My 1868?s.

[Fred]

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Three beautiful 1868/1868’s.
this was before I bought rifle # 93 also.

[lyman]

Lovely rifles Fred


and glad you survived the Cooties,

[Fred]

Haha!
Thanks Lyman. Me too, just barely this time.
I ate my 2nd meal last night since New Years and am drinking water again. My urine is no longer dark brown. Normal color now, so my kidney’s didn’t give out.
I shaved and bathed and feel so much better.
Lost 25-30 ponds of ugly fat and didn’t have to cut my head off to do it. Lol

[lyman]

I had the ohmycrap variant of the Cooties a couple weeks ago,

no where near as bad as what you had, just about a week of flu like symptoms, and fatique,

only lost 6 lbs,,


re those kidneys, please keep up on the water,
as a stone producer, I drink 7-8 glasses of water a day,

dark urine is not good,

[Fred]

Thank you for the excellent advice.
Will do

[jon_norstog]

Fred, glad to hear you are recovering. You did right to take care of the animals & I hope your wife is on the mend. Quite a few of those early trapdoors were sold off when the '73 came in, and a lot of them got sold to the Indians. That's what Garcia says in "Tough Trip Through Paradise" - the NDNs liked them because they would knock down a buffalo. Seemed a little foolish to me for the Army to sell off those weapons before the whole question of who "owned" the Great Plains was settled.


jn

[Fred]

Jon, that’s Very interesting about the 50-70’s being sold off when the 45-70’s were issued.
that sure explains why some of the 1868’s are in such worn condition.

My wife is still weak but she’s stronger than a week ago and hasn’t the pox like red spots all over her arms and legs like me.. My lungs seem to be healing slowly. It feels like I’m getting over pneumonia or something. I cough up blood, but not enough to suggest a hemorrhage.
Anyway Week by week, I’m slowly able to breath a bit deeper and get more oxygen.