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"PT Back from the Dead"
Posted by PeterTorque on 07-25-02 at 11:28 PM
LAST EDITED ON 07-25-02 AT 11:41 PM (EST)Long time no see, OT friends I, came very near to death and was in the hospital for a while. My doctors later told me I almost didn't make it the first few days. It was really spooky when I heard that; although I did feel pretty awful, I had no idea I was THAT bad off.
It's no exagerration when I say I was like death warmed over when I got in. My roomate there said "Death warmed over? That's the understatment of the year, how about death-to-go in a microwave Tupperware bowl. You arrived strapped in a gurney with an IV hanging out of your arm, and you were all curled up in ball and couldn't even talk coherently. Your clothes were trashed and poorly mismatched; and you were badly in need of some kind of medication, and a New York hairdresser. The first thing I thought was you'd never make it through the night, and the second thing was, if you did, why were they rooming me with a geriatric patient again? I thought you were some 90-year old guy on the final straightaway right out of here. Little did I know you'd snap out of it in a day and turn into a firecracker."
Thanks to my poetic roomie that pretty much sums it up. The details and unanswered questions will be in a forthcoming story about all the interesing people I had the chance to meet during my misadventure at the Unversity Neuropsychological Institute, (or the 'Looney Bin' as the inmates so affectionatley call it). It will be a gripping story, sort of a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", without the deeply imbedded societal moral statements or Jack Nicholsen. Some people there were institutionalized by choice; some were in lockdown with outdoor cigarette breaks few and far between; some were on 24-hour suicide watch; and some were getting EST (electroshock therapy). All had a fascinating story to be told. And the psychiatrists? Well let's just say it's a fine line. And that goes for you too dear reader, "there but for the grace of God go I".
PS I must stick up for my friend, the badly maligned MonkeyBoy. I plead ignorance here to his mischevious deeds of late because I've been solidly out of the picture, but I do know that it's completely true that his mother is very sick and he's been using a lot of spare time and energy to take care of her.
Table of contents
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,Ronnet, 11:46 PM, 07-25-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,Outfrontgirl, 01:17 AM, 07-26-02
- RE: Peter Torque--Back from the Dead,Teddy_Bear, 05:07 AM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,dabo, 10:15 AM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,Swami, 11:39 AM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,moonbaby, 11:55 AM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,MakeItStop, 12:45 PM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,L82LIFE, 03:21 PM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back,PeterTorque, 03:40 PM, 07-26-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,George Tirebiter, 05:53 PM, 07-26-02
- The Monkeyboy banning + a request,AyaK, 07:58 PM, 07-26-02
- RE: The Monkeyboy banning + a request,LadyT, 08:30 PM, 07-26-02
- RE: The Monkeyboy banning + a request,SurvivorBlows, 01:58 AM, 07-27-02
- RE: The Monkeyboy banning + a request,PepeLePew13, 10:41 AM, 07-27-02
- RE: The Monkeyboy banning + a request,RudyRules, 05:32 PM, 07-27-02
- RE: The Monkeyboy banning + a request,dabo, 06:06 PM, 07-27-02
- RE: PT Back from the Dead,Dalton, 08:13 PM, 07-26-02
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"RE: PT Back from the Dead"
Posted by Ronnet on 07-25-02 at 11:46 PM
Hey Peter - Welcome back!I'm glad you are doing so much better.
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"RE: PT Back from the Dead"
Posted by Outfrontgirl on 07-26-02 at 01:17 AM
WOW Peter,
I had no idea such heavy things were happening to you, but I'm sure glad you made it, glad you're back (in the world and at SB) and I look forward to hearing your story! I've missed your posts.![](http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/User_files/3bc55dcf17252bc8.gif)
By now I should have long been gone, but here I am still hanging on,
as if I didn't know which way to run--Jackson Browne
"RE: Peter Torque--Back from the Dead"
Posted by Teddy_Bear on 07-26-02 at 05:07 AM
Wow, Peter, I'm so sorry about your traumatic experience. I'm really glad you're feeling better 'though
. I always enjoy your posts; I usually feel I've learnt something from them.
Btw, a friend of mine has a terminally ill mother; so I understand, all too well, the horrors of that situation; as I lost both of my parents in the mid-to-late 90s.
Therefore, my heart goes out to anyone with incurably ill family or friends. I still miss my Dad terribly
.
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.
LAST EDITED ON 07-26-02 AT 08:34 PM (EST)>Glad to hear you're doing well again--and I agree, munky has
>been victimized. Perhaps if everyone knew the REAL reason he
>was banned, people would feel less free to assume the
>worst about him. . . (and I suspect if he'd ever gotten a chance to
>answer/defend the accusations, he wouldn't
>be hell-bent on the reincarnations!)
GT, we've been through several threads discussing Monkeyboy, and I really don't want another one. Yes, there were hidden agendas at the time Monkeyboy was banned ... there are always hidden agendas ... especially since he was involved in the middle of the infamous Pendragon e-mail fiasco. But he wasn't banned due to anyone's hidden agendas. Also, I knew full well that someone he trusted had told him that LML was harassing Tink (which is why he flamed LML) and then denied having done so. Others may have believed this person's denials, but I knew better. And I still recommended his banning.
Since you've raised the issue here, by referring to the REAL reason he was banned, I'll discuss my rationale for banning him here. If you wish to reply to it here, please do. BUT, when this discussion is done, I request that there be NO FURTHER DISCUSSION of Monkeyboy. I'm tired of continually discussing this, and I think it's harmful to continue to battle about this. OK?
At the time of the Pendragon e-mails, I asked Monkeyboy not to respond in any way on the board. Yeah, I didn't like the fact that the e-mails singled you out, GT. But, unless that hostility carried over onto the board, I wasn't going to do anything. There was nothing to do. People are entitled to have their own friends and even to form cliques
if they desire....
Instead, Monkeyboy got right in the middle of inciting trouble. In fact, he was the main inciter. I was very peeved about this, because I had been worried that he might be right in the middle of the trouble, as he had been with BluSavana, and so I had specifically asked him not to get involved. But he couldn't keep out of it.
Then, when the trouble got so severe that it threatened to split the board, he apologized on this thread. Well, I accepted his apology, but an apology wouldn't have been needed if he had obeyed my initial request.
Fade to the LoudMouthLee-Tinkerbell posts. Monkeyboy had expressed his "fear" that people were out to get him -- and yet, despite that, he couldn't keep from flaming LML. Even worse to me was that, when people asked him why he did it, he told everyone who his source had been. For reasons I won't go into here, I already knew that he had a source for this information and who it was. But it seemed to me that he had created two more controversies -- the flaming of LML and the battle with this second person -- by his own deliberate actions.
Look, the last thing any moderator wants is a poster who always ends up in the middle of controversies. But even worse is someone who instigates them. Monkeyboy instigated the battle with Pendragon's friends after they returned. Monkeyboy instigated the battle with LML. And Monkeyboy instigated a battle with his source (sometimes you just have to be quiet and take your lumps rather than drag everyone else down with you -- in many ways, I was as upset with his lack of chivalry as with the other two issues. Your mileage may vary.). If I didn't recommend his banning, then why would anyone respect this site's Code of Conduct (the ZTP)?
Feel free to disagree with me. But the fact is, Monkeyboy was banned for his own actions, not to satisfy anyone else's grudges.
As I requested before, I want this thread to be the end of the Monkeyboy discussions. Please honor my request. Say whatever you want to say here, but let this be an end to it.
Thanks, AyaK... I wasn't privy to all of the discussions and exact info of what went down with Monkeyboy, but I do know that he tried to get me involved in some of the stuff going on at the time (I declined).I'm sorry to see this had to happen to him but I firmly believe he created his own luck. I had my doubts for a long time whether he truly did anything wrong without knowing the full facts -- but the actions over the last month or so has only convinced me he DID do something to warrant his banning.
Welcome back, PT, hope the recovery is going good.
Now I hope we've seen the last of any discussions about Monkeyboy. He's not here to defend himself anymore, and frankly, he blew it by inciting more trouble with fake user IDs.
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