I've waited all day...

[Laurajean]

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No, I knew it. I know it because a close friend of mine died today too, 25 years ago. Hit by a drunk driver. So I always think of it on this day. I'm just too preoccupied missing my friend to put much thought into Elvis.

August 16 is also his birthday, so it's double pain.

 

[redhen]

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No, I knew it. I know it because a close friend of mine died today too, 25 years ago. Hit by a drunk driver. So I always think of it on this day. I'm just too preoccupied missing my friend to put much thought into Elvis.

August 16 is also his birthday, so it's double pain.

Thats tough...

 

[SarahFair]

the autopsy found Elvis’s colon to be five to six inches in diameter, compared to an average of two to three inches. And rather than the standard four to five feet long, Elvis's colon was eight to nine feet.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...onstipation-reveals-doctor.html#ixzz1VHcFm3xS

He said that although he offered Elvis a colostomy, to remove part of his bowel, his pride meant he rejected the treatment.

And Dr Nichopoulos thinks that if Elvis had undergone the treatment he might still be alive today.

'He would get embarrassed, he’d have accidents onstage,' said Dr Nichopoulos.
'He’d have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation.

'So if they had done the colostomy then, he’d probably still be here. But it wasn’t acceptable treatment at that time. Now the treatment is short.'

'During the last few years we were going back and comparing pictures, some of them were taken just two weeks a part but he looked like he’d gained 20 pounds when the only difference was that he had a good healthy bowel movement and then lost a lot of weight from that,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...lled-chronic-constipation-reveals-doctor.html​

 

[greeneggsandham]

Raise your hands if you've been to Graceland.

Funny story my husband and I had gone to Texas to pick up a truck and drive it back to RI. On the way home we kept seeing signs for Graceland. I said to my hubby why not stop its not like we are going to get back here any time soon. We had gotten there about 9 am and the place wasn't to busy. We saw everything, the mansion, his planes, movies of his were running. It really was a great experiance. And the kicker, it was on the anniversary of when he died. By the time we left there was an hour wait to get in.

Not a huge Elvis fan, but I do like his music and the movies he was in. My mother is a huge Elvis fan and had gone to a concert of his a couple of years before he passed.

 

[ChooksChick]

I was surrounded by the news all day. It was on CNN, too! You poor baby, alone in your melancholy- there were folks missing him all over the world!

We got out the Elvis sno-globe and plates and had a little sing-along...

 

[sgtmom52]

Did you know that Elvis Aaron Presley had a twin brother Jesse Gavon Presley who was stillborn about a half hour before him? It is unknown for sure if they were identical twins although it is often reported that they were identical.

 

[magicpigeon]

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Marlon Jackson also had a twin, Brandon, who died at birth. More common then I thought...