Oh, GOD ... How EMBARRASSING! :(

Emergency room trip!  SOMETIMES, LIFE can SUCK!!!

For several days over the weekend, my visits to the bathroom (for # 1) grew VERY frequent. Monday the 16th, the urination was burning and I felt weak and feverish, so I went.  By SOME miracle, I made it there WITHOUT wetting myself.  Tests disclosed a urinary tract infection, blood in the urine, and I was told that some antibiotics would be mailed to me, which I would take for ten to fifteen days, after which I'd need to return for more tests.

I phoned the VA Hospital the next morning, learned they HADN'T been mailed yet, and arranged for them to be held at the VA Pharmacy, where I would pick them up the next day, Wednesday the 18th (it can sometimes take a WEEK for the Mail to get them to me, and I wanted to start the antibiotics as soon as possible.  

I DID, and am ON them now.

To be able to MAKE that trip WITHOUT a minor catastrophe, I got a ride to Walgreens and spent a fair chunk of a donation on ... DIAPERS (Depend Fit-Flex)!!!  AGGGGGHHH!!!  I'm not READY for THIS!!! 

I could Really, REALLY USE another DONATION; it's liable to be a long and painful couple of weeks.

GOD, how EMBARRASSING. Don't expect to see THIS on my blog! :(

THAT line above is how I ended the email I sent to friends.  Obviously I am DESPERATE enough to have changed my mind.

I'll almost Certainly have emergency taxi trips and purchases to make, for which I have almost NO money.  For God's sake, PLEASE!!!
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NEW variant of Nigerian email scam?

Got THIS in an email of 16 DEC 2019 (sent to 'undisclosed-recipients') ...

Hello how are you,I contacted you for the first time but did not receive your response.I will appreciate you to contact me again hence I tell you the content of my mail.Thanks J****.

Replied that day with ...

???

... and got back ...

Hello Paul,

I am looking for the possible beneficiary to the deposited funds of my deceased client Mr A******** Gordon died with his family; I decided to contact you hence I know that  you bear the same surname with him.

I seek your consent and assistance in repatriating money left behind by him before it gets confiscated or declared serviceable by the Bank.The deposit is valued Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only and it is lodged with Bank.

The Bank has issued me an ultimatum to present the next-of-kin of the deceased to claim the funds or have the account declared serviceable.

I hereby seek your consent to present you to the Bank as next-of-kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued of the said fund can be transferred to you.I have necessary legal information which in legal terms are supposed to be known by me and this will I relate to you to support the claim from the Bank.

All I require is your honest co-operations to enable us see the transaction through. I guarantee that the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will appreciate you to contact me again for more detail and to your better understanding to the claim process.

Thanks, J**** M****. 

An attempt to reply to that last message, with the full content, got a "Mail server error" message from MY email server, which probably RECOGNIZED it for the Spam/Scam that it almost CERTAINLY had NUMEROUS reports on.

By DELETING that content, I was able to reply ...

Sir:

Gordon was my MIDDLE name, until I had it legally changed (a LONG time ago).

I am TOTALLY CONFIDENT that I am NOT who you seek.

Best of luck with your quest!  :-)

Any SNARKINESS you may have suspected is correct, but DAMN;  how HANDY Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars could have been!  

("What would you DO with a MILLION Dollars?"  "Put it on my bills -- as far as it would go!" ~Amos and Andy Radio Show)

Sigh ... :(

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47 years ago - Apollos 16 and 17 ...

Originally written as TWO posts, in April 2010 - NOW combined into ONE!

THAT'S how I posted this on 06 DEC 2019, and so noted in the emails announcing it  ... the ENTIRE contents of BOTH posts, comments and all,  making THIS post SUPER long.

TODAY (Wednesday, 11 DEC 2019) I'm replacing that with the following LINKS to both of them, HOPING you have enough curiosity to give them a look. 

Adventure of a Lifetime

The Adventure - Continued

:-)