BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 01:35 PM

Not at the moment. November, yes... turbinate reduction surgery. And I have an Owens nose, so's gonna be a big headache.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 06:04 AM

I either have full moon syndrome or the low pressure, stuffy head barometric, atmospheric blues.

anyone else got a head ache?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:48 AM

oh Maeve... that is pure evil



droooool......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 07:26 PM

Noooobooody knoooows the truffles I've seeeen...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maeve
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 07:20 PM

Me oh my, a cure for what ails you (Warning: chocolate alert!)
http://www.intriguechocolates.com/truffleofthemonthclub.php

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 04:39 PM

very funny Rap :P

I suspect as it is the NHS docs prescribe the cheapest meds first. If they don't work or they cause reactions then doctors try the better more expensive meds. That is the way they are required to do it per NICE Guidance and PCT policies and to protect their budget for prescriptions, I think.

The way it works (I believe) GP surgeries are given only a certain budget for prescription drugs. Someone like me who has a chronic condition (hypothyroidism) gets the meds for free (free meaning they are paid for under the surgery's budget for prescription meds).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 04:22 PM

VT, why would they prescribe edema and hives for a heart condition? 8-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 02:34 PM

Gnu

I have a life time history of hive like reactions to medications. It may not be the active ingredients (the actual medicine) but the excipients (additives in the pill to help the body absorb the meds).

Beta blockers and ace inhibitors (most common BP controlling meds) can cause edema. Vascular disease itself can cause edema and can cause hives. Edema is a side effect, the doctors say you have to live with if you want to control the blood pressure.

There are things you can do to control the edema. Watch sodium intake (it is everywhere especially processed sauces and soups, breads, even milk).   Take enough water and potassium and/or magnesium (be careful, it is a fine balance getting the fluid and tissue salts correct). Elevate the feet above the heart several times a day. Very important that you are lying flat on your back and that there is only a slight bend in the hips when you elevate feet. Use compression socks. They really work and it feels wonderful when you remove them. Not that they are uncomfortable. Just a lovely feeling of freedom for your legs and feet at the end of the day.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 01:38 PM

VT... "... for blood pressure, I get edema and hives"

Well, well, well... I shall be having a chat with my physician next appt. Might not do any good as he has pooh-poohed my previous complaints. Perhaps a further study of the BP meds and possible links first.

I think my BP just went up a few points. And I am itchy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Sep 10 - 01:12 PM

CORRECTION! I will be having a myocardial perfusion scan. Injection of radio isotopes and pictures taken of my heart.

Seems less invasive than the catheter thing.

Anyone had one and can tell me what to expect?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 02:33 PM

yeah... I used to get a little bit of swollen ankles now and then. Since they put me on amytriptyline and then ramipril for blood pressure, I get edema and hives.

fun, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 02:16 PM

VT... edema? From the meds???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 02:07 PM

saw cardiologist today

Blood pressure was 165 over 88

he requested a

Coronary angiogram

This is often used to assess whether people with angina require surgery.
The test gives vital information about:
Blood pressure within the heart,
How much oxygen is in the blood
The function of the pumping chambers and valves
The exact severity and positioning of any narrowings in the coronary arteries.
A catheter is inserted into a vein or artery in the groin or arm, under a local anaesthetic, and dye is injected into the coronary arteries. Obstructions in the arteries can be identified by tracing the liquid's passage though the veins.

I see him again 3 months to give whatever part of the clinic time to administer the above diagnostic.

rash is getting bad again... I have to return to GP and get something done about BP. which means more meds and more edema and more hives.. Hack saw please.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 01:28 PM

Rap... you okay?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 12:33 PM

At least he didn' fall on his sword...did he????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 11:10 AM

Rap just got back from a trip, that's why he took the fall. Gotta watch this guy's wordplay. Also gotta watch out for those bottom three steps.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 10:38 AM

Okay, I fell down some steps last night.

I'm in.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 10:27 AM

I hope you didn't get any on your ears.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 08:34 AM

Lysol was probably the first disinfectant spray air cleaner. It had a disgusting smell. One morning I confused it with my hairspray and went to work smelling like a public rest room. Nasty stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 10 - 02:41 PM

I can never remember the difference between Lysol and Listerine. Listerine is the mouthwash and such, but isn't Lysol like a floor cleaner? Would you put it on your skin? I'd use the Listerine for that, not the floor cleaner.

My dog Cinnamon (the smart, funny, occasionally mellow pit bull) will come visit folks in the ward, but don't feed her too much. She's in great shape and I don't want her getting fat after visiting all of you with your nutella and marmite and whatnot. The bandage should come off of her foot on Wednesday (toe surgery after an injury).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Sep 10 - 05:59 AM

I figured out why my head and neck hurt so much. I fell asleep in a bad position while watching film last night.

This morning TSO gave me a neck and shoulder massage and applied tingler to my head. I had one paracetamol (tylenol) with my coffee and have ice pack on my neck.

I feel much better. Hopefully I have averted another course of acupuncture.

I have decorating (painting) and ironing to do today. Loads done yesterday. Feeling quite accomplished. Our flat is going be in tip top shape when I collapse.

Sorry you are having probs, John. I have been following the TUC thread. While I don't agree with your take on the situation, I don't wish you to feel bad. Hope things pick up for everyone very soon. All I can do, is hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Sep 10 - 05:01 AM

Well girl, we have to grin and bear it, don't we?
I have been feeling depressed for the last 3 or 4 weeks, and I'm finding people to be a PITA. However, you can't avoid them, so I just let the shit happen!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Sep 10 - 03:20 AM

what a terrible night... I feel terrible... headache, nausea, mild aching in sides of neck and upper chest, feet like ice and tingling...

but I am soldiering on. lots of work to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Sep 10 - 11:23 AM

hugs to you, Tam

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 10 - 04:35 AM

thanx for that Gnu...

so yeah! rash is even better today.. but I had a terrible night of leg pain and edema, even though I raised my legs and feet above heart on a folded duvet. My feet feel so weird and tingly and legs heavy, full and achy.

Going to wear compression socks this weekend and make the time to take at least 3 30 minute breaks today and tomorrow with the legs raised.

Lots of water and potassium intake planned.

We must foil the gravity monster.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 01:39 PM

Dettol (in Canada, anyway) ... kills germs and bacteria Soothes and cleanses abrasions/cuts Useful on bites/stings Non stinging Useful to use for laundry use and bathing Dettol is an antiseptic solution which can be used to clean cuts, grazes, gravel rash, bites and stings, and anywhere bacteria can grow. Dettol protects your...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 01:27 PM

Mary... take your own advice on that flu jab site. Ice it! maybe with your frozen lunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 08:27 AM

ound my FROZEN DINNER lunch in the freezer where I put it - after tearing the car, my house and two office fridges apart. DOH!

Sorry about the itching Miss Tam.Ice wrapped in a wet towel as a compress may help.
Mary, whose flu shot is swollen and sore. WHINE!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 02:42 AM

Linn.. How do you know about Dettol? Took me a bit after I moved to UK to clock that Dettol(UK) = Lysol(USA).

But yeah wire brush and more like boat hull cleaner would have been great.

Actually feeling much better after 2 nights no blood pressure medicine and 1 night with steroid cream. It is clearing and I slept beautifully last night. Did not want to get up this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 08:57 PM

Wire brush and Dettol! ;-)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 03:15 PM

Burp. Pardon me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:57 PM

not poison ivy.. poison meds. reaction to the blood pressure medicine.

hungry as I am... still dieting... I didn't take Mary's lunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:35 PM

It's on your kitchen counter.
Well, that's where mine is whenever I 'lose' it, and it's not in my car.

I'm relatively fine. Got a bit of the blues that I get when I have a lot of fun, then go back to the Real World, but I'm slowly re-acclimating.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:23 PM

Been roaming in the gloaming filled with poison ivy, have we?

I'll take the bed next to you but only if you promise to sit still and be quiet. My thyroid is wacky and I am losingthings. Today it was my lunch - no not in the bathroom. Somewhere between South Portland and Portland I manage to mislay it. Hope it's not in the trunk of my car.
SIGH

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 01:55 PM

ICE! GIVE ME ICE!

No not for my drink. For my legs, covered in itchy red hives. Better yet.

BRUSH! GIVE ME A WIRE BRUSH!

no wait..

SAW! GIVE ME A HACK SAW!

that should do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Amos
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 09:29 AM

We are recovering from house painters. From domestic order to chaos and half-way back in on eweek.

Ya know the similarity between a Louiana hurricane and a Texas divorce? Somebody's gonna lose a trailer.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 08:26 AM

The corridors are strangely empty, yet I know there's a few people round here who need some bandaids, brandy and bananas. How're y'all going?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 May 10 - 02:48 PM

%*^# reduction candle lit for LtS' friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 May 10 - 12:50 AM

Well, I think we've arrested the freefall, he's still very down, but at least when he talks 'worst case scenario' he's planning on coming back... but he still needs help.

Thank you all.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 May 10 - 04:18 AM

Can we make room in the Psych ward for a friend of mine who is currently in free-fall and about to implode? I can't post details but he's very depressed, is awaiting a result in July that could either be negative (which is what we want) or something that is going to completely overturn his life and may result in years of misery.

Thanks guys...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 10 - 03:25 PM

KFC? Hasn't the man suffered ENOUGH?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 May 10 - 10:30 AM

....And it's all around my arm
I will wear the Blue Pillow...

Now that's the Severn we all know and love. Where abouts do you live? Are there no friendly cudmatters in the vicinity, willing to do a Sunday pop round with a KFC bucket?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 May 10 - 08:05 AM

Sev, if I was nearby, I'd pop in with some flowers and mineral water. What a predicament. It's repair and maintenance time, and sometimes it hurts to laugh.

speaking of which...

Last week I had a trip to the dentist. There i was, immobilised in the dental chair, undergoing root canal therapy with bits of metal being shoved into my mouth while the dentist was determinedly drilling, when who came to mind?

none other than the maniacal dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. It didn't help the process to burst out laughing as the piercing drilling screamed into my brain.

The dentist was patient with me.

Hang in there , Sev, we want you home and healing.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 May 10 - 05:52 AM

cyber visitors aren't the same thing as local visitors.

sending more good wishes for accelerated healing.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 22 May 10 - 04:58 PM

I can't get there Sev... wish I could. Keep that chin up bud.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 22 May 10 - 04:16 PM

Yes, VT, seeing my two grandchildren for the first time (Julianne is 3 and Rowan is 8 months)is a great way to feel better about life.

I'm still wearing the abduction pillow and still not cleared for driving and still am getting my dressings changed a few times a week. My first follow-up appointment is on the 25th, so we'll see if any sutures are removed, whether I can drive again and recommendations on how long I must wear my oversized sling


....And it's all around my arm
I will wear the Blue Pillow...

Original estimates were 6-8 weeks full time and maybe up to 6 more just at night. Time will only tell, and the old man's not spilling the beans quite yet.....

So much for an Up Date on a down Saturday night. A visitor or two or a driver would definitely be welcomed.....

(SIGH!).....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 May 10 - 05:28 AM

OK... now I know from Facebook that Sev has visiting family. so maybe that is why he has not posted lately.

Hope the company goes a long way to making him feel better.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:16 AM

Yahoo I can feel my thumb again after apparently compressing the sensory nerve last week simply from from using scissors to cut cardboard for an art project.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 May 10 - 02:45 AM

ok Sev... time for an update, mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 May 10 - 03:47 PM

wow I just did the tutorial and training on the Speech Recognition in my Windows 7 and it was easy peasy. Have not tested it yet. Throat hurts from yelling a swearing at it during tutorial.

It says you are training the computer to recognise your voice and speech, but it is as much training yourself to speak a certain way.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 10 - 02:23 PM

BTW, with Dragon, you can run most any Windows programs (not sure about others) including IE.

Hmmm... isn't there a VRS in Windows anyway? I thought I saw one with my Vista. Anyone ever try it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 10 - 11:02 AM

Dragon

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 10 - 11:00 AM

Voice... Dragon Naturally Speaking. (Very time they release a new version, they put the current version on sale for about half price... phone aroud for a deal.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 May 10 - 02:39 AM

damn... my thoughts are coming in drips and drabs this morning... chemo last night.

going out for drinks doesn't mean you have to drink alcohol. Or don't US bars offer non alcoholic beers (I know... what's the point?). But you get my drift. Just trying to come up with some ideas for easing the loneliness.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 May 10 - 02:33 AM

oh and there is voice recognition software for using the puter too. not expensive and supposedly they have really improved.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 May 10 - 02:31 AM

Hey... howz your broadband? could you skype with friends? free video calling across the puter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 17 May 10 - 08:57 PM

I'm a diabetic, VT, and can no longer drink alchohol. Sugar, chocolate, gluttony, a lot of types of physical exertion, you name it and it (any favotite vice), and it could probably kill me. I can get a ride to the nautical sing in Annapolis on Wednesday for some Primal Scream Therapy. That's about the only safe fun outlet I have left for a while.....

(SIGH!)

Too bad you don't LIVE in Virginia, so you could cross over the Potomac and visit. I get occaisional company, but not enough. Plenty of groceries, books, recordings and movies, but I'm getting a bit stir crazy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 May 10 - 02:57 PM

Aww Sev... you need some buddy to take you out for drink couple a night a week. Give you something to look forward to.

I had pinched nerve pain in arms and hands for about 5 days several weeks ago. It can't have hurt as much as what you are going through, but it made understand how frustrating it is to not be able to use hands properly. Even to type.

More hugs for you, friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 10 - 11:17 AM

I wish I had words, Sev. I just hope your mental and physical healing progresses as fast as can be.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 17 May 10 - 10:37 AM

Anyway, I'm hurting on my left side from the operation site around the shoulder and under the arms and especially from the donor site on the outtside of my left leg where the leg meets the rest of the body. I have a visiting nurse change my wound dressings 2 or 3 times a week and I have to improvise bathing, because I can't get the two sites wet. I take short walks around the townhouse area and get chauffeured to the odd doc appointment or food/medicine run.

I'm lonely, stir crazy, and I hurt, but this one was voluntary and a step forward as operating as a whole human being in the future. It won't be easy. I still haven't gotten to the PT yet, but I have good support through friends and family and I'll make it through alright.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 May 10 - 02:51 AM

hospital food is a topic all over the world, obviously. Tho giving diabetic the wrong food can cause health problems, rather than just aggravation.

One of the things I remember about my appendix operation in 1964 was mixed up food - if I ordered cornflakes & scrambled egg, I'd get rice bubbles & a boiled egg!

Then last year when i headed to hospital for my cancer op I was warned by my nutritionist to take extra food as the budget for public patients did not allow proper nutrition. So I took along oatcakes & nuts & seeds & dried fruit, & as soon as I could get up headed for the cafe & bought a yummy chicken sandwich & yoghurt. When I was released 2 different friends fed me lots of lovey vegetables & other good food!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 16 May 10 - 07:56 PM

Before we come in on another wing and a prayer I might as well tell you all what the big flap was all about in getting my own left wing repaired.

On Monday May 3rd at 5:30am, thanks to a ride from my sister Emily, I reported back to Johns Hopkins Baltimore Bayview burn center so that Dr.Milner, who was one of the ones responsible for the good work done on me after the original burns, could increase the amount of skin to work with in the left shoulder area. The skin, stretched to the limit as it was, will now eventually give me room to stretch the muscle out more through vigorous PT to help me regain range of motion, thanks to the skin grafts and Z-Plasty performed. Right now, I'm wearing an abduction pillow on my arm to keep it in place while it heals, and I am as yet forbidden to drive. (Thanks to Kathie Mack, Chip Hixson and Phil Fox for favors done).

They did their usual fine job. They pride themselves on their reputation and strive to uphold it. The main complaint, as always, is the battle with the kitchen over food fit for a diabetic, but that's a fight wherever I go, alas.

I had good roomates and good service and saw a few friends from last year's month-long stay. Enough one handed typing for a while. Maybe more later.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 10 - 05:55 PM

Ears of beagles?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 May 10 - 05:15 PM

Wings of Eagles?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 May 10 - 08:31 AM

Mudcat recovery Ward 2010, Part 2?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 May 10 - 08:01 AM

May is half over... And I was thinking what to name the new wing?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 May 10 - 03:05 PM

Mudcat Recovery Ward May 2010?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 May 10 - 02:59 PM

what will you name it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 May 10 - 11:18 AM

HMMMMM
Maybe it is time to start a new thread with lots of sterile space for Robyn and Severn. LilyFestre may need a room too. Shall we move on to another wing of the ward?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 May 10 - 06:28 AM

same here - what Sandra said. Do what the medicos say for the best possible outcome, aggravating as that may be.

gentle hugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 May 10 - 10:10 PM

wishing you fast & comfortable healing

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 14 May 10 - 05:02 PM

Sev... glad for the update. Sorry to hear of the tribulations... just the driving ban sucks besides the pain and all the rest. I wish, as I suppose most others here do, that I was closer and could help in some way.

I could say "chin up" and all that, but it ain't worth squat... I just hope you make out okay, lad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 14 May 10 - 04:42 PM

I got back from Hopkins Baltimore Bayview late Monday. I had hoped to go home last Saturday, but they couldn't set up home nursing to come by and change dressings on my left side. The operation site itself at the shoulder area and the donor site from where I had the skin graft taken both give me considerable pain.

I have to keep my arm stationary as much as possible in a cumbersome device called an "abduction pillow", which doesn't, alas, mean that I got to abduct a nurse who would be lying next to me. It's a foam harness-type gadjet that I will have to wear as long as possibly 6-8 weeks. My next follow-up is on the 25th of May and I will find out more then, as well as when I can resume driving. I can not resume PT until I'm done with the 'pillow". I believe Vince (wincingdevil) posted a picture from Wednesday's shanty sing at The Wharf Rat, which I'd gotten a ride to.

I'll post more in a little while......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 May 10 - 10:15 AM

yeah really... let's get Ratched, cuz not knowing is making me wretched. If you don't want to see the nurse, please return with your punning verse.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 May 10 - 09:31 AM

Sev - I saw you in Robyn's thread. What up?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:52 AM

Two weeks Sev. Do we need to send Ratched after you? Or is she there supervising your PT?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 12 May 10 - 02:18 PM

C'mon Sev.... what's the scoop?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 May 10 - 08:16 AM

joining the crowd waiting for news

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 05:01 PM

I'll have everything crossed for you buddy. Good luck to one of the kindest and generous men I have ever had the privilege to know.

Yeah... I know that sounds sappy, but it's the truth. Never find a nicer gentleman than Sev. Ya just won't.

Hope to hear from you soon with good reports.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 04:35 PM

I've been cleared to go. It's on for Monday 3rd 5:30 in the morning at Hopkins Baltimore Bayview. I'm the first victim of the day. I have to do a complete fast as of midnight Sunday. No water. No nuthin! My sister will drive me in. I don't know yet when I'll come back.

Thanks for all good wishes. I'll try to find a way to get back to you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 03:15 PM

Why do my posts keep disappearing? Oh well...

My fingers are getting sore.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 02:12 PM

I'm in, now-- for cardiac rehab-- and I sure hope this time I get to keep my head!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 02:01 PM

yeah.. buck man... you must be a bit down cuz it's showing in the degradation of your talent for punning.

we count on those groaners.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 01:47 PM

Good luck, Sev. Hang in there.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:03 AM

Got my fingers crossed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maeve
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 05:56 AM

Watching this space for your updates, Sev.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 10:31 PM

I got a phone call from the GP today saying that Wednesday's pre-op bloodwork showed a low platelet count. I fast again tonight and go back in tomorrow morning for another test. If my platelet count still proves low, the surgery date would be pushed back until I could get a cuple more units of fresh blood. If not, I go in as scheduled on Monday.

A quart low again! The story of my life.....(sigh!).

Lots on my plate, but not enough for my platelets....

Updates forthcoming when available....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 07:31 AM

sending slightly belated good wishes.

sandra (back courtesy of a new modem after a week off line)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 02:59 PM

Somewhere between 5 and ten days, Mary, with probably at least one painful follow-up appointment if there are staples or sutures to be removed, which someone will have to drive me to, as I'll have to take some heavy duty pain meds in advance.

But now I'll have some skin room to stretch out those muscles. It'll be a bit of work, but hopefully worth it all and enable me to live and work somewhat, like a human being again. I'm not sure where they're taking the skin grafts from this time and what pain and problems the donor sites themselves will cause. Not much skin will be used, though. A WHOLE LOT was used last time, making me a lot slower in being able to get up from a crouching, squatting or kneeling position making gardening. assembling shelves etc.a bit painful.

Life will go on, but It will definitely go on hurting.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 02:52 PM

good thoughts going out to you Severn and to the medicals looking after you.

Maeve beat me to "with my condiments"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 09:50 AM

Good luck, Sev. You have the best care available. I don't envy you the therapy but it will give you more movement. Hang in there, guy. How long will you be in the hospital? Any idea?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 08:32 AM

And Good Luck Severn from me too!!

Love Khatt x

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maeve
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 08:31 AM

Hot dog, Severn! At least the weather won't be too chili when you begin the smorgasbord. With a good doctor and more-than-skin-deep humor you'll skin the cat and stretch your horizons.

With prayer, laughter, and my condiments,

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 06:06 AM

GOOD LUCK Sev!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 12:29 AM

I will be going back into Johns Hopkins Baltimore Bayview burn center on May 3rd for 5-10 days while they do skin grafte and a Z-Plasty to restore, hopefully, full range of motion to my left arm and shoulder. I'll have to work through therapy to stretch out the muscles, but I'll have more skin room to do it in, which should make it a much easier task. The say I will have to wear a removable arm brace (taken off for driving, bathing etc.) full time for 6 weeks afterwards and only at night the next six weeks. I'll be operated on my Dr. Milner, who was responsable for some of the original skin graft work done on me. He did a good job then, and I trust him.

I was originally supposed to go in on the %th, which would have made for a round of "Cinco de Mayo Clinic" jokes, but now we'll have to hold the Mayo instead, at least until I've mustard enough strength to ketchup with things, something I don't especially relish.

Wish me luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 10:14 PM

MR Myocardial perfusion scan on Wednesday 24th.... the staff and the hospital were as nice as could be but oh, it was an awful experience....

Got there early to find it was all closed so had a panic thinking I was at the wrong place... Anyway.. was taken in and up to the scanner, made to undress (and even going private I STILL get the gown with only one tie), then had canulars put in so they could inject various drugs and stuff. Of course, they couldn't find a vein in my arm so I had them in both hands. That's me immobilised. Why do they do that and THEN ask you to sign the forms?

So.. taken to the scanner, strapped down to the table (I know, people pay good money for treatment like that) and sent into the scanner with the headphones on (bring your own CD, I chose Schiedt) and spent best part of an hour alternately holding my breath and deep breathing whilst the gubbins took pictures. That bit wasn't too bad apart from the claustraphobic effect of the tunnel, but worse was to come. I got injected with a drug to simulate running around the park. Now, apparently one in 250 people have a strange reaction to this drug... Guess who that one is. It was awful, like someone was sitting on my chest and being unable to breathe, legs like lead and sharp pains.

Still, I bravely struggled on for the 3 hours (in reality less than 5 minutes) it took and then the dye went in. That was disconcerting as it was very cold and I could feel it circulating! So... they took more pictures, I had to hold my breath a lot, then they let me out. It took a while before I was apparently pink enough to be allowed to sit up, and there were some strange effects. Took even longer (about an hour, a pint of water, a bacon butty, 2 hot chocolates and a bag of crisps) before I could face the journey home. So there we go. I took the slow way home on the bus, because it's easier to get off and throw up than on the Underground... I got home after a 3 hour journey (it usually takes 1 by train, 2 by bus) where I fell asleep on the cat. A picture was taken of me asleep on the cat, and I'm stunned by how grey I still looked. No wonder they wouldn't let me go until I was pink. If that was pink, what the hell was I like before?!

Anyway, after 48 hrs I'm much improved but still dog tired. They gave me a CD of the scan, and if you play it on the computer, with music in the background, you can make my ventricles "sing" along by scrolling quickly between frames!

I have to call for an appointment for the results, nothing has been said about any possible causes for my problems (other than stress, surprise surprise), so I look forward to finding out what they found.

So... more chocolate please nurse, and let me sleep a bit longer.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 06:02 PM

I need my legs removed again please... not only do they ache internally, now they are covered in hives. Well I say now it's been a month and getting worse daily. E45 cream burns like fire. Benadryl not working either.

arrrgghh....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Mar 10 - 03:36 PM

Are you all talking in code? I only understand every third word.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 05:49 PM

Jeepers. My left elbow can bend without discomfort today. The bruise is 4" by 3" and purple. What the hell kinda valve did Heather find? Hmmm... blooming Heather?

Yeah... small spuds, but i need sommat to wine about.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:53 PM

The Cardiac Nurse, Ann Gina has been round. Still no news but her name has been mentioned in passing...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 01:42 PM

I was rather remiss when I found out he was doing innuendoscopes this morning also. I coulda got a two-for-one! I mean, I had to be there anyway.

Hehehee... the prep nurse jabbed the IV in the crook of my left elbow and said, "Oh dear." I said, "We just met." She had a foul look on her face and said, "I can't see valves and I can't feel valves... I can only find them." She tried pumping some saline in to see if she could get a flow. Then she looked at the back of my right hand and said, "That looks like a good one." Worked a treat. I have two nice bruises. Small spuds, but when it's not necessary... you know.

The exam room nurse, Clara Voyant, asked me if I enjoyed the final Brier game last night. I looked surprised and then puzzled when I said yes. She said, "Oh. I can smell beer on anyone who has had even one in the last 24 hours. I was a triage nurse for 27 years." The doc told me to open wide and said, "The only way to describe the taste of this numbing spray is skunk piss." Then Clara says, "He's used to skunk piss." How did she know I was drinking Bud while watching the curling game?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 12:36 PM

And pray you don't get the same camera!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maeve
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 11:27 AM

High time and beyond for the referral to come through. Hang in there, gnu.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 11:24 AM

SINS... This was the otherendoscope. ENT, since July 13.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 11:11 AM

In my experience, the preparation for a colonoscopy is far worse than the procedure itself. Last time I was out cold before the doctor came in. Woke up degassed and ready to go home.
Strange to wake up in a roomful of people farting loudly and one poor guy who couldn't. He was hurting.
Hope all is well, gnu. How long a wait for an ENT?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 10:13 AM

Doc said things "looked good". Followup when the test results are back. Now if I could just get to see an ENT.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 10 - 07:17 PM

I am preparing for my scope in the AM. I may need some TLC on the morrow. Be apprised that I may be even more of a pain than usual. Yes, hard to believe but true. In anticipation, don't piss me off. I assume the hospital staff here, who seem to excel at it, will do that well enough, as has been my fortune over the past years. Free health care in Canada? Yeah... every time I go in, they make me pay with incompetence and indifference and unprofessionalism.

Sorry for the ween, but I just... have been there and done that, more than once, and I am not looking forward to the morrow with anything less than trepidation.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 02:48 AM

Wiener take all?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:41 PM

(ASIDE)Does this mean that we get to take care of Ratched? Colonoscopies and all?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:35 PM

SCRREEEEEECCCHHHH ssmmasshhhh tinkle    THUMP


HELP! My tail got in the way of TSO's view, it doesn't fit well into the car and well...

It's Nurse Ratched... We accidentally hit her.. and GOD! It is awful.   Her hair went flying off and a little wiener dog snatched it and ran off with it.

Ratched is alive, but she just moaning and lying there.

Somebody please help.

I am afraid the poor little wiener dog might chew up her hair and get sick. We gotta find him.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:50 PM

No need to Escalade anything. It was just a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:40 PM

Keep that up, gnu, and you will be spending the rest of this thread on the Tiger Woods Alternative Therapy Floor.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:28 PM

He got a job from the Head Nurse?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 11:56 AM

Hari Kari, the new Indian orderly, walks smartly out the HR office thrilled that he has finally landed a paying job. He tucks his Tandoori Chicken and Goat Curry lunch away in the hemotology fridge, chains his elephant to his locker and goes off in search of the head nurse to report for duty.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 11:25 AM

There is a loud shriek from the shower as Nurse Ratched finds that all her hair is falling out from her shampoo. She quickly throws on some fresh clothes (with an extra large nurse's cap) and is halfway down the hallway when she finds herself itching like crazy and scratching like a hound. It seems that the orderly sent to replace the contents of her locker was a certain Native American .Nurse Ratched has to go back to the shower, turn on the hot water and turn the shower room into a sauna to open up her pores and enable herself to rid herself of the insulation.

This buys enough time for Running Sore to make his getaway. "Sauna of a bitch!I've found a new way to do MY scalping.", he laughs to himself as he crawls out from under Liz's bed and after giving her a quick apology, leaves on the run. He has applied for emergency leave and has plane reservations to Oklahoma where he has reservations at a reservaton and no reservations about having to flee the horse-spittle. Within the half hour, he is on a plane and gone. "It'll be good", he thinks to himself, "to get back to his dear old home at Teepee 109.". The Great Spirit only knows if we'll ever see him again.

Alas, Liz, another one's gotten away....

Ratched corners Lily Festre, and after getting the name of a few shops, goes off to become a wig-ed witch.

"There'll be the devil to pay!", Nurse Ratched snarls.

"There'll be the she-devil toupee", thinks Severn, but keeps it to himself until he's sure that the angry bald nurse is out of the building.

Nobody's looking forward to the next few weeks with Ratched, as having been successfully trumped on both the ring and the scalping, she is liable to be inspired to new heights of cruelty.

I wonder who our next orderly will be?.....




I hope everybody's faring well in their recoveries.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 09:23 AM

And so go the days of our lives...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:00 AM

Meanwhile, LTS is left forlornly holding her bucket and thinking - is the hassle of re- re-scheduling a visit to HR worth leaving my nice warm bed - now that I've finally got it warm....

Why is the universe so perverse that when every other woman around my age gets hot flashes, I get cold ones?!

And why is there a bald man under my bed? You knows I likes 'em hairy....!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:33 AM

TSO... says that would be a VERY odd hot tub.

Hey these legs don't hurt so much any more. Thanks Venus, you must've worked the kinks out!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:53 AM

InterVenus DeMilo is willing to part with Virginia Tam's legs but wants to keep the engagement ring. The already-married Virginia Tam has very generously agreed to part with the quite valuable but extra ring.

"Ain't THAT big o' me!", says VT.

Her husband is quite fond of the legs and has become quite attatched to them when they're attatched to her, but he DOES want her to keep the prosthetis tail around for the odd hot tub fantasy.....

A crowd ofSpecialists has gathered around Ms. DeMilo to deternine how to remove the ring, and most are even examining the right pair of legs.

A forfit of forefeet, that is to say the front two feet of her four feet, must be accomplished so that the removal of the ring is painless to both InterVenus AND VT, despite Nurse Ratched's protests. It's hard to tell what she wanted most, the ring or to witness the pain.

Three doctors hold the leg while another pulls on the ring that's on a freshly greased toe. After four unsuccessful tries, with a loud POP, a ring from her toe then they most quick-i-lye drew and restored it to Ms. DeMilo while Nurse Ratched gave her a glare that could cook an ox. She'd better guard that ring closely while she's in the building.

The four doctors heartily congradulated each other on a job well done and went down to a Doc-side bar to celebrate the large consulting fees they would all eventually collect. It took Drs. Fine and all three Howard brothers, Shemp having to have been called in from the West Coast.

Ain't it GREAT to have Specialists!....

A note was handed to Nurse Ratched saying that her request for an orderly to remove everything from her locker and have it with fresh replacements had been successfully carried out.

InterVenus DeMilo gets a message from her insurance provider, Allstate, promising her good hands.

Herman decline's The Squid's challenge of a best-of-ten arm wrestling match, reminding him that InterVenus DeMilo had originally lost both of her arms in a wrestling match to win a brown-eyed handsome man.

Most of the gang goes off to check out SINSULL'S JD-IV and cheer her up.

We leave VT alone with her husband, and they goes home, her tail wagging behind her.

Severn looks at Nurse Mary Ellen Cauterize and then at InterVenus, thinking, "Decisions, decisions......".

Could things actually be back to normal?....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 08:11 PM

Better than that, as I walked away she quipped "I have the same problem" I responded and ran "We all worry about you, Linda." Cracked her up.
She is on her way to Hawaii for a birthday and anniversary celebration. I hope she enjoys every minute - a really nice lady.

My hand has swollen and turned a variety of shades of red and purple. Hurts like hell. The worst is trying to release the seatbelt on my car. Every finger hurts and the thumb has a nasty cut - I'll take some cheese with my wine.
Did I mention that my nose is all scabby?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 03:59 PM

Heheheheee. Cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 03:43 PM

On the ice in December or january. I forget. This time I just fell down. Very embarrassing. I was wearing shoes that don't support my ankle. It turned and I ended up on my face. I am joking about it but I really was very lucky not to end up in the ER. The head of HR saw me in the ladies room and was surprised that I had another cold. I replied that it was just a fall on my face caused by my problem drinking. Great lady - she laughed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 03:19 PM

Mary... Didn't you fall down and get badly bruised last year? Seem to remember reading this on mudcat... or am I having deja view.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 01:16 PM

Good! Ya can't be too careful with any cut, no matter how small. You only need to get cellulitis (spg?) once and EVERY cut after that can be a problem. I first got cellulitis from a spider bite, then from a hornet sting, then from another hornet sting while I was working under my truck in the mud. I now carry alcohol swabs and bandaids in my truck and I USE em.

When the doc draws two lines around the infected area with an ink pen and says, "First line, call me. Second line, go to the hospital.", ya take notice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 12:45 PM

Yup. Carefully cleaned and disinfected. Thanks, gnu. I am fine just a bit battered and bruised and that's just my ego.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 12:38 PM

Just read about this on Maeve's thread. Hope you tend to the cuts very carefully.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 09:07 AM

GROANNNNN
I fell down and went boom. No kidding. Righton my face outside my office. Bruised knee, cut finger, bruised wrist...I'm hruting all over. Worst of all the entire office saw it happen. LOL An attendant at the garage came running over and said "I thought it was a circus act then I realized you were hurt." So embarrassing. Bloody face, gushing finer cuts, all that concern and all I wanted was to get in my car and get the hell out of there.
WHINE!
Now I hurt. Fingers and fingernails are bruised. Wrist hurts. Knee hurts.


HEY!
Is anybody paying attention???? Stop chasing each other around and get me a bed and a JD IV>
SINS
PS Yes - I laughed. I sat on the ground and laughed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 02:17 AM

Burn Unit Nurse Mary Ellen Cauterize wondered about that slow-burning love, and whether he knew what she was really like...

But, what the squid, she could rise again....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 02:04 AM

These guys don't deserve understanding, they're damn stupid.

Is she calling us stupid? said the squid? Herman and the Mermen nodded, started a soft-sea shuffler, and they agreed...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 01:39 AM

Meanwhile, Kendall, Weird Herman, the Squid, and a shantyful of Merman tabbyknackered choiristers raced after LtS, VT, VdM and SNSL, asking for understanding, with fins and fingers raised..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 01:32 AM

Now, time to hang up the towel and head for.......

OH NO.
Someone's been in my things and I've got a....









HURT LOCKER. I'm not touching a thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 05:28 PM

which left foot... cuz if it is my left foot... when it swells it will be stuck there...

and when I need my legs back... that ring will be mine... only I am already married, so that might be tantamount to bigamy...

this is getting too weird even for me..

Hey Liz... when they put that 24 hour heart monitor on me, I got the hiccups within about 20 minutes. not little little hics... great big painful wino in the alley HICCUPS. It was embarrassing to have to right that on the notes of activities I kept while wearing it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 04:40 PM

"Sorry",says Running Sore. "That should've been 'heave away' rather than 'heal away a couple of posts ago. Great Spirit Almighty,I can't even mutter right anymore...."


When InterVenus DeMilo kicked Herman and sent him flying, she ended up getting what she came for, as the engagement ring fell out of his pocket and she scooped it up and it's now on the index toe of her left foot.

"I'd see him dead before I'd see that bitch Ratched wear it!", she vowed and chased after to finish him off until tripped up "by that long scarf some Pia Zadora Duncan wannabe threw at me!".....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 04:13 PM

I still have it but I can't find it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 03:48 PM

Running Sore, still in a good mood passes Lily Festre, waves with one hand and taps his bald head with the other and says, "How, Chemo Sabe!"


"Too bad she's happily taken.", the Indian thinks to himself, "I could settle down with her and raise a tribe of Festre-ing Sores any day! Mmmmm-mmmm! Lookin' GOOD!"


HEY, Don't worry! You've still got it, Lily!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 02:01 PM

♬ hhmmmmmm hhmmmmm la la la la under da sea... under da sea....


splish.... splash   lovely warm water...

bloop....bloop..... bloop...

Oh deary me, pardon the bubbles. Somebody put the jets on please.

And whatever you do.... do NOT put the squid or Herman the merman in here with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 01:20 PM

Newly-bald orderly Running Sore grudgingly replaces Liz's full bucket with yet another empty one and mutters to himself, "I'm no sailor, but every time they have to heal away, I have to haul away......"

He is still furious over being scalped by Nurse Ratched for helping out InterVenus DeMilo back in the Radiation Lab and considers himself on the Warpath. He had noticed that in her haste to get back into proper uniform and re-exert control, she had left her locker unlocked and was trying to come up with a plan for revenge as he rolled his cart down the hallway when he sees some workmen replacing some hallway ceiling tiles and a little cartoon light bulb clicks on over his shiny head.

He holds out a plastic garbage bag and asks the workmen to throw him down a loose chunk of insulation. Then he quickly sneaks down to the hospital pharmacy for some dipilitory. Back at the locker, making sure he's unseen, he pours some of the Nair into Nurse Ratched's shampoo bottle and gives it a few shakes. Then, after donning a fresh set of rubber gloves, he takes the insulation and rubs it on the inside of her spare starched uniforms and even her spare undergarments.

"That'll make her start from scratch!", he says to himself with a wicked grin.......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 10:27 AM

Oh nurse, the bucket, THE BUCKET!!!!


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 08:30 AM

I'm still confused. Why does she need four legs? Apposable thumbs are handy. How did she manage the lock without fingers? Is someone running around here with four hands and no feet?
I was sad because I had no shoes then I saw a woman who had four feet...I mean, no feet and four hands.
I guess that's what comes of hanging around a radiation lab.

Now back to our story.
The inmates are sick and tired of all the noise and running around. Kendall is first to the door with a huge harpoon, followed by Curmudgeon with a concertina and LilyFestre with long pink scarf. A big bald Indian joins in the commotion and helps Kendall wedge the harpoon into the jamp and pop the door open just as Weird Herman comes flying through the air screaming in pain over the heads of the horrified onlookers. He cartwheels down the hall and into the arms of Nurse Ratched. DeMilo the Demented follows after but in the knick/nick of time Lily tangles her feet (all four of them) in the chemo scarf and sends her ass over teakettle down the same hall also into the arms of Ratched who by now is apoplectic.
Mid air DeMilo grabbed Tom's squeeze box and and upon landing hobbled Herman's Hermits with a salty hornpipe as Kendall...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 06:25 AM

LoL! this is fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 05:59 AM

Notice that not only did Nurse Ratched find a new overstarched uniform (more starch than an Army mess hall dinner and she seems to LIKE it that way!), but she seems to have what looks like a human scalp on her belt. Nobody has seen or heard from Running Sore for a while, come to think of it

We later found the now-bald Indian in a cupboard, and when we finally took the gag from his mouth, he swore some sort of revenge. It's a bit unnerving to hear a hospital worker talking about "heap bad medicine"....

But we're getting wa-a-a-aay ahead of ourselves here. As we left the earlier action, a crowd of people were banging on a locked Radiation Lab door to try to prevent the fury of a woman scorned being vented upon Herman the Radiologist.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 04:17 AM

This job stinks. I keep this ward disinfected, irradiated and antidiluted, and a bunch of Merman wearing fishtails and singing Grey Flannette Line in falsetto take over and get the place vibrating.

Sev, bend over, and take a deep breath while I insert my speculator. Your mouth needs a rinse with some medicinal soap, any more lip and you'll be Fish Fingers before you know it!

LtS - you, love, need an aloevera and lavendar massage to get your strength back. But I don't do that stuff, you'll have to tell Himself to assist.

Sinsull, what the hell, who needs discipline when squids are still enchained? You free that squid and you'll regret it, girl. Many hands make ... oh never mind. This place smells fishy.

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 02:40 AM

Liz,

No, you say? More?
OK!

SINSULL,

Here's your plot synopsis....

Now back to the continuing soap opera of "General Hospitiful"

Ms. DeMilo now is back to four legs, Her own two behind and the two that were disowned by Virginia Tam in favor of a new designer Mermaiden Japan haute coture prosthetic tail and were thrown back to InterVenus through the back door by American Indian orderly Running Sore. Nurse Ratched managed to escape the Radiology Lab and was last seen running down a back corridor in hot persuit of Running Sore. De Milo, front legs now reinstalled, has managed to lock the back door before her ex-fiancee could escape and now is preparing to angrily face off with poor frightened Herman.

Meanwhile, the rest of the procession from the hallway has just arrived outside and are just starting to bang on the locked front Radiation Lab door.

Virginia Tam is now in the therapy pool.

Y'all caught?

If so, feel welcome to twist the story further in any way that suits you

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 03:49 PM

The squid!?!? Oh crap, the squid! Is he still chained up on the wall in the tavern? Damn that Ratched! i,ll be back.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 03:22 AM

NOOOOOOOOO MOOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Please!!!

I'm laughing so hard, the heart monitor I'm presently wired up to is going to cause major consternation when I hand it back tonight!!! (24hour jobby... amazing how much technology has improved in just 5 years. The one I had last time looked like an original Star Trek tri-corder and had to be hung on a strap over my shoulder! This one is only a wee bit bigger than the average pager and clips happily onto my pocket... or my bra strap for when I don't have pockets, or my jammie trousers when I don't have either.)

The sticky lead grips mean I still look like I've been rogered by the squid though...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 04:47 PM

ASIDE>>>
Does De Milo now have legs and feet? Hands? I lost count.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 04:43 PM

When we get this Radiation Ward mess over with, I'll introduce VT to a friend of mine from Atlantis who sings first tenor in the Merman Tabernacle Choir (a Coral Music group who perform with the Eddystone Light Orchestra). Once he gets past his "What's a nice girl like you doing in a dive like this?" line, he'll do just fine. He comes from a long line of Piano Tunas on his mother's side and would probably love to play your scales......

Meanwhile, Ms. DeMilo, upon reaching the Ward and finding Nurse Ratched and her one-time fiancee The Wierd Guy From Radiology (Whose nametag reads "Herman". As in "He was Herman, but he done her wrong", I guess) en flagrante in another sort of "engagemant", locks the door behind her. Running Sore, who knows all sorts of hospital short cuts, pops in a back door and tosses VT's spare pair of feet to InterVenus after offering in vain to install them himself (He gets off on that sort of thing), While she is quickly reinstalling her set of front limbs, Nurse Ratched, who normally never backs down from a fight but is still technically Chief Nurse On Duty, throws on a lab coat and runs out the door, chasing after the Indian orderly. Herman, with pants around his ankles, can't move fast enough as Ms. DeMilo Locks the other door and turns to face him.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 01:04 PM

I heard her say "I know you thought the leg you took was wooden but in the dark you goofed and took my good'un..."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 07:20 PM

I'd dreamed about melting togrther with that woman, but I'd assumed we'd both be in a state of heat.

It seems that VT's gone Ethel Mermaid on us, according to the last "A-fish-in-sea report" we've recieved. Running Sore was said to havesuffered a direct slap across the face with her prosthetic tail, but "Chief" swears it was just a fluke shot. If someone gave her a comb and a glass we may all be sunk!

Still smarting from his fluke rebuke, Running Sore was last seen heading back towards the Radiation Lab to see if Ms. Demilo wants the surplus limbs back and reinstalled. "Forelegged is forearmed", so they say...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 04:28 PM

É = question mark on my keyboard until I reboot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 04:25 PM

LOL Is that a pun? Or a typo?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 04:11 PM

SnowjobÉ

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 03:32 PM

Hey, Sev. InterVenus DeMilo made the big time. Immortalized in ice!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35709463/ns/today-today_people/

I see a cooling bath in your future.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 03:21 PM

ger orf me ya big wassname. I don't want the legs. Looky here! I got this prosthetic tail

I'd be most obliged if you could just tip me into the therapy pool.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 03:05 PM

Listerine here, gnu. And don't breathe on me.








yuch!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 02:50 PM

SOB!!! I thought she said she was here with the decaffeinated! I said, "No thanks as I am having a hard time urinating." She said, "This will help."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 02:17 PM

Orderly Running Sore to VT,

"We tried to stop and grab on the run Ms. DeMilo, but she shed them and got away and is still running down the corridor, so we thought we'd return them to you. Din't worry, I DID wash them first......


OOOPS!!! Wrong side and backwards you say?!?!?


Sorry 'bout dat! I'll fix it! Nurse Wretched over in Physical Therapy showed me how. HOLD STILL, dern ya! And stop screaming!....."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 01:59 PM

OOOOUUUUCCCCHHHH!!! Who stuck my legs back on? I don't want them, I tell you.


Take the away.






sniffle.... hurts

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 01:51 PM

Poor gnu. He thought the somewhat stunned Native American orderly Running Sore had been muttering something about Hospice rather than "Hoss-Piss".

Sadder-Budweiser he'll come around again aftter developing a bit of an immunity/tolerance over the years.

And Amos, as was his habit, had unconsciously mixed some in with his coffee....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 01:35 PM

The beautiful and lovely (but now quadruped) InterVenus DeMilo has apparently become somewhat temoprarily enamored, as well as somewhat temporarily attatched, to VT's legs. She seems to be at least an approximate version of her old state of mind as she apoligizes to me as we shake hand and right forefoot.

I have become somewhat enamored of Burn Unit Nurse Mary Ellen Cauterize in Ms.DeMilo's abscence and I seem to be making some slow progress on that front, even if it isn't quite slow-burning love at this point, and she was running right behind me in the procession, so I'd better be careful.

I don't have long to ponder, as right about the same time that I asked which toe would her engagement ring go on, she looks upward and sees the directional sigh pointing down the hall towards the Radiology Lab and proceeds to jump up and gallop down the hallway on all fours with a look of fury on her face. I'd rather stay and let Mary Ellen pleasurably hold me up and hand feed me my meds while I play needy, but I realize that the reason that this all hadn't been broken up by Nurse Ratched a while ago, is that she might be trysting again (like she did last summer?) with InterVenus's former fiancee, The Weird Guy From Radiology, who must have pocketed the engagement ring for good and thought he'd moved on in his life.

I tell the others what's happening and tell them we'll catch up later, but the mood with Mary Ellen has been broken and we get up, shrug and hurry along with the crowd. Is wincingdevil still around with his camera?.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:41 AM

gnu??? Are you OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 01:30 PM

I read that as a "merkin" of Kent's best and fetched you all some toothpicks and dental floss.
No need to thank me.

gnu - I wouldn't drink that stuff. Those are urine samples. the patient had fasting samples and non-fasting samples submitted - with or without food.

SOmeone get him a whoopie pail. Damn fool has been drinking Canadian beer and couldn't tell the difference. Whose samples were those? We'll need new ones...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 07:31 PM

I raise a jar to that, Sev.... hmmmm... both of these say "take with or without food"... so, with, I guess. Salut.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 07:16 PM

Ale for what goods us?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 03:06 PM

should say this is not my song... Titled the Merry Hostess on Graham and Eillen Pratt LP we have. There are more verses.

Nurse DeMilo can keep my damned legs. They hurt too much. I am going to get those springy bouncy prosthetic legs paralympic runners use. You guys won't see me for dust!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:58 PM

VT... well done.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:15 PM

Oooohhh! What's this? On the bottom tray of tea trolley. A firkin of Kent's Best and a schload of plastic cups...

Wooohooooo!

Screeching to a halt at the end of the corridor, and making ready to play pub landlady.

♬
Come all that love good company
And hearken to my song
Tis of a lovely hostess fine
That lives in London town
Who sells good ale both nappy and stale
And always thus sings she
My ale was tunnn,d when I was young A little above my knee

The gayest lady with her fan
Doth love such snappy ale
Both city maids and country girls
That carry the milking pail
Will take a touch and not think much
To sing so merrily
My ale was tunn'd when I was young A little above my knee

You're welcome all brave gentlemen,
If you please to come in,
To take a cup I do intend,
And a health for to begin:
To all the merry jovial blades,
That will sing for company,
My ale was tunn'd when I was young, A little above my knee.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 12:08 PM

Gnu and Amos cling fearfully to the corridor walls and both of their minds simultaneously flash to visions of Dr. Seuss' "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street"....

Once again the humor goes from deadpan to bedpan. The bedpans and that bumbling incompetent Native American orderly Running Sore fly up in the air and when he lands, the old-style porcelain enamel bedpans fall back down on him one by one. That's not to say, though, that the whole parade itself didn't get rained on a bit. Still the mad procession continues to barrel down the hall towards the Radiology Department with VT in the lead....

Drs. Howard, Fine and Howard, on their way to do brain surgery, are forced to scramble out of the way, making their usual noises in the process.




VT, the way I was told how to get "legless" was to go into a UK cider pub and drink the stuff down fast like beer....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 08:32 AM

Chaos. Pure chaos.
TAM! Watch out for those bedpans. They're full!!!!!
CRASHH! BANG! SPLAT! SPLOSH!

nevermind

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 07:27 AM

The question of Nurse Mary Ellen's ability to fold does not realy bother us. It's the rest of the staff's propensity to spindle and mutilate that tends to scare the living daylights out of us!......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 06:17 AM

Nurse Cauterize may be available and ready, but can she do hospital folds?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 05:23 AM

An armless InterVenus DeMilo, who must be back hat-in-teeth to re-apply for her old job again, just couldn't resist the fun and, upon stumbling upon VT's legs, which had gotten loose and were stumbling on their own, puts them both on and starts galloping after on all- fours, whinnying like a mare. Now THAT'S more in the spirit of the Nurse DeMilo that I remembered!

Severn, hitching up Seamus to a rolling gurney and yelling, "On, Yukon King!" like that TV Mountie of his youth, Sgt. Preston, used to do, goes chasing after InterVenus. Nurse Cauterize, with a tray of pain pills that Severn obviously doesn't need at the moment chases after on foot.

Up ahead, VT is drag racing a legless frog on a skateboard with a Col. Harlan Sanders goatee and wearing a "Tastes Kinda Like Chicken" T-shirt, who materialized out of God knows where--most likely the kitchen.

Wincingdevil, dressed up like Cecil B. DeMille, is getting it all down on film. (As always, Vince will take pictures of ANYTHING!) Who needs the Olympics or Ben Hur, anyway?.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:53 PM

whoooooshhhhh........


             WHHEEEEEEEE.......


                         GET OUT THE WAY!





mop head wallops Gnu and Amos around the legs...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:22 PM

B-complex... ain`ch complex enough alreadyÉ

Arrrggghhhh... keyboard is messed up againÉÉÉ Ahyup.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Amos
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM

Aside from seeing a chiro for various random aches, I am not in need of therapeutic aid in the bones andmeat department.

However I have NOT yet recovered from the Mudcat, and am of the opinion it is having a cumulative deleterious effect on my relative coherence and alleged sanity.

Maybe a B-complex drip would help....



A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:06 PM

Damn! I was gonna put em in the freezer, cuz cold usually helps numb the pain.

Hmmmm! I'll just put them in prosthetics closet. Oh Look! A tea trolley and a string mop.


WHEEEEEEEE! Punting down the corridor is fun.


LOOK OUT.... Legless lady coming though!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:00 PM

mine aren't quite so band, but I do have an appointment with my physio in 40 mins, arranged late yesterday.

Life's difficult when even sitting & laying down hurt more than normal!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:58 PM

Drop them off at Receiving and help yourself to a wheelchair or crutches - your choice.
WAIT! That's the door to the kitchen. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LEGS IN THE KITCHEN!!!!!

Dharmabum,
Take the Teal Room. A candy striper will be in momentarily with coffee and tea cakes as well as a thorazine drip. ring that little buzzer if you require anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:40 PM

Can I just leave my legs in here? The rest of me is OK apart from being a bit tired. But the legs are in screaming agony.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 02:43 PM

Ratched to Sev:
Are you regular?
Sev: Yup. Every morning at 7AM like clockwork.
Ratched: Good!
Sev: Not really. I wake up at 8...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 12:45 PM

Hey! Someone we haven't seen for a while has come back to be head nurse of the Burn Ward. We have Mary Ellen Cauterize again! There's someone who's been lost to our knowledge for some time!

She certainly caught MY eye again, but I'll have to see what frame of mind she's in these days.

Too bad I don't have the Benz anymore.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 09:06 PM

funny 'bout that Sev. I have a birthday this week, as it happens. but no soup, thanks.

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 08:31 PM

Dat's definitely a no-no, nein-nein!

Plastic sheets for 999, the kind that buzz in case of emergency that they trained kids with. Or at the very least, a plastic bottle.

Nurse Ratched gets pissed off when things get pissed on, this side of a Golden Shower, and I don't think anybody's throwing her a 50th An-adversity Party any time soon.

With NR, urine trouble means you're in trouble, if you get my incontinental drift. She's one of those who feels that when fate deals you leaks, you make soup.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:17 PM

I have to pee about seven times per night and I count myself fortunate when I get out of bed for six of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM

Like, WAAAAYYY too much info!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Dharmabum
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 09:16 AM

Hey Sins,
I don't know about my kid,but I could sure use a little T.L.C. and thorazine!
Mind if I come in?
Oh,and don't worry about those bedpans,I'll be needing them soon enough.

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:22 PM

Heads up all. Dharmabum's daughter Shalisa may be paying us a visit and I don't want this place looking like a dump. Who's on bedpans today? Empty Kendall's room. He's home now so we can free it up for Shalisa. Close the door to the Tavern. I don't want any drunken sots wandering in here singing Danny Boy.
OK - gnu, fresh towels and linens, mop the floor, reset the dingle-dangles and keep an eye out for ratched.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 03:17 PM

I hear ya Liz. Life sucks and then ya die. Recover? Sometimes, I don't wanna.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 04:12 PM

Oh look! She dropped a $50 bill right next to Liz's IV. Must be your lucky day, Liz. Don't spend it all in one place.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

SINSULL raises her magic wand and WHIIIISH!m All gone, Liz. Now rest while i adjust your prescription - three shots gin to one part tonic. There! That should do it.

Nurse ratched,
The Radiology Man just went down to the basement to pick up a cathode tube. If you hurry, you can catch him.


QUICK! Shut the door and lock it!
Silly old cow.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

Buggerit... IV G&T and not too much of the bloody T....

Crap day from hell, am dog tired but can't sleep.

I want it all to go away now.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:09 PM

Is NR an RN?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 08:55 AM

This thread really puts distress in perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 07:13 AM

Sinsull, Underhill, wimps, both of you. These low-down, pyjama-wearing, pillpopping pseuds need some pulling into line. Let me teach you a thing or severn about hospital ways. Where's my man from Radiology when I need him? He can see through the smartest charades, right through to the bones, apart from racking off with that InterVenus DeMilo - who looks suspiciously like LtS.

Let me get my hands on that burnt piece of seafood and take him to the dissection room. Whether its a message or massage, there'll be messes. I do them both the Chinese way - whispers, and chops. A little pummeling'll bring these wimps, all of them, back to reality.

.... MY reality....

heh heh heh .........

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 06:58 AM

yep.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:27 AM

Great info/horrible stuff.
Sev,
Are you amazed at how strong you are? Not everyone would come through all that crap and still be able to joke.
You are an inspiration to people who really need a role model and for those of us who only sit and wait.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 05:26 PM

My post is gone? And another post from someone else?

Sev... thanks for the info. Great stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 04:54 PM

Been away, for therapy and a good time... it was very theraputic but it nearly did for me last night... it really is possible to die, laughing!

Finally got a consultation with a cardiac specialist next Thursday. I'm officially back at work as of Tuesday, so it could be an interesting week.

Watch this space and hand me something tall, dark and cool. Hugh Jackman should do it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 02:07 PM

Just lying here plastered. Went to bed plastered for the past three nights. Feeling much better as a result.

(the reason)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 05:37 AM

I read your post yestarday Severn and felt how lucky we are you're still around, and what a hell of a time you've been through. It's such a tough road, and only someone who's been through it can tell it like it is.

Lilyfestre - good luck in your journey, chemo is so heavy but a wise choice.

I popped in again tonight - no further comments. Is everyone out partying? or has that ratched wiped out the ward?

hope you're all ok.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:27 AM

Michelle,

Nurse ratched will show you the difference between a masseuse and a "massage-onist". We'll try to find someone else to rub you the right way and supply your kneads and wishes. Someone to make you say,"Ahhhhhhhhhhye! THERE'S the rub!.....

Welcome to what I call "Dishrag Days", where you feel like you have no energy whatsoever and you feel like a wet noodle. Sad to say, it only got worse for me. My Chemo treatments were three weeks apart, and whereas that time was not enough to flush out all the meds and toxins out of one's system, the number of bad days I spent increased after each treatment. I had to shop on the good days and stock up, because I didn't feel like even moving or getting out of bed much on the real bad ones, A good time to catch up on your reading. sometimes sound bothered me, sometimes it didn't.

It might have just been me, but all the medicines they sent home with me with the caution messages about don't drive or even look askance at a piece of heavy machinery didn't make me tired at all, even the pain meds. I had to go back after almost a week of non-sleep and get issued some Ambien, which worked. When the dishrag days were over, I went against orders and quit the pain and sleeping pills until I became a wet noodle again. By the time of my sixth treatment, the Dishrag Days had gradually increased to about half of the three weeks. There were occaisional times of nausea and I remember watching the Porcelain Bowl as much as the Super Bowl.

After my sixth and last Chemo treatments, which were Mon.-Wed., around Friday night I was suddenly unable to keep food down from the cumlative effects of the meds still in me. I had a follow up Oncology appointment scheduled on Monday, and I tried to hold out. I tried the method I used when I had a bad flu and would start out with Ginger Ale and saltines or tea and toast and gradually work other food back in me, but it wasn't working. I probably should've gone to the horse-spittal late Sat. or Sun., but I waited until Monday.

They took one look at my blood sugar level after they finally hit a vein and rushed me back into the "hallowed halls of IV" from which I'd thought I'd graduated. It turns out my blood sugar had spiked to 1100 and I probably should have had a coma or stroke. The Doc will yell at you if your level goes over 200. When I finally got home, I found I had put a few things into wierd places, but it would be a while before I went home.

I was sent in an ambulance two buildings down the road to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. While I was awaiting admittancde, it took them four people to be able to draw blood--I was THAT dehydrated! I spent that night, March 17th, in the ICU (peek-a-boo!) and I spent three days in various hospital rooms. It turns out that the shugar spike had given me permanent diabetes, so ironically enough, the date from which I could no longer hoist a pint was St. Patrick's night. I had gotten a Sheffield tankard as a get well present from a UK Catter friend, and, of course, since you can't drink alchohol during Chemo, I couldn't use it for its intended purpose until I actually got well. Now I couldn't ever hoist a pint of brew in it.

Let that be a warning. You have a mate to take you to the emergency room if the nausea persists like that. I have the diabetes under control, but it'll alawys be there and I have had to adjust my living and eating habits accordingly.

Another food topic. Part of what they were giving me in my IVs was Cisplatin (sp?) which contains Platinum. I couldn't eat red meat, because the drug made it taste like iron. I couldn't eat canned food because you could taste the can in the food. They'll very likely give you stule softeners to counteract the effects of the other meds. The pain pills, especially, tend to constipate.

This will be all for tonight. More stories soon (more pleasant ones) and any questions you have, feel free to ask here or by PM.

But there WILL be those bad days when you haven't hardly the strength or will to move, like a nasty flu, so notify your partner what to expect. Effects vary with the individual person. I'm just telling you my tales. It may affect you differently. they might be putting different meds in you.

-----------------------------------------------------------------




It'll be great to see the lovely young Firecat take an active part in Mudcat again, even if her body's as twisted as a good mystery plot and the fates have conspired to Bangor up a litle bit. I thought Firecats always landed on their feet, though....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 07:46 PM

I am... but it's kinda hard in cyberspace. All I can offer is massaging thoughts.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:49 PM

Someone pass out the extra special strength tylenol please? Chemo cocktails are HARD on a body. I feel like I've been beaten with a baseball bat.

Tell Susan to scooch over, I might be needing that revved up scooter she's got going on......my shins, knees and hips are killing me over here!

And when I find that person with the baseball bat, I say we gang up on Kendall's Nurse Ratchet!

Anyone know a good masseuse?

ARG.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Tig
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM

Awww Sinsull that sounds great. Love the colours, they'll suit her down to the ground. I'd forgotten aloe - although I know she's not got any in her box of essential oils.

As for guests - anyone got the number for David Tennant or could lend her any 'original' ie before the revived Dr Who? Then your problem could be evicting her after her tlc.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 02:30 PM

Private room in soft blue greens. Aloe plant for the blisters. We'll put a Do Not Disturb sign on the door and let her choose her visitors.

Get a room ready for Kendall too. The ICU is about to release him but he needs QUIET, virtual lobster with lots of butter, a young and pretty nurse for the sponge baths, and a dog bed for Seamus - it's the internet - no germs.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Tig
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 02:11 PM

Please can I book my disaster prone daughter into the ward for some TLC?
Now that she has got over the initial shock of uni I think she could face it.

After her teething problems before Christmas (they evicted the 4 cracked ones and another that was taking up too much space) and the nasty bugs she's tried something new!

On Tuesday she was going down 'Bitch Hill' (called for it's steepness) in the rain, slipped on a manhole cover and tried to re-arrange her hip. Yesterday since her hip was improving but she couldn't put her foot to the floor and her calf was a funny shape she agreed to go to A&E. Apparently her calf muscle is badly strained, she was issued with pain killers and crutches and told to take it carefully. This (on medical advice)included dropping out of a play which goes on in about a month.

At lunchtime I got a phone call from her to find out what to put on the blisters she now has on her hands :-( Since Bangor is all hills life is not going well.

This completes the week she found out they hadn't made the televised rounds of University Challenge and she'd had another couple of problems!!! Methinks she deserves the admission.

Her Worried Mother
xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:46 PM

mmm... that calamari was good (burp) .. bit over cooked though..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:22 PM

Come on over to the Ward, DD. Good intellegent conversation has been at a premium in here as the unit's only current catter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:35 PM

Cherry Red for Valentine's. And the squid is safely chaiuned to the wall so you won't be disturbed...until some of the gentlemen show up. The I recommend an umbrella.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:30 PM

For the prudish (who?! here??), I should warn that it will be a skinny dip.

(Despite the Thin Mints.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:29 PM

I think I need to move into the Imaginary Burn Unit. My "post-herpetic neuralgia" has reached the stage where the primary symptom is a nasty burning sensation when anything (e.g. clothing, sheets, fingers making the mistake of responding to a quiet itchiness) touches the area of the now pretty-much-healed shingles rash on my side. My nerves need some serious therapy.

"You say a virus travelled up you? How does that make you feel?"
"Let's talk about your childhood..."

On the other hand, a swim in a cool Jell-O pit might be more effective. (Ice packs offer some relief, but are not nearly as entertaining.) What flavor is on offer today?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 12:56 PM

COme over to the Tavern. The Jell-O pit is cool though red. You can recline there while we clean up the Ward and locate Ratched. Then back here to fresh sheets and maybe a new menu.
Besides, it's cyberspace. You don't have to be in the burn unit.
SINS, the practical.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 12:54 PM

Hey! I might be in burn recovery for some time yet and will be here in my ward when you all get back. I will make it to the next tavern and I suppose the Squid's already there.

I hope he counted his arms after his last lust-driven encounter.....

I'm warning the Mudcat ladies, after IntraVenus left, I'm free at the moment and worth every penny of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 12:40 PM

A bit later, The Squid is nowhere to be seen after his trip to Bedbath & Beyond, but Nurse Ratched is seen walking down the halls with a wicked gleam in her eyes and a red rose in her top buttonhole (She seems oblivious of the thorns), singing to herself,

"Mister Squiddy-Wah-Diddy,
Mister Squiddy Wah-Diddy,
I wish someone would tell me what Squiddy-Wah-Diddy means...."



There's likely to have been some serious cuttling-up going on. I'm sure there are some Japanese film directors waiting to sign up any offspring to an immediate contract as the as the Jackie Cooper/Coogan, Shirley Temple or or Macauley Culkin of the Creature Feature set.....


An unbathed Liz finds the abandoned fedora fits quie nicely and has taken to wearing it about the Ward....


I'm back to my usual PT regimen after substituting shovelling tons of snow for about a week. Nurse Wretched awaits. Still no word of the beautiful and lovely Nurse InterVenus DeMilo (sigh!) and her fiancee, The Weird Guy From Radiology (I think The Squid is better looking, but I might be a little predudiced).....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 12:22 PM

Awfully quiet in here. Ratched gone off with the squid. Everyone seems to be making remarkable recoveries. Maybe it's time to shut the place down, scrub out the remainders and mozey over to the Tavern for a pre-Valentine's Day bash. At least until Kendall and Tom are ready to "revcover".

Lights out.
Door locked.
And through the rabbit hole to the Tavern...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:55 AM

Snubbed by Liz, the hurt and wistful look in Squid's eye suddenly becomes a sparkle, as he turns around and offers Nurse Ratched the flowers and candy, which are, amazingly enough accepted (I suppose the Weird Guy From Radiology is on her shit-list forever for running off to Nurse InterVenus DeMilo once she miraculously, with some Mudcat help, regained arms).

Anyway, the easily love-struck squid jumps in the cold water rolling bath and is merrily wheeled off to God Only Knows Where. I hope Squiddy, Hell, I hope BOTH of them know what they're getting into. I'd suspect there's a few in here who'd gladly pay to see the video.....

Well, Liz, You've dodged yet another bullet and Manitas doesn't have to take off work and ride his white stallion to the rescue....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:24 AM

I knew it was a mistake to open a corridor between the Tavern and the Recovery Ward. Although it did make for a ready supply of Jell-O. I wouldn't eat those chocolates Lizzie. They appear to be smelts double-dipped in Hershey's excuse for chocolate.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:53 AM

LtS, you're in a right spot. I belive immersion in ice-cold water has been found to recharge the metabolism. I'll have you up and being productive in the workhouse in no time.

and speaking of belts....


N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:59 AM

Well there went the nap.....

Even busier day today, sorry Squiddie, you'll have to get your own dinner. Is that a tie or a belt?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:12 PM

Liz, of all the spots you've ever gotten into.....

WAIT! She has a visitor!

....It's the Squid in a fedora and tie with a boquet of roses and a box of chocolates.

I'll leave you two alone....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:18 PM

Oh NO! I'm seeing spots before my eyes. Quick nurse - a bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:13 PM

Given the circumstances, I'm doing pretty well today... got dressed before midday (just), spent some time shopping which, although it took me twice as long as usual, has been most theraputic because I bought new jammies... watch out fellow inmates - stripes have given way to spots and we have some real food in the fridge.

I've started yawning though, so I guess it's nap time before dinner. Just keep Nurse Ratched and that bedbath away from me....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 04:28 PM

No salt in those wounds though, please!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 03:52 PM

No skin off my nose, Sev. The CELLAR! is at jacqui and Kendall's house. I'll take Seamus so you don't disturb his nap time.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

Mary,

I have a sign outside proclaiming the place to be "The Salt Cellar". Be ready with GS cookies and refreshments when the shanty sing crew show up in gale force. I told 'em it was all right with you.......

I'll need somebody to take admissions (of gilt) and to stamp everybody's hands (But not so hard that they have to clap with their feet).

Awfully nice to let us all use the place, as a bunch of would be in exile here, anyway....

I hope you don't have to sleep or get up in the morning or anything.










....And here I thought I was supposedly shifting time between the Burn Ward and shovelling tons of snow......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:28 PM

Severn! CELLAR!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:25 PM

Are youse Cookie Rankin?

(Rankin Family, FYI)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:21 PM

If we win the suit, can we get paid in cookies?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:18 PM

Actually, Mary, the cookie's name was derived from the old West Virginia folksong, Mama's Little Babylove's Short And Inbred".

Is that enough of a musical reference to place this thread above the line for a few seconds?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:45 AM

Their shortbread isn't short at all. Fraud! Let's sue.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:35 PM

hahahahaha

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:31 PM

And why are they called "thin mints" when they have the opposite effect??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:12 AM

You mean they don't???
Not even Brownies?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:00 AM

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm thin mints.. I always wanted to know why, if chocolate chip cookies have chocolate in them, ginger cookies have ginger in them, do Girl Scout cookies not have girl scouts in them?

Perhaps I better move over to the psycho ward....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:50 PM

Think the nurse can be bribed or soothed with Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies?? Yesterday I actually felt quite chipper and went walkabout: the boy and I went out on shopping adventure, which included a fortuitous encounter with Girl Scouts at the supermarket.

But, that was yesterday. I don't know if it was the meds dosage, which I had upped, or the cranberry chocolate infusion, but I'm thinking about upping both some more because today was no fun. Went to work anyway... need my bed in the ward again now!

Thin mint, anyone?

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:40 AM

No need to chack, chuck or check my bed either... couldn't post from it because Mudcat was poorly over the weekend and we couldn't get in!

AnnieHoo.... had my outing on Friday night - less than 3 hours out of the house, some time on public transport and I was completely wiped... incapable of coherent thought until Saturday afternoon.... even then I retired to bed at a stupidly early time and slept for about 14 hours straight... not a good sign.

This morning's trip to the doctor - normally a 5 minute walk - took 10 mins to get there.. stopped off for some shopping on the way back, one bag full of veggies, split between 2 bags, home an hour after leaving it, and I'm knackered again... but at least we have edibles. Still no sign of the referral, I have to go back for a letter to send on to the private healthcare provider (BUPA) but it's snowing and I'm nodding off.... meh... I can get it tomorrow... it's about time I started rehabilitating myself into the world, even if it takes me twice as long as previously.

So... I'm still here, still much the same but still fairly chipper.. (apart from last Thursday... last Thursday was a killer).

Bring it on Ratched, I have fresh carrots and I'm not afraid to use them!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:13 AM

Cold's almost gone - I'm out of here. Don't block the exit!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:53 PM

I predict a mass exodus from this thread to the aches and pains thread or at the very worst Mudcat Tavern

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:21 PM

All this mollycoddling is counter productive. What these old bags, boils and creakers need is a brisk cold shower -

preferably an internal one. Anyone for an iceblocked colonic? windows open for the added benefits of good cold fresh air?

I'll be doing my daily rounds shortly, and malingerers beware. That miseryguts Freda Underweather needs a good codswolloping, and a blunt talking to. She's no worse off than she should be.

Just ironing the uniform, I'll be in shortly. With the thermometer and clamps.

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 07:56 PM

oooooh. YUM! Virtual is much better than nothing!! Thanks!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maire-aine
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 07:55 PM

Thanks for the attention and nursing. Feeling a little better, enough to eat some chicken rice soup & chocolate ice cream (I'm sick, after all). Fever is back down to normal; hope it stays that way. See y'all in the aches & pains thread.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 07:43 PM

Here you go. A fresh box of dark chocolate covered cranberries, chocolate cranberry cocoa and a litre of cranberry juice. I'll double the size of the catheter bag to handle the overflow.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:19 PM

(It's not constant, though!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:19 PM

Hmm... I don't know about champagne with this drug, could be scary. Better stick to cranberry juice -- last nights dreams involving wheels (bikes and cars) were weird enuf. Unless you've got something good in chocolate?

(When asked by the Dr., I rated the pain as a 6 and then wondered if I was over stating it. Then later I looked up the drug, and in the chart of drug trial results, the average rating before the drug was a 6. I guess I was in the right ballpark!)

~ B in T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:08 PM

That was bed CHECK not chack or chuck.

6 to 4???? And that's good?
Enjoy the movie and I will freshen your sheets while you're away, add some flowers and a fresh IV - white or red? Or champagne, maybe? We just got some in.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 05:52 PM

Don't chuck my bed yet, I'm still not done recovering... this week things got wuss instead of better. (Last weekend was indeed a lull in the storm.)

Saw a doctor yesterday and and am trying to decide if the cure is worse than the disease -- anti-siezure medication (Neurontin - gabapentin) is the prescription for my "post-herpetic neuralgia" (its other use is for epilepsy), and it makes me drowsy/woozy. Have to figure out the right dosage to be functional and reduce the pain from a 6 to a 4, as advertised.

Going to miss the special contra dance tonight, but will go on leave from the sickbed to make my way back to the old cohousing neighborhood to watch a showing of "It Might Get Loud" in the Common House. This mostly because I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and the boy might enjoy it as well. I can bring cushions with me...

But don't change the sheets yet!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 05:10 PM

Maire...

We are going to move you to the aches and pains thread. Not safe in here for people who are actually ill.

come along now...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:55 PM

Haven't heard from Liz or Desert Dancer in a while. Maybe it's time for a bed chack.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:54 PM

Sounds like flu, Maire. Be very careful. Do you have someone with you or someone to check in on you periodically? Mostly, I am afraid of falling when stuff like this hits.
Meantime, lots of fluids.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:53 PM

Ahhh poor one

Just you settle down in this nice clean warm bed, Maryanne. Someone will be along in a moment with some hot broth and aspirin.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maire-aine
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:49 PM

Still feeling terrible, but too late to get in to see the doctor. Will have to go on Monday. Still achy, shaky & feverish.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:26 PM

It was suggested in another thread that some "health" issues would be better discussed here.... Uh huh, SURE.... The last time I came in here, my head was cut off-- nice, eh?-- so I think this is probably NOT the best place for ME, _____ thankyouverymuch [underscore=understatement emoticon?)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:26 PM

The boils, stitches, burns, bumps, scars and aches here are good company. At times I feel like there are two types of people in the world - those who are in pain, and everyone else. I understand why people become a Grumpy Old $@#&etc. it's hard to be patient, kind or full of everflowing tolerance when you hurt. it's annoying to be prodded and prescribed.

I want to be flowing free like aan angel, leaping from green hill to sunny dale, while doing a Julie Andrews. or at least a Sinead o'connor. But rather than be a bitter, twisted cripple, limping hunched and stiff through the afternoon, I just degenerate into lavender baths and soft music. damn lucky my kids are grown up and I don't have to minister.

It helps to transform into a winged dragon at midnight and flap and scream into the night. feel a lot better in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 10:58 PM

I brought my own tea to the party. I found a lone bag I'd forgotten about that a Vietnamese friend I worked with gave me. She said to save it for a special occaision, that they shouldn't have let it back into the States. It's Coca tea and it has a list of all the medical things it's supposed to be good for. It's working on me and I have a lot of the energy that the morphine pills take away when they take away the pain. Just the thing for a night in from the blizzard. I only had one bag and it must be a few years old, but it definitely still has a kick! A good way for a non-alchohol person to get tea-totaled!

Alas, my friend's retired to who knows where....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 10:37 PM

Sorry, Maire. Just recovering from a nasty cold. It isn't pretty but short lived.
Rest, Sweetie. Sleep helps.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maire-aine
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 10:12 PM

This may be premature for the "recovery" thread, because I'm just now getting sick. I had a cup of elderberry tea about 2 hours ago. Still have a fever (101F), but the other symptoms seem to have gone away. Just took 2 aspirin & going to bed.

Posted earlier (2pm) in the de-clutter thread: Just got home from a meeting, and I don't feel well, but I can't quite put my finger on one thing. I feel achy, bloated, gassy, feverish (slightly at 99.4F). I didn't sleep well at all last night—kept waking up about once an hour. Fortunately, nothing more on my calendar until next Monday. Hopefully I can kick whatever it is by then.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:53 PM

Tea and ginger snaps. That'll cure anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 12:53 PM

tea party, eh! I am partial to Earl Grey with skimmed milk and couple of ginger nuts (snaps) on the side.

Oh wait a minute... I am not sick. I don't belong in here. In fact, I feel so good physically this last week. Maybe because I have cut way back on things like tea (and coffee) and biscuits (cookies).

Anyone remember what chocolate tastes like?   Drool.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 12:16 PM

Oh lovely - a tea party. A little lemon and honey in mine. So nice now that everyone is feeling a bit better.

Fly, Liz. You're in Cyberspace.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:32 AM

I was out running around all day yesterday and so today I am confining myself to the Recovery Ward and hanging out in my jammies and shawl...maybe I'll make some hot tea....I'm thinkin' Sins could use a cup too!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:16 AM

I am chuckling so much I can't think what to post!!!

Not so tired or miserable today, having an outing tonight (choir practice) and a meeting afterwards, so we'll se what state I'm in tomorrow... Do you think Nurse Ratched will let me out or will I have to sneak out with the laundry again?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:04 AM

I hate to hit a man when he's down but you're asking for it Sev.

cough cough whine whine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:01 AM

TB or not TB? THAT, Mary, is the question! The answer, as always, is "Blowing In The Wind"

I've not come across any TB yet, but have seen lots of over-consumption (not quite galloping, though). It's all in what the Consumer's Digest, I guess. And there's been some coughin', but nobody seems to actually coughin' their way to the coffin, but just in case, they can move them all over to the Coughin' Corner.Let them have at it amd let them hack their way out as a means of escape....

Now all that's between the rest of you and sleep, are the snorers, who put de Z's in disease....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 03:30 PM

Good point. I think I get a bit rundown over the holidays with lack of sleep and too much partying. Then I pay the price.
Or - it's cold and flu season and I work in an office where we pass the crud from cubby to cubby. It sounds like a TB Ward in here.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:35 PM

C'mon Mary...

You had a miserable cold this time last year didn't you? I swear, one would think you plan them.

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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:12 PM

I see that some of the docs must be consulting with SINSULL for decorating ideas. In the Psych Ward, they've been using the faces of their idols as a motif. One of the couches had Freudian slipcovers (and one doc's been wearing the Freudian Slippers that I've seen in the mail order catalogs. , and the the other, scenes from the Jung-le Book. More re-covery to aid in recovery. This could amount to a sizable second income for you if you play it right, Mary!.....

I could do without the Shrink Rap musak in the background, though!....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 12:51 PM

SINSULL...not on your tintype, Tessie!

But I do appreciate the sentiment......

As my daddy used to say, "next October at 4 o'clock"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:33 AM

Gosh... I hope all youse get well soon. >;-(

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:21 AM

Liz - have you had a complete physical? Blood tests, urine tests, thyroid, etc.? Maybe your heart history is clouding the issue. This really sucks. How about Lyme disease? A simple test can rule it out - that's how Jacqui found out she had it.
Chronic fatigue is not a joke. Besides you're drawwing sympathy from my cold.

BillD - come over here and give me a big slopppy kiss. We'll see if we can break your coldless streak.
M...sorry Rita.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: maeve
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 08:16 AM

Liz- Have you been able to wear a take home monitor yet? If my Dad's case, that's what it took to spot the issues the doctor need to address.

Take good care, eh?

maeve

PS Sign in so you can get your PMs.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:45 AM

Seems I'm good for a 2 hour outing (with Limpit doing the heavy lifting in and out of shopping trolleys and cars) every 48 hours. It is totally ridiculous that I should be worn out after just 2-4 hours being upright and moving around.... and yet the ECGs show nothing unusual.

I am getting really fed up with this and am downright miserable today.

I'm so tired, I couldn't even be arsed to write out something new but just C&P'd this from another thread....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 02:39 AM

I highly recommend these guys for any brain complaints.

Where's the bloody Lancet?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:16 PM

200, huh? I guess a feller's gotta have a hobby to keep himself off the streets and out of low dives.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 07:33 PM

200

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 06:45 PM

ummmm... I had this hangnail, and I......

Reading here, I 'almost' feel guilty for staying mostly healthy. I haven't had a cold in 3 years, and I just shoveled snow for the 3rd time in a couple weeks and did fine. I do have sort of painful cramp in my right heel every morning, but it goes away when I get my shoes on and walk a bit...maybe some odd nerve thing. I am 71, and feel like I'm still only 55 or so. *wry grin*.... I get tired, and I KNOW I should do more aerobic exercise, and by golly, when it warms up.....

   I really, really DO wish everyone who is struggling with some tedious ailment, temporary or serious & ongoing, the best care and recovery.

At least most of your funny bones seem to be in good shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 06:08 PM

Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least I had a good run of walkin free for 3 months.
But Im back on crutchs or my new light weight cane again.
The pain from hip joint to ankle is relentless and a 20mm x 6mm bone growth bump appeared below the knee where the big tibia tendon attaches. It takes almost no weight and trembles with weakness when I stress it.

This will probably run its course of 18 months before it heals just like all the other tendon troubles Ive had ever since I took an antibiotic named Leviquin.


So I've passed on my good fortune while it lasted, which makes it your turn for a remission. Use it well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 03:03 PM

I had hoped so.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 07:25 PM

That's a button not a butto.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 07:24 PM

HEY! I have been pushing this danmn butto for an hour. Somebody come in here with some aspirin and some Nyquil. Missed another day of work - for a damn cold. Gross stuff oozing out every orifice. Coughing hard enough to crack a rib.
SOMEBODY PAY ATTENTION...and please not Ratched.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 05:01 AM

No crying over ex aphids here... hate the little buggers.. they do for my roses every year. I won't use pesticide or chemical killers (what Manitas does in my garden is his business, I just wish he wouldn't do it over my roses) so the aphids come and thrive. On the good side, the tits love them so there's something fun to watch.

Had a shopping expotition yesterday, forgot to buy chocolate and it wore me out but today I'm feeling much improved. I think I've got the timing right now - how much I can do before I start to get serious fatigue and chest pain.... still waiting for the referral, still on the sofa resting. Still no chocolate.... :(

Ah well...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 10:58 PM

I'm only catching if you haven't had your chicken pox yet...

Today, my foot hurts. Yesterday, it was twinges in my jaw and temple. This is a weird, weird dis-ease.

Have managed to limp back to Tucson from L.A. (flew in last night, and boy my arms are tired), and today went to the office to get the chilled aphids and send them off to Colorado. Hope they get there alive. The ones we sent to Switzerland and the psyllid galls sent to Japan got so delayed they didn't survive.

I don't think I can get Liz crying over the puir, wee aphids, though. Even if they are wee-er than that sheepie, and there were lots more of 'em, too.

It's just an interesting life, in science.

Elsewhere, too.

Like that Chinese curse, "interesting", sometimes.

~ Becky back in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 07:03 PM

VT,

Don't worry. At the Post Office, I was never a carrier, only a clerk. Burns aren't catching anyhow. You're safe in my Ward. I need the company.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:35 PM

THINK QUICK!

says SINS as she lobs a box of tissues at Miss Tam Tam. UH OH She missed...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,VirginiaTam peeking around the door
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:28 PM

Youse guys are too sick! I ain't a comin' in lest I ketch sumfin off'n youse lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:23 PM

Groaning, busting stitches and almost peeing in one's pants--High praise from you folks for my writing, indeed! I sincerely thank you!

But Lily can save her ooze and aaaaaaaaaaahs for the physicians here if the festering has reached that point. Our enjoyment in here is meant to help you heal and feel better, honest! This thread is not meant to make you become unraveled, like a bad bolero. May your fun (and everything else) be painless!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 11:15 AM

I have green stuff coming out of my nose - not nearly as impressive.

Get ye to a pharmacist, lady. Quick!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 05:33 PM

Lily - love you dearly but EEEUUUWWWWWWWWWWW WAY TMI!!

(although if it's green, it really is better out than in.)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 11:53 AM

Well, after catching up on what's going on around here, I have laughed so hard that my incision is now open from the navel to 4 inches above the navel. Must be laughter is green cuz that's what's coming out. One trip to Wally World for some bandages to pull me back together is the plan for the afternoon.

So sorry about the weird guy from Radiology. Damn near peed my pants. Too fuuny.

XOXOXOXO

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 10:14 AM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Puir wee sheepsie.... Now I need the Prozac again!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 09:05 AM

and the Burns ward - that Robbie Burns knew a thing or two about suffering.

Here is a poem that he wrote to
The Author's Only Pet Yowe (would that be his pet sheep?)

An Unco Mournfu' Tale

As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither,
Was ae day nibbling on the tether,
Upon her cloot she coost a hitch,
An owre she warsl'd in the ditch:
There, groaning, dying, she did lie,
When Hughoc he cam doytin by.

Wi' glowrin een, and lifted han's
Poor Hughoc like a statue stan's;
He saw her days were near-hand ended,
But, wae's my heart! he could na mend it!
He gaped wide, but naething spak,
At length poor Mailie silence brak.

"O thou, whase lamentable face
Appears to mourn my woefu' case!
My dying words attentive hear,
An' bear them to my Master dear.

"Tell him, if e'er again he keep
As muckle gear as buy a sheep -
O, bid him never tie them mair,
Wi' wicked strings o' hemp or hair!
But ca' them out to park or hill,
An' let them wander at their will:
So may his flock increase, an' grow
To scores o' lambs, an' packs o' woo'!

"Tell him, he was a Master kin',
An' aye was guid to me an' mine;
An now my dying charge I gie him,
My helpless lambs, I trust them wi' him.

"O, bid him save their harmless lives,
Frae dogs, an' tods, an' butchers' knives!
But gie them guid cow-milk their fill,
Till they be fit to fend themsel';
An' tent them duly, e'en an' morn,
Wi' taets o' hay an' ripps o' corn.

"An' may they never learn the gates,
Of ither vile, wanrestfu' pets -
To slink thro' slaps, an' reave an' steal
At stacks o' pease, or stocks o' kail!
So may they, like their great forbears,
For mony a year come thro' the shears:
So wives will gie them bits o' bread,
An bairns greet for them when they're dead.

"My poor toop-lamb, my son an' heir,
O, bid him breed him up wi' care!
An' if he live to be a beast,
To pit some havins in his breast!
An' warn him - what I winna name -
To stay content wi' yowes at hame;
An' no to rin an' wear his cloots,
Like ither meseless, graceless brutes.

"An' neist, my yowie, silly thing,
Gude keep thee frae a tether string!
O, may thou ne'er forgather up,
Wi' ony blastit, moorland toop;
But aye keep mind to moop an' mell,
Wi' sheep o' credit like thysel'!

"And now, my bairns, wi' my last breath,
I lea'e my blessin wi' you baith:
An' when you think upo' your mither,
Mind to be kind to ane anither.

"Now, honest Hughoc, dinna fail,
To tell my master a' my tale;
An' bid him burn this cursed tether,
An' for thy pains thou'se get my blather."

This said, poor Mailie turn'd her head,
An' closed her een amang the dead!

Robert Burns

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 09:00 AM

severn makes some very rash comments sometimes.

me, i suffer from an occasional bad case of foot in mouth disease.

Sinsull, one day I want to get to one of your sessions. it would be the best recovery strategy i can think of.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 09:09 PM

GROOAN


I'm fine but severn puns r killin me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 09:01 PM

I guess I got nowt to gripe about.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 05:24 PM

I was back on crutches for a couple days but I am back up and walking nearly normally. Whew, it feels as good as dodging a truck.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:36 AM

Try olive oil for the glue removal, Liz. And be glad you don't have a hairy chest.
Rest. Did they give you any meds or offer any suggestions for improving? Do I need to get Jacqui involved? She works wonders in hospital settings.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS back on the sofa
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 07:52 PM

Gave in and called the taxi with the blue flashy lights... If I'd gone earlier I might have got a bed for the night but they were fully booked so sent me home to rest. So here I am again... another hole in the back of my hand and sticky pads all over my left chesticle. Those things are a bastard to get off so I'm thinking of just leaving them on for next time!

Pass the red please, that's supposed to be good for the heart.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 07:45 PM

The snow is very fluffy and light but my Satanic nerve hurts like hell with even a bit of light shovelling. The pain is back with a vengence.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 06:31 PM

The line must be straight. The sword can be curved.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 06:04 PM

[I feel like I'm duelling with D'Artagnan here, folks... can any of you nautical types toss me a line, if not a sword?!?]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 05:45 PM

If you become a chamomile-ian, can you change the color of your rahses?

Quicker than our rash predictions can conjecture?....

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...

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

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.

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

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!)

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....

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!

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?.....

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?

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.

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.....

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.

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

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
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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?.....

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: LilyFestre
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 12:08 PM

:)

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

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

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.

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....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 06:43 PM

A cracked tooth? Oh crap! Bad news!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:23 AM

WOOOEEEEEEEEE IS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:52 AM

MOOOAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: freda underhill
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 08:00 AM

aaaggghhh!


:-)

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....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:14 PM

Khan you relax at all?

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

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.

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 04:40 PM

That came through loud and clear!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM

Those guys are a crack up.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 12:22 PM

Great stuff! Thanks.

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

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 10:51 AM

damn! that really sucks. sorry.

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.

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

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

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.....

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

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

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

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.

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

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?????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 10 - 02:47 PM

She has spilling detritus? Is she still contagious?

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?

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jan 10 - 12:39 PM

100

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.

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

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 10 - 10:35 AM

Good points, Sev... and others.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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......

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

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:39 PM

No... I am a redneck... big diff, jac.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:24 PM

Hic!

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

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.

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. . .

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.

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.

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~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 12:59 PM

That's not Michelle. It's Jacqui. That Chardonnay catheter is flowing a bit fast. Wasn't that box full an hour ago????

Memories of the Getaway:
She's not breathing...I think she's dead....GOOD!

She's moving and breathing. Probably needs the rest after all the drama last week. Close the door and leave her with the teddies.

SPAW! Get away from that door. I said with the teddies not in one. Dirty old man...

Michele bypassed the Recovery Ward and went straight home. Ingrate! All that painting and decorating and what happens? A drunken Jacqui flops on the bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 11:46 AM

How's everyone doing back here this morning?

Here, the licking of wounds is almost done-- and just in time to fly again, too. (I'm planning on taking my head with me, because I can re-attach it without Ratched, and I will not need to tuck it underneath my arm, LOL.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 11:41 AM

I put in one last appearance in the holiday tavern, but I'm glad the hall coat closet is still connected back to the recovery ward. (Did you know they have booths in the tavern now?) How's everyone doing back here this morning? Someone ought to stick their head into the tavern kitchen in a few minutes and get some dibs on those muffins I smelled. I think they're blueberry.

Oh, Look, Michelle is here, buried under all of those bears. I bet she's getting a little hot. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 03:30 PM

Severn... "Or sing Eileen MacAroon"

I know a cookie there, Eileeeen MacArooooon.
Fired in that oven ware.
Fired with tender care.
Flour and coconut, Eileeeen MacArooooon.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 01:47 PM

There seems to be a rather large stack of stuffed animals that accumulated on the bed in Michelle's room overnight. You'll have to look hard to find her in with the critters.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Montgomery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 12:29 PM

The gang at the tavern just sent us a load of special commemorative Wotsomatta U. jello cubes colored Pomagranate and Puce. I know the Tidy Bowl game was played a while ago and I lost some money when dear old W.U. went down the tubes. I'm not sure where it's been or if it's any fresher than the green stuff they feed me daily in here, but I get the special sugar-free stuff, so bon appetit to the rest of you!

I'd heard rumors it was originally destined to be funneled through Scotland for relief via the "Haggis For Haiti" group, but they must have sent it to "our own private Hades" by mistake. If it smells a bit squiddy, I wouldn't mess with it.......

I'm feeling morphined-ish than ever after breakfast, so they must be planning to torture me extra hard today. So I guess that means that I don't get to get out to the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday white sales to get a good deal on some king sized sheets.

I'll put the radio on the local Pacifica station WPFW, though, as they always have some good documentary programming about the man.
Last year ar this time, I'd have been listening to it while working overtime at the Post Office where some friends put me on to it some years ago, but I'm free at last from that part of it!

Happy American Holiday, world!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,wys-out
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 12:05 PM

Printing up to this point for Hardi to take to Michelle.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 12:02 PM

Nurse Cathy Terr will be along shortly with her equipment... best prepare yourself Sev!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 11:09 AM

They wanted twenty bucks for the baby pterodactyl -- evidently not part of the post-Christmas mark down. I'd have considered 5 bucks. Ah well.

I think I'll go take advantage of this snow day and my extreme fatigue and take a nap.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 06:38 AM

Which (or Witch) doktor iss thiss Sour Kraut, anyvay?

I see Lance Boyles for dermitology and have already met met Abraham Bortz the OBGYN and some ex-military type, Maj. Malcolm Function (ret.), the Director of Security Otto Pilate, Betty Beye, the anesthesiologist and that Native American orderly, Running Sore, among others. I haven't checked with the oncologist to see who's on call today. He's in charge of making the schedule.

Who do we get to zee today?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 04:48 AM

So... how are ve all filling today Ja? Ze gud doktorrr has come to zee you are all filling yourselfs properly.

Der Sqveek is having zer lie down after a zubztanzal amount of ze red vine jestorday ja? But do not vear, she vill be up and sqveeking again verrrry zoon ja?

Meanvile, der Doktorrrr is IN!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Phot
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 05:50 PM

Fresh bracing air is required!

Form an orderly queue, a well fettled TR6 (In finest 70s purple) is available to give those who need it, a blast of finest sub zero night air.............No, I'm sorry, the roof does not go up, thats why heaters were invented!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 04:36 PM

Ivanna Ivanna!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 09:18 AM

No recent incision, but can I have a little corner please, just for a while, with intravenous Chardonnay. I promise not to be any trouble.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 06:27 AM

Yanno, suddenly I feel much, much better.Must be check out time.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 05:43 AM

Great Swedish ear buns, Batman! The physio therapist has just arrived.

Ivanna Hertyew

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 05:36 AM

Here is little old me, standing outside Sinsull's white room in the Jackson Pollock Wing, passing out blow paint pens to the inmates...errr patients.


Come on have a go!

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 01:33 AM

SINSULL,

Would you even dance the Macaroona for us for one?

Or sing Eileen MacAroon?

Would you commit mass murder for several Macareen?

What would happen if you put quicklime in de coconut?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:04 PM

Do they serve Pina Coladas here or can I order in from the Tavern? I would kill for a macaroon.

You put the lime in the coconut
And drink down
Call the doctor and he
You put the lime in the coconut
And drank it down?????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 06:53 PM

You're in the wrong place, Liz. The House of the Setting Sun is through that corridor and across the tracks.



Any coconut custard pie to be had????

Here they are a standin in a rowwwwww

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 05:31 PM

Art Therapy - is he one like Art Brookes or Art Thieme?

I'm settling down with a rather lovely blonde from Belgium... or am I in the wrong place fot that?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 03:26 PM

I have a Squidward plush toy that sounds perfect for Tom


I have recovered the ability to walk pain free after 20 months.

Now its hard to see where I am walking since both my eyes have detached and a veil like rain on the windshield makes it hard to see against light backgrounds like this reply to thread box.
Finally I can no longer trust my eyes. Now If I see something unsual I can dismiss it with impunity.

Like Don RUmsfeld would say "you don;t get the trade off you want , you get the trade off you have."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:00 PM

CELLAR!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:53 PM

I have a luvily bunch of coconuts
Here they are a standing in a row...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:38 PM

You didn't even have to click the link to start that in your head, did you? It's fucking incidious!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:27 PM

She put the lime in the coconut and drank it down...

Great!

Now I need a padded room and earphones to drive the worm out. Thanks a lot.

Pure white room for me. Make sure there's a dog bed for Seamus preferably a green plaid.

Put the F$#@**%^in lime in the %^@)*&%*&^#*( coconut and choke to death on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Micca
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM

VT is that the Amazon rain forest version of paint balling???
I have a Purple Octopus called Petulia!!!! Pixie of Doom had a "soft" toy(it wan't very soft,but was ,it said on the label,made from genuine Kanngaroo hide!!)) Duck-billed platypus when she was little!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:15 AM

I certainly have the qualifying incision but I think I am sufficiently recovered to dispense coffee and crabbiness in equal proportions....only I can't hold a heavy cup with my left arm for any length of time so you'll have to catch.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:15 AM

It seems to me that the inmates... err patients will need some art therapy. Also they will need to learn to breath deeply after surgery to help keep lungs clear and strong.

So I deliver with all my good intentions for the inmates... err patients several packs of

Blow paint pens
WARNING: This toy is not suitable for responsible adults

Someone will need to supervise the inmates... err patients, to prevent unapproved (by Sinsull) redecorating of the ward and its inmates... err patients.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:11 AM

Oh, yes- bring the concertina!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 06:51 AM

What Beanie labeled as "squid" is definitely an octopus and a few tentacles shy, among other things. I have a Beanie-sized plush squid I acquired at the Monterey Bay Aquarium about 10 years ago -- they make a nice pair.

What REALLY aren't anatomically correct are rubber bait squid -- but a bunch of 'em make a cool flapper dress (all those fringes!).

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 03:27 AM

If you see Severn leaning against or hanging off doors, doorframes, beds, tables or flailing his arms and doing seemingly weird stuff,with a TENS machine and electrodes attatched to him, he's supposed to be doing all that stuff. Door mounted pulleys, huge rubber bands, his corkscrew walking stick, barbells and towels are other props that figure in. Everything seems to be a potential prop for strengthening excercises and stretches. It's working slowly, but it's working, and he's left to his own devices a lot of the time, so he can't afford to get lazy. Don't let him. It's gonna take a helluva long time, but he'll get through it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:06 PM

Just a strong stomach and a hob-nailed liver!

Here's healing thoughts going out to all those folks who needs 'em...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:56 PM

Anatomical correctness is rarely required at Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:47 PM

I have a Beanie squid that turns 10 on Jan 25th. Of course he's not anatomically correct, but he's cute anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:39 PM

One of the post-Christmas marked down toys at Sears just across the way from Sears Optical is a really cute and tasteful baby pterodactyl -- when you touch its tongue it flaps its baby wings and squawks.

I think it's the last one -- but if it's still there on Sunday I'm going to have to buy it. To add to the decor...especially if there are no plump plush squid. It's not pink, but right now I think it's cuter than most flamingoes.

Wonder if I should take Tom's concertina to the hospital tomorrow?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 06:35 PM

Who amongst us shall bear the blame and who shall blame the bear?

If it wasn't bears causing the trouble bruin and the blessed mess, could it have been The Pope? And there WERE woods (but not Tiger) and a few irons and a putter in the room a while ago, but they're gone now. And that might explain the prescence of the nuns. Maybe the Pope's across the road at the public links. Except, if it WAS the Pope, he would have healed her, right?


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

'Tis a puzzlement......



Whatever, don't step in a "Kodiak Moment",,,,,

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:10 PM

You put the lime in the coconut


Damn... I posted my recovery ward ideas to the wrong thread.

Can't be bothered to copy and paste them from the LilyFestre thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:04 PM

All right, all right, here is the candy striper with the shovel- gimme a break, already, with bears in one room and flamingos (ugh- have you ever smelled them???) in another- and, oh, no, please- are those NUNS???


That's it- mix me a peppermint patty, and stat!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:52 PM

A tonic?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:49 PM

So what are the steaming brown foul smelling piles on the floor in there. And why is that cuddly 8' bear tearing my new sheets apart.
He may be your relative but he is still sh******ng all over the place. This is a hospital you know.

Where's Liz with the booze? I need a drink.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:37 PM

SINS, I said it in the other thread and I'll say it here too: If you ain't got no woods in that room, you ain't got no bear XXXX.

Honestly, some people!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:13 PM

Definitely not the red room, SEv.

How about a nice cooling ultramarine blue? The sheets are especially softened for sensitive skin. Songs of the whales for music. And a huge aloe plant.


Meantime, somebody check Michelle's room. Silly River Sage filled it with brown bears - real ones. I draw the line at shovelling bear XXXX.Who would believe a falling squid could cause so much grief.

Anybody see Nurse Ratched? She can handle the bears.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Severn
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:37 PM

Severn comes back slightly morphined up from his PT torture stretches wondering what kind of sheets will be on HIS bed and why they put nurse InterVenus DiMilo, of all people, in charge of strengthening and stretching arms and shoulders. They must've been shorthanded....

Still, if she had arms, I'd grab one, pull and make a wish or two. (Sigh!).

That reminds me, where are these Candy Strippers I overheard someone talking about?

I know that, in my ward, every night is Burns Night, but could I have a break from the Scottish music? A little bit of constant "Neil Gow fiddles while Robert Burns" goes a long way. What's this? "A Choking Farewell"? Jay Ungar fiddles while Ken Burns will do for a while...

And please swap the constant reruns of "77 Sunset Strip" and Edd "Kookie" Byrnes for a little George & Gracie fer crissake! That way, Robert still burns, if only between George's finger and thumb.

Being "The New Crispy Minstrel" is getting a little old by now, but life still hurts and progress goes slowly, but it goes.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:56 PM

And then there was the beatnik who painted his entire apartment white, furnished it with white furniture and drew a pencil thin blue line on the wall around the entire place.



As his friends came in he was heard to say

















Welcome to my sanitary pad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:44 PM

You can carry this stuff overboard if you're not careful. Like when I was in my "cool-beat" period where I did everything in black. I blacked out the windows and painted my room sompletely black. First thing happened was I lost my bowling ball........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:38 PM

More like Epsom Salts.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:22 PM

Can I check in in order to recover from the Mudcat? I think a course of amphetamine IV would probably wake me up all right. And a video game where I can blow up Fox News anchorpeople and the guys who run tech support for Epson.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:14 PM

If you want to make Linn happy, just throw in any number of rubber squid. She'll never notice the absence of flamingoes then.

(Hmmmm, great venereal term that: "an absence of flamingoes")

Kendall's room needs black leather, or is he planning on wearing the black kidskin hospital gown again?

And for Michelle -- well, I haven't met her, but I'm thinking one of those Mexican pottery sun figurines like this one might be a nice addition. Or this one, which is a more feminine aspect of the sun than one usually sees. Hope she likes it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:02 PM

Lemon tree!

very pretty

Lemon flower smell sweet...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:54 PM

Now I'm confused. The Pepto Bismol pink room with flamingoes and lady slippers is Micca's? He won't mind if we borrow one flamingo for Tom's room. Linn will be very disappointed if there is no flamingo.

Now MMario with the superating sore can have the lime green room with the lemon tree - to match the ooze.
Glad that's all sorted out.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:44 PM

I thought the Pink Flamingo room was permanently reserved for Micca....

my incision's weeping again - could someone cheer it up?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:31 PM

Stilly? You're conscious??? WOW I thought that bump on the head in the Tavern wiped you out. That squid ink must have cushioned the blow.

Er Stilly. That's not wine you're drinking...could we have a wheel chair over here? SRS needs an EKG, an MRI and a colonoscopy toot sweet.

Wish she had brought the wine instead of the squid ink.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:54 PM

Little Hawk has some of those singing Billy Bass things. I'm sure he'd loan you a few. Just ask him.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:47 PM

Sinsull, I begin to understand your acquisitive successes- you got a good eye.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:41 PM

Spaw - the one I got him actually jumps up and down singing "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". He tried to kill me with it. Has thrown it multiple times but it refuses to die. Wonder why he hasn't shot it??????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:12 PM

So you;re trying to kill Kendall with the dancing chicken?   I mean they look cute and funny and all but the damn things blow up......................oh wait........I get it now.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:55 AM

In Tom's room.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM

Will there be pink flamingos?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:28 AM

No. In fact with the US bail out money we installed a monorail. Door to Floor service.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:14 AM

Where's the chocolate? And how's the passage from the ward into the tavern? It isn't blocked by overcoats and wellies, is it? (Boots and jackets for those of us on the West side of the pond).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:49 AM

New management; new rules.

At least if you want flannel sheets color coordinated to floral displays.


Damn! that walking peppermint stick is back in Tom's room. Where did she find that loathsome shade of Pepto Bismal oink?
YUK

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:34 AM

(I'm not aware that people need to post private medical info to get into this ward.....)

Play nice, people.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:21 AM

You get nothing unless you have a surgical incision to qualify you for treatment.


And an insurance card.

Nurse Ratched! Another free loader! Off with her head!

There you go - a surgical incision. Aqua Blue sheet blankies it is.

And cornflowers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,wys
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:10 AM

I'll take flannel, aqua-blue sheet blankies. I'd rather be in the water, and it's cold in here! STanding order for caf staff: Coffee with LOTS of Real Cream and Chocolate.

I'll take an hour of Ratched-babysitting too-- I can chase her around and work off the calories! Yer all SAFE from her for ONE HOUR.

Dr. Dre, huh, I got Dr. DREW in my pocket in case Ratched goes too far, and he has staff of his own!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:22 AM

Great idea, pinkie.
Dr. Dre it is.
That will get Kendall and Tom moving FAST!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: mauvepink
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:17 AM

"Speaking as someone who works in Radiology...they're ALL weird. :-)"

... it's the radiation! lol

I have to admit that one of the things I have used over the years, in nursing, community care, disturbed children, and well adjusted adults!... is music therapy. Finding what kind of music a person likes, and sometimes playing an alternative, can have astounding reults in calming. So I think a Mudcatter's Ward is a brilliant idea because the 'folk music types' can actually be crazier than the Radiology Dept and twice as eficacious ! :-)

mp

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:37 AM

Good! We can use you on bedpan duty. Spend your day where the sun doesn't shine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:35 AM

Oh, but I just want to soothe the fevered brow and spread a little sunshine....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:25 AM

I am putting myself in charge of color coordinating sheets with personalities.
I think a nice sunny yellow for Michelle with a vase full of daffodils and some bright red accessories for contrast. Curmudgeon gets an olive green base color, camouflage sheets and peacock feathers - not quite coordinated but suits him. Kendall gets baby blue to match his eyes and pale blue flannel sheets printed with big yellow labs. A nice singing dancing jumping chicken will add a litle pizzazz.
UH OH I don't think the duty nurse likes the selection.

And keep that candy striper out of here. She clashes with everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: Becca72
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:16 AM

Speaking as someone who works in Radiology...they're ALL weird. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:03 AM

Oh, good- I was hoping this would appear! I'm in the pink of health, so picture me as your cheerful
Candy-striper (in my dreams! In reality I would look more like
this!)

Subject: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:56 AM

Dammit, there are just too many people to name who are in need of a bit of TLC from Mudcat... I've given up multiple postings because a) I'm at work and not supposed to be here and b) I can't get everyone's names straight in my head!

So... here's the Ward open again, post good wishes, complaints about hospital food, list your symptoms or just borrow a teddy bear and a blankie, and feel loved.

Oh, and watch out for Nurse Ratched - she had a bad experience at the Christmas party with the weird guy from radiology, so if she offers a bed bath, say NO!!

LTS