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It's the way I'm wired.  I sucked at reading and writing. Math was a breeze.  "Fascinated with a slide ruler, soon he was obsolete."

To be honest OS, I just looked that up, read it three times, and it just confused me.   :stunned:    I couldn't splain it, if my life depended on it.

Sorry about that, if I had gone a little further down, that very thing was being discussed.

Quick reply, I was just sitting here thinking, I bet OS knows.  I thought I read that somewhere.  I asked 3 LEO's.  I got 2 no's and one yes.

I went to the mailbox after dark.  I thought this truck coming down the street was a neighbor, but it was going too slow, so I stopped short. He stopped at my drive and said "I'm so N so. I didn't hear him well,  he did look like a former neighbor, so I approached the truck and I said "Chester?" Now I can see inside, I don't know him, and he had a long gun in the passenger seat, barrel in the floor butt up.  I started putting some distance between us and he quickly blurted out he was looking for a truck for sale, which was down the street.  That got me to wondering if the law had changed and you could carry a rifle in the vehicle with a round in the chamber now days.   I've been told no,  and I've been told yes. Could someone please answer that for me?  Thanks in advance.

I'm sorry to hear that you been down that path hipower, and I would like to hear your story if you would share it. If you already have in the past, point me to it.  That was one thing that always struck me.  No matter how bad I was, I didn't have to look far down that hospital corridor to see someone worse than I was. I've been in ICU fighting for my next breath and the person in the next room is being covered with a sheet, and most of those folks you meet in those chemo clinics, they don't make it.  If you've not told your story somewhere and its long to type, shoot me a PM and I'll send you my number.  Thanks.

I know your wondering,  I was in the hospital in Chicago for just under one month. Isolation floor. Flew home wearing a N95 mask, and surgical gloves. Left the wife at home. I knew it would be tough haul, and I didn't want her to see me suffer thru it, and she was good with it.  I hope my story will give others hope/help, cause I think it would have been easier to write a book, that to think back on some things.    I can tell you this,  I'm one  happy man nowadays. I even helped a lifeguard last week who dropped from heatstroke and cracked his head open on the sidewalk.  30 something years ago, I spent a month in Ft. Meade Md. training as a Combat Medic.  I pick up a newspaper every morning and put it next to the door for an 86 year old neighbor, who broke her ankle in the ice storm.  Point being, it feels really good to pay it forward for all the help I've had over the years. Really, Really good.   I'm typed out.  Peace and strength to you and yours.   Edited to say I wasn't able to help that kid much physically, but after I found out he had no family here *MTSU student,  I went to the ER and gave him comfort for over 4 hours, and then I drove him to his apartment in the Boro.  He was so grateful you would have thought I saved his life.  Shrugs.

Thanks David, while we have never met, I've heard many good things about you from the Po Po and other folks from Smyrna. Also your advice when I first found TGO, convinced me to gather the strength to go and get my HCP.   I've spent many hours reading here, and I've often felt guilty for not paying to support this forum.  I'm sorry for that man. My wife takes care of the money since I got sick, and she has worried herself to death with it.  I went out on a limb to buy that used Bersa a couple weeks ago, and  I'm still trying to talk her out of making me sell it.  We're not broke, but one reason why is all our clothes come from Goodwill and I'm not a bit ashamed about it.  She won't walk buy a penny laying on the sidewalk. God Bless her soul. Thank you David, and all the rest of you gun slingers for all I have read and learned here.

Insurance & cost. Its not government or drug company funded. Some insurance in some states are now paying. My friends insurance paid for his transplant, transportation, food and hotels.  I met a woman who went thru it when I did from Florida. She had BCBS of Illinois and they wouldn't pay.  She had to pay 165K cash and everything else. (travel, food lodging). In my case, Medicare was my primary and BCBS of Tn. was my secondary.  I had to pay the hospital 25k up front to cover any expenses not covered by insurance to get scheduled.  BCBS at first told us they would not cover any cost for the transplant itself because it was exploratory/experimental.  Because of a loophole, they then told me they would pay up to 10k for travel/lodging expenses for my wife and I for a transplant, even tho it was experimental.  (go figure).  That turned out to be 150/day max. for food and lodging, which almost covered the hotel bill, and they payed for our flights  between Nashville and Chicago which was 3 round trips in 2013. They also covered the trip in 2011 when I was denied. In the end, they HAD to pay as secondary because Medicare will pay their part for any Government/FDA approved clinical trail. I leave that fight to your imagination. I did get back a little over 22k of my 25k up front money from the hospital.  That was truly a blessing and we were floored when that check came in the mail. Here is a link to the trial on CIDP and from here you can search for studies being done for other diseases.  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00278629  

Yes I do and funny you asked.   Shot my new Christmas Colt M4 and that Bersa Thunder 380 I asked about on here, just a couple Fridays ago. Did it standin tall and lookin good.  ( U hero's know what I mean)     I will say I would not be here today if it wasn't for my wife.  She fed me and wiped my butt when I couldn't.   Wouldn't let me give up that woman.   She's  been my rock for the last 28 years.  They just don't make em like that anymore.    N Please if you or you know anyone this might help have them call Ms. Kim Bracy @ 312-908-0059, NorthWestern University.  Speed things up a bit. Word is getting out and people all over the world are trying to get in that line.  

Thanks, I just pray someone reads this and it helps someone else.  Here are some links to some of my fav success stories I only used to dream about.   This is what I had, CIDP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-HW1A_18g https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=113&v=MWCzAxHbxxo   Devics Disease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31PLV_zBpOg   MS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZEzVCudhs   The Man himself Dr. Richard Burt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-vo-n5awjk   Thank you Lord.  God Bless

December 1998 I started to noticed my legs felt weak when I tried to get up from a sitting position.  It got worse and by Feb. 99, I could no longer walk without the use of a walker. I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, the chronic form of Guillain Barre Syndrome.  Take a flu shot these days and you will sign a paper saying that you understand that the shot you are taking has not been proven to cause GBS. I had a flu shot that year and the first question I was asked by every doc I saw, "Have you taken a flu shot? "  By 2000 I had my own power wheelchair, and had to have help to get in it.  I spent the next 7 years mostly in bed unable to care for myself. I was 6'4, weighed 225, and by 2006 I was down to 145lbs.  I improved a bit on immune suppressive drugs and I started chemo every other month. By 2010 I could get out of bed, walk a few feet, and make it to the john.  Yay!!!  Still life sucked.  I could only find 2 other guys here in Mid Tn. that had it and I was the last to start the experimental chemo drug Rituxian.  6 months after I started it, one of the guys passed from pneumonia, his immune system too weak to fight it.  The other one called me, shook up about it.  He said he was going to look into the Stem Cell he had heard about. This was 2011.  It turned out that Northwestern University in Chicago was doing clinical trials on stem cell transplants and CIDP.  He became the 17 person to undergo it.  The first person was done 2005, just to show how slow it was. He urges me to go to NWU as they only were going to do 20 folks at first.  I went and was rejected.  They said I didn't meet the study requirements and they thought mine might be in remission.  I came home, and they stopped all my meds.  Boom.  Stuck in bed again.  I was pissed.  They contacted me to return, but my friend was sick all the time from his, and I decided to hold off and see how he did.  FF to Fall 2012 and he is walking from his parked car to the Titians games. Going to concerts.  My family elders were sick and I figured the first study was over by now anyways, so I didn't contact NWU.   In Feb. 2013 he went to back to NWU for his yearly eval.   The transplant doctor told him to contact me and ask me to come back.  My dad was ill and I held off.  The phone rang one morning and the transplant doc was on the line.  No nurse, the Man himself  He said he was sorry I had to go without my drugs and if I would come back to Chicago he would/could help me.  On October 15, 2013 after destroying my immune system with chemo, I received my own stem cells back. I was the 50th person to undergo this for CIDP.  2014 was rough, in the hospital 3 times with Pneumonia, lots of fever with no found cause etc.  I started getting stronger tho.  No more immune suppressive drugs since Dec. 2013.  Today, 18 months post transplant, haven't been sick in 6 months, I can walk, although I do use a cane when I'm in crowds and tired.  I'm back up to about 200 lbs.  My arms and legs are still skinny from muscle atrophy, and I get tired quick. I suffered nerve damage and I will never be normal, can't fix that.  But they stopped it.  After 15 years of hell. I'm telling you this story to pass the word  They are resetting the immune system back to normal.. They have done over 500 people with MS the last 10 years with good results.  Clinical trials are ongoing for just about every autoimmune disease that exist.     I would be happy to answer any questions anyone has.  Here is a link.  http://stemcell-immunotherapy.com/  you also find success stories and info on youtube if you search the transplant doctors name.  Dr. Richard Burt. Making history and changing the world. I never did meet the requirements for the study, my case was even more rare than others.  He did me on a compassionate basis and will write a paper on me..  Special..   ;)   Disclaimer:  I'm not making money nor am I affiliated with NWU.  I'm just a TN. born and bred disease kicking MF..   CELEBRATE LIFE!!!     Edit: I had Feb on the brain, my transplant was in October 2013, not Feb.  I been on the phone scheduling my yearly follow up  and thats what prompted my post.  I went back at 6 months and 1 year, and I go back once a year for 5 years.

I took him up on it. I liked it right off.   :drool:   N yeah he's a good honest feller I hate to see em go.  They are from upper New York, and thats were they are going back to.   It's is wife wants to go back, all the family is there, granny getting old etc..  I did try to get him to just send her for a long visit. :bat:  I'll miss em they's good folks.     Thanks alot TGO for talking me into it, I needed that like I needed a hole in the head.   hehe

Thanks guys.  He didn't have a permit, so its never been carried.  He got it for the home cause his wife could handle it.   He said I shot it once, it works.  He was headed to the pawn shop with it, got there at 5 and they were closed. He stopped over to say bye and that he was leaving Sunday.  He said I'd like to get 200 for it. I told him he wouldn't get squat for it at the pawn, I might be interested so he left it with me to look over.  Doesn't look like its ever been fired.   Lucky me.   :yum:

My friend is moving to New York and has a Bersa Thunder 380 Duo Tone with an extra mag.  He offered it to me for $200.  It looks mint.  What say ye?   Thanks

I guess it can happen to anyone.   http://www.wsmv.com/story/28225616/gunshot-interrupts-smyrna-town-hall-meeting

Russia's not Poot N anymore, their Fart N.

Prayers for you. Be Blessed.

http://wkrn.com/2015/01/21/clerk-shoots-suspect-during-robbery-attempt/

Rutherford Co. Sheriff has a really good one, it is usually in the fall.  Went to the firing range and shot  the  .40 cal Sig the county uses.  No range time @ Smyrna, unless they have changed it.

It has been a couple of years since Smyrna offered this and this year it is Free.  I attended a few years ago, and had to pay 25 bucks.  I thought it was worth the time and effort.  Learned a ton, met some good peeps.  My wife is going this time, and I will probably stop by.  I don't know if they will run out of space, so if your interested, I would get my application in soon.     Here is a link to the website for more information,  and the application may be  downloaded here.   http://www.townofsmyrna.org/departments/police/community-programs/citizens-police-academy   Disclaimer:  I am not affiliated with law enforcement nor do I gain anything from passing along this information.   EDIT: spelling corrections

Here is a note our neighborhood watch page got from a new neighbor that moved into my neighborhood this year from Antioch.    - I'm thankful for nosy neighbors, to a point.  After living in Antioch for 8 years and barely knowing people further than three units from me - and getting broken into twice, attempted third, back window of my car shot out on Halloween, a random bb through a window in my bedroom at midnight, random kids on the sidewalk til 3am, loud music at the gate for all hours, etc.... I'm thankful that neighbors care enough to be cautious about things.  Better to be asked and rebuffed than to not ask and then say, "I shoulda..."....

For Christmas  Santa brought me a new Colt LE6920MP-B.  My first Black Rifle since the Army days.    I've been looking for some Pmags & ammo.  I found some Pmag M3 30R for 10.99 Ea from grabagun. I got an email from PSA today for 1,000 rounds of 5.56 55g for 299 plus shipping.  I don't know how much shipping would be? I really don't want to spend that much on ammo right now.  Suggestions for the best way to purchase bang for the buck ammo and a good price on those Pmags would be be much appreciated.  Thanks   Soapy   EDIT:  How many Pmags would you suggest I get, besides all I can afford?  lol

Well, there you go.  :screwy:

Wasn't the mayors wife was it?  It's been a few years so I don't know which mayor, but I knew a guy who used to have an affair with the mayors wife.  I never asked about the details.