tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post5886384567082364452..comments2024-01-24T01:27:11.111-05:00Comments on Café Muscato: A Line from the SickroomMuscatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-5161861485497156862013-04-11T06:42:43.557-04:002013-04-11T06:42:43.557-04:00Ugh, sorry to hear you have to interface with a ma...Ugh, sorry to hear you have to interface with a machine. (That is what I am calling using it because it makes me think I am clever and I giggle at my own stupid half-joke.) Multiple sclerosis has caused my diaphragm to be partially paralyzed, so I just started using a portable ventilator intermittently to help me breathe. It is a big, honking, hideous machine and it is unbelievably uncomfortable. I don't want to seem churlish, because I am grateful there is something that can help me, but it really blows. tee hee<br /><br />Hope you're better soon. :)Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106720865034468249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-24134329766661546052013-04-11T05:17:32.905-04:002013-04-11T05:17:32.905-04:00Wow! Halle's was a big deal in my hometown, w...Wow! Halle's was a big deal in my hometown, which once upon a time sported not one but <i>three</i> "nice people's" department stores. The original was the Boston Store, the old reliable; then came Halle's, which was a little flashier but still <i>very</i> respectable, and then Trask's, which was a shade downmarket but still set apart from the likes of Sear's and the five-and-dime. <br /><br />The last time I visited the poor place, the Sears was (just barely) hanging on, but that aside there seemed only to be an atrocity called something like Valu-City, which appeared to sell things discovered in Walmart dumpsters.Muscatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-80719942703553172262013-04-10T21:00:30.442-04:002013-04-10T21:00:30.442-04:00Oh dear. I hope you're quickly on the mend so ...Oh dear. I hope you're quickly on the mend so all huffing, puffing and assorted blowing can be done in a purely recreational manner.Rhiannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18217162068452839752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-52940543674187289822013-04-10T20:55:04.047-04:002013-04-10T20:55:04.047-04:00My mother was a nurse for the Halle family n Cleve...My mother was a nurse for the Halle family n Cleveland. You know, Halle's Department Store. The store that Haley Barry was named for. Old man Halle was in failing health and he needed round the clock nursing. So she worked in the mansion off South Park. I asked her once what she remembered most about being in that big house. She said "Kay Halle had filthy toe nails." Years later Cleveland Magazine ran a story about "Kay Halle and her beautiful people" profiling the aging heiress. And all I could wonder was if she still had toe jam.The Cool Cookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04162345087029159056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-75870035373482418322013-04-10T20:09:37.007-04:002013-04-10T20:09:37.007-04:00balky pulmones,
maybe all that recent sand?
be b...balky pulmones, <br />maybe all that recent sand?<br /><br />be better soon.normadesmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325110017442011627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-68999976935527437452013-04-10T16:32:51.877-04:002013-04-10T16:32:51.877-04:00Good god! Huff and puff? A machine? But yes, all d...Good god! Huff and puff? A machine? But yes, all dowagers require society nurses. No mere members of the masses should be allowed to attend to one's...personal matters. Really.Donna Lethalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00581340436152988440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-52702429111579286482013-04-10T15:16:32.532-04:002013-04-10T15:16:32.532-04:00"You can spray her wherever you figure the st..."You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk,<br />You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work,<br />If she's tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk,<br />A person can develop a cold.<br /><br />It says here:<br />The female remaining single<br />Just in the legal sense<br />Shows a neurotic tendency (see note).<br />Chronic organic symptoms<br />Toxic or hypertense<br />Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat."<br /><br />JxJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501010362663971583noreply@blogger.com