Please keep my grandmother in your thoughts and prayers

Hello everyone!
I apologize to all of you that were expecting to read a post by me yesterday.I was a very busy man yesterday and things at my "web",the household if you will,were very chaotic.

First,inexplicably,I lost my cell phone when I went out to the clubs on Sunday evening.I was absolutely going stir crazy trying to find it inside my house as well as the two cars that I drive regularly on a day-to-day basis.Luckily for me,my cell phone was found when I returned to the club on Monday night and it is now in my posssession.I had to have it turned off when I called my wireless phone company just in case if somebody stole it attempting to make some long distance phone calls and Lord only knows whatever criminal intent that they may have had in mind.I am expected to go to my wireless company today to have it reactivated.

The topic to my blog today is about my grandmother,Thelma Autry.She is the mother to my late father,Carlton;who died back in 1998 at the ago of 60 due to complications of multiple myeloma.

I remember those days when I stayed with her and my late grandfather,Henry at their house when my mother Gladys had to go on numerous boat trips at her job.My mother is a marine biologist and has been for over 30 years.She isn't slowing down and is not expected to retire from her job anytime soon.Anyway,when I stayed spending my days and nights with my grandparents when Mom was away,it was lots and lots of fun;especially with my grandfather on the weekends.Like me,my grandfather was a huge wrestling fan and we watched every single wrestling program that was on:World Class Championship Wrestling,Southeastern/Continental Championship Wrestling,Mid-South and Georgia/World Championship Wrestling.I miss my grandfather and those days that we shared together immensely.My grandmother,like my mother was a wonderful cook and made several terrific meals for Grandpa and myself to enjoy.

My grandmother is around 91 years old.When you reach that age in your life,it is truly a blessing.I am very grateful that the Good Lord has let her live this long.She can be a very nice lady once you get to know her,but at the same time she can be very rude,vile and mean.Maybe it has to due to senility and old age,I suppose.She was staying with my brother,Michael,his wife and my sister-in-law,Brenda and his son,my nephew Chris.Due to seversal arguments and irreconcilable differences,my brother and his family could not stand the type of things that she was doing at their house;being nasty and rude,making his house very dirty and unliveable.Therefore,the decision was made to have my grandmother live with me and my mother.Grandma came to live with us during late spring/early summer and she has been staying with us since then.She has been very forgetful(no personal knock against her) and sometimes Mom and I had to constantly remind her to take her medications,to get up early and not sleep late and not do things that she wasn't supposed to do that would do her,ourselves and our house harm.Almost like telling your 5 year old kid not to touch the stove because it is very hot.Your kid doesn't listen to you and does it anyway,eventually burning themselves badly.I'm sure you can understand and relate to our situation.

When we try to help her in ways that would benefit her,she always copped some bad,nasty attitude,talking very sassy as if she wanted to be left alone;not wanting to be bothered by anybody when we absoultely did nothing wrong to her except trying to help her.When you act as stubborn like she was,sometimes it's best to leave well enough alone.Don't get me wrong,I love my grandmother,but some days it was nearly impossible to be around her and have even remotely a friendly conversation with her.Pretty much on a daily basis,I went on about my business,my Mom went on about hers and so did my grandmother.

Yesterday,I was very concerned about my grandmother.It was around 3:00 PM in the afternoon.She goes to bed around 8 PM-8:30 PM at night.When I went to check on her,her door was locked and I knocked on her door to see if she was all right.She told me that she was,hwne in reality she really wasn't.She said that she couldn't see the door to her room.My grandmother is blind in one of her eyes and really that was due to her not going to see her eye doctor.I'll tell you all some very good and strong advice about that later.She told me that she was on the ground.I believe that she had collapsed to the floor.This is a situation my Mom and I had told her about many,many times;the risks to what happens to her when she sleeps really late.I told her to crawl to the door and to unlock it just for me to see if she was O.K. She crawled to the door and she unlocked it.When I unlocked the door,I saw her exactly as I had just described,on the floor as if she had collapsed.According to my calculations,she slept for nearly 19 hours.She told me that she couldn't see.I helped her up and guided her to the bathroom.She grabbed me by my left arm and I helped her to the bathroom for her to get situated.After when she used it,I helped her to her favorite chair in the living room.I gave her a banana just for her to get her blood sugar level back up.She doesn't have diabetes,but take it from one who used to have that disease and understood its complications,giving her a banana to eat was very helpful.

I called my Mom and told her about Grandma's situation.She immediately came home from work.She came home and Grandma told her what happened to her.Mom helped her to her room to get dressed and took Grandma to the hospital.A few hours later,Mom called me and told me about Grandma's condition.From what the doctors and nurses told her,Grandma suffered a stroke to her eye or something of that nature and the early prognosis is that Grandma may be totally blind.A blood clot formed near the back of her eye.A neurologist and other eye specialists are going to see Grandma today to see what the deal is.Although I am hoping and praying that my grandmother isn't blind,but that just could very well might be the case.

Like I stated earlier,my grandmother went for months on end not going to see her eye doctor,which probably led to her blindness in one eye.When she did got to see her eye doctor,the eye doctor gave her some eye drops to use on her good eye to save the vision on that eye.I really couldn't tell you if my grandmother used her eye drops like she was supposed on a day-to-day basis,but my gut feeling is that she didn't.

There was a time in my life when I was a diabetic that I took everything in my life for granted;acting like nothing could ever happen to me and that everything is O.K.I,like my grandmother,neglected to get regular eye check-ups and sooner or later,it caught up with me.It was discovered I got diabetic retinopathy.

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease where blood vessels and arteries in the retina become weakened and form small,dot-like hemmorages;which leads to swelling or edema in the retina and decreased vision.Circulation problems cause area of the retina to be oxygen deprived causing the eye to have spots or floaters;rainbow-like rings.If you saw a street light lamp being lit at night,that's what I basically saw;those rainbow-like rings.Later phases of diabetic retinopathy could mean continued abnormal vessel growth and scar tissue causes retinal detachment and glaucoma.

During this stage in my life back then,my blood sugar levels,my diabetes,my blood pressure and my health were going out of control.My body and my eyes paid a heavy price.Soon,my vision got bad and my kidneys failed me.These are the some of the risks of diabetes,kidney failure and blindness.I went to my eye doctor and he told me that I had diabetic retinopathy.I had to have two laser eye surgeries to seal those leaky blood vessels in my eye and prevent new ones from forming.

Two years ago because of my kidney failure,I had to go on dialysis about 3 days a week.I was on a list to receive a kidney transplant.About a year and a half ago,I received not only a kidney transplant,but a pancreaas transplant too.Thanks to my new pancreas,I do not have diabetes anymore.No more taking any insulin shots twice a day,no more worrying about going into insulin shock and slipping unconscious into a comatose state.None of that any more!I am very and truly blessed for what I have.

I have been taking very,very good care of myself since my double transplant suregery.I have been taking my anti-rejection medications when I am supposed to and I visit my kidney doctor and my eye doctor on a regular basis.My constant visits to my eye doctor have been nothing short of extraordinary!Even though I still have complications of diabetic retinopathy,to this point I have had no complications of my eye disease and my vision is vastly improving.

If I can give any advice to anybody out there,it is this:
If you have a doctor,a foot doctor,an eye doctor or even a back doctor for that matter,go see them regularly!Don't think for one minute that you're feeling fine,that evrything about you is O.K. and that you feel you really don't need to see your doctor,you do!Go see your doctor,get your regular check-ups and do exactly what your doctor tells you to do.Your health is very important to you and DO NOT EVER take that ot take anything in life for granted.

Also,if you would sometime today,PLEASE say a prayer for my grandmother Thelma,for me and for my family as well!

THANK YOU!

Results from the July 15th AWF Chipley show

I want to thank Buttonman for inviting me to his house yesterday and helping me get started on my blog.I also want to thank him for taking me to the AWF show in Chipley and back safe and sound.
The show took place at the non air-conditioned T.J. Roulhac Center rather than the very cool,very comfortable air conditioned bulding.But,despite the unbearable,adverse and sauna-like conditions,the wrestling action was just as hot!

Here are the results from the show:
MATCH #1:
Backdraft defeated David Prime.Prime brought in a steel chair to hit Backdraft,but BackDraft ducked,Prime missed the chair shot and instead Prime's chair hit the ring ropes and the chair ricocheted back to Prime's head knocking him unconscious.It was a simple cover and a very easy victory for Backdraft.After the match,they played "The Star Spangled Banner",our country's national anthem as Backdraft holding Old Glory high stood over the fallen and unconscious David Prime as the song was playing.

MATCH #2/Match for the vacant Southern States Heavyweight Championship: GhostFace (managed by Eddie G.) defeated Chaz as GhostFace,who was unmasked at match's end to be revealed to the AWF Chipley crowd as "The Big Deal" Ryan Holland won the match with a reverse DDT.

MATCH #3:
"THE SYMBOL OF VIOLENCE" Jon Ryker and Johnny 8-Ball defeated "Grease Monkey",excuse me, JunkYard Joe and Shane Youngblood managed by Eddie G.
Ryker reversed an Irish Whip by Shane Youngblood and Eddie G.,who at that time had his back turned and thinking that he was tripping up Jon Ryker,instead tripped up Shane Youngblood as he went down face first knocking him out cold.Ryker covered Youngblood and hooked his leg for the 1-2-3.

MATCH #4:
Two members of THE CANADIAN CARTEL,Mr. Fantasy and Chris Tighe(with David Prime and Sexy Samantha) defeated the team of Andrew Anderson and Dixie Dynamite.

Before the match started,"The Sexy One" sang a rendition of "O
Canada",the Canadian national anthem despite the constant barrage of
very loud and boisterous boos from the Chipley,FL crowd.

Not too terribly long ago,Mr. Fantasy made a very pitiful,horrible,pathetic attempt
to sing the Canadian national anthem.His cattle walling nearly broke every window in the T.J. Roulhac Center.Good Lord!Where were my freakin' earplugs when I needed them.Believe me,his attempt was bad.....VERY,VERY BAD!Needless to say,Sexy Samantha's rendition fared no better.I tell you,if these two ever attempted to
sing either on American Idol or on It's ShowTime at The Apollo, both of them would have been ceremoniously booed off the stage.Even that clown that appears in the Apollo would have given both of them the hook,trust me!

This was a very good match-up between these two teams.As the match started,at first it seemed that the team of Dynamite and Anderson seemed to had the upper hand in this match leaving the Canadian Cartel discombobulated in the early going.But,it was soon to be short lived as Fantasy and Tighe took control of this match and
man,did they ever take control!Even David Prime and The Sexy One got
involved in this match-up when the referee's back was turned.Prime
choked put Anderson on the bottom ring apron and soon after Sexy
Samantha slapped the taste out of his mouth with a hard,vicious slap
to his face.

Near the end of the match,the momentum all of a sudden shifted to the
Dynamite/Anderson team.But strength in numbers and simply just too
much Canadian Cartel to go around.Tighe and Fantasy threw out Andrew
Anderson in the waiting hands of David Prime as he bagan to pummel
him unmercilessly outside the ring.Then they did the same to Dixie
Dynamite.

Mr. Fantasy finished off Dixie Dymanite in a very dominating
and very unique fashion.Mr. Fantasy picked up Dixie Dynamite into a Northern Lights suplex position,a Scott Hall's Razor's Edge if you will,released him and caught him in a devastating Diamond Cutter!In the immortal words of the late,great ring commentator Gordon Solie "WOOWWWW!" or in this case as Gordon would have said when Dixie Dynamite got laid out "OOOOO!".This particular move Mr. Fantasy called "Final Fantasy".

Then Fantasy tagged Chris Tighe.Tighe climbed on the top rope and came off it with a flying swanton down on Dixie Dynamite.Tighe covered and hooked his leg for the 1-2-3 victory. Then the onslaught by the Canadian Cartel began.Chris Tighe went outside,grabbed a chair and hit andrew Anderson with a steel chair.Inside the ring,the Canadian Cartel got their Canadian Maple Leaf flag and parted Dixie Dynamite's head like the Red Sea as his face and head was a crimson mask after taking a shot to the head by the Canadian Cartel and their Canadian flag.

MATCH #5:
T-Bolt (with Selina) defeated "Gorgeous" Glenn Cortez (with Eddie G.).T-Bolt dropped Cortez's head like a bad habit with a brainbuster.T-Bolt covered Cortez and hooked his leg for the 1-2-3.

T-Bolt won the battle,but not the war as all the men of Eddie G.'s Stable (JunkYard Joe,Shane Youngblood and "The Big Deal" Ryan Holland) ran in and ambushed T-Bolt.AWF Champion Dan Delicious ran in to help T-Bolt,but there was one too many members in the Eddie G. Stable to overcome and they all attacked and pummeled Dan Delicious as well.The men of Eddie G.'s Stable threw T-Bolt over the top rope and onto to arena floor as well as Dan Delicious,not to mention their so-called on the take,hip pocketed referee that was donning a white,Mil Mascaras type mask.

MATCH #6/MAIN EVENT:
Dorrian defeated AWF Heavyweight Champion Dan Delicious in a non-title match.The referee was knocked out near the end of the match.David Prime ran in to ambush Dan Delicious.Then T-Bolt ran in to help Dan Delicious by attempting to take out David Prime.But,Prime reaching into this tights,pulled out some powder and threw it into T-Bolt's eyes thus blinding him.Dan Delicious came to T-Bolt in an attempt to help him,but T-Bolt,who was still blinded,grabbed Dan Delicious and hit him with a powerbomb.Dorrian threw out T-Bolt and covered the unconscious AWF Champion for the cheap 1-2-3 victory.

Following the match,the AWF Champion went outside the ring to help out T-Bolt to see if he was O.K.It turned out that T-Bolt was O.K. and the two embraced each other.

Next show is Saturday,August 12th at HOPEFULLY in the air conditioned building next door to the T.J. Roulhac Center.Belltime is 8:00 PM. BE THERE!!!

Another day, another 200 miles

Today I am scheduled to be at AWF Chipley. Before that I have stopped at Buttonman's house to get tutored and be brought up to speed on how to make a blog (this blog).

Later I will report on all the matches and other activities of the night and maybe upload some pictures.

By way of commentary, I believe that the Canadian Cartel (above left) will win the AWF Tag Team Tournament. How can I be this bold? Because nobody cheats as well as these North of the border bozos who wave the Canadian flag around like it was a diva's underwear. Yes, these are the very same kanucks eh, who interrupt the USA National Anthem to play and sing (badly) Oh Canada!, like one had to go to the bathroom and the other was compelled to hold his hand while he went.

Hopefully, they will lose. Realistically, they will not. They will check their manners at the door and stick "it" to the AWF Fans. These Molson Beer loving mopes will not stop until they dominate AWF Chipley. Just once I would like us all to stand and in a loud unified voice sing "NO CANADA!"

More on that later.

GSW Sunday 9th

MATCH #1:

"MR. ELECTRICITY" Jerry Reiner (right seen against Mercury McLoud) defeated Damian LaVaye.Reiner defeated LaVaye with his finishing move called "Shock Therapy".

MATCH #2:

In a tag team match,Mercury McCloud and Tony "THE XTINGUISHER"
Sweatt defeated Joe Kane and Matt Gordy

MATCH #3/SIX MAN TAG TEAM MATCH:

The Armstrongs,"BULLET"Bob,"SUPERKICK" Scott and TNA superstar,"THE ROAD DOGG"B.G. James defeated "MARVELOUS"Marcel Pringle and "THE DOG RIVER BOYZ"(Aeon Flexx and Ricky "ROCKET" Roberts).

This was a wild,back and forth 6 man
tag team match.Then again,when haven't 6 man tag matches not been wild?I totally got a kick out Marcel and his men's theme music set to the TV theme from the classic hit TV show drama DALLAS.All 3 of those guys would make even the diabolical,double crossing,two-timing character on that show,J.R. Ewing look like a patron saint!

Marcel held The Bullet's arms from behind as "The Rocket" climbed on the top rope to attempt to hit The Bullet with a missile,excuse me,rocket drop kick,however "The Bullet" moved out of the way and "The Rocket"'s drop kick connected on Marcel instead."The Bullet" covered Marcel for the 1-2-3 victory.Since Marcel was the loser of teh fall for his team,the stipuation was that he had to ride the mecahanical bull that was in the back left hand corner of the building.That was a total hoot and for everybody to see Marcel attempt to ride that bull!I never laughed so hard in my life!

MATCH #4:

The Mountain Man defeated Ryan Fury and Jester McKain in a 2-on-1 handicap match.After Mountain Man won the fall,Minotaur ran in and attacked the Mountain Man from behind.However,his onslaught would be short-lived as Mountain Man battled back and retaliated and then Minotaur ran out of the ring as fast as two feet could carry him.

MATCH #5:

The masked wrestler known as "The Professional" defeated "THE OLD SCHOOL ASSASSIN" John Saxon (with his ever so beautfiul manager/valet at his side,Irresistible Danielle ) by disqualification.

At first,this was a classic,back and forth encounter between these two outstanding competitors.Then during the match things got a little interesting as The Professional took unnecessary shortcuts on Saxon with the referee not seeing any of this chicanery taking place such as hair pulling,eye gouging,eye raking,low blows,etc.

Whenever Saxon attempted to retaliate to avenge The Professional's wrongdoings,either The Professional got to the ring ropes especially when Saxon tried to pin him or the referee would stop Saxon from doing anything.

All this anger within John Saxon kept boiling and boiling until finally he erupted like a volcano and started going ballistic knocking out the referee,beating up on The Professional,knockig out and stomping Percy Pringle III and even nearly everybody in GSW security.I can understand Saxon's anger for what The Professional did to him during that match to make him mad,but did Saxon go over the edge beating up on referees,security and PP3?I'll leave that answer for all of you to decide.

I absolutely couldn't believe the way Saxon was shouting at Danielle.This reminded me about 21 years ago when I was a teenager watching various WWF programs on TV the way when "Macho Man" Randy Savage acted and treated his manager Elizabeth (GOD REST HER SOUL!).This even carried all the way back to a very dark room next to the locker room where Saxon continued his shouting and verbal barrage to Danielle.I really couldn't hear all what was being said,but he did tell her to do what he said and do whatever he told her to do.I felt really,really sorry for Danielle being treated the way Saxon treated her.She really DID NOT deserve this kind of treatment at all!To me,it was very heartbreaking and very sickening seeing and hearing all of this unfold.

During his verbal tirade following the match,Saxon got on the microphone and is putting up $1,000 of his own money to ANY WRESTLER in Florida,Alabama,Mississippi,New York or wherever who thinks that can defeat him.Saxon said he'll make anybody tap out.Pringle responded to Saxon saying at the next GSW show,he said that he'll get anybody and whoever he wants to take up on John Saxon's challenge.I heard some rumours as to whom that opponent for Saxon might actually be wrestling next month.I know that one of those wrestlers mentioned will definitely give "The Old School Assassin" all that he could ever handle!

MATCH #6/MAIN EVENT FOR THE WHISKEY CHAMPIONSHIP:

The Whiskey Champion Kornbred defeated "THE OLD SCHOOL ASSASSIN" John Saxon by disqualification.

As I saw this match unfolding,I cannot believe that whatever John Saxon told or said to Irresistible Danielle before the match started back at the locker room,it must have worked.Almost like as if she was programmed like a robot that was created by some mad,evil scientist or for that matter,her being brainwashed.

During several occasions during the match,Danielle got on the ring apron to distract the referee while Saxon did any and every unnecessary tactic to gain any undue advantage on Kornbred.One time she even tried to trip up Kornbred as he was coming off the ring ropes after being Irish Whipped by John Saxon.

Once the decision to the match was rendered and was made public to the fans of GSW through the public address system,as if John Saxon wasn't already mad before after the semi main event,he went absolutely livid as the announcement was made of him losing the match by disqualification turning the timekeeper's table upside down and just about everything else in the building that wasn't nailed down.

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I can't wait until Sunday,August 20th for the one year anniverary GSW show at The Whiskey!There will definitely be some very big surprises in store for everybody,fans and wrestlers alike.