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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. |
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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? |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:33 AM Gosh... I hope all youse get well soon. >;-( |
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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" |
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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!.... |
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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: 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 |
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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.... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:53 PM Tea and ginger snaps. That'll cure anything. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.... |
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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. |
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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~ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Desert Dancer Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:19 PM (It's not constant, though!) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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!!! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:12 AM You mean they don't??? Not even Brownies? |
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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?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:35 PM hahahahaha |
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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. |
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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? |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:25 PM Are youse Cookie Rankin? (Rankin Family, FYI) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:28 PM Severn! CELLAR! |
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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...... |
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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 |
