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Mike, i hope and pray thd best for you. It was a pleasure knowing you on here and a blessing to actually meet you.

Mike - I first joined this forum more than five years ago, after lurking on the internet sideline for more than a year. I'm the type of person that has always "Blazed my own Trail", plus or minus, black and white, yes and no with not much in between, it was my way or the highway for most I encountered. Once I joined this forum, I still did not participate for months, as I was "testing the waters". Mostly as I needed to know, "was this for me?".

Mick and you (a few others) were people that I had decided, yes I can relate to and more important for me, have a exchange of thought with. One of my first post, was a "hijacking" of another members post. I asked a very selfish and self serving question. It was something like "where can I sell my gold and get my money now?", type of post. You set me straight with a response along the lines of "cool your jets" and take sometime to learn about the facts. Most others ignored me completely (rightly so), you continued to engage me by encouraging me to learn from all other members (past and present).

Mike simply put I would have not stayed with this forum without your leadership, mentoring, humor, sternness and above all, you CARE for all of us. I will pray for you and your family, I have seen modern medicine do amazing turnarounds, in persons I know. Remain positive, strong in faith and most important "keep your will for another day".

We will be here keeping this forum advancing my friend, as we have a leader that showed us how it is done!

Just a quick and further update. The Ft Wayne Ind. Va healthcare system has done it again. Simply put; they gave me notice at 3pm that they would no longer pay my bill at the other hospital I had been in and had until 7pm to be in the ambulance for a 3 hr ride down to Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center down here in beautiful Indianapolis Ind. Look out Sledge, I'm moving in.lol So how long I am able to be here I do not know as of now. I'll try to keep everyone posted of my progress or lack of but I still appreciate all of the friends thoughts and prayers as I guess one can never have enough. thanks again,,,, Mike

Enjoy the ride!

Thank you to Sirscrapsalot for the heads up on Mikes thread and health issues.

Thank You Mike, for your service to this country and I'm sorry about your decline in health and how badly the VA continues to treat you and the millions of other Vets that need care.

Thank You for being so patient with noobs (and not so noobs) and for always being there with an answer or a link for even the silliest of questions...No one will ever be able to fill your combat boots.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family sir...Godspeed.

Thanks SirS for the info about Mike.

Mike I am at a loss and am saddened to hear of your health issues. You have been one of the people here that I can honestly say has been a like a proffesor to me and so many of us here. Without your guidance and patience I don't think this forum would be where it is today. I will be praying for you and your family in the coming days. Keep fighting and stay strong. You have a very big extended family that is behind you.

Ray

Keep that fire going, about the only thing I can say about the VA is they get that bully mentality and after a while I had to threaten to call my congressman and that was the end of that until I could leave under my own power (the first time). My thoughts and prayers go with you, I wish you could get what you need from Zablonki VA in Milwaukee, they are far and away the best VA in the country.

You have a very, very large family here that's praying for you. If there is anything that any of us can ever do to help, I'm sure I speak for most of us that we would do whatever we could to help.

Just swinging in to bump this thread back to the top

Also wanted to say SMF is the best forum out there. I'm on a video forum and a truck forum and they don't compare to this one. No Internet forum is perfect, but this one is the best... A lot of that has to do with Mechs temperament, patience and guidance.

Still praying for you and yours Mike.

Yea what pjost said. I have noticed you have been to some of the other threads contributing. I am happy to see that for you.

When I spend nearly two months in hospitals(I got transferred a few times to different hospitals) I would have been happy for the opportunity to be online and participate in a great forum.

Keep battling Mike. 73, Mike

I want to thank everyone for their kind words and echo the sentiment . Mech you were the very first person I ever pm'd on this forum and I want to thank you for making me feel at home from day 1 . I owe you a lot of gratitude for just being you and want you to know your in our hearts, thoughts and prayers . I wish you the best , you deserve no less !

Originally Posted by pjost

Just swinging in to bump this thread back to the top

Also wanted to say SMF is the best forum out there. I'm on a video forum and a truck forum and they don't compare to this one. No Internet forum is perfect, but this one is the best... A lot of that has to do with Mechs temperament, patience and guidance.

Still praying for you and yours Mike.

Actually a lot of the greatness of this forum is all the members sharing what they find to better the others members. I just occasionally take out a little trash but this forum wouldn't be half what it is without all the great members.