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911 said:
How about Falcon?
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Falcon was mentioned several times on this thread... :)...When we made the change over to this new format, I remember him saying he was not about to learn new ways.. he'd got used to the old way and wasn't about to learn anything new at his advanced age I suppose..
 

Happyflowerlady said:
My beloved friend (and all of our friend here at the time) , Ina, passed away on December 9, 2017, @Pappy. Her stepdaughter, Patricia, called me that morning and told me that Ina had passed away in her sleep overnight.
It was a total shock to me when it happened, because Ina seemed to be doing okay, and she and I had been talking about getting ready for Christmas, and she was looking forward to celebrating Christmas with her family.

I am forever thankful that Ina was able to come to Huntsville and visit me after her husband passed away. She bought herself a nice little Kia Sportage, loaded up her little Yorkie, Izzy, and drove all the way from Houston, Texas to Huntsville , Alabama. We enjoyed being able to actually visit and get to know each other “in person” for almost a week, and then she drove back home.

Ina loved her iPad, but she had trouble understanding how it worked, and I was her on-call iPad helper right from the first ; as well as we just had visits almost every day , and I had come to think of Ina as part of my family.
I still miss her, but I am glad to believe that she is in heaven with her husband and two sons now. Here is a picture of Ina and Izzy when she went on her last trip , and this was in California at the Golden Gate Bridge.

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I do miss Ina, she was a good person, may she rest peacefully....will always be remembered. 💜
 
hollydolly said:
Falcon was mentioned several times on this thread... :)...When we made the change over to this new format, I remember him saying he was not about to learn new ways.. he'd got used to the old way and wasn't about to learn anything new at his advanced age I suppose..
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I remember that CeeCee said she called him on the phone, and he wasn't very coherent. His son was caring for him, I think he may not have been doing very well, aside from the software upgrade.
 

hollydolly said:
Falcon was mentioned several times on this thread... :)...When we made the change over to this new format, I remember him saying he was not about to learn new ways.. he'd got used to the old way and wasn't about to learn anything new at his advanced age I suppose..
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Thanks. I should have read the other posts. It’s been awhile since I posted and I need to catch up, but too much has happened.
 
911 said:
Last Wednesday evening, I was ready to leave for the day when I was asked if I could stick around for another hour or so while the Radio Dispatcher took a short lunch. I agreed. She wasn’t gone 10 minutes when I received a call from a young man telling me that he just killed his mother and two siblings and was going to kill himself. He told me that he wanted me to know so we could get some cops to his house and clean up the mess so the bodies wouldn’t lay around for days.

I immediately called the Lieutenant who was in charge of the District. He activated the SWAT team and they surrounded the house before kicking in the door. It all tuned out to be a hoax. The kids in the house had been playing a virtual reality game online and the one player had to identify his home address. From that, the kid on the other end of the line called in the hoax using the kid’s address.

Since then, we have given the caller’s IP address to the FBI and they will be handling it from here on out. It appears that the call came from Connecticut, but the FBI will be able to use the IP address to find the direct link to the correct house. I haven’t been into the Barracks for a few days, but I’m sure that this person who made the call has already been identified.
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Earlier this morning, I learned that the call came from a small town in Connecticut named Torrington.
 
hollydolly said:
yes that's right... she never got over his death . She was quite a bit younger than Michael and she was broken when he died, and with several health issues of her own, she didn't manage to get out of her 60's...:(
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Ina was also a wonderful example of how a person can have a hard life and not become bitter. She was a loving, caring person.
 
CeeCee said:
I just called falcon. He answered the phone but has trouble hearing.

He sounded good but he couldn’t hear what I was saying ...said to call later so I can talk to his son Don.
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Too many airplane engines in his head. I have Tinnitus from jet engines. Man, those things are loud and the vibration alone is enough to break an eardrum.
 
CeeCee said:
That’s probably the case with falcon. When I first met him 15 years ago, he was already having slight hearing problems.
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The problem with Tinnitus is that it doesn't show up until later in life. There is no known cure, but there are hundreds of remedies that people swear by. I have been to special hearing institutes in New York and also to the Cleveland and Mayo Clinics. My last visit to a specialist was at Johns Hopkins and I got the same answer from everyone. "There is no known cure." Not even cutting the nerve (Acoustic Neuroma) would be a 100% guarantee that would stop the noise, but it would stop the hearing. I asked the last doctor, just out of curiosity, if the noise will stop when I die. His answer was astonishing to me. He said, "Maybe!"
 

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