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Subject: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 21 Jul 15 - 02:47 PM Got a PM on Facebook. It was about past Mudcat Recovery Ward threads and The Tavern threads and others. It lamented the passing of the "old" Mudcat and Mudchat. I know my long time Mudcat friend probably won't start a recovery ward thread even facing "minor" cancer surgery or a tavern thread or those creative writing threads and so on. I tried to console by saying that trolls drove people away to other media and that they should "go for it" and see what happens. So... this thread is for my good friend. I hope that surgery slays the dragon and that you heal well and quickly. I just wish the lament about Mudcat regulars leaving wasn't the case. Maybe it's time for a Mudcat Recovery? I myself am doubtful as the same old trolls still lurk and be jerks and it appears the old school Mudcatters just can't be arsed anymore... even ME! >;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 21 Jul 15 - 03:10 PM May recovery be full it has been quiet of late the rainbow thread is good but I have wondered if it has in some ways contributed to the decline in that all the good thoughts are compacted into one thread rather than supply relief throughout the board. Any way we do what we think is right at the time so someone go check what that dodgy nurse is putting in the drips it smelt suspiciously like like Highland Park. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,# Date: 21 Jul 15 - 03:16 PM Best of luck to you all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: fat B****rd Date: 21 Jul 15 - 03:23 PM All the very best to you and your friend Gnu. Whilst I respect anyone's right to raise an issue here, it 's good to see lots of non-combative members joining in on the friendly, inquiry and/or musical threads. I value the links I have with a small but treasured handful of members and am always willing to know more. Charlie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 21 Jul 15 - 03:36 PM Still here, gnu, and sending warm thoughts to your friend. There is always room for another friendly, kind thread. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link Date: 21 Jul 15 - 05:35 PM we should at least be thankful that the trolls have not ventured, by and large, into the friends and well wishers type threads. likewise wishing, gnu, your friend, a slaying of the dragon and a good recovery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 21 Jul 15 - 07:25 PM Thanks, all. I dunno if my friend will even see this. I dunno if my friend will join in, given the circumstances. Maybe I should have let my friend start a thread as I encouraged. Perhaps I jumped the gun? I have been known to be rash and rather outspoken to the point of my detriment at times. So. There it is for what it is... or... what it was. Whatever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: jacqui.c Date: 21 Jul 15 - 07:29 PM All the best to your friend Gnu - I'll be sending good thoughts into the ether. Has anyone checked if the squid is in the Jello pit? I could fancy some Calamari about now....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 21 Jul 15 - 07:58 PM more good wishes heading your way & I might be joining your friend next week if my surgery date is not changed again - "just" a simple thyroid operation, nothing malignant, but it needs removing 'cos the long-term nodes are overactive, & an operation & overnight stay in hospital is waaaaay beyond my comfort zone sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 21 Jul 15 - 07:59 PM I see a tinder dry christmas tree up in the rafters - and a pile of dry needles on the floor beneath it. Careful! . . . oops, spoke too late. Those needles are slippery, gnu. Good thing you didn't have a beer in your hand to spill. Go on, get settled in your favorite booth and I'll buy you a beer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 21 Jul 15 - 08:21 PM All the kindest and dearest to your friend gnu. I wish well also and hope to see your humourous here more often . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Janie Date: 21 Jul 15 - 09:33 PM Best wishes to your friend, gnu. and Voila! Here I am to help! Oh dear. I didn't mean to spill the bedpan on the bed. Sorry. Was only trying to help. Squid, come sharply now, in dire need of a few extra arms! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: frogprince Date: 21 Jul 15 - 09:51 PM gnu, best thoughts for that friend from here, too; I have a very itchy feeling I may know who we're speaking of, but the thoughts are there whether or not I'm right. Dean (and Judy). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 21 Jul 15 - 11:13 PM Wow! I got quite a warmup before I even started! Traditionally, the Mudcat Recovery Ward has been a place to air out one's real ailments and then have them attempted to be cured by a mythical medical staff of our own invention, a staff that has grown over the years as needed. Anyway, I had a spot on the back of my hand that was diagnosed as a Squamouse cell Carcinoma from the biopsy that should be easily removed, and there were some precancerous spots that should be taken care of with a cream. Nothing much to worry about, unlike past cancer and burns that had me join the Mudcat gang in here. How well do any of us really know the back of our hand, even some guys who claim to know it intimately? '"Squaw Moose Cell"?, says my Canadian friend Gnu, who is in here to consult with his gnurologist. "Yep.", I reply. "I'm going over to Dermitology to Dr. Lance Boyle's office to consult with and flirt with his lovely tatooed nurse, Tanya Hyde, and then I'll check out who else is still around......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jul 15 - 11:25 PM Had a basal cell carcinoma removed on July 7. I shall have a neat-o scar to lie about, I think. Right there on my right jaw, just in front of the ear. I don't think I'll show y'all the scars from my double hernia surgery back in March. Them's kinda private in private places. Yum! Calamari in lime jello! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Janie Date: 22 Jul 15 - 12:06 AM One problem for an aging female with living in a region full of young people who keep many beautifully complected dermatologists in business with lucrative practices financed by the desire to keep acne and wrinkles at bay is a lack of trust and discomfort when presenting to said dermotologists with concerns about skin lesions in the presence of clear evidence we do not otherwise pay much attention to appearance, scaly dry skin on legs, etc. Probably all or most good doctors, but too young and their practices so based on cosmetic issues that I don't feel comfortable, and even feel intimidated and discounted because I don't pay attention to things like fish scale dry skin on my legs. I don't even notice such cosmetic factors until I am in the office of the very fashionable dermatologist who also is part owner of some spa in the area dedicated to beauty. And there are not many dermatologists in my medically rich region who are not who are in private practice. BAd insurance so I avoid the university based practices thats charge facility fees. Whine, whine, whine. If my Dad had not died from melanoma that his own dermatologist missed in spite of years of visits every three months due to basal and squamous cell skin cancers, I would not be so concerned. One case. One missed diagnosis. Can happen to anyone. Rattle the bedpans. Bring on the puns and good health to all! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Kampervan Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:38 AM Best wishes and healing thoughts for your friend Gnu. I hope that the op is a success and that they make a quick and full recovery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 22 Jul 15 - 05:57 AM There is tremendous healing in music... ...so when you play, do it thoughtfully, with precision, and emote your innermost soul. It works... Try it. GfS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Who stole my cookie? The lightning is suspec Date: 22 Jul 15 - 11:54 AM I see Sev saw the thread and made another grand entry. A true master of the pun! I figured you wouldn't mind me starting this thread. Your post made me fell better... thanks, Bud. gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 15 - 01:36 PM Herrrre cookie, cookie, cookie. There you ARE! Gooood boy! Stop running away. Lightning never strikes twice in the same p |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:29 PM Severn and Sandra hope you both return to full health swiftly. The squid is most upset at people equating him with food watch out for low flying jello |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:39 PM Janie, besides the aforementioned doctors in Dermatology, there is a pool and complete rehab facilities. Unfortunately, they are now run by Hurty Gertie, who took over from InterVenus Di Milo the lovely armless therapy nurse who departed for Our Lady Of The Evening, Our Lady Of The Inconceivable Conception or one of those other Catholic joints the last time we chronicled the Ward (It's been a long time, so I'll have to go back and refresh myself on the damage we all did to this place last time). I'm sure this place is still in a chronicle condition. But anyway, there IS a spa in our own camp. Jacqui, I'm not even sure they'll let the squid back in here after he developed that mad crush on Nurse Ratched some time ago, but no calomari from him. He's needed whenever we we do one of these things. We might be able to sneak him in again through the secret passageway from the Tavern, like we did last time. Maybe we can hide him in the rehab pool, but we will have to have Chlorina (Chlorina, where you been so long.....) keep it full of just plain water, as they tend to hoard their green jello in this place for use in experimenting on the patients. A jello sea would cause much jelousy, and therehab patients would notice the change in the pool's contents. Good luck to you, Sandra. Meanwhile, Steve Lawrence & Edie Gormye are on the Muzak singing, "Blame it on the Carcinoma, Blame it on the hematoma Or your fake medical diploma....." .....or something like that. I here they hired one of Edie's relatives as chief chef, to try and make the kitchen sound high class..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 22 Jul 15 - 04:27 PM Whoops! That last post was me at Someone else's computer. Even they have hired a Gormye cook to run the kitchen, alas, Nonnetta Bull is still the nutritionist, so life here's still another episode of "How Green Was My Jello?" I asked Gnu if anything else were bothering him. "Gnuritis and Gnuralgia.", he said. "The usual" "So who's your doctors, Gnu"....... The lovely Tanya Hyde in Dermatology gave me some band aids and Vasaline and instructions to keep the biopsy clean and gave some sly hints about the nature of her tattoos that remained unseen and dismissed me for the day..... Everybody scrambles to get out of the was as huge Bedpan Dora, an ex female heavyweight boxer, recklessly drives a gurny down the hallway. NOBODY messes with Bedpan Dora...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 15 - 05:07 PM My doc?. Dr. Vinnie Boombah, of course... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Amos Date: 22 Jul 15 - 08:07 PM Really? I used to date his Sister. Everyone just called her Sis, because he did. She was made made famous by Johnnie Carson. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jul 15 - 10:12 PM Sis Boombah? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 23 Jul 15 - 09:27 PM What did he cure you of? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 23 Jul 15 - 10:37 PM ^*^ comes in through the back door of the Mudcat Tavern, carrying a bucket filled with fresh garden ripe tomatoes and a grocery bag with loaves of crusty bread, a jar of real mayonnaise, and several pounds of thick-sliced bacon. "Anybody hungry? Do BLTs go with whatever it is you're drinking?" The squid slithers bashfully around the back door and slips noiselessly into the tepid tub of liquid jello. "Damn, it hasn't set up yet. . . Cook up the damned bacon and feed these fools sandwiches so they stop waving knives and asking for calamari! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 24 Jul 15 - 01:47 PM Doc Vinnie didn't cure me of my wicked ways, Sev. All he does is write prescriptions that I don't get filled after I read about all the slide effects. I asked him about medical pot and he said it would be just what the doctor ordered but he wouldn't fill out the Health Canada authorization form because he said the new system is all fucked up. He referred me to another doc, Joey Banana, but his office is in a Caddy parked behind the Slop House Tavern on the other side of the tracks and he told me just to say to his receptionists "The Scalpel sent me." so I think I'll pass and just cook up some bacon instead. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 24 Jul 15 - 04:48 PM It sounds like a couple of slick operators, that is, until they are faced with doing an actual operation. Educated at the McHeath Academy Of Surgery, you say? It would explain the velvet gloves..... As I walk down the hallway, I see some familiar names on the doors from the past: Betty Beye, anesthesiologist Otto Pilate, Director Of Security Abraham Bortz, OBGYN Major Malcolm Function (USMC Ret.), Head Administrator .....and I saw Nurse Cathy Terr and a few others left over from former visits, but luckily, I have yet to see any former adversaries such as Nurse Ratched, Nurse Wretched, Hurry Gertie and that kinky bastard down in Radiology, X-Ray Ted. I hope my luck holds, but I doubt it will...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 24 Jul 15 - 05:10 PM Can you die from a bacon overdose? Oh, never mind. I'll report in the morning... or not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Jul 15 - 10:07 PM Those are very good tomatoes to accompany that bacon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jul 15 - 09:25 PM Heritage ones, I think. From when tomatoes were tomatoes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 15 - 11:22 PM Super Fantastic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 28 Jul 15 - 08:40 PM It's great thall are in good health. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 28 Jul 15 - 08:43 PM I did get a steriod shot in my back. the other day to ease the effect of some vertebra pinching a nerve that goes to my leg. Shot in the back is the coward;s way out, I know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 29 Jul 15 - 04:02 PM Whoops! Me on a library computer again for the last two posts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 15 - 05:06 PM "... pinching a nerve that goes to my leg." Ah yes. The Satanic nerve. Hurts like Hell. Hurts like the devil. Been there. Still tryin ta do it. Physio... it ya want exercise pics from my physio, ring me on FB. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: ragdall Date: 30 Jul 15 - 01:43 AM Severn, Sandra and Rap, Best healing wishes to all of you. Good of you to keep the doctors in business, the rest of us may need them someday, too. Bless you, gnu, for starting the topic. rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Jul 15 - 03:29 AM here I am, back home & looking for a comfy bed in a quiet ward, throat slit from here to there, nicely bandaged & healing. My local hospital is world class, & all treatment was excellent & cost me nothing, the food was great, the staff were marvelous, the only problems came from my room mate, an older lady with many health problems, including delusions which led to continual vocalisations in English & her childhood language & kept her awake all day & night. Did I say the staff were wonderful? which is why I want peace & quiet. Am I in the right place? sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 30 Jul 15 - 06:34 AM Glad it went well Sandra don't know about peace though I heard a nurse mention hiring a 40 bodhran band to lift the spirits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: fat B****rd Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:58 AM all the best to you,Sandra. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 30 Jul 15 - 03:37 PM You know that we are keeping the physicians in business when you hear the Doc's-ology played after every transaction at the cashier's window..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Jul 15 - 07:26 PM do the 40 bodhrans come with 40 silencers? hello, Severn? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Janie Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:11 PM Are you sure about that Megan? I heard it was a 40 bedpan band. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:22 PM There's something poetic about a forty bedpan band. Like a bodhran, the bedpans could be tuned by putting the contents in them in various -- never mind. Maybe at Getaway this could be tried. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: ragdall Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:46 PM Welcome back, Sandra. We'll try to keep the celebration low key to enable you to get your rest. Stay well. rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 31 Jul 15 - 04:52 AM You know Janie you might be right the hearings not what it was. Reminds me of the nurses when dauvit was in hospital who made everyone sickbowl hats to celebrate the Scotland England football match. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 08 Aug 15 - 02:30 AM Hey Gnu you recovered from the back overdose yet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 08 Aug 15 - 07:55 AM One never recovers, M. One manages. Thanks for asking. |
