Sasquatch, I've been to the Rickreall show a few times. Didn't know much of Paul's background so thanks for filling in the blanks. A lot of his vids sure "feel" like Deschutes County to me. I miss the Oregon pine forests but I sure don't miss Oregon's lefto politics.
Real Oregonians - not the pussified limp wristed skinny jean wearing shitstain California transplants that have been continually infecting the state since the 1950's.
The more no-bullshit type who come from hardier stock, the types that immigrated to Oregon from the midwest to strike out a better life and put up with the struggle and hardship. Not those who flew north from Santa Clara, San Francisco, or Los Angeles to sit in a life sucking flourescent lighting filled cubical farm filled with the sound of depression and the low clacking of keyboards occasionally interrupted by a loud expletive, or the dickface moisturized hand having turd suckers who sold their parents home for 10X what their parents paid to some dot-commie who flew north and hoovered up productive farm lands to turn them into vineyards, nursuries or weed farms.
Well, he did leave out the commune hippy spawn from the 70's and 80's.You sir are a wordsmith.
The nurses at the main campus and the surgeons were amazing. However, the staff outside of the main campus and the clerical staff were pretty ice cold. As for the IV issue, I've seen that everywhere. My mother was a nurse and she claimed that hospitals put the emphasis on nurses having degrees and "book learning" instead of physical contact. When they put my port in at Memorial Hermann, the first nurse had her 3 tries at putting in an IV and failed. The second one did the same. The third nurse took 2 tries to get it right, and it was very painful but I put up with it rather than find out whatever other damage they could do. Also, The Woodlands used a different port than the main campus. The first time I had to get disconnected from the portable chemo was on a Saturday, so they had me go downtown. Of course, they didn't let anybody know that down there, and it took me an hour to find out where the chemo lab was. The techs pulled and tugged for what seemed like an eternity before a third tech came in and showed them how to get it to disconnect.Your earlier post about cancer being evil is spot on. My wife has survived, just barely, throat cancer, is now an invalid and will be until she dies.
However, your statement about MDAnderson is not true, in our experience. All the doctors, nurses, staff, technicians, were caring and have done, and are still, doing their best to help her out and trying to get her to have a better life while she's still here. They went out of their way to get her started in treatment several weeks earlier than we expected, treated her like a queen, and been nothing short of wonderful. The only complaint we have had is a few of the nurses in the chemo treatment didn't know how to put in an IV. A couple of them were butchers, but that's to be expected in any large hospital. Overall, the entire treatment plan is way beyond expectations.
Deemus, you have to be a real Oregonian to know just how far down the toilet that beautiful state has gone in the hands of the progressives and former Californians who dragged their mutant political visions with them and proceeded to shove them down everyone else's throat. I am a native of Salem, lived most of my life south in the Rogue Valley (I sure miss the flyfishing for summer steelhead), but some on the "dry high side."
Sasquatch is telling it like it is. Sadly, there used to be a wonderful gun shop in Hillsboro called the Powder Horn and that is where I first set eyes on a Ballard Pacific No.5 in .40-90 Ballard Everlasting. I have not been quite "right" ever since.
I thought a friend's wife was a bit of a tough bitch, then found out she's a pediatric oncology nurse. I cannot imagine what's she's been through in her line of work.Oddly enough, he decided cancer was too depressing and quit. Last I heard he was going to move to some middle state (Kentucky?) and become a small town general practitioner. I was billed over $1000 every time I saw the primary doctor and sometimes that was for 5 minutes.
For the most part, EVERYBODY at M.D. Anderson sees every patient as someone who is about to die. My mother was a nurse at a nursing home and she had to be careful not to like any patients because, like it or not, they are in Heaven's waiting room. So I get why they act the way they do. As a patient, you are nothing but a "medical record number" for most of your time there. (You have to memorize the number and be prepared to recite it before anyone will test your blood pressure, operate on you, feed you, mop the floor, etc.) Now, after you've survived a few years, they suddenly know your name and they'll ask about your family or your pet dog or whatever, like as if you suddenly became human. And the funding people will always tell you how much you are loved and how much more they will love you if you donate lots of money.
Slightly revised (as appropriate), that ought to be his eulogy!He is the YouTube gun daddy - either on the very early edge of Gen X, or the tail of the Boomer generation - but that doesn't matter.
He's a hunter, a dental hygenist, firearms instructor, black powder rifle afficianado, and had a military career, IIRC in both the USMC and Army, finishing up in the Oregon National Guard. He's been a shooting competitor, won a bunch of medals from local matches and military matches, but is not one of the modern tactical gun gamers.
He is famous for his "Shatneresque -- pauses", his spiffy shooting jacket(s), and his Meat Targets (tm) - which are usually made up of pork ribs, pork chops to simulate muscles, a bag of oranges to simulate lung tissue, usually wrapped in a T-shirt and backed by the high-tech fleece bullet stop. His other favorite target is 3 liter Shasta "soda jugs"
He's done some very good presentations on calibers, specific bullet comparisons through various rifles and handguns, he did a good breakdown of the Miami shootout and how maybe the FBI's charge to switch to 10mm was misguided, and tactics played more of a role than caliber failures in that engagement.
He's killed two men in self defense, was arrested in one of those cases and exonorated in court for it (he shot a man in a pickup truck trying to run him and his wife over while they were camping at a very remote state campground in Eastern Oregon before an upcoming black powder shooter event - he used, IIRC, an A2 style AR15 in that shooting if I remember the court docs and story correctly) - the other killing is very hard to find details of, so I can't speak to that one.
He's a man who likes classic muscle cars, classic (and classy) guns - favoring a .38 Super chambered 1911 over the .45 flavor - and isn't some wokester, tactical Ted, or fudd who hates anything modern. Just an all around average guy with a slightly above average background who started making videos teaching some firearms basics and expanded from there. A plain spoken man who would probably get along smashingly with most folk on this forum.
He's been on my YouTube watch list for over a decade, longer than any other "content creator" on that site.
AmenI am not trying to offend anyone, but I had a strong urge to post a prayer:
Heavenly Father, bless and be with Paul and his family at this season of his life. Comfort him and embrace those around him with Grace, love and unity. I know it is in Your power to heal him, but I also know Your purpose is not always revealed to us. Thank You for Paul’s service to our Nation and community. Let his fellowship and contributions serve as a reminder we are not alone and given life by You to serve others through You. Amen