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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Micca Date: 01 Feb 08 - 06:44 PM Neither ball nor aerosol Giok, it was for her armpits!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 01 Feb 08 - 06:48 PM Your mind works like mine mate, sad innit? G ¦¬] |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Feb 08 - 04:44 AM Sorry gents, the sad old man ward is two down and round to the left. This is for people who are sick in body, not mind. Hope we're all recovering nicely, Nurse Ratched is due back on Monday so be warned! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 02 Feb 08 - 08:19 AM My cold seems finally to be giving up - hips are aching with the weather we're having but that I can cope with. Find me a quiet spot with a TV. I'm going to sit and watch Salems Lot this morning, all four hours of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Feb 08 - 08:21 AM What's TV? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Megan L Date: 02 Feb 08 - 08:36 AM Send the grumpy auld men doon tae ma ward lassie ah'll skelp their bahookie till their lugs ring. It might knock some sence intae them but a doot it they hivny got that auld withoot loosin whit grey cells they hid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 02 Feb 08 - 01:32 PM Neither roll-on nor aerosol -- stick. Not that I'd put any of it in my drawers ;-) even if I had a highboy. No, impossible logistics around here -- but a good idea! Been working on a LOT of workarounds until I can raise the arm higher that straight out from the shoulder (and allowed to lift anything heavier than a coffee cup). As it is, with the stick deodorant, I can just barely reach the right armpit -- and, believe it or not, can use my right hand to get the lower part of my underarm covered. I'm schlepping 6 pillows, a bolster and a neck pillow so I can sleep at Sinsull's tonight. Sigh. I feel as if I'm going on safari! Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Feb 08 - 01:38 PM Seamus will love all those pillows. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: bfdk Date: 02 Feb 08 - 03:09 PM Not to mention Alice.. B |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:06 PM I wish I could sleep with pillows again. In a bed, or even just on the couch. Sometime soon, I hope. Or on a big, comfy, nurse. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to roll my head to the side if... ah, er, she cradled.... ah, er..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Feb 08 - 04:35 AM Gnu - you wouldn't be able to roll your head if you were in traction either, which is where you will be if you make a suggestion like that to Nurse Ratched, who, whilst formidibly well endowed, is rather short in the sense of humour department. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:14 PM Seamus slept at the foot of the bed. I was visited by Freddie just after I retired to my seated position in bed propped up by pillows. I motioned him into my lap, but he just stared as if to say, "Where's Mom? And who, exactly, are YOU?!?" I'm having something interesting happen and I haven't a clue as to why. I've had "age spots" on the backs of my hands for some time now. One in particular on my right hand has been both large and dark. An hour ago or so I looked down at my right hand and noted that the large one (that had a bit of a scab in the corner from my scratching at something) was noticably paler that it had been even two days ago. And that all the others seem to be fading substantially as well. Now I DID get several remedies -- on Friday from a friend who is an herbalist -- to encourage bone healing and to discourage pain. But the only one I've started using consistently was a homeopathic remedy for pain. Of course, I'm also massaging vitamin E oil into the incision scar. What's causing the age spots to fade? I am, of course, ecstatic! It's a major improvement in the appearance of my hands. Or is it being in the Mudcat Recovery Ward?!? Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:18 PM Have you changed your glasses Linn? G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Rapparee Date: 03 Feb 08 - 10:39 PM Low light? Lack of sunlight might also do it -- I think they're basically melanin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: MudGuard Date: 04 Feb 08 - 01:38 AM As far as I know, the "age spots" are caused by a lack of vitamin E. As you are providing additional vitamin E, this might help to reduce the lack of vitamin E and thus reducing the age spots. Btw, I am recovering quite well. The cut is healing, it doesn't hurt or itch anymore. And the swell has almost vanished. It's also much easier to stand up/sit down now. What about progress with the other patients? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:47 AM Still coughing but it's no longer green. Huzzah for penicillin. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: maeve Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:17 AM A nasty-tasting granulated herbal formula seems to be taking the edge off the migraines; poetry and new tunes have begun to emerge for the first time in a few years. Must be the good compnay and good nursing here in the Recovery ward! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 05 Feb 08 - 05:01 AM WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! Back at work for the first time in nearly 3 weeks... it's not nice here! I want my duvet. And an IV of cherry juice please. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 05 Feb 08 - 03:05 PM Glad to hear you are doing well, MudGuard! I am doing okay. Slept on my left side on my couch for a wee bit two nights ago and the progress I had with the facial "droop" and eye twitching and eye weeping and lip twitching regressed. Back to sleeping in the Lazy-Boy chair for a few more days (?), at least. But, the lines on the left side of my forehead are still "gone". I think the nerve damage was caused during the stone removal attempt prior to the gland removal surgery. Of course, when I questioned the doc about the odd procedure he used during the stone removal attempt (trying to crush the stone with his figers???), he said people pay big money for Botox injections for that. And, I thought, I wonder if I hit him with a right cross directly on that nerve, would he thank me? Don't mind me... just whining... and wondering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 05 Feb 08 - 04:37 PM A couple of days of gnaws-ya (from the inside) watching over two bowls on Super Sunday, and today having my CT and PET scans cancelled, but not until after I had the Barium. "Barium? He ain't dead yet!" Hope you all are doing well. Heading toward my good week...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 05 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM Jeez, that's a bummer. You could have done without the Barium Necessities ♫ G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 05 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM Aw shit, Sev... I mean... oh, you know. Damn. I hope things get moving again... wait, I mean... Well, you know... my thoughts and prayers are with you each and every day. Not a finer gentleman in all of Mudcat. I hope you are able to go Pro Bowlo next weekend without a weak end. Drink lots of water and walk slow, eh? g |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Feb 08 - 06:45 PM And never trust a fart! Especially an old fart like Gnu. Nurse Ratched will be round with the bed pans in about 10 minutes. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: GUEST,nurse ratched Date: 06 Feb 08 - 02:21 AM Sev, unlike that reprobate Giok, you will be given my very bestest care! LTS, it's nice to be remembered n.r. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 06 Feb 08 - 11:36 AM Wait! I thought gnu said he wanted "Deadpan Humor"! Or maybe it was Cap'n Hook that wanted it..... Or was he the one the Barrie-um was meant for? Thanks, Nurse! Kesey references are an improvement over queasy references,. .....Feeling a bit better today, folks, thanks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 06 Feb 08 - 12:06 PM Good news Sev. Did you mean bed pan humour? G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: MudGuard Date: 06 Feb 08 - 12:26 PM What is in a barium? In an aquarium, there is aqua (water). In a terrarium, there is terra (earth). In a barium, there is a ba? As far as I know ba is not a Latin word. So what is in there? ;-) Btw. by looking that up I found the word baro, baronis = baboon, booby This sheds quite a new light on the title of "baron" ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: MudGuard Date: 07 Feb 08 - 12:05 PM this afternoon I was at the doctor's. He pulled the rope out of my wound. And, as there was a tiny amount of pus, he put some wet rags (soaked in some infectant called "dis") on the wound and fixed them with some sellotape stuff ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 07 Feb 08 - 02:26 PM You're 'o peeein style bed pans? They don't look at all "comfy" to me. I think I'd rather get on some pot than.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:31 PM Thanks for sharing Andy... pass the bucket please. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 08 Feb 08 - 08:56 AM Someone prepare the trauma unit - if the annoying little a**hole sitting opposite me doesn't stop bitching about management and actually do the work he's paid for, he's going to need emergency surgery to repair the new a**hole I'm going to rip him. LTS - functioning on 3 hours sleep but not functioning very well.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 08 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM Liz - ask Nurse R to pay him a visit. That'll shut him up for good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: MudGuard Date: 12 Feb 08 - 04:24 AM As there is no activity here any longer, I think this institution can be closed again to save money for the health care institutions. I silently left a few days ago when I increased my mobility from 5% to 98% (I was allowed to ride my bicycle again). As noone else seems to be here, I switch off the light! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 12 Feb 08 - 07:57 AM Where did my post go? I can's see a thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 12 Feb 08 - 08:47 AM Got a CAT scan and a PET scan today and neither one says "Little Friskies on it...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 12 Feb 08 - 09:33 AM But, are ya feelin a little frisky at all? Enquiring mindless want to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM Ah bliss.... moved offices today so the little a**hole mentioned above is no longer anywhere remotely near my desk, and we have a whole new manager to rip him a new one should he venture a) down to our spur or b) away from his own desk! Anyhoo... been shifting furniture and stuff for the last 2 days (don't ask, poor porters have enough to do, as well as being from Lancashire) so I need a massage and a muscle rub... and a little something for the vertigo that's manifested itself today. Usually it's a little more benign but I've been up and down in that lift so many times I think I'm on elastic. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: GUEST,Nurse E. Nuff Date: 14 Feb 08 - 05:59 AM *enters the ward, flicks on the light, takes a swift look around and bustles into activity. Oy, you!, Yes, you, MudGuard, was that you switched off the light in here? Get back on your training bike! No lazy beggars around on my shift! And if you still have problems with pus, I'll get you a nice maggot dressing in a minute. That'll soon set you right, dear boy. *marches over to rattle the beds containing Rapaire and Giok. Get up, you wasters and layabouts, it's time for some action here. This ward must be prepared for tomorrow when we may expect the Queen of Tacky Gifting to grace us with her presence. I want this place to be all ship-shape for her arrival, so extricate yourselves from those bedsheets and set to work with the rest of us! *tiptoes to the next bed down the line, bends over the occupant and whispers: Severn, my dear, if you're feeling frisky enough we could do with a few choice puns to greet Ms Sins when she gets here. *turns to a figure caught busy stuffing chocolates into her face. Liz, dear, the Christmas Tree Shop left-over storage is in the basement, next to the Skelp ward. If you're not coughing too hard, could you nip down there and take a look around. See if there's anything that'll go with either an all-pink theme or an angel theme? That's a girl! You can get Megan to help you with the decorations, if you can prize her out of the Skelp ward. Do leave a little space for whatever Jacqui may bring in, though, I'm sure we don't have anything that can match her choice of decorations. gnu, DON'T try to sneak that 'hran in here.. it's banjos we want for Sins, not bodhrans! *disappears down the corridor, still issuing commands left and right |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 14 Feb 08 - 08:07 AM I won't. Last time I did, someone tried to use it as a bed pan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 14 Feb 08 - 12:01 PM Wire brush and Dettol. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 14 Feb 08 - 12:17 PM Severn, what you need is a Lab report. I'll have Jacqui sent Seamus over promptly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 14 Feb 08 - 12:39 PM And a fetching fellow he is, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Feb 08 - 12:44 PM I can get you a cat scan already.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 14 Feb 08 - 12:52 PM Hello all. Just stopping by to map out a private room for me and Seamus. Queen size bed or better yet king size. Seamus likes to stretch out. And a shelf or two for my collection of crap - gifts for the nursing staff. Gotta run now. Gnu - you pee in that banjo and I will put Alice on your bed. Later all... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 14 Feb 08 - 01:11 PM You promise? Go get 'em tiger!!!!! I'll be sayin extras for ya tonight... and tomorrow night... and.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 14 Feb 08 - 04:21 PM It's amazing how quickly those banjo parts rust...better watch out for the sharp edges. OUCH! Nasty place to get a cut, gnu. Nurse!!!! Gary needs a tetanus shot in his peeper (courtesy of Becca). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 14 Feb 08 - 04:27 PM LOL...I don't think I like the way that was phrased.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:02 PM If you lot don't start behaving Nurse Ratched will be round to sort you out! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: MudGuard Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:24 PM "Behaving"? What the hell is that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:30 AM It's all very well saying behave, but you have to stipulate 'well' or 'badly'.... LTS |
