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Thanks Tower I'm glad You are doing better and Pray you continue on a healthy course.

I am like you coming along slowly. 3 steps forward and 2 back. I spent last week in hospital. The long bleed for 3 years has caused neuro problems. I started balckouts which we blamed on nuero deal which I will clear up more shortly, HA HA. I have 2 things happening right now that has been sorted out by the best seizure guy in AR as well as the best cardio. They are working together with my good old faithful blood doc that has been with me since 4/17/2001. He saved my life not giving up pumping blood in me for 3 years while the Gi's said well we do not want to go in to put him through all that stress as it is really invasive. Well great blood doc says and constantly calling in front of me and chewing other doc's butt's. He said cut this guy open or you are looking at sorse problems down the line than cutting now.

Deal is apparently I have suffered bad oxygen deprivation from running on half empty blood for 3 years and less sometime when rushed to hospital and even have driven myself some. So many trips and transfusions at hospital not counting what Doc gave me in office till His insurance stopped Him, thanks sorry ins. Doc was saving me a fortune as I had no ins. myself. Sometime He would do it anyway knowing I was paying $365.00 per unit and took 3 at a visit many times. He would call his head nurse and they woud meet me at office at night. He is a rare breed. He would not charge me nor nurse so ins. would not know and i was not telling. I'm having seizures that can get controlled but it takes so much meds I cannot function so i cut them back, well you know what happens next it is a rollercoaster. I have lost allot of mony to thieves in business deals which business plans were great, yeah for them since i was the bank. For the record this is not Dragon, He is my best buddy and we are trying to work again at getting a AWD dyno setup again. He will be at SEMA all next week. He will be in class's almost all day every day. He is going to work on his SEMA Masters certificate. His MSA sales manger will be looking at new products for Hummer but, trucks as well as all other rides. Dragon's rep is growing into the good old USA car's well some muscle cars as well as tuners. Me being sick has hurt the Hummer end which we are partners in as he is sole ownber of MSA. He has run both where plan was i would get it off ground and then back off more after a man was hired to sort of take my place. I'm fighting back it is rough so any Hummer business that can be done with Dragon and I will be very much appreciated and humbling. Email Dragon or me. I'm fighting to help as much as i can.

Tower to go back to health I have moved to a Neuro that specializes in seizures caused by trauma such as car wrecks near drownings whateveer. In my case constant oxygen deprivation for 3 years. It took a second visit with thiw tests and he asked if i would mind seeing a heart doc that deals with the electrical side. So i go and he runs 3 test in one day and calls me back in late in the day and told me i have 2 enlarged valves and one leaking. He has all file from the begining of the bleeding and when he saw they let it go for 3 years he went ballistic. He said in simple terms my heart had worked so many times harder that it is cause of my problem. He is running more tests and I'm getting the EP study possible abalition on 11/7/2007. He wants to go inside my heart so he can see with his eyes and he said my heart rate timing fluctuates from one end to the other according to the heart monitors i have been wearing he said first he wants to see if he may be able to zap some nodes and get timing corrected. He did say the blackouts early was the sign of the heart situation not Neuro. yet I do have the seizures my new Neuro is trying ti figure out what to do. I begged him if it took cracking my skull my goal is to get off all the meds i'm on.

Tower i know I may have confused some things but, just ask. You know me well enough i hurry to much and write to long etc. i just wanted to let You know as You always ask more than anyone else. I appriciate that and i know there are allot of new members since i got in back in late 2004 i think August.
I notice allot of the old Buds do not get on much anymore. I had been gone awhile but, did not get on computer much. I started to try more because I have dedicated myself since i bought my 2005 on May 28, 2004 on my youngest daughters birthday. She is doing well tower. I guess You remember she married last 6/2006 but, refused to do so because she could not leave me alone since I had to run my wife off and not my fault so that is all i will say about that. They married and stay with me in a house not huge but, to big for just me. My new son is a great help to me. I became a grandpa for the first time back in Feb.2007 by my oldest girl who is doing really good. My grandson will be one in Feb. of 2008. I asked if they would allow him to call me what i called my grandfather who raised. PawPaw, how do you like that?
I am in the south remember.

I hope to have the health stuff more worked out by end of year. Bills are rough when you are a guy who has always been generous with money helping others but, i believe it will all come back to me. I'm just shocked young men would steal from me knowing I'm sick and me knowing them for 10 years. Each in seperate business deals. One sold Our mortgage company that was doing very well lied took money and shipped a harley to Ireland and is spending his days touring Europe. The other well it is just depressing thinking about it so not worth it. I just wanted to let you know.

tower i really do have plans to get out west and i will let you know and look you up. I do not understand what can happen with enlarged heart valves mean but, doc said it was due to pumping so hard those years and allot of the time nothing pumping. He mentioned the word cavitating like a bost prop and it helped me understand better. I just do not and have not looked up yet what has to be done to fix them. I have had so much surgery i really do not want to be cut open anymore. You know what i mean. I would almost rather let it go as far as i can make it.

tower all in all my spirits are good because fortunately as blood doc said I was one of the most optimistic guys he had seen when he first got envolved with me. When i started in his office (he is mainly a cancer specialist and kind of guy that just will not give up) as i was at his office Wed. for checkup which he still does every 6 weeks now but, He said man this has really gotten complicated just as i kept telling all the other docs back in 2002 after one year get off your butts and do your job. No joking I was in his office when he made the phone calls which at the time the reason was no one wanted to get very invasive and the surgery they would do is real bad they said. Well it could not be worse than now.

tower i was so glad when I saw you jump back on line with us and found out you were doing better. I know you have a good ways to go but, i think like me you will get there. This last week as before going into hospital they removed all meds to help stress me an cause as bad a seizure under 24/7 watch which they did last Friday. But, this week while slowly coming back online with meds everyone said they were looking at the old TAZ again. I was up beat smiling and trying to make all feel good which is just how i really am. I hate going back on the meds but, until new Neuro decides what he wants to do I have to take them and now the heart doc is adding meds to level heart beat out.

I want to be well to build something to drag race in besides with H2 especially when it is at a show. The H2 would just be a run or 2 just to freak people out. I want to build a late 90's Mazda Miata with a
Ford 9 1/2" rear end and I think a small block 5.0 Mustang engine with a short drive shaft. Tranny manual I think? I'm not sure an auto with a trans brake would fit. It would need rubber all the way across the back. I would move the rear end back some since wheel wells would be enlarged anyway for big slicks. I want to go all motor first the look at SC or turbo then add methanol inj. etc. etc. I cannot do anything half way. I got to make some money first but, what do You or anyone think of doing that with a Miata. They are bad boys. I have seen one that was converted but, it is a street rig and made to look like a Shelby Cobra. It fooled me for a few minutes. It was all the latest electronic systems in it.

tower I rambled long enough. I get insomnia allot with the meds and now heart doc is adding toptol 25mg to level out heart rate.

I would not mind if anyone that has this deal with enlarged valves and one leaking plus had the EP with a abalition done instead of just a possible with me. Tell me what it can do if You do not mind. PM me or let's move to different part of forum and let me know where. Thanks to anyone or many who can give me an idea of the different things doc may do to help me as he said at least help the heart rate problem by zapping some nodes i think.

Thank all for your patience and any help.

Thanks tower for your yeah on the H2 project. We are really looking at chnaging paint scheme but, some say no way should we do that. We want to instead of having the raised fake air intake caps making caps that are smooth level with hood because we have the huge hood scoop. Some say they look of the hood is sort of off just a little with the bumps on the corners.

Well as asked any ideas will be taken very seriously.

TAZ