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« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2009, 08:41:20 PM »
Good luck Sluff! Will this be long-distance trucking? If so, it'd be very cool if you'll be able to meet up with us as you pass through our various locations!
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« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2009, 09:56:35 PM »
Good luck with your new endeavor!

If you're ever in the Houston area, we'll have to have a Houston chapter IHD meet! lol I think there are a few of us in the Houston area.
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« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2009, 04:03:44 AM »
I'm glad I made it back here in time to say good luck!  GOOD LUCK SLUFF!  :cuddle;
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« Reply #28 on: July 14, 2009, 05:06:07 AM »
Good luck Sluff, hope everything works out. :thumbup;
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« Reply #29 on: July 14, 2009, 05:22:23 AM »
Once my training is done that would be fun if time allows to meet with IHDers along the way. We will have to make that happen.  Great idea.  :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2009, 06:40:52 AM »
Sluff   back already
hello
glad to see you
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Getting the heck out of town.
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2009, 06:47:22 AM »
 By the wait, I didn't noticeTwirl promising to behave while you are gone.
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« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2009, 10:11:16 AM »
I noticed you did not either...DW.  Hehehehehe!
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2009, 10:48:01 AM »
Kit,  go way to the top of this thread.... then come back and apologize to me.    LOL  I made it a couple of days anyway.  Gotta give a guy credit for trying.
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Come to think of it, nothing is funny anymore.

Nothing that I post here is intended for fact but rather for exploration into my personal thought processes.  Any slight, use of words with multiple connotations or other percieved insults are totally unintended.  I reserve my insults for private.
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« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2009, 11:00:02 AM »
Have fun with it Sluff!  I'd give anything to go back to truck driving.  Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your a$$.

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1979 Start hemodialysis
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2009, 02:00:25 PM »
Cripes Bill, you hoggin the bandwidth or what?
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2009, 03:23:16 PM »
Gonna use "Sluff" as your CB handle?
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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2009, 05:50:57 PM »
Just reading it now, hope all goes well!
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« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2009, 07:33:09 AM »
Quote from: paul.karen on July 13, 2009, 09:07:05 AM
Im sure you will do fine sluff.

I keep thiniking of all the old trucker movies now  :rofl;..

Keep your eye open for smokies and be wary of some of those lot lizards :thumbup;

What was that one with Dennis Weaver?! That was scary.

Good luck Sluff!   :cheer:
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« Reply #39 on: July 15, 2009, 09:50:58 AM »
The Dennis Weaver movie was "Duel".  Don't get any ideas Sluff!
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1980 Start CAPD
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2007 Start hemodialysis
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« Reply #40 on: July 15, 2009, 02:09:44 PM »
Great Movie...  :rofl;
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« Reply #41 on: July 15, 2009, 06:13:09 PM »
Oh, heck, I'm gonna have this stuck in my head forever. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mehbMnHWac&feature=related
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« Reply #42 on: July 15, 2009, 11:06:44 PM »
Good Luck Sluff, I think you will make it. :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #43 on: July 15, 2009, 11:14:24 PM »
Quote from: jbeany on July 15, 2009, 06:13:09 PM
Oh, heck, I'm gonna have this stuck in my head forever. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mehbMnHWac&feature=related

Ha! good one JB!

Here's an oldie - it is stuck in my head now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQJNnkXSzws  :P
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« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2009, 11:26:45 PM »
 :ukflag;  We both wish you all the luck in the world, let us know when your truck rolls into the UK I'll be there to meet you :2thumbsup; :cuddle;
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« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2009, 11:33:59 PM »
Good luck with it all Sluff keep on truckin lol   :clap;
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« Reply #46 on: July 16, 2009, 08:59:55 AM »
Here's one...careful of that "Georgia Overdrive" Sluff!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOxdvVRM8s&feature=related
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1979 Start hemodialysis
1980 CAPD catheter
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« Reply #47 on: July 17, 2009, 02:50:02 PM »
Good luck Sluff, hope all goes well,
best wishes from Kristina. :waving;
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« Reply #48 on: July 18, 2009, 08:22:36 AM »
Thanks to everyone, this thread was fun and brought back alot of memories from trucking days of past. This will be my last check in until I can get to a computer. Maybe with some luck there will be a computer at the motel in Indiana.  :grouphug;
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« Reply #49 on: July 18, 2009, 09:25:20 AM »
We'll leave the light on for ya!
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1979 Diagnosed with kidney failure
1979 Right arm fistula
1979 Start hemodialysis
1980 CAPD catheter
1980 Start CAPD
1989 Cadaveric kidney transplant
1995 2nd cadaveric  kidney transplant
2007 Start hemodialysis
2010 Still drawin' wind
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