[AGL] Re: Jack Jackson's memorial

[Wayne Johnson]

Frances.

This was a good thing.  I am happy that Jack got recognition for his contributions.  It is so hard for a "non-Academic" to get this, so for Jack, it is really special.

wgJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Re: Jack Jackson's memorial


  Wayne,
  Speaking of leaving a sweet memory, Jack Jackson's memorial was this morning. It was very well attended despite the rain. It was held at the Hyde Park Christian Church, pleasantly without any faith based shibboleths despite the church setting. Dozens of people on the list and other Austinites I know were present. I was unaware of and pleasantly surprised at how well respected he was among professional historians. Several historians spoke and lauded his contributions to Texas history. There was a gentleman from Seguin who spoke poignantly of Jackson's role in enlarging on the themes of Texas history to include the role of Texicans, hispanics who fought alongside the Texans to free Texas from the control of Mexico, and his immortalization of Juan Seguin. He noted that the man's descendants were unaware of his historical importance prior to Jackson's biographical history of the man. Micael Priest broke down emotionally when describing Jackson's tortuous use of his crippled hands to draw the numerous works to his credit. Micael strongly identifies with that since arthritis has made him have to abandon his art, too. There were many others who testified to Jackson's greatness and goodness. It was an event that certainly did him proud.
  Frances

  Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:

  Re: Bats in the belfry
    Frances. 

    Quite frankly your remarks scare the shit out of me.  Rabies is NOT like the flu or the plague or dengue fever or malaria.  No one's "system" repeat NO ONE has any "immunity" to rabies.  You either don't have it or if you have been bitten or exposed and you don't get the shots, then you will die and it will be unpleasant beyond your imagination.  

    Don't fuck around with your life, Frances!

    Talk to the damn doctor.  If he/she says you are OK, then.........maybe.....you are, but if you have as much as a headache within the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, you go directly to the hospial and explain the situation.  

    We just ran this damn drill this past month when we rescued a 150# Great Pyrenees bitch from US 66 and couldn't determine whether or not she had been vaccinated.  Many years ago, because of a conversation I had with a guy down at the Texas Health department, who had just lost a professional colleague to rabies (via aerosol transmission, btw) I have kept a very close tab on rabies - what has it, what isn't likely to have it and what to do if you come into "close" contact with an animal which has it.  

    So far as I know, only one person, a young girl, has survived rabies after symptoms showed up.  They immersed her in an ice bath which lowered her temperature wayyyy down and I believe she lived.  I hope it didn't return.  As I said, that is the only case I know of with a survival which is why I said it was 99.99% fatal.  Probably now it is considered only 99.999998% fatal.  Previously it was 100%.  As in all who get it, die.  Just one of the reasons Louis Pasteur was considered such a great man in Frances (other reason being that he personally saved the grape growers from losing all their stock at one time.)

    No expense would deter either Honor or I from getting shots if I thought those were the possible odds. With the dog, she is fine and she did have her shots when she was a puppy.  We were covered with blood and saliva so we were worried.  But as the vets said here in VA, dog rabies is much "less virulent" than bat rabies.  There was a case of a young pregnant woman getting bitten by a bat she picked up on an Arizona highway.  Two days later, in California, she was dead.  Ouch.

    Also, get a gd screen for that window or shut it.  That LBJ "has this problem all the time" is just another bullshit, dumb-ass Texas response to things that "smart" people would try deal with but in Texas gets passed off until someone dies or has their dick fall off.  At least you don't have that problem.  

    But, ini the final analysis, it's your life, not mine.  I am just an emotional old fogey who gets all upset and worried when I think a friend or acquaintance isn't trying to take care of themselves.  "Live hard, die young and leave a sweet memory" is for teenagers and idiots.

    Cheers.

    wayneJ
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Frances Morey 
      To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
      Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 12:55 AM
      Subject: Re: [AGL] Re: Bats in the belfry


      Wayne,
      Just when I thought I had solved the bat problem, there were "noises" suggesting that there was something or someone else in the apartment. Wouldn't ya' know, there was a second bat that spent the night, and day, here. Because of all your cautions I went to the security desk to mention the bat's presence to Daniel, on duty tonight. He indicated that this was routine at RBJ Tower. Apparently we are in the bat's flight pattern. He immediately accompanied me back to the apartment, used a towel to cover the animal and then shook it out the window. He liked my aquarium dip net solution and said he would ask management to buy one for the building, perhaps larger than the one I have, more like a butterfly net.
      Wayne, I come from European stock that survived the bubonic plague--I think my immune system can handle a few bat molecules in the air, after all these aren't vampire bats, and I ain't a mosquito. 
      Best,
      Frances

      Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
        Frances.

        No amount of "health insurance" matters if you contract rabies.  Rabies is 99.99% fatal.  There are two series of shots: one group is given in the butt or arm and is fairly painless; the other, the original one, is a series taken in the solar plexus and it is the one everybody hates.  The longer you wait the more likely you would wind up with the dreaded original series.  I do wish you would talk to your doctor about this.

        I am not the person for whom the "everything is all right" nostrum works.  Every time in my life, someone has said "don't worry about it" the roof caves in.  

        Yes I am paranoid and yes I am emotional and no I wouldn't modify either factor for all the money on Bill Gates' credit card.

        wayne
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Frances Morey 
          To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
          Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:13 PM
          Subject: Re: [AGL] Re: Bats in the belfry


          Wayne,
          I didn't have any contact what-so-ever with the bat and "captured" it with a fish net and, as I described, manouvered it into a large mouth plastic jar. Then I held it out the window until it flew away. Since Mexican free-tail bats are the ones that have taken up residence in the Congress Avenue Bridge, I would be willing to bet that it is one.I don't need to "drop the dime" as I have health insurance 
          now, and an appointment with the doctor next week. Not to worry, Wayne, everything is all right. 
          Frances

          Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
            Frances.

            So.  You "captured" a bat!  What kind of bat?  If it was a Mexican "Free Tail" bat, then I hope you are aware that between 80 and 90% of that particular species carries rabies.  Others, somewhat less.  Now, I know there will be an explosion of "bat protectiveness" and "rabies denial" from other on the List, but for GOD'S SAKE TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR!  Call the Texas Health Department and/or Animal control.  Talk to your friend John Meadows (Austin musician/actor) about his "bat in the eye" experience.  You should have kept the bat, Frances.  It was kind to the bat to let it go, but potentially bad for Frances.  

            Bat rabies is more virulent than other forms, ie. skunk, dog, etc.   Did this bat "touch" you in any way, shape or fashion?  Did you wash your hands afterwards?  You may well need to get shots.  Oh, some will doubtless say, there goes Wayne AGAIN...all Agitated and Emotional but those who demure and deny are essentially gambling with YOUR life, not theirs.  

            Likely all will be well, especially if it didn't piss on you or breathe on you or, of course, actually bite you.  Bat bites, btw, are very hard to see as their teeth are very small.

            Drop the dime, Frances.  Call the Health Department or your doctor.  Listen to what they have to say, not me, not others, listen to them, they know the odds as well as the cases as well as all the gruesom descriptions of how your brain begins to shut down and the blindness, hallucinations and drooling begin.

            Drop the dime.

            wayne
              ----- Original Message ----- 
              From: Frances Morey 
              To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
              Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:28 AM
              Subject: Re: [AGL] Re: Bats in the belfry

              Good morning, Wayne, et. al.,
              In another vein, I suppose it was inevitable, me being a fresh air freak and all. On my early morning trip to the bathroom a shadowy thing skittered across the floor. Eek a mouse was my first instinct. But no, it turned out that a visiting bat came in my wide open window overnight. I watched it fly circles around the room unable to find its way out the window. When it stopped to rest I caught it with a fish tank dip net and manouvered it into a large mouth jar. I was tempted to keep it for a while to show the visiting grand kinder but it seemed so scared and alone that I opted to hold it out the window and let it fly away.
              Best,
              Frances




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