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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 28 Dec 11 - 02:25 PM Glad to hear of resonable outcomes, so far, for the recovering sickies. I am sick too, but mostly just sick in the head and it's an ongoing condition so it doesn't count. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: SINSULL Date: 28 Dec 11 - 12:21 PM Severn's room is ready. Jell-O setting up in the fridge. Ratched's ready to perform any surgery necessary but I think we have to convince her to sterilize the chainsaw. Cook is preparing suitable meals. Wheelchair races are being ortganized in the geriatric ward. What else needs doing? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Dec 11 - 10:52 AM She gets what she deserves if she hangs around Sev - cruel and unusual puns. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 26 Dec 11 - 03:32 PM Thanks, guys, I've just seen the new thread- damn that Nurse Ratched. I saw he was messing around with her in the Tavern - it's dangerous to play with that old witch, I'm glad he's safe + being cared for and will keep in touch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Dec 11 - 01:34 PM Great minds think alike, Mary. I just put a note in the Tavern thread. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: SINSULL Date: 26 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM Unfortunately or not it is time clean a room or two and wake up the staff. Severn is back in the hospital and will be requiring some after care. Where's Ratched? She needs to get the ice baths up and running.Somebody check out the WiFi. Is there a stock of lime Jell-O? I can go out for supplies if you give me a list... Sister SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 26 Dec 11 - 05:50 AM All quiet.. does that mean all well? I hope so. Merry Christmas to all freda |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 25 Jun 11 - 02:58 AM This ward is an essential service. Sandram, Catherine Jayne + Sev, thinking of you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 24 Jun 11 - 09:58 PM Keep healing, Sandra, Catherine, and everyone else! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Catherine Jayne Date: 24 Jun 11 - 09:19 AM I'm well....now! Had a week in the hospital with kidney stones and a severe kidney infection. Was on IV fluids, antibiotics, morphine and tramadol. Spent a week not really knowing my own name! had a month off work now, 2 weeks of those on jury service. now well and building up my fitness. Back to work on monday! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 24 Jun 11 - 01:42 AM yesterday I picked up a nasty vomiting/gastric bug & even tho it is 11 hours since the bug announced it's presence in the very early hours of the morning, I still feel a bit woozey. I spent most of the 11 hours in bed & only got up 90 mins ago. Sometime soonish I'll have a dry bikkie or 2, all I've had is water & paracetamol (tynal or something like that to the US Catters) following advice of a nurse friend I rang a few hours after the bug hit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 23 Jun 11 - 09:06 PM Oooh, pretty flowers, Sandra. I hope they cheer those of you who are still having physical problems. They cheered me, and I'm doing well right now! Severn, I hope you can work things out, the back pain, Social Security, and Vet's Admin. Phooey on bureaucracies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 23 Jun 11 - 04:08 PM None of my posts took after I tossed my cookie. Sev... good luck with that and with continued progress in healing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: GUEST Date: 23 Jun 11 - 10:50 AM Hope it goes well Sev and that the healing progresses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 23 Jun 11 - 07:08 AM A very gnowing comment, gnu. and Sev, not only the same hurts, but a sick computer. good luck with Vet's Admin, all the red tape just adds another layer to it all. and Sandra, see you Sat! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 23 Jun 11 - 06:44 AM good luck |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Severn Date: 22 Jun 11 - 07:06 PM My computer's been down. My hurts are about the same. I just found out that Social Security is no good for benefits the moment. I will check out the Veteran's Admin. in a few days and hopefully get my own computer back up. Tall tales to come. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 22 Jun 11 - 07:04 PM Odd that there are not more posts given the number of sickos hereaboutst. Of course the mentally disturbed are likely reluctant to post so I guess that rules out a great deal of Mudcatters except for the loikes a me eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 22 Jun 11 - 04:04 AM I still have an occasional cough! but nothing worth mentioning. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 22 Jun 11 - 03:51 AM The corridors are strangely empty.. does that mean we're all ok, or .. how is everyone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 15 Jun 11 - 09:56 PM well, I have a cold! But it's nearly finished, so I'll just leave a bunch of Australian native flowers & not bring the few remaining germs in! sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 15 Jun 11 - 05:21 PM Soooo... I just had a minor "tweak" in the OR and, much to the opposite of what I was told, I had NO pain after the drugs wore off. The OP wasn't a full success as the doc stopped short on one side of my honker to see if the minimal invasiveness would do the trick. Might have to go back and reem out the left nostril some more in 3 to 6 months but it was a walk in the park as far as pain is concerned. Soooo... let's have some updates from the rest of you sickos eh???? Keep! A round for the house! Hmmmm... that's the tavern thread... how long does binlaudid stay in yer system anyway? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 May 11 - 01:42 AM I'll second that! where would we be without the Recovery Ward? sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Severn Date: 15 May 11 - 09:33 AM Thanks! This place gives us a chance to print the truth about our conditions and recovery, while inventing our own fictional staff of doctors with their own attempts at cures. And it's a place that those who needs to know we will print updates, so that we don't have to tell the same story umpteen million times. I Sixth the emotion and send out my best to all who are struggling with conditions of their own or of their loved ones. That's yet another reason we are here, to be there for each other and provide info and laughter to help out the rest of us. There's plenty of good therapy for all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: freda underhill Date: 15 May 11 - 06:44 AM 5th, and glad to hear that Sev's in good form too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 14 May 11 - 11:39 AM 4th |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Rapparee Date: 14 May 11 - 10:32 AM I'll third that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 14 May 11 - 12:08 AM I'll second that |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 14 May 11 - 12:03 AM Heal quickly, Donuel, and I hope your wife's surgery goes well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Donuel Date: 13 May 11 - 11:35 PM I got poisoned by some sort of vine and am in day 5 of forearms that that look like they were hit by buckshot. The Doc gave me cortisone. My wife goes in for another surgury this week to enable her to use her leg which has a paralyzed quad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Rapparee Date: 13 May 11 - 10:27 PM He'd better be on the mend. Getaway is coming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 13 May 11 - 02:59 PM Great news! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Bill D Date: 13 May 11 - 11:47 AM Sev was in passible form last night, singing behind me and chatting. I think he's on the mend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 13 May 11 - 02:24 AM fire? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Rapparee Date: 12 May 11 - 06:39 PM Which humor? Air, fire, water, or dirt? Obviously Sev has one or more off balance or he wouldn't be the sicko he is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 12 May 11 - 04:03 PM Severn, glad you are able to maintain a sense of humor! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 12 May 11 - 03:30 PM Take Al Phlegming's magic elixir and you'll cough it up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Severn Date: 12 May 11 - 11:39 AM Another of life's setbacks, this time a Strep Throat. So they're sending in the young sacrificial lambs to deal with my basic needs, Candy Streppers, Strep Minors, Strep-Teases or whatever they call the cute teenage nurse's aids these days, so that the A-Team doesn't risk infection more than they need to. After it being scratchy for a week, they found amounts of positive "Culture" in my throat, so I may have to switch to singing opera or vocal folkal "Settings' that they'd give to people like Kathleen Farrier (sp?) when they thought they'd found a few trad songs that were too good for the proletariat. But it seems that after administering some old-fashioned codene-laced tussin syrup like they used to sell publicly in the old days, my real voice is coming back, for bitter or worse. After a night of tussin without turnin' on this stuff, I managed to sleep through the alarm as well as my pain management nurse appointment, which I must not have really needed at the moment anyway. Meanwhile, I'm walking the walk and croaking the croak. I've waited longer for this bit of hoarseness to come around than the one I bet on in the Kentucky Derby. I wish that nag had been sctatched instead of my nagging throat condition. I don't know which will end up costing me more money. Meanwhile, I try to relive the days of my phlegming youth, trying to be able to clear small throats in a single bound...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 05 May 11 - 09:55 PM Oh, my! My heart go out to those who are ill or in pain. I had my post-op exam by the surgeon today. He said the pathology work showed no sign of cancer, my incision has healed nicely, and I can go back to regular exercise classes in addition to the senior classes I had already resumed. The endocrinologist will keep checking to make sure that I am getting enough calcium and that my bones are improving. Sandra, nice photos! I saw three short contemporary dance pieces one evening at the Sydney Opera House. Some of our tour group climbed the "Hanger" bridge, but I'm not that fit and terrified of heights anyway. My childhood English penpal married an Aussie and lived in Musswellbrook for several years before they both moved to England. Their son was born In Sydney and returned there to work after graduating from school (but not college) in Lincolnshire. He is now doing college classes after work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Donuel Date: 05 May 11 - 10:57 AM 3 months after surgury my wife still has no control or use of her left quad which means she is still in a brace and uses a walker. PT and electric stim has no effect. I think a nerve got cut. We are going for a second opinion but I fear that doctors covering up for each other may take precedence to a cure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Rapparee Date: 05 May 11 - 10:34 AM I shouldn't complain, but I think I'll do a fast update. My wife's healing from breast cancer surgery is coming along as expected, and she's taking an aromatase inhibitor without chemo or radiation. It was very small and very "young" -- T1a. I have a defect in my left knee, according to an MRI, that is 1.7 x 1.8 cm in size. This is letting bone rub on stuff bone shouldn't rub upon, and there's the rub: while I'm going to PT, I'll almost certainly kneed surgery. Probably just in and out patient (hospitals aren't very patient anymore) but that's okay with me -- I have a better joint here than in the hospital. Kimchee? Korean sauerkraut? If you eat it don't stand near open flames. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 05 May 11 - 08:39 AM I'll second that! ChantyLass -My bit of Sydney |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 04 May 11 - 02:51 PM I am happy to see your sense of humour is still intact, Sev. Means a lot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Severn Date: 03 May 11 - 03:07 PM Nurse Ratched, Your songs of pain are so....errr...."gripping" that Edith Piaf herself would be "P"-ed off with jealosy at your ability to express tragedy. I DO miss the lamented, departed InterVenus DeMilo's "hands off policy" to therapy (and her prosthetic arms made great back scratchers), but I'll try to find what little comfort I can from the admistrations from your seldom-spared rod and your highly-trained staff, which is where I must have gotten this Staff Infection. You are quite the muse, and I haven't heard anyone's muse in the background since my cat died..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 02 May 11 - 11:18 PM I'm doing well, Sandra, recovering faster than I expected. I'll try to update after I see the surgeon on Thursday but wanted to thank you now before I forget. By the way, I've been to Sydney and loved it and as much of your country as I saw on a fairly extensive tour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 May 11 - 03:17 AM echoing ChantyLass & wishing her good healing sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: ChanteyLass Date: 02 May 11 - 12:03 AM Oh, Severn, I hope you continue to heal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: Bill D Date: 01 May 11 - 11:38 AM Why, Nurse |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched Date: 01 May 11 - 11:23 AM a song from the Burns Unit .. Ae fond kiss, and then we severn; Ae fareweel, in clinic heaven! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll wring thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll sing thee. Who shall say that Ethel grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? She, nae cheerful little nipper, Shall flog him lightly with her flipper. I'll ne'er give my partial blessing Naething could resist my dressing; But to see Gerty was to hurt 'ee, Love but hurts, and Gerty's pert -ee.. Had you never used these potions, Had 'ee never lashed these lotions, Never met -or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare thee weel, thou first and crispest And again ye fine and blisterest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Tonics, tourniquets, balm, and pleasure! Ae Lance Boil, he's but a kitten; Too time constrained for decent hitten! Let me teach that errant doc How to lance and when to flog Then Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. And 'ware, young Severn, in the pool these stray old ladies can be cruel The rage of age shall e'er maintain balls and noodles.... ON WITH THE pain.. Crispy Minstrel or Crusty Crystal Chronic snorer or Bedpan Dora - let's enhance Lance or come the crunch lets mangle mermaids over lunch a session with a pain management nurse would make even old Robbie curse! .... N.R. ps NR doesn't ever apologise, otherwise she'd aiologise to Robert Burns (ed.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2011 From: gnu Date: 28 Apr 11 - 11:31 AM Keep it up, Sev... if it's still working. Take care eh. g |
