My 5 Alarm Hoe

[Cattivo]

Merry Christmas to you @Cattivo
Good luck with the shots, the wife just had them done last month, her back is messed up from a car accident years ago. Sorry to say it didn’t help so much... hopefully yours will.

Thanks brother, I will try the shots before going under the knife again...sorry to hear about your wife, hope she gets better

 

[95escahoe]

I've been searching for 2 new trucks the past week...after looking at 100's of Escalades for my wife I've come to the conclusion that the new ones are really ugly! I think I'm gonna stick with a 2010-2014...those long tail lights on the 2015 and up are absolutely hideous!

Also, my search for a new(ish) diesel Silverado 2500 is not going very well...unless I drive over 3 hours away, there's nothing but over priced junk around here...I'm starting to consider getting myself an Escalade as well at this point lol

Did you ever see Tony’s Escalade? (aka NorcalSS) his has the bigger tail lights he wrapped them in black so there shorter and look like regular height tail lights it looks pretty good imo

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[BigDaddy13440]

Hope you're feeling better and reach your goal brother...my back is now paying the price from power lifting for the past 25 years, going to get some cortisone shots in my back next week to ease my sciatic pain

Merry Christmas to everyone here and to all of your families

And a Merry Christmas to you, my brother. Hope your days are filled with nothing but good cheer!

Already dropped 20 lbs since last Monday morning. I walked down the stairs this morning, and my wife said she can already notice. I'll probably lose another 10 between today and tomorrow, I'm sure my metabolism is going to skyrocket, salivating over all the food I can't have. My wife is half Italian and half Irish, so there is the seven-fish dinner tonight, and lasagna, ham, turkey, pork roast, homemade chicken soup and all the accoutrements of an Italian Christmas.

On the Irish side - beer and booze. Usually Killian's Irish Red or Guinness, and a few shots of Jameson over the couple of days.

If I can manage the willpower over today and tomorrow (and I don't have an option NOT to), the next 7 weeks before I can resume eating anything I want (albeit in about 1/6th of my old portions) will be a piece of cake.

 

[Cattivo]

Did you ever see Tony’s Escalade? (aka NorcalSS) his has the bigger tail lights he wrapped them in black so there shorter and look like regular height tail lights it looks pretty good imo

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I've never seen this Esky before but it does look much better wrapped than those giant tail lights

 

[95escahoe]

I've never seen this Esky before but it does look much better wrapped than those giant tail lights

He’s got a build thread on here somewhere I think if you tinted what’s left it would look even nicer


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[Cattivo]

And a Merry Christmas to you, my brother. Hope your days are filled with nothing but good cheer!

Already dropped 20 lbs since last Monday morning. I walked down the stairs this morning, and my wife said she can already notice. I'll probably lose another 10 between today and tomorrow, I'm sure my metabolism is going to skyrocket, salivating over all the food I can't have. My wife is half Italian and half Irish, so there is the seven-fish dinner tonight, and lasagna, ham, turkey, pork roast, homemade chicken soup and all the accoutrements of an Italian Christmas.

On the Irish side - beer and booze. Usually Killian's Irish Red or Guinness, and a few shots of Jameson over the couple of days.

If I can manage the willpower over today and tomorrow (and I don't have an option NOT to), the next 7 weeks before I can resume eating anything I want (albeit in about 1/6th of my old portions) will be a piece of cake.

Thanks brother...that's crazy the amount of weight your losing especially during the holidays ...my family is right off the boat from Italy so It will be 8 hours of eating fish today and 8 hours of eating everything and anything Italian you could possibly imagine tomorrow lol

 

[Miami-Dade]

Merry Christmas Cattivo!! BTW stay out of the Nanuet Diner on Route 59..It sucks!!!!

 

[PG01]

Nanuet diner.....we would go there Friday nights/sat early am after being out all night in high school

 

[Miami-Dade]

Nanuet diner.....we would go there Friday nights/sat early am after being out all night in high school

It was good years ago until around 2005..What I really loved was Hogan's Diner on Route 59 in Nyack until the big mall bought it out..Used to go there before work and then after work with my co workers before I jumped on the Palisade Parkway to NYC..I knew the owners and everybody there..It was awesome.

 

[Tonyrodz]

It was good years ago until around 2005..What I really loved was Hogan's Diner on Route 59 in Nyack until the big mall bought it out..Used to go there before work and then after work with my co workers before I jumped on the Palisade Parkway to NYC..I knew the owners and everybody there..It was awesome.

Those old diners are a dying breed.

 

[Cattivo]

Merry Christmas Cattivo!! BTW stay out of the Nanuet Diner on Route 59..It sucks!!!!

Merry Christmas @Miami-Dade I've never been to that diner before...I usually grab a burger at the Golden Eagle Diner in Morris Park

 

[Cattivo]

Merry Christmas to you @Cattivo
Good luck with the shots, the wife just had them done last month, her back is messed up from a car accident years ago. Sorry to say it didn’t help so much... hopefully yours will.

@Galante I went and got the 2 cortisone shots in my lower back yesterday...HOLY SHIT, I feel like I'm 20 years old again!!!!!!! the DR. told me he hasn't seen that much inflammation in a persons back in over 25 years that he's been in business...he said he had no idea how I was even able to walk upright! I told him if the shot actually worked I was gonna give him a hug lol...after he stuck the 15 ft needle in my back, he asked if I felt anymore pain...I said no and he ran out of the room!...the nurses outside the room told me he was scared I was gonna hug him and hurt him lol

I actually slept over 4 hours and woke up this morning PAIN FREE!!! If anyone knows back pain it's me...I know your wife must be in a great deal of pain, tell her to give my DR a call to see if he can help her out...DR. Syed S. Rahman, MD 1133 Westchester Ave White Plains, NY 10604 (914)358-9700

Hope this can help her out brother

 

[PG01]

@Galante I went and got the 2 cortisone shots in my lower back yesterday...HOLY SHIT, I feel like I'm 20 years old again!!!!!!! the DR. told me he hasn't seen that much inflammation in a persons back in over 25 years that he's been in business...he said he had no idea how I was even able to walk upright! I told him if the shot actually worked I was gonna give him a hug lol...after he stuck the 15 ft needle in my back, he asked if I felt anymore pain...I said no and he ran out of the room!...the nurses outside the room told me he was scared I was gonna hug him and hurt him lol

I actually slept over 4 hours and woke up this morning PAIN FREE!!! If anyone knows back pain it's me...I know your wife must be in a great deal of pain, tell her to give my DR a call to see if he can help her out...DR. Syed S. Rahman, MD 1133 Westchester Ave White Plains, NY 10604 (914)358-9700

Hope this can help her out brother

Thats good shit, thank you. Ive done alot of work in that building..... After her accident she went to a doc on the other side of westchester ave closer to white plains.. had it done there years ago. This time diff doc/place and he said you can have it done 2x a year ...minimum of 2 mths apart but they usually do it every 6 mths....it works on 95% of the people.... guess who is in the 5%... shes got bad L4/L5 or something which turned into degenerative disk dis and sciatica.... i dont know..my body hurts but i dont have that kind of back pain thank God....so i feel bad for you that do, i watch her writhe in pain sometimes....thanks @Cattivo much appreciated

 

[BigDaddy13440]

L4/L5/S1 here for me... been 22+ years since I screwed mine up. Was dealing cards up here at Turning Stone, reached and twisted the wrong way and "POP". Was hunched over, unable to stand upright. Left the table on November 13th, 1995 and never returned. Two years later, went back to school for Construction Management, got my two Associates Degrees (Management and Technology), and started working for an ex-GF's family friend. Settled my case with the Casino in 2000, bought in as a partner in Jan '01. Being doing residential remodeling since.

Tweaked my back again 3 years ago, spasms and jolts going down my legs into my feet. Saw a specialist, told me my L4/L5/S1 didn't have any discs left between them, they'd started to self-fuse together a few years prior, and that having surgery on what had already self-repaired would involve cutting the vertebrae in half, taking them out and opening my sciatic canal from the squished "oval" to the "circle" it should be, then epoxying everything together, with steel rods for support.

Ummmmm...... no. As long as the pain was manageable, no way in Hell would I go through that. Apparently my pain threshold has gotten increasingly higher, because I don't even feel my lower back issues any more. If I feel stiff, a couple visits to my chiropractor and I'm fine for at least a few weeks. I guess I'm extremely lucky that that's all it takes for me, I have the utmost empathy for @Cattivo and @Galante 's wife.

As far as the pain in my feet, I found out shortly after tweaking my back that I was diabetic, and that the majority of my pain was related to that. Pain hasn't been nearly as intense since having my gastric bypass surgery, 85% of the people that have the surgery that have diabetes, the diabetes disappears. Hoping it goes away as I lose more and more weight. Also hoping my arthritis subsides, I actually can't wait to get back to work - only been 10 days, and I'm itching to get something accomplished. Don't know how I'm going to manage 7 more weeks - I'd crawl out of my skin if I was out for months on end.

 

[drowssap]

@Galante

I actually slept over 4 hours and woke up this morning PAIN FREE!!! If anyone knows back pain it's me...I know your wife must be in a great deal of pain, tell her to give my DR a call to see if he can help her out...DR. Syed S. Rahman, MD 1133 Westchester Ave White Plains, NY 10604 (914)358-9700

Hope this can help her out brother

2 things that flip me out about that post is 1- hearing about a place in White plains. I remember doing a lot there as well as in Elmsford. But #2 is the discussion of serious back pain. That stuff is no joke. It is truly amazing how a person can endure and still function while suffering from ailments in other parts of the body but bad back pain literally put me on my hands and knees. It is truly incredible to find someone with the skills to correct a problem like back pain on that level.

 

[PG01]

L4/L5/S1 here for me... been 22+ years since I screwed mine up. Was dealing cards up here at Turning Stone, reached and twisted the wrong way and "POP". Was hunched over, unable to stand upright. Left the table on November 13th, 1995 and never returned. Two years later, went back to school for Construction Management, got my two Associates Degrees (Management and Technology), and started working for an ex-GF's family friend. Settled my case with the Casino in 2000, bought in as a partner in Jan '01. Being doing residential remodeling since.

Tweaked my back again 3 years ago, spasms and jolts going down my legs into my feet. Saw a specialist, told me my L4/L5/S1 didn't have any discs left between them, they'd started to self-fuse together a few years prior, and that having surgery on what had already self-repaired would involve cutting the vertebrae in half, taking them out and opening my sciatic canal from the squished "oval" to the "circle" it should be, then epoxying everything together, with steel rods for support.

Ummmmm...... no. As long as the pain was manageable, no way in Hell would I go through that. Apparently my pain threshold has gotten increasingly higher, because I don't even feel my lower back issues any more. If I feel stiff, a couple visits to my chiropractor and I'm fine for at least a few weeks. I guess I'm extremely lucky that that's all it takes for me, I have the utmost empathy for @Cattivo and @Galante 's wife.

As far as the pain in my feet, I found out shortly after tweaking my back that I was diabetic, and that the majority of my pain was related to that. Pain hasn't been nearly as intense since having my gastric bypass surgery, 85% of the people that have the surgery that have diabetes, the diabetes disappears. Hoping it goes away as I lose more and more weight. Also hoping my arthritis subsides, I actually can't wait to get back to work - only been 10 days, and I'm itching to get something accomplished. Don't know how I'm going to manage 7 more weeks - I'd crawl out of my skin if I was out for months on end.

Guy i work with did the spinal fusion, pin thing... he is still ****** up and that was 10+ yrs ago

 

[PG01]

2 things that flip me out about that post is 1- hearing about a place in White plains. I remember doing a lot there as well as in Elmsford. But #2 is the discussion of serious back pain. That stuff is no joke. It is truly amazing how a person can endure and still function while suffering from ailments in other parts of the body but bad back pain literally put me on my hands and knees. It is truly incredible to find someone with the skills to correct a problem like back pain on that level.

Let me guess... on 9a north towards ossining?

 

[drowssap]

Let me guess... on 9a north towards ossining?

Do you remember the drive in theater by any chance?

 

[PG01]

Do you remember the drive in theater by any chance?

If its the spot im thinking theres a brand new audi dealership there now

 

[08grey]

I've been searching for 2 new trucks the past week...after looking at 100's of Escalades for my wife I've come to the conclusion that the new ones are really ugly! I think I'm gonna stick with a 2010-2014...those long tail lights on the 2015 and up are absolutely hideous!

Also, my search for a new(ish) diesel Silverado 2500 is not going very well...unless I drive over 3 hours away, there's nothing but over priced junk around here...I'm starting to consider getting myself an Escalade as well at this point lol

Cummings silverado on the east coast are unicorns. All the ones for sale were plow trucks their whole lives.

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