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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 24 Jan 10 - 07:10 PM Nurse Ghengis? Is that the one who refers to me as "Hon" all the time? I'd just thought she was from Baltimore, Essex/Dundalk.... She looks like she has some of the "Mongrel Whored" in her.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:14 PM Khan you relax at all? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:53 PM 5 days and counting... still not got rid of the sticky marks, still not fully recovered from the ministrations of Nurse Ghengis who thougth that a good way to remove said leads from sticky pads was to give a short, sharp yank on all at once.... still not quite all there yet... Ho hum... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,Nurse Wretched Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:37 AM Luckily, my good sister is out of town. She doesn't understand the strength of those who suffer. Indignity in itself is a form of understanding - for the many who undergo, in an ongoing way, the experience of crumbling physical health and the processes of maintenance and repair. There are those who suffer and those who, despite aching in those parts that used to play, dance on. And then there's tiger balm. I salute those in the recovery ward. Your crooked leg, raw wounds and slurred vision are my symphony. Here's to you and your out of time dance, it's a better dance than any preened quickstep. Keep on jigging. :-) N. Wr. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:30 AM The post above has left me speechless. has some Chinese security agency deleted my post? is the very mudcat cyber space come under foreign attack? or am I too inept to press a submit button properly.. It can only be a cyber attack. Perhaps flagellating the weak is only for the strong, or for sociopaths. I have a bent sister, Nurse Wretched, who believes me to be safer when locked up. But patients, be assured I'm thinking of you. I hope that offers you some comfort. N.R. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jan 10 - 04:40 PM That came through loud and clear! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Amos Date: 23 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM Those guys are a crack up. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 23 Jan 10 - 12:22 PM Great stuff! Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 23 Jan 10 - 12:10 PM There are other videos of same Mitchell and Webb sketch on youtube, that is not controlled by the BBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLatYsE-78 does this work |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 23 Jan 10 - 10:51 AM damn! that really sucks. sorry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jan 10 - 10:21 AM Oh, Poop. This video contains content from bbc, who has decided to block it in your country. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 23 Jan 10 - 06:03 AM This place needs more of this? bawdy 70's hospital humour |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Jan 10 - 02:14 AM Sev, they send the pretty nurses round to the gentlemen of a certain maturity, so that the effect she has on them, means they don't roll out of bed. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 22 Jan 10 - 10:50 PM How can you get breathless and dizzy after lying down? Get up too fast. It's always worked for me.... Meanwhile, where is that cursed Native American orderly, Running Sore with my dinner, half of which, if I ate it, would kill a diabetic (cranberry juice and chocolate cake, indeed!) and my evening meds? I wonder if I could get him to send me up the beautiful and lovely (Sigh!)...and beautiful....(Did I say that already?) Nurse IntraVenus DeMilo to tuck me in, just to see how she'd manage to go about it..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:53 PM Oh dear... a bad evening... how can you get breathless and dizzy when you've been lying down for an hour? And I still have sticky marks on me, despite several washes, a shower and a soak in the tub.... I give up.. I'll leave them for next time. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 22 Jan 10 - 08:32 AM MMario - I have a mosse and a turkey turd dispenser and an angel/waterfountain/music box complete with smiling lions, lambs, kittens and a donkey but no stigmata. Where did you find that? I am setting up emergency tents to house the incoming. Morticia needs a boost to get her bones knitting. Set up an IV of heavy cream, brandy and Anacin. Katlaughing needs some company and a rest. An IV of SunnyD, vodka and Prozac. Curmudgeon needs a miracle worker. Set up an IV of Laphroiag, Lourdes Water and strong coffee. Linn needs a god night's sleep kitty free. the lights, no IV, a stack of books, CDs, DVDs and assorted brandies. Spaw needs some preventative care. With all these sick people around he is bound to come down with something so set him up with the scotch on the rocks IV with cumidin and antibiotics. Back to work. I will check in later. Mistress SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jan 10 - 06:45 PM Tylenol 3 - is that like the Guildford 4 or the Maguire 7? Why, when I've done nothing for 2 days, am I so tired but can't sleep? And what the hell sort of glue do they use on ECG leads these days? I'm STILL covered in sticky grey sucker marks that are virtually impossible to get off without copious rubbing and a lot of baby oil... I've managed the wrists and one shoulder, it's the delicate bits under my left chesticle that's going to be trouble! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 21 Jan 10 - 04:48 PM Ohoh... it appears SINS still is contagious. Careful, peeps. I'll have a double dark and dirty on T's tab, Keep. 96 to go. What? We are not at the recovery tavern? This is a medical facility? Right. What kinda drugs can I get on T's tab? Anyone wanna trade scrips... I got a Zopiclone, a Celxa, a Tecta, a Nasonex, a Hydroxzine, a Cephalex, a Tylenol 3... I just don't use em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: MMario Date: 21 Jan 10 - 03:31 PM Do you have the bunny that dispenses hershey kisses from it's nether regions? Or the crucifix/water fountain/music box combination that drips from the stigmata while playing "On the old rugged cross"? MMario |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 21 Jan 10 - 02:48 PM Detritus???? Detritus?????? This is a lifetime accumulation of prime HIDEOBILIA. Gifts from those who love me. Too bad the holidays are over. I have boxes and boxes of singing dancing flashing Christmas trees not to mention assorted obnoxious robotic Santas. Wonder what's in the Easter and Valentine's Day boxes????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 21 Jan 10 - 02:47 PM She has spilling detritus? Is she still contagious? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 21 Jan 10 - 02:31 PM Good Grief! Is the ward not scary enough without Mary's detritus spilling into it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 21 Jan 10 - 01:40 PM 100 pints on yer chit, Terry? Generous man! KEEP! Two fer me from T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Leadfingers Date: 21 Jan 10 - 12:39 PM 100 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 21 Jan 10 - 12:00 PM How hard would it be to build a tunnel between the Ward and my house? I could use some de-cluttering help. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jan 10 - 11:05 AM If you're shuffling around here at slow depressed speeds you're less likely to hurt yourself if you step on one of Michelle's escaped staples. Watch where you're walking. She should turn up over here one of these days. She's watching Clean Sweep on one of the cable channels, so she may have some ideas about a few of the messier rooms in the ward. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 21 Jan 10 - 10:35 AM Good points, Sev... and others. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 21 Jan 10 - 09:17 AM Very wise, Sev. Depression gallops in my family. Ignore a few base symptoms and full blown suicidal depression follows. You wouldn't wait for a toothache to become unbearable before seeing a dentist. Wonder why we do it with our minds? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 21 Jan 10 - 09:02 AM I'll correct that to depression-like symptoms. It's just that I've known friends and relatives that had severe cases and I know some of the warning signs. I only want to try to do some preventive maintenance, is all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jan 10 - 06:15 AM That's Ian the Biker... d'oh! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jan 10 - 05:47 AM Sev - we hear you... and we're always available for therapy sessions if you feel the need to unburden... VT - I can recommend hypnotherapy - well, it works for me! At the very least, you get an hour's therapy session to yourself and it's very relaxing; that alone is worth gold! Morty - healing thoughts coming at you... keep eating the ice-cream - full of dairy goodness and calcium (and chocolate). And whilst we're here, can you spare a few thoughts for my friend the Biker, whose wife finally succumbed to her bone cancer on Sunday. He's not coping so well and needs all the help he can get. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 21 Jan 10 - 02:41 AM begin grumble... I just want about 4.5 hours uninterrupted sleep at least 2 nights in a row. Just to see how I feel after. And I don't want no freaking chemical inducement, cuz it makes me feel foggy after. I don't need no help in the stupid department. I do that quite naturally. ...end grumble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Re-covert and Wired 2010 From: Severn Date: 21 Jan 10 - 01:33 AM SINSULL, Thanks for your comments. Progress moves slow like a glacier, something to be measured in Centimeters or milimeters, but it DOES move.These Recovery Ward threads are great, not only because we all get to laugh off our pain together in a group of friends, but hidden in the jokes, fantasies and drinks, there is the information of what's really happening to us and how it feels. And we can do it all in here without resorting to starting individual or vanity sickness threads. Shared informative therapy is definitely a good thing. Have you ever been in a party or chatroom and you end up spending all your time telling the same illness updates and stories to various small groups of people all night? I recently went to a party full of people I hadn't seen in years and by the time the medical updates were through, I found I had little time to really reaquaint myself with these folks after fielding the inevitable first question of the night. I was wishing I could just walk in, issue flyers to everybody and get down to becoming a social being again. I can do updates in here for a lot of the on-line people to see and also refer other people to check out these threads so I can move on to talking about other things in my precious little time I have to socialize. I use humor to help deal with my pain and circumstances and try to inspire my fellow inmates to do and share the same, but I am going to see some stress management people about depression and if you don't think I whine and groan a bit, just ask my sole housemate, Molly The Cat. So I have to thank everyone in here for laughter, inspiration and shared news, friendship and information. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Jan 10 - 07:31 PM Dunno about Haitian... definately strange bordering on freaky! Troglodyte sprang to mind, but I suppose, if you're going to work radiology at night, being a cave dweller is an advantage. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 20 Jan 10 - 03:58 PM The Devil was in radiology? Was he Haitian? Pat Robertson may need to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Jan 10 - 03:32 PM (Actually, I think I met her weird guy from Radiology... he was wearing white scrubs with an unhealthy mustard yellow trim - they seemed to match his eyes.... I was scared, really scared!) LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 20 Jan 10 - 10:54 AM Jeez Liz. That's scary. Dark chocolate or milk? I'll bring an extra box for Ratched to keep her off your case. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Jan 10 - 10:51 AM Move Seamus off the bed, I need it... I've just got back from spending a night in the local hospital... chest pains got unmanageable (especially whilst driving but I pulled over safely before it was too late) and I called for one of those blue and yellow taxis with the pretty lights on the top. So... I was poked, prodded, stabbed, bled, Xrayed, monitored and observed for the night. Seems it's obligatory to wake patients up every 45 mins so consequently, I got about 3 hours sleep in 1/2hr increments. The 12lead ECG showed nothing horribly wrong but I do look like I've been rogered by an octopus. All is well though, I'm back home now for a rest on the sofa for a couple of days, catching up on the TV I've missed and waiting for more snow. Nurse, chocolate cherries, STAT! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 20 Jan 10 - 10:11 AM Sev, Does it get better each time? Every time I read about that young boy set on fire by his friends I think of you. So much pain. You have my undying respect for handling it with grace and a sense of humor. I suspect i would whine quite a bit. Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 19 Jan 10 - 11:25 PM When's graduation from these hallowed halls of IV? Oh, well. The pain management people are going to restock me tomorrow. And then, of course, back to another stretch of PT. I hope the lovely Nurse InterVenus DeMilo's running it again, maybe with somebody to lend her a hand this time (Sigh!).... Gene Pitney (of "Town Witnout Pitney" fame) was right. It hurts to be in love...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Bat Goddess Date: 19 Jan 10 - 10:48 PM I'd settle for a nice cozy out of the way corner to quietly curl up in the fetal position and suck my thumb...is there a corner available? Maybe with a rabbit fur throw to wrap around me? (Or the famous trained cat blanket...) A Lillet drip would be nice, too. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 19 Jan 10 - 08:47 PM What a muddle. Michelle is "digging on Kendall's sheets". In her condition you would think she could show a little restraint. But he HAD to wear that damn leather jacket and the hat. SIGH And Jacqui. Good grief! Nurse Ratched turned up her IV to full force. 2 liters of cheap Chardonnay in minutes. She usually has a little glass per night. I hope we can sober her up in time for the GRAMMYs. Seamus is nowhere to be found. I suspect he followed the smell of roasting velicoraptor into the Tavern. Between the duck, the squid, Liz the Squeak and Rap he may need rehab. Enough! I am taking the Red Room. I have always loved Chinese Red for a bedroom. Pure water in the IV and JD on the rocks in a glass. CD on - John Roberts, I think. Now all of you. Go AWAY1 And don't come back until 5:30AM with my coffee. Except you Captain. If Michelle doesn't behave come in here for a nap. I am too terrified of Jacqui to be a problem. But I don't snore so you may need ear plugs. Night all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:39 PM No... I am a redneck... big diff, jac. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:24 PM Hic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: LilyFestre Date: 19 Jan 10 - 06:52 PM Daffodils, red flowers and Mexican sunshine.......loving it!!! Makes me feel surrounded by a soft spring sunshine...wrapped right up in it and perfect for napping. Back to sleep for me. I'll be visiting again soon......I'm digging on Kendall's sheets with the chickens too! :) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 19 Jan 10 - 05:00 PM UMMMM I thought it would be OK if Seamus was moved there after he got kicked out of Kendall's Room. We really do have to expand this place. Or at least double up in the private rooms. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Jan 10 - 04:52 PM Virginia, might I suggest you hunker down in the coat closet that links between the Recovery Ward and the Tavern? There are usually a few winter coats that have slipped off of their hangers, making it a fairly comfortable stopping point, actually, if you're crawling from one place to the other. . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 19 Jan 10 - 03:53 PM Gee... I dunno if this ward is a good place for Michelle at the mo. Seems to me one needs to be fighting fit in order to survive here. tam - looking for a quiet place to lie down for a bit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 19 Jan 10 - 03:42 PM Oh dear. Guess I better get Jacqui out that room pronto. Maybe we can move her in with Kendall for a while. Seems OK to me. But then Seamus has to give up the bed. Decisions. Decisons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,WYS-out Date: 19 Jan 10 - 01:18 PM Michelle was discharged from hospital too soon. (Treat her as still in it, Sins.) She'll be along when she's ready. She knows the Ward is open. ~Susan and Hardi~ |
