JTA'S WILDEST DREAM" OCKLAWAHA HAS PNEUMONIA!

[Ocklawaha]

Doctor... "Do you smoke?"
OCK... "Not tobacco!"

Doctor... "Do you drink?"
OCK... "Not water!"

Doctor... "Taking good care of yourself, closing up the shop, going home and getting plenty of rest?"
OCK... "Yeah, as a matter of fact, let me tell you about the place I closed last night!"

Doctor... "You ARE getting plenty of fluids aren't you?"  
OCK... "Yeah, well your close!"

Doctor... "I understand you are anemic?"
OCK... "No, I'm a Lutheran!"

Doctor... "So THAT'S where the sacramental wine went!"
OCK... "Well A Hospital is no place to be sick."

I was a city councilman in the edge of the Cheyenne-Arapaho lands. This is a painting of a Cheyenne Medicine Man, and I think I should give him a call.

Okay, all joking aside, tonight was a MJ meeting that I was looking forward to. Meeting and hobnobbing with my fellow transportation wizards. Asking about Commuter Rail, Streetcars, Bus Rapid Transit, and Regional Amtrak services to Gainesville, Tallahassee and Valdosta... Starting a movement, changing the world...

Yeah, well COUGH, GAG, COUGH, COUGH!

Just my dumb luck!

Of all the STUPID, idiotic, mamby pamby asinine things to come down with...

My cold of the last several weeks is now officially PNEUMONIA!

...AND THE VERY HOT CHICK ON THE OTHER END OF THE STETHOSCOPE is telling me I could DIE from this!
Making not so veiled threats like, "If you don't get yourself home and in bed, and take this (mega costly) antibiotic, I'm going to admit you to the hospital. ROBERT THIS IS SERIOUS!"

SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!

So it's official, I REALLY do have a bad case of lung rot. But hey, the bright side is I now have even MORE designer drugs!

GOD I LOVE HISTORY!

THEY TOSSED THIS AT ME:

Occasionally it seems to prevail almost as an epidemic. The attack usually begins with fever, preceded by shivering, and the temperature may rise to 104 or 105 degrees. In twenty-four hours or so the nature of the disease is shown by pain in the chest, rapid pulse, rapid shallow breathing, and cough, at first dry, afterwards attended by a rust-coloured spit. Other symptoms are flushed face, headache, skin dry and hot, furred tongue, loss of appetite, eruption of watery blisters on the lips, and delirium is an occasional and always a serious symptom. Recovery should begin about the fifth or seventh day by the disappearance of fever, and the disease usually runs its course in about a fortnight, though it may prove fatal in a few days.

I'm still laughing over that last sentence, the doctor obviously has me confused with someone that gives a shit! Guess I'm out of circulation for a few...

OCKLAWAHA

[Noone]

Ock, A speedy recovery. A big street car bell ringing to you.

A Hogans Creek clean up with your pictorial array of participants will be anxiously awaiting your return as you capture Jacksonville's history.

Your leadership is restoring Hogans Creek to a working tributary that will catapult our Downtown as a Destination. 

[Timkin]

Ock.... please get some rest and DON'T play around with Pneumonia! .. We need your wit and wisdom.  This site is not the same without you !

Best and sincere wishes for a speedy recovery!

[RiversideLoki]

Weeeeellll... I suppose it could be worse.. you could turn into a zombie version of the lead singer of Green Day..



Get some rest!

[Ocklawaha]

...ABOUT HOW I FEEL!

OCKLAWAHA

[BridgeTroll]

Get your rest Bob and take your meds!

[fsujax]

Hope you get better soon, friend!

[wsansewjs]

I hope you get better, Uncle Ockie! ^__^ I came down with the flu past week, so I know how it goes! It sucks! Don't disappear on us!

-Josh

[Timkin]

I ll second that Josh... Cousin Ockie.. you better get better ....you sure don't want me trying to reason with JTA or plan streetcars or any of that stuff...  They would laugh me out of the room..or office or whatever it is that they hold their worldwide headquarters in.  Trailer,, camper, tent... im not sure.

Anyway you get the jest of the message from all of us.. GET BETTER !!!! thats an order SIR ! <SALUTE>

[fieldafm]

Here's to a speedy recovery Bob.

[JeffreyS]

Ok I am prescribing that you stay out of any of Jax's old flooded tunnels for at least a week.
Get Better Soon.

[Timkin]

You can go by them , or have someone else sneak in em .but stay outta em