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Ben Drinkin said:
Bovine spongifom encephalitis? I like Bov... nevermind...
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Yeah, but in humans it's called CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease)...and it is nasty.
As an example of why I would never eat brains from any animal...in 1997, a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD. It was discovered that all the victims had consumed squirrel brains.
 
So I got a question. On the way home Monday from my guard unit, 3 hours away, a crash had the interstate closed so I took an old state highway that goes some 60 miles out of the way, seen an old 1950s dinner still standing along side it. Would that not be cool to somehow buy and move and turn into a shop? Or am I crazy? Or both?
 
dukeboy_318 said:
So I got a question. On the way home Monday from my guard unit, 3 hours away, a crash had the interstate closed so I took an old state highway that goes some 60 miles out of the way, seen an old 1950s dinner still standing along side it. Would that not be cool to somehow buy and move and turn into a shop? Or am I crazy? Or both?
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Both..
 
dukeboy_318 said:
So I got a question. On the way home Monday from my guard unit, 3 hours away, a crash had the interstate closed so I took an old state highway that goes some 60 miles out of the way, seen an old 1950s dinner still standing along side it. Would that not be cool to somehow buy and move and turn into a shop? Or am I crazy? Or both?
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ahh - location location location
 
Ddaddy said:
Yeah, but in humans it's called CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease)...and it is nasty.
As an example of why I would never eat brains from any animal...in 1997, a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD. It was discovered that all the victims had consumed squirrel brains.
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hey, how's your back?
 
Ugh! I just got a call from my sister. My niece's fiancée died from an unintended overdose of what he thought were prescription painkillers. My niece found him dead in the bathroom. Looks like he bought was he thought were prescription pills on the street, but they were actually garage made knock-offs...and they killed him. Nobody knew he was doing this stuff...or at least at this level.

She's a complete wreck now and her life as she knew it is destroyed. They owned a house together and were about to move into the next phase of their lives with him getting a dream job due to start next Monday.

We are now in support and pick-up-the-pieces mode. She's a well-educated and sweet woman who doesn't deserve this...but now we have to keep her from imploding and following his spiral into oblivion.

There just aren't enough words to describe how I feel about all of this.
 
Ddaddy said:
Ugh! I just got a call from my sister. My niece's fiancée died from an unintended overdose of what he thought were prescription painkillers. My niece found him dead in the bathroom. Looks like he bought was he thought were prescription pills on the street, but they were actually garage made knock-offs...and they killed him. Nobody knew he was doing this stuff...or at least at this level.

She's a complete wreck now and her life as she knew it is destroyed. They owned a house together and were about to move into the next phase of their lives with him getting a dream job due to start next Monday.

We are now in support and pick-up-the-pieces mode. She's a well-educated and sweet woman who doesn't deserve this...but now we have to keep her from imploding and following his spiral into oblivion.

There just aren't enough words to describe how I feel about all of this.
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So sorry to hear of this. Prayers. Lots of them .
 
Thanks guys. It is a complete tragedy that goes beyond sad.

The young man was a victim of a home invasion a few years ago in which he was nearly beaten to death by his assailants. When the police came and rescued him during the stand off, the assailants were shot and killed in front of him...one of which fell on him pouring their blood all over him as they died.

The treatment for the injuries he sustained included prescription narcotic pain killers to help get him through it and apparently that, plus the psychological trauma of the incident, fueled his addiction to the narcotics that no one realized was going on. Everyone thought he was recovering well from it and moving his life forward with my niece, their purchase of a home together and his getting his dream job.

Now we are finding out that he had been buying (or getting) painkillers from friends...and lately on the street. It turns out his best friend was admitted to the ER (at the time he died) suffering an overdose from the same pills that they apparently bought together...but he survived. My niece had little idea what was going on and only thought he was getting prescriptions from his doc for ongoing pain from the injuries.

The mess keeps getting bigger...and more tragic.
 
Ddaddy said:
Ugh! I just got a call from my sister. My niece's fiancée died from an unintended overdose of what he thought were prescription painkillers. My niece found him dead in the bathroom. Looks like he bought was he thought were prescription pills on the street, but they were actually garage made knock-offs...and they killed him. Nobody knew he was doing this stuff...or at least at this level.

She's a complete wreck now and her life as she knew it is destroyed. They owned a house together and were about to move into the next phase of their lives with him getting a dream job due to start next Monday.

We are now in support and pick-up-the-pieces mode. She's a well-educated and sweet woman who doesn't deserve this...but now we have to keep her from imploding and following his spiral into oblivion.

There just aren't enough words to describe how I feel about all of this.
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Sad. Hopefully she is able to move past this.
 
zkx14 said:
Sad. Hopefully she is able to move past this.
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I hope. She is a wonderful young woman and deserves a future of happiness. I just don't know how that will happen after something like this that will forever be a drag on her unless she can come to terms with it and not let it get in her way going forward. It will be a long road...
 
G'nite folks, I'm headed to bed now...but I think it will be very hard to get any sleep tonight.

Thank you all for your kind words.
 
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Dave that sucks so bad, no wonder they are on the prescription kick in PA right now. She is in my thoughts today.
 
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