Sea Stories and Tall Tales of the Seas by Forum Members

In my case it was from nearly dying on the operating table under general anesthesia when they were trying to save the vision in my right eye(that failed too). My blood pressure dropped to 60/? which allowed the blood to pool in my leg. It felt like I had been shot through the calf muscle about a week later. Glad it didn't travel. It gave me a mess of varicose veins.

 

darn. what caused losing your eye?

 

Boat company personel manager was interveiwing a captain for posible employment. The captain certainly looked salty! As if he just stepped out of an Errol Flynn movie. He had a hook instead of a right hand, a peg leg stood for his left leg, and a patch over his right eye.
"So how did you lose your leg?", inquired the mgr.
"A canon ball took it off at the knee at Trafalger." repled the captain.
"And your right hand?"
'A musket ball shattered my wrist and had to be amputated. We was boarded by pirates."
"And how did you lose your eye, sir?"
"Oh,well that! One day a seagull flew over and..."
"Just stop right there!" the incredulous mgr ordered,"I accepted your BS about canon balls and musket balls and pirates! But you are not going to tell me a seagull crapped in your eye and put it out!"
"Well,sir. As to that.", drawled the captain,"You see? I hadn't had my hook very long and..."

 

Retinal detachment with tear and hemorrhage. The hook wasn't much help either.

 

That's grim. You seem to be happy and well adjusted inspite of your suffering. My compliments on your dauntless spirit.

 

Sometimes you just gotta laugh to keep from crying. Laughing's more fun.

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healthier too

 

I tell my wife,"Look at me! I'm getting younger everyday!" Quien cres, pinche viejo descrepito! I think that means she agrees. "At the rate I'm going," I explain," I'll be as young, like when I was a baby.
Bald, toothless, and incontinent!"

 

Too much good Chocalit.....

Not really. And I like that idea of eating that Chocalit too. Thanks Hoyt.
The Medics do not know what causes it. Don't know how to cure it either.
The "Vein" senses an injury. It Clots up as a Defense measure.
Medics don't speculate on what you did last night, they just fix what they can see is wrong.

 

well I do know this much. We need besides vitamins, protein, carbs in our diet, we need 60 essential minerals everyday. and we aren't getting them in our food. All 60 are essential, but in particular there's a serious consequence if your diet is deficient in copper. Copper enables elasticity of tissues. Without it you get wrinkles, hardened arteries and risk heart attack and stroke. I wonder if it has anything to do with thrombosis?

 

Bear stories? I've spent about five years of my life without a proper roof overhead, long enough to run into several bears without even trying.

In college, my hiking partner and I agreed to relieve the winter caretaker at LeConte Lodge in the Smokies over Christmas week. We passed the caretaker as we hiked the nine miles up and had a hard slog though a whiteout the last couple miles. Got to the "Tack Shack" at dark. The tack shack had a rear entrance up five stairs and the door didn't get snowed in in the winter. Cooked and went to bed. We had been issued a kerosene lantern and 1 quart of kerosene for the week. At midnight, the lantern had burned out and I had to pee. It's 15 below zero and I put on down booties and opened the door. I took 1 step and tripped over something and fell into the snow. Cloudy, snowing lightly, really dark, something big on the steps. Convincing yourself to climb over a sleeping bear to get back into the hut takes some doing, but my ears were getting really cold and thats what I did (after I took a pee three feet from the bear). So Ed has woken up and says "what were you doing."
"fell in the snow"
"gone awhile"
"yeah, couldn't see, it's real dark"
"damn, now I gotta go"
"careful, the first step is a doozie"
"oooomph --- uhhh --- wadda --- Phil, you're an a$$hole."
"At least you had a flashlight, I had to grab a handful of it to figure out what it was."

Hey, if the caretaker didn't think his pet bear was worth mentioning, who was I to second guess him?

 

LOL, that was about the only thing I didn't run into up there.

One Bear messed about at the sides of our boat. It was pulled on the gravel beach.
He went all the way around it, but wouldn't get up on on it because it tipped under his weight.
I love watching the Curious Bears and the Cubs. Some of them older Bears move so slow and cautious they are Boring.

 

I get more continent every year. Right now I am somewhere between Pangaea and Gondwanaland.

 

A few years later, Ed and I are in a canoe motoring up the Ocmulgee behind Robins AFB. Plan is to motor up fifteen miles into a swamp behind Macon and drift back to our put-in. Two guys in a little jon boat go whizzing by and round the bend ahead of us. When we come around the bend, we see a stopped jon boat with the two guys standing up and with both their heads on a swivel. I stop the canoe 50 yards away. What happened next has burned and image into my brain forever. A great hairy arm swung up out of the water and hooked on the gun'l of the jon boat amidships. It was early morning and the sun was low and directly in front of us and a perfect sheet of water fanned out from the arm and formed a beautiful semicircle with the sun shining though it. All the while nothing moved, no sound, just the sheet of water growing and collapsing back into the river. Then the bear gave a little tug and the boat was flipped. One guy sprang and landed bear side and did a Mark Spitz to the shore wearing sweats. Ever try to swim in sweats? The back of this guy's shirt didn't even get wet. The other guy rolled backwards over the hull and ended on the off bear side. The bear starts to swim around the boat and we start this ridiculous pantomime with the other guy to try to keep him away from the bear. We're laughing too hard to communicate verbally. The bear ignores the guy and swims to the shore and gets out and does a great dog shake. I'll never forget that sheet of water arcing into the sky. Weirdly beautiful like those slow-motion milk drop videos.

 

Arn't the golden years just great??????????? And I'm probably older than most of you.
70 on 1/29/2012