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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 10 - 05:24 PM Wenselydale or cheddar with that? Maybe havarti instead of wine -- our chamomile is calming... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 29 Jan 10 - 04:54 PM Move over, guys. I finally overdid the back thing and stayed home from work today. Somebody has to straighten this place up for the house concert tomorrow and it won't be me. WHIIIINNNNEEEEE |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 29 Jan 10 - 04:46 PM bugger! too much time researching robbie burns and Sev pipped me at the post and did it cleverer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 29 Jan 10 - 04:44 PM is that the Robbie Burns ward... Red Blow the Rashes, O |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 10 - 04:36 PM -o (the only fit ending to a comment like that!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 29 Jan 10 - 04:00 PM Becky, if your rashes grow green, you'll probably end up here in the Burns Ward.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 10 - 03:44 PM What's the emoticon for "snerk!"? 110-mile-an-hour wind-resistance might be a good thing... for me, but I wouldn't want it for the shingles! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 29 Jan 10 - 03:03 PM Several of the hospital chaplains have gathered around Becky, seeming to take an interest in her situation. Sects and The Shingle Girl?..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 10 - 02:33 PM I'm just hoping they're not the 30-year type of shingles. As a biologist, I find the pattern of the rash to be quite interesting, revealing the virus's means of emergence along the nerves. (No, I'm not making use of therapeutic marijuana!) I just wish those viri weren't so mean. A single shingle would be a vast improvement. Should we have some cheese with our whine, here? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 29 Jan 10 - 01:18 PM Do Malteasers fly through virtual space like unto a falcon? ....Meanwhile, several of the ladies have formed a caroling group to serenade and cheer up poor Becky, dubbing themselves "The Shingle Belles". I hope Becky saves one of the largest shingles for herself to hang over her door, should she ever decide to go into business for herself. Since all this exists mainly in print, SINSULL, I suppose you'll have needed a read wine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 29 Jan 10 - 01:18 PM Oh SEv... I feel for you.... but let's face it, it's really above and beyond time that that weird guy in Radiology got laid... although your lovely nurse might regret her choice and start to look favourable on the surgeons if she's going to drop her arms every time she makes an energetic gesture! I like the idea of a heartburn ward though.... that way, we can be in adjoining beds! Oh REnnie!!!! LTS - still wobbly, still in two minds about calling the taxi with the blue flashy lights..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 29 Jan 10 - 01:13 PM Sev... you dodged a bullet it seems, even tho she was poorly armed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 10 - 01:05 PM Not so painful today - taking 1 Tylenol instead of 2, and mostly on speculation, rather than need. I think it's the lull before the itching. Can I get anyone anything while I'm up? Plump your pillows? Adjust the bed? Sorry, muuuch too weak to change the bedpans... ~ Becky in Long Beach |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 29 Jan 10 - 01:03 PM This was originally attempted to be posted a couple of days ago, but when I posted it, the Cat had gone offline for repairs and the post vanished off into the netherworld, so I had to rewrite it from scratch -------------------------------------------------------------------- A little while back, I stated that I tried not cry out loud in the Ward, but it looks like I may have to take that statement back. As they say, be careful what you wish for, as your wish might come true. While I may not be quite ready for the Old Age Home. I may not be ready for the New Age Home either, as my good intentioned hopes and attempts went afoul. Hear my sad tale.... Last Sunday at 4:15pm, a loose assemblage of caring and concerned Mudcatters of both sexes stopped what they they were doing to send their best healing thoughts and wishes to those with severe medical problems here in the Recovery Ward, as well as elsewhere. I joined in and extended the scope of my good hopes and wishes to include one who works with us patients here at the horse-spittle. As you may have noticed, for some time I'd had a mad crush on my armless but usually totally disarming Physical Therapy nurse, the incredibly beautiful and lovely and beautiful (Did I say that already?) InterVenus DeMilo (sigh!). After having had the weekend off, she comes into the Burn Ward on Monday morning with two gorgeous new arms, fully restored, put on the right way with real hands on them and everything, just like I'd meditated, wished and prayed for, and a strange look on her face I'd never seen before. There was an exquisite engagement ring on her equally exquisite left hand and the Weird Guy From Radiology (Does he HAVE a name?) was standing in the doorway. As she approached my bedside, I congradulated her on her recent good fortune and good health that all in the Ward had wished her, none more than I, and reached out to give her a friendly innocent celebretory hug like I'd done in the past, when she suddenly gave me a backhand slap from the hand with the ring on it. I was stunned and shocked, as I'd always tried to sympathize and even empathize (My Brit friends had always considered me pretty much 'armless, as well) with her state. I made a comment on how that was one HELLUVA bedside manner, and she told me that she was through with us all in the Ward, through with this hell-hole, and through with this goddam racket forever because she was getting married and quitting. She raved on about how she was going to be travelling in style from now on and would no longer have to fish out transit or taxi farewith her teeth. It seemed that she'd developed a new 'tude as if she'd become Nurse Ratched's sister and had finally run out of (and on) patients altogether. The arms I hoped would someday hold me, now forever hold me at arms length. The Weird Guy From Radiology gave the room a shit-eating possum-smirk of self-satisfaction. He walked in to escort her out of the Ward and out of my life forever and as they both walked off with a satisfied glow (his a bit more pronounced and somewhat eerily phosphorescent, as befits his profession), I could now see the error of my ways and the aura of theirs. Then she, being of Italian upbringing, turned around to give us all the famed Italian gesture of love and sympathy where she slaps the left bicep with her right palm while crooking her extended arm upward at the elbow. Upon doing this, her left arm seperated at the shoulder socket and, in a perfect shot, went spiralling backwards, landing with a loud clang in a wastebasket. Her intended rushed to retrieve the arm, and after shaking it and wiping it off a bit, he gave a few furtive glances around the room and hoped nobody would notice him slipping the ring safely into his pocket. Could the wedding be off, perchance? Staff was called for to clean and clear out the Burns Ward and I haven't seen or heard about either of them since. I only hope that if I meet her again it would be in my side of therapy, where Nurse Wretched has taken over with a vengence. I wonder if they have a Heartbreak Ward they can send me to, or, maybe as a compromise, a Heartburn Ward to kill two gulls with one stone. So I hope you don't mind my turning on the waterworks every now and then, as I reckon I've paid my dues in full and have earned the right. Thanks for listeng to my somewhat lengthy tale. So how's YOUR day gone?..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 29 Jan 10 - 12:38 PM LtS CATCH! packet of Malteasers goes flying through virtual space. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 29 Jan 10 - 11:46 AM I was right... fit for nothing... nor today either. Haven't even got the energy to go look for more chocolate. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jan 10 - 05:24 PM Oh dear... terrible night last night, what with one thing and another, and just haven't had enough rest today... I shall be fit for nothing tomorrow. Nurse, hook up the IV gin and pass the chocolate please! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 28 Jan 10 - 11:17 AM on my way to doc with list of gripes. i will be seeing the lady doc. she is romanian and very sensible. when i worked in mental health i worked for her husband. he was pretty cool too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 27 Jan 10 - 12:12 PM Have you ever asked point blank "Why are you being so rude?" I walked out on a specialist when his receptionist shushed me. She was discussing lunch with a co-worker. Actually chased me out on to the street demanding to know where I was going. I ignored her and got a new specialist. I always wondered what she told the doctor.My doctor got an earful for recommending that practice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: jacqui.c Date: 27 Jan 10 - 12:05 PM VTam - I had a doctor like that in the UK. Luckily it was a practice of five GPs and I always made sure that I told the receptionist that I would not see that particular guy. So far as the reception staff are concerned - I just make a point of thinking that I pay their wages and go in with a very positive attitude. If they are rude just be assertive - my lot, in the end, treated me with some grudging respect because I pushed back. Is there another surgery that you could go to? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:49 AM Ow! VaTam, it hurts to laugh out loud! (I forgot that I need to take the two Tylenol as well as the horse-pill anti-viral and the two little icky-tasting corticosteroids when I got up. The 3am Tylenol is somehow not doing me any good now that it's nearly 9...) That's rough about your doctor's attitude... do you have any alternatives? ~ Becky in Long Beach |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:36 AM Oh! I thought the balloons of questionable taste would be more on the naughty side of questionable taste. like this or this Planning to call doc tomorrow afternoon. Just so difficult to get appointment at time when TSO can provide a lift. The reception staff are rude. Also, I dread going because GP clearly does not like me and thinks I am a waste of his valuable time. I really am afraid to go, not because of what might really be wrong, but because I am treated so vilely at my surgery. I am not the only one. There are 2 other women of certain age who attend the same surgery and feel the same about how the reception staff, the practice manager and/or at least one doctor deal with patients. It is demoralising to be shushed and made to feel you are a waste of time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:10 AM Bowling pins and whales. Very nice. Thanks for the soup. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:54 AM Oh, you poor dears!! Here's a big bowl of my famous chicken soup with the secret ingredient, and a large bunch of balloons of questionable taste to one and all! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:05 AM And here I sit at my desk, nose to the grindstone despite my excruciatingly painful back (maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not much). I will live in dread of ice for the rest of the winter. WHINE! Please pass the cheese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Jan 10 - 08:07 AM VT - get it sorted!!! I'm back on the sofa (when I'm not up here) today... think I overdid it yesterday, without realising. I just felt OK, and did what I usually do but without manhandling a huge keyboard into and out of the car - so I was taking it a bit easy... but today I'm tired and washed out, but any chance of resting is kyboshed by the apparently constant stream of workmen coming to the house - window cleaner, meter reader man (who was remarkably perky and cheery for 8.30am - even more than I was!) and postmen who can't read addresses... I've given up trying to sleep and am settling for 'supine'. That's a way of half sitting, half lying whilst not spilling your soup. Hope everyone is feeling better soon. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 27 Jan 10 - 02:24 AM bleagh ocular migraine and day time palpitations yesterday morning headache and icky feeling all day at work - I had to take advantage of the first aid bed twice. hives last night and this morning ocular migraine again this morning bleagh that's 6 or 7 migraines since 1st January bleagh again, I say |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jan 10 - 06:33 PM Shingles are miserable. Or should I say "is miserable"? Cool baking soda baths. So sorry. Lily I changed the sheets, freshened the flowers, set up a big screen TV so you can watch the GRAMMY festivities. White and red wines in the mini-fridge but they're in IV drip bags to fool Nurse you-know-who. Come in quietly through the back door and relax. No one will disturb you until you are ready for company. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 Jan 10 - 12:43 PM Got a spare bed for a case of shingles? Ouch. Chocolate, in small bites, I think. Plenty of fetching an carrying, too. I got to the doctor yesterday, as soon as possible after noticing the rash (which explained the two days of weird pain prior), so hopefully the horse-pill anti-viral and the lots of little steroid pills will kick it, but in the meantime I feel worse, not better... hard to get from the bed to the sofa this morning. (Pain on the left for me, too!) ~ Becky in Long Beach with astro this week s'posed to be back in Tucson with the boy next week... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Jan 10 - 12:08 PM :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jan 10 - 12:01 PM Virtual hugs from here, Lily. Remember every day you are healing a bit more. A bit more of the anaesthesia is leaving your body. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< More from the right. I fell on my left. mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:58 AM I'll walk on your back for a hug. I need one....even amongst all the silliness. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:48 AM Better today. No bruises. Nothing cracked or broken - don't know why. I went down hard. My lower back is hruting if I sit for any length of time. So I move and stretch much to co-workers amusement. I keep asking for someone to walk on my back. "Mary took her annual fall on the ice." is heard everywhere. HARUMOH. It's actually bi-annual. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:36 PM SINSULL Sings De Blooze! With all that's happened to me in the last two years, I STILL can't sing 'em no matter how much I love 'em, no matter how much I try. So I still can't go around callin' myself Mojo Red, or the like, no matter how cool it sounds. I use humor to try to kill 'em off but sometimes you gotta settle for wounding and watching them twitch. Somethin' like watchin' someone fall, I guess..... I try and cry privately to myself and laugh aloud in here, but the end result is, Mary, if we both make our noises too loud, Nurse Rached will come sedate both of our asses in a hurry! I hope you feel better. Dr. D.K. Puller is the Ward's dentist, if you want the work done here.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 10 - 06:43 PM A cracked tooth? Oh crap! Bad news! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Jan 10 - 06:28 PM Oh Sins... I have this picture of you massaging your purple butt in the ladies room.... mental floss required!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 10 - 06:04 PM Well, you CAN have wine in this ward. The Chief of the Big Staff, Dr. Owens, PhD (Pile it Higher and Deeper) has deemed one of the original pain killers acceptable for moderate use within these confines. Just don't treat the nurses and attendants and orderlies like waiters unless you tip accordingly. Or you won't get tipsy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 04:55 PM Thank you Maeve. I actually think I may have cracked a tooth. Fortunately, I have a cleaning scheduled for Wednesday Am so they can check it. More hurt than my pride I guess. LOL I still think it is hilariously funny when someone falls down. Go figure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: maeve Date: 25 Jan 10 - 04:48 PM Mary- Arnica gel massaged gently over the sore area up to 4 times daily. You'd be amazed at the relief and reduction in bruising. maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 03:23 PM No alcohol????? And you want to GONG me???? I keep moving and it helps. Surprising how much my head and teeth hurt. Quite a jolt. No bruises so far. Checked my butt in the Ladies Room. LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 25 Jan 10 - 03:20 PM Do not do heating pad, Mary. You need hair of the dog .. ice packs to slow down the bruising and any swelling. If ice pack is too uncomfortable to sit on, wet down some hand towels and freeze them. They can then be moulded around the hurty parts. Also need to take pain killer i.e. ibuprofen to tylenol with codeine. No alcohol. Shall I play my meditation gong at you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 12:16 PM MOOAANNNNNNN! My ass hurts more than my pride. I will be hurting tomorrow when the stiff joints happen. Didn't hit my head but a real jolt to my entire left side. I hate black ice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: jacqui.c Date: 25 Jan 10 - 12:13 PM You didn't mention that when you phoned! How are you now? I've done that myself in the past - very painful for the dignity, in addition to the physical hurt. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:43 AM This is the Recovery Ward not the tavern. I think I'm in shock. MAybe I have a concussion. I am cold, wet and dirty and more than a little cranky. sniff |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:38 AM There, there... you'll be fine.... cosy up and drink your wine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:32 AM HEY!!! I'm hrutin' here. An ice pack? A warm blanket? Is that asking too mush??? I hate you all...sob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:23 AM WOOOEEEEEEEEE IS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:52 AM MOOOAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 25 Jan 10 - 08:08 AM Groan!!!! I am at work. I fell on the ice in my driveway this morning and thought if I go in and change into dry clothes I will stay home. So I crawled on my knees to a non-icy spot, got myself up and went to work. Nothing broken but more than one muscle wrenched. Can I please have a soft bed and a heating pad. I'll be good, I promise. I was so careful walking on the icy spots. Got to the dry driveway and discovered it was all black ice. I discovered it from three inches away, nose to the ground. Thank goodness I have strong bones. This was a hip cracker. Wonder if the neighbors saw but were laughing too hard to come out and help. Yeah - I laughed. I always laugh when someone falls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: freda underhill Date: 25 Jan 10 - 08:00 AM aaaggghhh! :-) |
