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You ever get that real Great feeling of being the early bird.... The Sun won't even thinking about coming up for..... oh say 3 hours... I am the Earlybird.. I shall have Worm this morning..... Wraw preferably ...
THEN IT HAPPENS!!!!... I would have been happy with the Falling Quart of One Shot, Or the Yank the M-F'n Extension Cord that is Wrapped around the Table that those Kandy Kolored Bike Tanks WERE!! ON... I would have been Happy to Have Plotter Problems like Robert Beverly( hope he has it fixed).. Nope ... I had to one up someone.. Maybee most of you... I had no wheaties On Monday Morn...
You ever hear that Expression, Take a long walk, off a short pier? Never.... I repeat never, take a High climb off a short ladder....
It Amazing the Amount of Abuse the Human Skull can take. It is amazing what doing the Nestee Plunge backwards off a 4' will do to the Back of ones Skull... Oh yeh Did I add that I had an Exacto in my mouth.....LOL Now that will give you the Shivers.... It some how fell out of my mouth when I hit the ground.... I guess..
One thing about being the early bird is that you hope someone else was feeling that way on Monday morning... They were,,, and after about 12 minutes & a couple pints of blood... So was the 5-0, The Fire Dept & The Nice people from the Ambulance company...
I did get that job done later in the day after a Cat Scan, 7 Xrays, Numerous Stitches, And A lovely bruise.. I am feeling ok, Considering what could have happened... Makes you think ( about going back to church too) Wow.. I know alot of you may not believe me.. I wouldn't have either prior to yesterday. But I know alot will... I have heard that the Lord works in strange ways...
I didn't want to Call My girlfriend when it happened.. She would had Lost it... So I waited ( call Right Away I late Learned) She answered the phone, Where have you been? ( I didn't call Sunday Nite. It was Monday Nite now. Relationship Blues. Were Having them) Angry .. she wasn't ,, Worried to death she was...This Girl Has Compassion for People Like I Have never Seen . She Is Truly a Gift from God... Makes you feel like you are not worthy to be with her , I am not. I would like to be. I Started explaining what happened & that I had fell... The next words outa her mouth were, I Had a dream last nite... I saw my Grandma in Heaven... She was there with my little Sister & Gary, my Moms ExBoyfriend, They were Happy.. I asked Teri if She saw her Bad Grandma (I am not judging Her. She was a bad Person) no she said calmly.... Now after a Fall like I sustained.. Things aren't really so clear. To hear what she said next Really made my head feel weird.. nah... More like Freaked me out!
She said her Dream was interupted By Something.. It Was you she said.. I had another dream. You were laying on the Concrete bleeding.. I could not help you, I didn't know where you were, only that you were Suffering... I prayed for God to Watch over you while you were hurt... thanx Baby...He Did..
There is no way you can Fall from a 4' landing flat on your Back & head like I did without getting seriously injured.. Yes there is A way..
Wow! talk about a change of events.. I didn't share this Story trying to save Everyone... I haven't been saved myself.. I am thinking about my life now & What I need to do..
Well I had better get home.. The Swelling is Killing me... Hurts to Laugh. And Yes my Mom Drove me to work this mornin....
Oh yeh if you get a chance.... Pray... Say thanks for me too.... Deep Stuff.. and its free.. All you have to do is Ask....
p.s. I will stop for flowers for here this mornin on the way home....
-------------------- Mike Contreras MAX Sign & Design Gladstone , Michigan Posts: 84 | From: Gladstone , Michigan | Registered: Jun 2000
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Thanks all for the Kind words... Sorry about the Private settings anyone can email me direct gr8bign66@yahoo.com
Now all we gotta work on are my bad vinylhead posts and we may have a winner here...lol :0)
Change is.... Well I hope good....Cya@ Mazeppa....
Pumpkin head...hahaha
p.s. that is what that nice little girlfriend of mine said,Yeh.... the one who prayed for me LOL.... Pumpkin Head.... is great.. Parapalegic or Vegetable.. Whew! Thanx Upstairs..
p.s.s. If you want to know why I am still at work and haven't left... How much do you like what you are doin ?.... Put down the mouse, Grab a brush...
Give er a Try.. Don't let people like me scare you from trying it...
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what a great story Mike. Glad to see you are o.k. and enlightened.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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About my second or third year into sign painting, I was working off of a six foot stepladder out along the highway and for some unexplained reason I passed out and woke up on the ground which had many chunks of broken concrete. Luckily there was a sheet of masonite just where I landed. I believe God was watching over me. No injuries. No, I wasn't drinking.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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God watches over children, fools, and sign painters...
Amen.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Wow, Mike, that is awesome! Yea, the Good Lord sure had a hand in all that! I can't count how many times he saved my life, & now He uses me to bless others.
You must have a real good girlfriend-Hold on to that one!
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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Glad you are okay,Mike! I had a fall from 4' onto asphalt in 1983. I was stepping back to figure out how to fix an "S" that looked like an s hook on the back of a truck(hydrolic tailgate). I wasn't as lucky as you..I fractured my skull,had a concussion, lost my sense of smell and have nerve deafness in one ear. But all through this I knew God was looking after me. I faced major brian surgery because of leakage of spinal fluid down my throat but after 2 weeks lying flat, the leakage stopped. After 2 months I went back to work lettering another truck..got back off the ground on a walkboard & ladder. God bless you,Mike! Judy
-------------------- Judy Pate Signs By Judy Albany, Georgia USA 229-435-6824
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