[pct-l] Fw: Pain depressant....guaranteed in readable format this time

[Reinhold Metzger]

Sorry,  but I know I hate to read messages that run a mile of the page.

----- Original Message -----
From: Reinhold Metzger
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net ; Deems ; Monte Dodge
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:34 AM
Subject: Pain depressant


Hi Gang, ......Hi Ed,
I'm back by popular demand........... for a limited time only.
Thanks for all the get well wishes.   I did not know that I had so many
friends on the PCT-L.
Thanks a lot again.  It helps to ease the pain.
I have been relatively injury free for most of my life, but the last four
years, it's been one thing after another.  Ruptured disk from a fall in the
Grand Canyon in 2002;  reconstructive shoulder surgery on the left shoulder
from a high speed skiing crash; now surgery on the right shoulder to repair
massive rotary cuff damage also from a skiing accident.
My plans for this year were to do a Grand Canyon hike in May, a Yosemite
hike in early summer, a SOB  JMT with my wife in 17 days, and then do an
unsupported solo JMT shooting for a sub five.  This was going to be my JMT
grand finale.
At 66 I'm getting too old for this extreme stuff.  I may still do the JMT
with my wife, but I don't think I will be able to whoop myself back into
shape in time for another shot at lowering the record.

Oooohh........the pain is getting unbearable.......I stopped taking
prescription pain killers which made me nauseated and throw up and switched
to Jim Beam for pain depressant......I HATE PAIN !!!
I think it is time for a snort of Jim Beam.
Here's one to Monte, here's one to Deems, (I know they believe in pain
depressants)  here's one to Switchback and Ed, here's one to all my other
hiking buddies and to all who wished me well, here is one to all my ski
buddies and Marine buddies and all the girls I loved before.....Ooohh.....I
better stop this.
It's funny how this pain depressant makes me much more sensitive to and
aware of the earth spinning on its axis.
Ooohhh.....it's really spinning now......I better lie down for a while.
There, I feel much better now thanks to Jim Beam,.........I mean pain
depressant.

JMT Reinhold
Your spiritual...hic, I mean spirituous...hic, I mean spirited trail
companion...hic