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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 10 Feb 10 - 04:28 PM No salt in those wounds though, please! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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)..... |
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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! |
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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. |
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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? |
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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.) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: freda underhill Date: 23 Feb 10 - 06:58 AM yep. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Donuel Date: 23 Feb 10 - 08:55 AM This thread really puts distress in perspective. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:09 PM Is NR an RN? |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM Like, WAAAAYYY too much info!!! LTS |
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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. |
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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..... |
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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. |
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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..... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
