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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 21 Dec 08 - 10:30 PM congratulations, Liz |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Dec 08 - 06:40 PM Another triumph for Nurse Ratched |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Dec 08 - 06:19 PM Cheese? There's some Stinking Bishop in our fridge that's going to be in the garden soon if it continues to infuse everything else in there with the odour of ordure.... we're using the cat litter as an air freshener! Get well soon Curmudgeon, and don't be haulin no snow til it's melted! I found why my cough back in Feb wasn't going away... I had some tests done in March and May, after which I was diagnosed with Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease, or fatty deposits on the liver, which could develop into chirrosis. The liver was enlarged and so squashing everything up, hence I wasn't able to breathe properly. I've since lost nearly a stone in weight (15lbs and counting), the coughing stopped, I don't feel nearly so tired or miserable and I can breathe again. I get retested in January to see how it's going. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 21 Dec 08 - 12:41 PM Gosh... 2008 was quite a year for the ward. Hope 2009 is not so busy! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 21 Dec 08 - 11:55 AM And find him some really good cheese to help his recovery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 21 Dec 08 - 11:46 AM Private room for Tom. He is a curmudgeon you know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Dec 08 - 11:28 AM Time to reopen the ward, and welcome Mr Tom the famous Curmudgeon. The nurse is preparing your malt whisky IV now sir. If you would just like to choose your berth. XG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Mar 08 - 06:28 PM Chin up Severn, we're still rooting for you. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Escapee Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:40 PM Hang in there, Severn. I thought diabetes was the end of the world,and I've never been happier to be wrong. It's not real good for us but it's something we can deal with. It helped me to feel I wasn't alone, and I'll send some positive thoughts your way. Good luck. SKP |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Donuel Date: 27 Mar 08 - 10:13 AM I assembled it with opals I bought from struggling Australian miners. I plan to make a true opal fluid filled kalidoscope and another larger globe of opals. Tell me your favorite color or kind/shape of opal you like and I can make a custom opal for you with or without an inscription/natural shape/mudcat shape/guitar/intergalactic nebula/carved black power fist opal, a fish opal, a bird opal etc. I don't have another hand blown globe but I do have small sturdy halogen bulbs that can be artfully transformed into a magnifying bottle for you. While I have made similar offers before the only items mudcaters have accpeted were free DVD's. To every season turn turn turn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:07 AM That is really beautiful but I simply can't afford it. I love opals - my birth stone. And I am painfully partial towards tiny bottles on chains. Where did you get it, Donuel? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Donuel Date: 27 Mar 08 - 01:31 AM Art or therapy I never know which, but apparently this is my season to gather stones together... this is just for the pictures (don't buy it! I wanna keep it) Wild Gems in a globe eye candy and worry bead in one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:53 PM Surgeons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:25 AM But more importantly, a touque with a woolly ball or bobbles on it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 26 Mar 08 - 05:43 AM For the Canucks... bobble hat = touque. Save you the google. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Mar 08 - 04:41 AM Anyone mind if I check our boiler in? It's become a terminal case and needs all the support it can get. Meanwhile, I'm wandering around the house in four layers of clothes and a bobble hat. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Mar 08 - 07:50 PM Why use one word when a dozen will do?! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Leadfingers Date: 25 Mar 08 - 02:49 PM Gawd !! But again , I give Hearfelt Thanks for MY state of fitness ! Wich is the longwinded version of 'refresh' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 24 Mar 08 - 05:28 PM Yes, Mother Mary. Got The Corb Lund Band on full tilt and I am cooking a beef stew... and counting my blessings. And, I am even better than the last report. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 24 Mar 08 - 05:23 PM Oh dear - you guys are just falling apart. Get some rest...;isten to some music...and don't complain out loud - Nurse R is back from vacation and carrying a huge, dull hypodermic. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 24 Mar 08 - 05:06 PM Yeah! Why is it that they send ya home with all that? I mean, they messed ya up, right? Why wouldn't they clean up their mess? I had no feeling on the left side of my head ater the "fun". Great to get home and look in the mirror and see a great bloody piece of tape over my left eye. Amongst some other stuff! I was not impressed... and I was impressed... for which I was not impressed. It's kinda depressing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 24 Mar 08 - 04:22 PM Hell, it took 4 days to get rid of all the sticky gunk on my arms from all the bandages and IV hookups left on my arms for 4 days previous.. One of the few uses I have for alchohol at the moment. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Mar 08 - 01:42 PM Just imagine gnu with pom poms ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 24 Mar 08 - 01:24 PM Good Friday... Easter Sunday... Scan Tuesday... I can't keep up. Hang in there, Sev. The cheering section is practicing for ya! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Mar 08 - 04:51 PM Easter Sunday is a Holy day Sev. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 23 Mar 08 - 04:48 PM Lots of blood sugar testing, before and after meals, experimenting with diet regimens. Insulin shots two times a day. I'm surprised I don't leak like a sprinkler. Doctor follow-up on Monday. Scans on Tuesday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:29 PM Good news! -- Yesterday I did the first "real time" driving since December 10th!!! Had to drive to my hairstylist's to get a desperately needed haircut before my Tuesday job interview (another piece of good news). Tom offered to drive, of course, but I insisted on going by myself because it's only 10 and a half miles there, a basically straight shot on a not too heavily travelled road. I wanted to get a feel for what my left arm would do on a fairly simplee drive before having to start driving the more complicated distance over pot-holed roads to physical therapy after Tom goes back to work next week. (Having him called for a project is also good news.) I've still got quite a way to go to get the mobility in my arm back, but this is a major milestone on the way to getting back to something that resembles normal life. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: skarpi Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:19 PM 300 and I am gettin better skarpi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Mrs.Duck Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:04 PM Just make sure you get better soon, Severn. We'll be thinking of you. Just had to take Natasha in this morning too as she has a further bout of cellulitis in her leg and is on IV antibiotics. Life's a bugger ain't it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: peregrina Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:42 PM Wishing you recovery, health and strength. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Jeri Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:30 PM Sev, YEEEEESH!!! My mom's blood sugar went up over 1000 after open heart surgery. They had her on insulin for a while afterwards. If the stress of surgery makes it skyrocket, the chemo and its side effects probably also do so. Just get through it for now. Do what you need to to get better, and we'll hope you're feeling yourself soon. (Not in public, hopefully.) It should only get better from here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Sorcha Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:26 PM Well, gee, I mean, you know, like...what can I say? I also hope this is just temporary....you have to return the damn tankard you know...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:21 PM Oh, Severn! You'd think enough was enough, eh? They say adversity builds character...but, hey, you are enough of a character to begin with! The diabetes is probably (I sincerely hope!) temporary -- a result of the medicos really screwing around with your body. A friend of mine used to refer to all these character-building events as AFGO -- Another F%#king Growth Opportunity. (I say it's spinach and I say to hell with it.) Affectionately, Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Alice Date: 20 Mar 08 - 06:32 PM Wow, Sev. We're all pulling for you. Take care, Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:39 PM Awww, Sev! It's GOTTA be just temporary. Gotta be. Hang in there. I mean... if they got you on an IV and yer sugar is up? After chemo? I think things will settle out. I know they will. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: skarpi Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:28 PM oh men , Sev my thoughts and prayers are on its way my friend i hope you get well and they can find this out. Also hope you can start eat again you need that. All the best Skarpi Iceland |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Donuel Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM Jeez Louise Severn, Shady Grove is 6 minutes away, I coulda brought you some Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD's if I had known. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:13 PM Sheesh, you've certainly had a basinful of crap lately bro. Still diabetes is something loads of folks live with on daily basis, and lead a fairly normal life. I hope it's only temporary and just a reaction to all the chemo you've had. Keep us posted, we're thinking of you mate. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:04 PM It turns out that I couldn't hold in food for three days. When I finally made my Monday follow up doctor's appointment (God only knows how I made it there!), they hooked me right up to an IV and later sent me to Shady Grove hospital where I remained until March 19th including a night in the ICU (Peek-a-boo!). Would you believe all this spiked my blood sugar to 1100? Now I have to function like a diabetic until they see if they can see if this is going to be a permanent condition. I see an endochrinologist tomorrow. I was issued a blood sugar count machine and will even have to give myself insulin. So sorry if I've been out of touch...... I've been looking at new ways I may may have to live and eat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Mar 08 - 12:56 PM Well, good thing I went out last week to get the feel of driving and what I can and can't expect my arm to do. Tom's going back to work next week, so I'll have to start driving myself to physical therapy, etc. AND...I have to drive to a job interview on Tuesday!!! (Yee hah!) Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Mar 08 - 11:17 AM Sev - (((xXx))) - you're still in our thoughts, and if you're a doormat, it's one with 'welcome' written all the way across it. Rest up, keep a bucket on standby and it will soon go away. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 14 Mar 08 - 11:15 AM Good luck with it, Giok! I may have completed my Chemo treatments, but the cumulative aftermath from the last one is the whammy, the worst of all, so I'm pretty much immobilized myself. It'll only get better as the meds and toxins make their way out of my system. Until then, for today, I'm a dirty doormat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Mar 08 - 09:16 AM Thanks for the kind thoughts. I have done something to the lumbar region, and it's right in the centre just above hip height, so it affects just about every move. Jacqui I shall start by stretching up to the bar for a pint of beer, and repeat it regularly for a bit, then see how I go from there if that's OK? G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:55 AM Not a pretty picture to imagine first thing in the morning Liz! Giok - try doing some gentle stretching exercises - those usually help me when my back gets painful and might just get you through the weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:13 AM He SAID it was trying to lift a water carrier into his caravan but I have my doubts... it is lambing time and they can be very frisky when pursued by a Scot in French Tickler gumboots. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:04 AM How did you hurt your back, Giok? Not the spring lambs, I hope. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 14 Mar 08 - 07:40 AM Giok, injured backs are the pits - take care, & take appropriate painkillers with you. Good luck. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 14 Mar 08 - 07:25 AM Geez, Giok -- sounds like you're in desperate need of muscle relaxant which your country produces in such exquisite variety. Laphroaig? Tallisker? Highland Park? Take care of yourself! Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Mar 08 - 07:09 AM I hurt my back yesterday, and I'm having problems, sitting, standing, AND walking. Just what I need ahead of a weekend of music and drink. Can I have a bed prepared for Monday, when I shall no doubt be even worse. Dalmore in my IV please Nurse Ratched. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: skarpi Date: 14 Mar 08 - 05:52 AM Hallo all , I am doin fine recocery is slow but better everyday goin to work in the end of March that mean 31/2 weeks off one week longer I though it would be so it should better by then . all the best Skarpi |
