 3 Legacy 4 Famous Patients 5 Bibliography 6 References

[edit] Youth

She was born at Kelly’s Gully, a hamlet a few kilometers west of the village of Warialda, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Her mother, Mary Moore, was the granddaughter of James Moore, who was transported to Australia with his wife in 1828 from the parish of Leck near Letterkenny in Donegal for stealing a horse. After he was given a ticket of leave in 1841, his family joined him in New South Wales. Kenny’s father, Michael Kenny, who immigrated to Australia in 1862, was from the Kilkenny region of Ireland. After Kenny’s parents were married in 1872 they moved to several locations in NSW, including Guyra near Mary Moore’s family, before settling down in the village of Nobby on the Darling Downs in Queensland near Toowoomba. Elizabeth was one of eight children.

Eliza, as her family called her, was home schooled by her mother before attending schools in NSW, and finally Nobby. Some time during her 14th year she fell from a horse and broke her wrist. Her father took her to Dr. Aeneas McDonnell in Toowoomba where she was cared for during her convalescence. While there, she studied McDonnell’s anatomy books and model skeleton. That began a life long association with McDonnell, who became her mentor and advisor. She then became interested in how the muscles worked. Instead of using a model skeleton, as they were only available for medical students, she made her own. In 1907 she returned to Guyra to live with a cousin. While there she may have received some basic nursing training from a local midwife, and the local physician. She also brokered agricultural sales between Guyra farmers and markets to the north in Brisbane. Her faith was reputed to be Methodist.

[edit] Work

In 1911 Kenny returned to Nobby and began working as an unofficial Bush Nurse. Soon, using the money she earned by brokering potatoes, she opened a cottage hospital in Clifton, a village a few miles from Nobby, where she treated her first cases of polio.

That episode was romanticized in Martha Ostenso’s biography of Kenny, And they Shall Walk, and the 1946 movie Sister Kenny starring Rosalind Russell. Actually, there was an outbreak of what was thought to be Infantile Paralysis on the Darling Downs just before World War I, and cases probably came to Kenny’s cottage hospital in Clifton. After she followed the advice of a “Lodge Doctor” assigned to their area she called McDonnell for assurance. He wired back, “…treat them according to the symptoms as they present themselves.” Sensing that their muscles were very tight, she did what the Lodge doctor advised and what mothers around the world did, applied hot compress to their legs made from woolen blankets. Kenny wrote in her autobiography that a little girl woke up very much relieved and said, “Please, I want them rags that well my legs.” Several children recovered with no serious aftereffects. Many years passed before Kenny treated anyone else who might have had polio.

When World War I began, Kenny volunteered to serve as a nurse. She was not officially qualified, but as nurses were badly needed she was accepted and assigned to “Dark Ships”, transports that ran with all lights off between Australia and England carrying war goods and soldiers one way and wounded soldiers and trade goods on the return voyage. Elizabeth Kenny served on these dangerous missions throughout the war, making 16 round trips plus one around the world via the Panama Canal. In 1917 she earned the title of Sister, which in the Australian Army Nurse Corps is the equivalent of a First Lieutenant. She used that title for the rest of her life. Some people faulted her for that, because in the British Commonwealth it is reserved for qualified nurses, but Kenny was officially promoted to that rank during her Wartime service. During the final months of the war she served for a few weeks as a matron in a soldier’s hospital near Brisbane, but was soon honorably discharged with a pension. Even though exhausted by her war service she supervised a temporary hospital in Nobby which was set up to care for victims of the 1919 influenza epidemic.

After the epidemic subsided she traveled to Guyra to recuperate, without success, so she returned to Europe to visit doctors there. After her return to Nobby, she was called to Guyra by one of her girlhood friends to care for her daughter who was disabled with Cerebral Diplegia. Kenny’s seven years of rehabilitative work with that child, plus her experience with sick and wounded men during WW I was the foundation for her later work in polio treatment and rehabilitation.

Instead of settling down at home to what was most expected, spinsterhood dedicated to caring for her mother, Kenny continued to work as a nurse from her mother’s home. She was often taken to her patients in the side-car-motorcycle or automobile of a family friend. When his daughter Sylvia was injured by falling into the path of a horse-drawn plow he called Kenny for help. She improvised a stretcher out of a cupboard door, fastened Sylvia to it and accompanied her the 26 miles to Dr. McDonnel’s Toowoomba office. Sylvia recovered, mostly due to Kenny’s careful attention during that transport. Kenny improved the stretcher for use by the local Ambulance services, and marketed it as the “Sylvie Stretcher”, in Australia, Europe and America. She gave the profits to the Australian Country Women’s Association who administered the sales and manufacture.

During her sales journeys she met a family who, in 1929, arranged for her to come to their station west of Townsville to care for their niece, Maude, who had been disabled with polio. After 18 months under Kenny’s care Maude was able to walk, return to Townsville, marry and begin a family. The newspapers in Townsville took up the story, calling it a cure. In 1933 several local people helped Kenny set up a basic polio treatment facility under canopies behind the Queens Hotel in Townsville. In a few months, after more success with local children, she was able to move into the bottom floor of the hotel. The 1934 Queensland health department evaluation of her work led to the establishment of Kenny clinics in several cities in Australia. Her success, however, was not without controversy, as many doctors, and the Australian Massage Association questioned her work and success.

It was during these years that Kenny developed her clinical method and gained recognition in Australia. She was adamantly opposed to immobilizing parts of children’s bodies with plaster casts or braces. At this time she requested that she be allowed to treat children during the acute stage of the disease and use hot compresses as she did in Clifton before the war. However, doctors would not allow her to treat patients until after the first stage of the disease or until tightness (she used the word spasm much later) subsided. For that she instituted a carefully designed regimen of passive exercises designed to recall function in unaffected neural pathways, much as she had done with Maude. Finally, on her own, she began treatment of a patient in the acute stage in her George St. Clinic in Brisbane, and then transferred her to the Ward 7 Polio clinic in the Brisbane General Hospital. That child, and then others, recovered with far fewer aftereffects than those placed in braces. In 1937 she published a basic book about her work and began another, The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in The Acute Stage, which was later published in America.

Between 1935 and 1940 she travelled extensively throughout Australia helping to set up clinics. She also made two trips to England where she set up a treatment clinic in St. Mary’s Hospital near Carshalton where there is a rehabilitation facility to this day.

The first official evaluation of Sister Kenny’s work took place in Townsville in 1934 under the auspices of the Queensland Health Department. Her work was noticed when several Townsville newspaper articles appeared touting her success with Polio Patients at her clinic in Townsville’s Queens Hotel. Dr. Ralph Cilento, who was in charge of the evaluation, wrote a report that was mostly critical, but somewhat complimentary.

Sister Kenny replied publicly: fiercely taking Dr. Cilento to task for his criticisms, something that was very daring and unusual coming from a “self-taught” bush nurse at that time in Australia. Her response was the cause of subsequent contentious associations between her and Dr. Cilento, the BMA and the Australian Massage Association (AMA).

Later, between 1936 and 1938 a Queensland Government Royal Commission evaluated Kenny’s work. IN 1938 the Commissioners published their “Report of The Queensland Royal Commission on Modern Methods for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis.” Its most critical comment (because Sister Kenny opposed using splints and plaster casts to immobilize the areas of polio patients affected by the disease) was, “The abandonment of immobilization is a grievous error and fraught with grave danger, especially in very young patients who cannot co-operate in re-education.” They stated that her clinic, then in Brisbane, was “admirable.” On the whole the Commissioners strongest objections centered on the fact that the Queensland Government was funding Kenny’s work and her clinic was not under the purview of the BMA. The Queensland Government rejected the report, continued to support Kenny’s work, and never “officially” accepted it. ^[1]

In 1940 the Government of New South Wales sent Kenny and her adopted daughter Mary (who had become an expert in Kenny’s method), to America so that they could present her clinical method for treating polio victims to American doctors. After a journey by sea from Sydney to Los Angeles, and by railway to San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, back to Chicago, and to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota she was finally given a chance to demonstrate her work in Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota. Doctors Miland Knapp and John Pohl, who headed polio treatment centers there were impressed and told her that she should “Stick around.” They found an apartment for Kenny and Mary, and a few years later the City of Minneapolis gave them a house. Minneapolis was Kenny’s “base” in America for eleven years.

During that time Kenny treatment centers were opened throughout America, the two most important being the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, (now the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Associates,) a facility in New Jersey Medical Center, and her favorite, the “Ruth Home,” in El Monte, California. She became an American celebrity, received honorary degrees from Rutgers and the University of Rochester, had lunch with FDR, and was the subject of many articles in American periodicals.

In 1946 her story was dramatized in the film Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell, who had become her close friend.

Her work was, however, controversial. During her first year in Minneapolis the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) paid her personal expenses, and financed and arranged trials of her work. That support ceased after a series of disagreements. Kenny was a very determined and outspoken woman, which irritated the director of the NFIP and many doctors. As a result the Sister Kenny Foundation was established in Minneapolis to support her and her work throughout America.

Headstone in Nobby cemetery

She filled her final years with journeys in America, to Europe and to Australia in an effort to gain further acceptance of her method. She returned home to Toowoomba in 1951 where she died of complications from Parkinson’s disease on 30 November, 1952. She was buried beside her mother in Nobby cemetery.

[edit] Legacy

Sister Kenny Memorial, Nobby, Queensland

Sister Kenny House, Nobby, Queensland

Between 1934 and her death she and her associates treated millions of polio victims throughout the world. Their testimonies to Sister Kenny’s healing work is part of her legacy; as is The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis, and Its Treatment, know as “The Red Book,” written by Dr. John Pohl in collaboration with Kenny. Her most enduring legacy is the Minneapolis Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Associates, one of the leading rehabilitation centers in the United States; known for its progressive and innovative vision. [800 E. 28th St. Minneapolis MN 55407]

In Kenny’s home village of Nobby the Sister Kenny Memorial House holds many artifacts from Kenny’s life plus a considerable collection of documents from her private correspondence as well as numerous papers and newspaper clippings. In Toowoomba the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Memorial Fund Inc. provides scholarships to students attending the University of Southern Queensland who will dedicate themselves to work in rural and remote areas of Australia. In Townsville her life was commemorated in 1949 by the unveiling of the Sister Kenny Memorial and Children’s playground^[2].

Her pioneering principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, (in some countries called physiotherapy). Today, the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute is one of the leading rehabilitation centers in the United States, known for its progressive and innovative vision.

[edit] Famous Patients

• Alan Alda Television actor
• Robert Anton Wilson Fiction writer
• Fred Elkinton Schrodt Farmland Executive

[edit] Bibliography

• Infantile Paralysis and Cerebral Diplegia: Method of Restoration of Function, Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1937.
• The treatment of Infantile Paralysis in the Acute Stage, Minneapolis-St. Paul: Bruce Publishing Co. 1941.
• And They Shall Walk, Elizabeth Kenny and Martha Ostenso, Bruce Publishing Co, Minneapolis St Paul 1943
• The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis, and Its Treatment, John F Pohl, M.D., with Elizabeth Kenny, St. Paul, Bruce Pub. Co. 1943.
• My Battle and Victory: History of The Discovery of Poliomyelitis as a Systemic Disease. London: Robert Hale, 1955.

   This was sent to me from Opie, I did not know it but Karen put this on my computer. I sat down to finish my paper work and found this! I WAS TOLD THAT THIS WAS MY FIRST DOG! Only opie!!!!!! Now he’s on vacation and taking pot shots at me LOL!!!!!! Only Opie! There is no telling what he’s going to bring back?

                                     Never think you will win in a cut down fight with him he’s Wittie and fast to shoot from the hip. It’s 10,000 to 3 and I’m behind.

 This was the first road trip I took with my new gears and red chain. You can’t see the red chain from here, but it looks cool. I was invited to ride with a Police officer who I became friends with. I rode to Ft. Morgan and that was 100 miles just to get to his house. I had a blast checking out the little towns on the way. . . one town I was in, I saw about 8 Harley’s with Ape hangers and ridding tight! I seen old Farm machines that was pulled by Horses, made me think of my buddy Steve, shoot he remembers when they made the first wheel? hehe, just kidding! After peter and I ate, we took off and I did not fill up. . . .OH SHOOT!! WE get way out in the middle of no where and I run out of gas! I hear my bike sputter and I knew I was out of gas. I put it on reserve and ride on! Pete is up in front and waiting on me, he knew something was wrong. I told him I was out of gas and he says Oh crap!!!! well that’s not what he said but we will leave it at that.

                    We make it back to his house and he shows me where he keeps his Harley. I looked around and went Wow!. . . I said just for your bike? You should have seen the grin on his face? I seen a space that was nice size and said what is that? Oh it’s my wife’s she has her side. I never seen a door that comes from her side, I think that’s smart on her part? That’s how my Wife would do it.

                 Oh I forgot to say we rode at speeds of 50 to 65 on the back roads of Colorado and seen Deer and there for a bit, I was seeing dead things! I see dead things! Hehehe! no just the ones that did not make it! It was nice to hide behind my Helmet and think about things and look around going slow. And speaking of going slow, I need to slow down my self. . . .I”m losing focus on things. I must say I’ve had some fun the last few weeks but it’s time to get back to business!

                I need to get back to turning pens! I got a few to make.

                  

                    Who’s the best of the best?  That would go to Officer Travis Moody from Aurora Colorado. He did such a good job out there, and wow can he ride his bike!! He and his Department Kawasaki  took first place. I’m not sure who had the biggest grin on there face me or him? I talked to him and what a nice officer and you should have seen him handle his bike, it was like art work. He was doing things that most bikers would not think of? And by the way, if you think you can just blow past him. . .think again? He can turn that bike around in less then a parking space and be on you so fast! As a matter of fact all of them can. I seen many bikes go down today and every time I went oh man!!!       There is way more, but I’m so tired. I want to say to all the Blue Knights thank you for the leather vest!!!!!!!!