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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:09 AM yah, Severn ward is getting empty-ish again? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 19 Feb 08 - 02:04 PM GREAT news, Sev!!!! Just one more to go after this one. Hang in there buddy. We're all pullin for ya. Go ahead.... be my guest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 19 Feb 08 - 12:12 PM Wonderful Severn, really pleased to hear it. I better start polishing up a few puns in preparation for a joust then. I will lose it of course, but as they say, "It's not the winning, it's the taking part". Yeah right!! G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 08 - 12:08 PM Good news for you all. Keep up the good work! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 19 Feb 08 - 12:07 PM Good news here, too. CT and PET scans show that the recovery is going on as well as at all possible. Should knock this stuff out or enable the immune system when it bounces back to keep what little remains in remission. Something to think about while I'll have to feel like an absolute dirtbag for about a week..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 19 Feb 08 - 11:41 AM GIOK! CELLAR! Good news, gnu. And you too Linn. Keep up the good work. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 18 Feb 08 - 10:37 PM good news from Bat Goddess & gnu yah! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Feb 08 - 04:26 PM You didn't take my advice gnu, 'cos you're still here ;) Thankfully G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 18 Feb 08 - 04:06 PM Good to hear things are progressing well, Linn. Speaking of good news... YEEHAW!!! I have just returned from the Slicer-Dicer and, he is pleased with my progress, even as slight as it is, as it gives hope that the nerves will continue to awaken and/or regenerate. AND, the pathology reports are ALL negative!! The duct, the gland, the lymph nodes, the vocal cords... no tumours, no cancer. The lump of scar tissue around the duct from the first operation has gone down and may disappear completely or it may (probably) not. But, hey, when yer as good lookin as me, it don't make no never mind. However, on a sad note, I must inform you all that there will be Bodhran playing going on all night. To all who posted in threads here at The Café and PM'd and phoned me, thanks. The last five months have been a bit rough (although not anywhere near as rough as for some other 'Cats) but your support and advice has meant a great deal to me.... sincerely, thank you all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Bat Goddess Date: 18 Feb 08 - 11:06 AM Hey! Just got back from my first physical therapy session AND (and this is the really important bit today) survived driving down our driveway to the house. Believe me, I did NOT want to have to walk down the driveway. (But Tom just left to drive the car back up to the road and walk down himself.) It's ice -- with today's rain (and heavy fog) on top of it. And since the temperature is over 50 degrees F., what's under it is most likely turning to MUD. Arghhh! But the therapy session was really good -- especially the pool part. Besides being 92 degrees F., I think it has higher buoyancy than normal, but I could be mistaken. I was having trouble keeping my tush and legs down so my shoulders would be under water for the exercises. My feet kept wanting to rise off the bottom. (This part of the pool is about 4 feet deep.) Then, of course, was the land part -- stretching muscles that I was having trouble relaxing. He's pretty gentle, but I've got a cold pack on my shoulder right now and I think I'll bring one along with me on Thursday to use on the 45 minute drive home (chaufferred by Tom). Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 17 Feb 08 - 06:04 PM I thought peepers were eyes - things you peep through.... Boy does that explain a lot of things in my life! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Feb 08 - 04:52 PM But can't you use peepers to beat things a well Mary? G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 17 Feb 08 - 04:27 PM Becca, a tipper is a wooden spoon used to beat the bohdran. Peepers are frogs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 17 Feb 08 - 12:30 PM "Etude, Brut-al?". Develop "a 'tude", and it's almost like having stage prescence, so you might get over live anyway. And try to aim better next time, Giok! Like one of those Belchin' Phlegmish Masters. Make that sucker rings when you hit it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:45 AM Whoa. . . listening to the rebroadcast this morning of A Prairie Home Companion. Make room for the young blind pianist who was on the program. He'll need to let his nerves settle after a Chopin fantasy and etude. He kept going, but lots of mistakes. The kind of thing he might want to beat himself up over. Make the room dark, and a nice pallet for the dog, please. He'll get beyond it after a little reflection. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Megan L Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:39 AM Ony mair misbehavin aroon here an ah'll send Granny roon tae gie ye aw a bed bath. An shes no awfy fussy whaur she sticks the loofa |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:21 AM I miss the old spittoon! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Severn Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:17 AM Please and feel free to offer tips to the nurse (before she sedates you for no apparent reason) but don't, under any circumstances gnu, tip the bedpan. It'll be like those confused nights in pubs when you use the waitress and tip over the spitoon. Or it might be like "raries". If you've come a long way to tip one, there's probably no stopping you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Feb 08 - 10:08 AM Some guy's peepers don't have covers, that's because they've been visited by the tipper, Becca. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 17 Feb 08 - 09:58 AM What's a tipper? Is that the same as a peeper? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 16 Feb 08 - 04:33 PM Well, I could play a bedpan with my tipper, so choose yer weapon, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 16 Feb 08 - 02:38 PM LOL Damn it! Everytime I stop coughing someone makes me laugh. Jacqui - does Nurse Ratched have a supply of Amian? I would really enjoy a good night's sleep complete with psychedelic dreams. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Feb 08 - 11:49 AM That was either a bum note, or a diminished turd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Feb 08 - 11:47 AM The difference between the two? No-one is proud of playing the bedpan. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 16 Feb 08 - 07:48 AM LOL...pass the banjo, er, bedpan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Feb 08 - 05:45 AM I can't get my winkle out, isn't it a sin The more I try to get it out, the further it goes in I can't get my winkle out, isn't it a do-er I can't get it out with an old bent pin Has anybody here got a skewer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2008 From: gnu Date: 15 Feb 08 - 06:52 PM Nasty place to get a cut? Huh? Did I not miss sommat? Becca... YOU don't? How do you think I feel? Not to mention wee peeper... he has withdrawn into himself. |
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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 |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ... |
