RSS Feed for This PostCurrent Article

Keeping a Good Thought for Susan

By Larry Johnson on February 5, 2008 at 8:23 PM in Current Affairs

Our workhorse, Ms. Susan, came down with an appendix attack tonight and will shortly undergo an appendectomy.  She is a good and decent person and would appreciate your thoughts and support.  At least she’ll have a chance to relax a bit and watch the returns.

  • http://doublequotes.wordpress.com/ Charles Cameron (hipbone)

    Best wishes and prayers for a speedy recovery.

  • simon

    In my prayers, a speedy and healthy recovery, Susan.

  • http://www.evergreenpolitics.com shoephone

    Oh geez. What a drag. Glad she’s getting quick medical attention!

  • cbear

    Susan,
    Hope you have a speedy recovery. Best wishes.

  • DrCarolyn

    Hang in there Susan. Hillary is holding down the fort for you.

    • Sha

      You’re right about Hillary holding down the fort. We’re just back-up!!!

      Damn, she is one strong person, isn’t she (Hillary and Susan!!)

    • norrismorris

      Get well quickly Susan….Hillary is holding down some big ones. Bless you.

  • brat

    Oh Wow! Feel better SOON!

  • Sha

    Not the best way to get a rest, but please do. We will hold the fort down for you tonight and in the next couple of days.

    Fortunately blogging doesn’t require any heavy lifting (ha!)

    Feel better fast…WE NEED YOUR VOICE.

  • http://papertigertail.blogspot.com Other Lisa

    Get well soon!!!!

  • Nellie

    Susan,

    Take care and get well soon! We will miss your wonderful posts – but health matters come first.

  • Patrick Henry

    Thanks for the Info Larry..

    Sending prayers and best wishes for Susan and wishing her a speedy recovery..

    GROUP HUG…

  • Nellie

    Larry,

    I sent Susan a post this morning about helping my aunt and her caompatriots get to the post this morning.

    Please tell Susan, that Massachusettes went for Hillary – Wahoo! Then please add it must have benn the Buddahist candles – she will know what I mean.

    Oh, and please add that Kerry must be crapping his pants as he up for re=elction this year. I am going to see if I can work something out so my Aunt, my deceased politician fathers sister, and some of her friends can meet Ed O’Reilly, Kerry’s opponent, and then well…. I am my fathers daughter.

  • Nellie

    Yuk

    Rough weekend – spelling sucks.

  • http://OUTRAGEDBUTNOTSURPRISED bama_barrron

    susan …

    hang in there gal … if need be … i can put the truck on I-5 and head north … just saying … if you need the help!

    praying for you, too!

    • Taters

      Beautiful post, bama.

  • Nellie

    Larry,

    Is her daughter bringing her laptop to the hospital so we can send her Get Well emails??

  • TeakwoodKite

    AWW Crap SusanUnPC! Even without an appendix you are you are awesome.
    Sending prayers and best wishes from all of us here at the House of Grapes.

  • chris

    All this love, and now I add one more…Get well Susan. I deeply appreciate you. We look forward to your return.

  • Taters

    Thanks for the update Larry.

    Get well soon Susan, we miss you and our thoughts and prayers are with you.

  • Fitzhugh

    If Obama weren’t responsible for ethnic cleansing and mob crime this would never have happened.

    • kenoshaMarge

      And you were a decent human being you would never have posted this crap!

  • silver

    Susan, sending lots of prayers and love your way. I wish you a speedy recovery!!

  • Mr.Murder

    Susan, you have the kind of energy to handle any challenge. The mind and spirit are capacites unmatched by physical setbacks.

    Let’s look forward to your ability having the upper hand, and you having new experience to speak from, so others facing similar situations can find inspiration.

    Peace be with you and those close to heart.

    • Nellie

      Beautiful

  • Delia

    Get well quickly, Susan. You’ve had more than your share of health problems this season.

    Peace and good will.

  • Hope

    Susan I am very sorry to hear about your illness. Please remember that we are all here keeping good thoughts and prayers for your quick recovery.

    Blessings upon you!

  • Norma Howard

    Oh, Susan, do heal soon. You’re in my thoughts!!! hugs, Norma

  • shirin

    More surgery?! Susan, this is really too much.

    Wishing you an easy surgery and a very quick and full recovery.

    And after that, try to stay out of the hospital for awhile!

  • justsomeone

    Susan, wishing you a speedy & full recovery.

  • Gregoryp

    I am new to this blog but I really appreciate the hard work, terrific insight and brilliant writing that she does on here. This place has been like a breath of fresh air. Susan, I hope you recover quickly and can get back to blogging soon.

  • Sandy

    Wow, you really needed this, right, Susan? Sorry to hear it, but glad you’re getting good medical care. Please get well soon! We’re pulling for you!
    ((((Susan))))

  • Sometime-CIA-Defender

    Don’t know if watching the returns was relaxing (certainly some fireworks where I was) but hope for a speedy recovery, Susan. :)

  • kenoshaMarge

    I’m somewhat new to this blog, having been just a lurker for a long time, interested but somewhat afraid to comment much. But it doesn’t take long to recognize and appreciate Susan’s passion.
    It’ll take more than a damn appendix to keep her down for long.

    Wishing you the best Susan and hope you’ll be feeling fine and back in fighting fettle in no time.
    You will be missed in the meantime.

  • http://www.evergreenpolitics.com shoephone

    Susan – It just occured to me: if you need anything I can do a hand-off to your daughter (Tom’s store is only ten minutes from me…)

  • Cee

    Susan,

    I’ll pray for you and your surgeon! What a year you’ve had!

  • http://makethemaccountable.com Carolyn Kay

    Get well soon, Susan, we need you!

    Take heart from this:

    Summing It Up (by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo)
    Before we give way to the night, let me try to pull together some rough thoughts on what happened here tonight… If you look at this from the vantage point of two weeks ago, it’s a huge win for Obama, since he was trailing in states across the country by a very big margin. From the vantage point of the last couple days, however, it’s much less clear. The hype of his momentum just got a bit out ahead of what he was able to pull off.

    And this:

    Obama’s big name endorsements don’t pan out (The Hill)
    Highly publicized big name endorsements did not help Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) win some of the key battleground states in the Democratic primary Tuesday night. Obama received major endorsements from Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry in Massachusetts, as well as Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Gov. Janet Napolitano in Arizona but he failed to win any of the states.

    USA Today is now saying that Obama won Missouri. But so much for the Barack-star strategy.

    Carolyn Kay
    MakeThemAccountable.com

    • Marjorie

      I agree with Carolyn. You have worked harder researching and writing than I could believe anyone can. And on a daily basis. Your blogs are where I go first thing in the morning, and I am never disappointed. I am convinced you and blogs were an influence in Hillary’s victory last night. Now it is your turn-relax, recover, and return. My thoughts are with you.

  • Rob Gard

    Get well soon Susan, but stay away from the major media on television, as you don’t need to add stomach ulcers to your recovery process,

  • Centrocitta

    Get well, Susan. But this is really weird. 360 days after my back surgery, I needed an emergency appendectomy too. Something to do with adhesions that formed close to the appendix as a result of the first surgery. Of course, they don’t bother to warn you about these possibilities ahead of time.

  • Pvt. Keepout

    Get well quick and resume posting. I miss your stuff.
    Also, belated Get Well on last fall’s hospitalization; sent you a card at the hospital but you’d already left & it was returned.
    Thanks for all your good work. Read you soon.

  • Sandy

    Susan, hoping you are through the surgery now and on your way to a speedy recovery.

    Get well soon. We miss you.

  • http://cujo359.blogspot.com Cujo359

    Get well, Susan.

  • arwe

    Susan,

    When you said you were going to “bust a gut” giving us the most up to date, reliable information possible, we didn’t think you’d really do it.

    Get healthy soon.

  • http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

    Susan: kind regards and a speedy recovery..
    -The Hoopster

  • keepinon

    Hopefully you are on the mend all ready. Take it easy: the place will still be here when you are back to your old self. Take care.

  • wethornet

    Jeeeez. More hospital stuff.

    Get better.

    One prayer already sent to “The Big Ranger in the Sky.” :-) More to follow.

  • http://www.scdp.org/ peg

    speedy and COMPLETE recovery, Susan!

    thoughts and prayers to you.

    • simon

      I haven’t read any update, yet, she is OK?

  • ybnormal

    And just when you thought…
    oh well,
    Get well soon and good health to you.

  • catherine

    Good lord, you think watching the returns will help her feel better? Susan, watch a comedy, or at least an action thriller. And get well, because spring is coming.

    Catherine in Cleveland

    • simon

      Susan is doing OK, surgery went well?

  • Donovan Fraser

    hope all is well Susan and that soon you’ll be back to your old self again..my prayers are with you.
    :)

  • cliff

    It’s a proven fact that irrational anger toward a popular and successful politician is directly related to inflammatory disease of the appendix. I’d suggest you cool your hostility toward the next president of the United States.