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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 24 Oct 15 - 09:20 AM enquiring minds want to know! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 24 Oct 15 - 12:30 AM Rappareeeee... Howditgo? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 16 Oct 15 - 01:06 PM Liz book Manitas into the special side room and did anyone catch the piranha that was in the font |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 15 Oct 15 - 11:52 AM Hi raparee You really are going through it my friend. I thought that I was stretching the limits of attending hospitals and medical centres, but it seems that compared with you I am just a beginner. Get well soon and this time STAY HEALTHY !! Regards MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 15 Oct 15 - 10:29 AM No one wants things to 1) go well and 2) this nonsense to stop more than I. The last two years have been filled with far, far too much surgery for both of us. We are playing "catching up" with stuff to be done around the house; we do NOT need to play it with health things as well. And no, I don't have my own bed, but I do have a reserved camping cot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 15 Oct 15 - 05:35 AM rapparee you do not get a bulk buying discount for medical services now behave yourself. Hope all goes well with your appointment |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 15 Oct 15 - 05:16 AM Rapparee- We'll be watching this space for news of the upcoming removal of UHS*. Please do let us know how it goes**. *Unidentified Head Sitter **That's about enough surgeries for the year. Stop it. Now. Please. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 14 Oct 15 - 10:00 PM 9 surgeries? you have had more than your share, enough is enough! Do you have you very own bed in the hospital? best wishes sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 14 Oct 15 - 09:23 PM And...I'm chiming in with the unwelcome news that on the 22nd I'll be having a surgery to remove an infected cyst or something from the top of my head. I'm on the pre-surgery antibiotics right now. This will make something like nine fairly-minor-but-still-surgery surgeries in something like twenty months. Apparently I hit my head against one of the lights on the back porch/deck ceiling and did in skin that was already sun damaged. I hope that that is all it is, because after the skin cancer a couple or three months ago I'm sort of gun shy. Oh -- I brought this latest thing to the dermatologist's attention yesterday when I was in for the final check on the skin cancer surgery healing! I thought it was just a bad bump on the head. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 13 Oct 15 - 09:25 AM Hi megan & maeve Many thanks for kind comment. Now I'm getting out of the way before Maeve sends a THIRD reply...lol regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 13 Oct 15 - 08:04 AM Hello, Sandra. I'm pretty pleased with your report as well! (Now second it! :D ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 13 Oct 15 - 07:46 AM I always second meave's posts sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 13 Oct 15 - 07:07 AM That's very good news indeed, Mike! Well done. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 13 Oct 15 - 06:18 AM Well done Mike Just watch out for Janie that wheelchair is lethal it should be fitted with a claxon the way she drives it. Severn Gnu refused to grow a beard he said and I quote "Hell that's the closest I've gotten to a hickey in years." He is wearing them with pride he told the girl in the market that he had been chased by a whole bunch of women after him for his manly frame. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 13 Oct 15 - 06:11 AM Hi fellow patients. Today I have finally been discharged from attending my medical centre. The skin graft has totally healed and is a great match with the rest of the leg. Not that I show my legs in public these days. The donor site at the top of my thigh is now starting to heal well and the practice nurses have shown my wife how to dress the wound but they say that it won't really be necessary after this week. It has been nearly 4 months now so it feels great to know that we don't have to keep visiting the doctors and nurses three times a week any more. They want to see me in Three months to check everything out and to also check that there are no more "nasties" lurking around. Cheers Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 26 Sep 15 - 02:24 PM Hi megan Thanks for kind comment. Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 26 Sep 15 - 01:31 PM Good to hear positive news from each of you |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 26 Sep 15 - 01:20 PM Hi Sandra Great to hear your great news. I know how relieved you will feel now. Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 26 Sep 15 - 12:23 PM Glad to hear all the good news! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 26 Sep 15 - 11:10 AM YAH! & YAH! to Severn re 4 years remission. I saw my thyroid specialist on Wednesday & she doesn't want to see me for 6 months as my thyroxine levels are good. When I saw the surgeon a week after I left hospital he told me they had found several microscopic spots of cancer which had been too small to be found by the scans & the hospital's Tyyroid team would be discussing the results of all thyroid operations the next day, & at the worse case I'd need a single does of radioactive thyroid, but I never heard anything more so I assumed it was not the worse case & didn't worry (I'm a but strange like that - I can tie myself into knots worrying about nuffin', & not even think about possible radiation treatment.) sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 26 Sep 15 - 09:00 AM Hi Everyone < " Mike, in Rockville MD USA, there was a team of oriental dentists, Chu & Chu..." > hee hee Guess someone must have said "what's up with Chu, Chu. More seriously though. Good news - I was discharged from hospital yesterday when the Surgeon declared that the removal of the melanoma on the shin bone has been completely successful and that there is now no signs of anything sinister in my leg. The skin graft has worked perfectly and with little scarring. The donor site is still sore but the Surgeon said that it is fine and is almost healed. Just needs a couple of dressings this week at my health Centre and everything will be fine. Great timing as we had booked to go away for a weeks break in Wales on Monday Oct 5th. Naturally I heaved a huge sigh of relief as this has been on-going for over 3 months now. Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn Date: 21 Sep 15 - 07:57 PM A loss of some blood and a ride through the "Tunnel Of Love" for a scan. Nothing to it other than quite a few miles on my car, Megan. And Guest, I hope I'll be alive and posting in twenty years. Thanks! Mike, in Rockville MD USA, there was a team of oriental dentists, Chu & Chu...... Dodging a kid who thought she was an inflatable toy, Matilda Squidlet flees the public pool into the street and sees a sign for the way back to the hospital. She has never crossed a road before in traffic and gives a shudder and crosses at the light, only knowing the traffic has stopped, but not why. Three more blocks to go...... Liz has to hold back Papa Squid from strangling gnu for having stepped on and fatally squished squidlets Sandy and Horatio. Papa Squid lets gnu go, but he will have suction cup marks on his neck for a month and a half. Gnu grows a long beard and wears his collar high for awhile........ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 21 Sep 15 - 03:30 PM We'll be glad to hear the same thing from you for at least twenty years or so, Severn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 21 Sep 15 - 11:52 AM Go Severn may the check up become a pleasantly boring annual event |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 21 Sep 15 - 11:46 AM My cancer is still in remission, going on close to four years |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 12 Sep 15 - 05:15 PM You're quite welcome, FP. For lack of a princess in this place, a kiss from Tanya Hyde down in dermatology would probably cure all ills. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: frogprince Date: 12 Sep 15 - 10:27 AM Thanks to Severn, this is the only recovery ward I know where walking in gives me a belly ache. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 12 Sep 15 - 05:34 AM Hi Severn Thanks for kind comments. I have these regular check-ups with my dermatologist whose name is Dr Wong. I am always tempted to ask her " is there anything wong ??". Keep well Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 11 Sep 15 - 02:07 PM Good to hear the news, Mike. Severn, who is getting ready for his bi-yearly cancer checkup, sees that his request to have somebody draw his blood has been answered by a very young candy striper carrying a big red crayon and a blank sheet of paper and urgently presses the button for the nurses station..... Cecil and Petunia rush out of the kitchen and into the waiting tentacles of their father. Out of the frying pan and into the cauldron, I guess. Liz mutters, "That's eight "and stands ready with the cauldron lid in case the wayward squidlets should try to regain their freedom...... Matilda Squidlet drops right in the middle of an excercise class for the elderly at the local community pool amid loud shrieks. "Wow!", she thinks. "Who'd have thought those old geezers and geezeresses could still move that fast. That section of the pool empties and seniors and their instructor flee the scene while the disco music soundtrack for the class boards on....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 11 Sep 15 - 10:38 AM Hi Everone Just got back from my medical centre where they examined my recent operations for skin cancer. I am pleased to inform you that they are very pleased with the progress ( which they say is necessarily slow). Things are starting to heal well but I still have to report twice a week for examinations and dressings. The doctor told me that shin operations are always difficult because of the lack of flesh in the area." Even simple abrasions can take months". Still not advisable to walk far until graft has fully healed. But hey life is much better and we are going forward. Medical centre staff are fantastic - and that helps so much. No squids though, they are out of season here in NW England...lol We have a few tadpoles - or was that their tapioca pudding. Keep well everyone Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 09 Sep 15 - 06:03 PM GO PHIL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 09 Sep 15 - 03:43 PM Pastor Pryme is rushed to the bed between Severn and Mike having had the unfortunate experience of dipping his fingers in the wrong font while checking the temperature for the little nippers and was shocked to meet another little nipper. Liz on entering the kitchen found dishpan Hans out cold on the floor with a wailling Nonnetta Bull trying to rouse him. She isn't very coherent but apparently Cecil and petunia locked tentacles and stretched across the space between the table and the cooker just as Dishpan Hans ran down that aisle thinking the rubber glove in the distance was one of the squidlets. The canny pair made good their escape while nonnetta wept over her fallen comrade. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn Date: 09 Sep 15 - 03:03 PM The heron takes off with poor Matilda squidlet wrapped around the bird's beak bound for who knows where. Looking below her for a place to drop off her flying host, she spies a community pool below, lets go, and mutters a prayer to Posiedon, shouting in Squiddish, "What was that Indian's name anyway-a-a-a-ay!".......SPLASH! Liz gets back to Papa Squid with a freshly filled cauldron, and they head for the Kitchen, the last known destination for Cecil and Petunia..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 07 Sep 15 - 11:48 PM My friend Phil is getting better. We had a song swap in his hospital room and after he got home, he played some songs with Matilda Gawf and myself at an open mic on Sunday night. His memory is not all the way back yet nor is his picking, bu they're getting there. He's walking just fine now. He's getting out there and trying to work his way back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 07 Sep 15 - 07:01 AM Hi Froggy Oooooooh ....you are naughty ...lol Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: frogprince Date: 06 Sep 15 - 09:18 PM Mike and Severn, we hope to see you both without a stitch soon. Ummm...I mean.... Oh, never mind... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 06 Sep 15 - 06:13 AM I'll second that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 06 Sep 15 - 05:21 AM Hi Sev Glad to hear the good news regarding the removal of the skin cancer cells. Hope you and your friend continue to improve and can get to play and sing together. Sounds great to me. Regards MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 04 Sep 15 - 06:03 PM MikeL2... glad to hear all is going well according to plan. Sev... same deal except fer yer bud... oh dear. Sounds like things will be okay. I surely hope so. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn Date: 04 Sep 15 - 03:50 PM My stitches are out and the skin cancer is gone. I had gone to the Veteran's hospital in the early morning to get this done and was heading home. I stopped at a store and while shopping, I got a call by way of a phone tree that was trying to locate me to tell me that my close friend Phil Fox. (not a Mudcatter, but my singing partner in The Barnyard Prophets and regular Getaway participant)was on his way to that same hospital with symptoms of a possible stroke. Our friend Sara Hensler and Phil were supposed to go on a hike that day, and when she called, his speech was incoherent. She came and got him and took him down there. I turned around and went back down into D.C. and waited with Sara for awhile and when we were told that he'd be staying for awhile, I went back to the house where he lives and brought back some necessary items. Sara was going to stay overnight with him, so I stayed while she got HER necessary items. Phil still not having his glasses, I read excerpts from Kinky Friedman's guide to Texas Etiquite to him until Sara returned Sara stayed two nights until she had to leave on a trip. An angel of the highest degree. He did have a stroke, and his speech and walking had been effected, but he was feeling better last night, so I brought him his glasses and his beloved Gurion guitar, and eight close friends swapped songs in the hospital room until visiting time was over. His memory and picking still weren't completely back, but were definitely getting there. I do not know when he will be able to go home. Further details can be found through my Facebook site..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 04 Sep 15 - 01:19 PM Hi I have just got back from the hospital clinic. I saw the surgeon that performed the operations on excision and skin graft on my leg. Good news...he says things are going well if somewhat more slowly on account of the site of the melanoma, on the shin bone. This makes surgery and grafting more complicated. I have to return in 4 weeks, and until then go to my medical centre twice a week for dressing and after-care. I am very relieved because I thought I could have an infection under the graft, but I was assured that everything is going great. I was told that this kind of graft takes months rather than weeks to completely heal. His best guess at the moment is six months. Ah well at home I am on " light duties" no washing up, hoovering etc, and definitely no gardening !!! Hope all other patients are progressing well. Regards MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 01 Sep 15 - 11:24 AM But, the wound is healing okay, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 31 Aug 15 - 02:00 PM Damn! time for a change of clothes...... The bandages covering the site where they removed my cancer always have trouble staying on when outside on a hot humid day, as the back of my hand sweats just like the rest of me. Can't wait 'til they take the stitches out..... Liz and Squid. Remember when making your count, that, alas, three will be missing, two as the blue goo on gnu's new shoe and one gone down the toilet where, raised by aligators, it will grow up to be an urban legend, so you'll be short by at least three.... Meanwhile, an angry Papa Squid arrives in the horse-spittle corridor from the tunnel and begins his own search. He finds Liz and sends her back with the six recovered squids and tells her to bring back the emptied cauldron for the next batch...... Smiling, her hair and uniform a bit disheveled and a satisfied look on her face, Nurse Ratched locks her office door behind her and can think of nothing better than a cup of coffee and a fresh, clean uniform........ Outside in the ornimental fishpond, Matilda Squidlet has encountered competition for food from a hungry Great Blue Heron who now thinks she looks better than koi, so she has all ten tenticles wrapped around the bill of the large bird keeping it shut and hanging on for dear life, screaming out for help in Squiddish!.... (This post captioned for the hard of heron) Cecil and Petunia are being chased around the kitchen by Dishpan Hans and Nonnetta Bull who are both wielding cleavers...... And folks start filing into the chapel for the baptismal, where the two tiered holy water fount font has two squidlets in one bowl and Cecil's pet piranha in the other...... Looks like Papa Squid has a lot on his tenticles to deal with, so I hope at Liz will get back soon. Some extra help would also be nice..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Aug 15 - 02:27 AM Next time you send me jello, put a note on it saying 'Cephalapods only' or something... took me ages to eat it all, no wonder I was slow getting the squidlets together. Severn, don't sit in that chair, that's where I... too late. Nurse, can we get a spatula and a bucket over here please?! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 29 Aug 15 - 01:00 AM I suppose you should tell those folks following the "Where's olddude" thread where he REALLY is....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 28 Aug 15 - 01:35 PM The tavern door creaks open there stands old dude in full hazmatt suite quickly he drags the hose of the suction pump towards the jello pool with a maniacal laugh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn (again) Date: 28 Aug 15 - 01:14 PM Liz The Squeek's cell phone rings, and it's the squidlets' Squiddische Mama wondering what's taking Liz so long. Grumbling something about sending a human out to do a squid's job, she calls out to her husband who's quite famillar with the hospital layout toget the job done himself. Papa Squid shakes off the green Jello from the pool and heads for the tunnel..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 28 Aug 15 - 12:46 PM In case you wondered, Liz has borrowed the alligator's red wagon from the Tavern and is hauling Mmario's largest cooking pot (slightly smaller than the ones the African cannibals use in old Hollywood pictures, but of a similar shape)full of water. Meanwhile, brash young Billy The Squid and four squidlet followers behind them, all wearing "The Squid Squad" Waterproof faux-leather jackets, have decided to go after Nurse Ratched, the lady who once broke their father's heart. The other four squidlets, have names printed on their jackets, "Biff" "Butch" "Spike" and "Rowdy" (Their real names, alas, being Clarence, Otto, Claude and Percival), and are bopping down the hall looking like something out of "West Side Story" and singing "When you're a squid, you're a squid all the way". Having no fingers to snap, they do a whip-cracking thing with their tentacles. They find Nurse Ratched's office, but it is unoccupied, but they go inside anyway and start looking to make trouble. Spike/Claude begins refilling all the files at random. Billy The Squid (He even claims to be left-handed)pours out the coffee from the coffee maker and the boys refill it with their brown sepia ink. Biff/Clarence starts seriously reprogramming the computer. Butch/Otto punches out a ceiling panel and grabs a chunk of fiberglass insulation, opens the locker, and rubs the insulation on the inside the spare panties and white nurse's hosiery. Before they can go back out and resume their search for Nurse Ratched (who is busy engaging in a tryst like they did last summe with X-Ray Ted in a little used storeroom on the third floor)Liz, who heard the singing and had learned to speak semi-fluent Squiddish, grabs each by the jacket collar and dunks them in the cauldron. "OK, she mutters, that makes six....." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Aug 15 - 05:02 AM good news from Rap & Severn is sounding (reading?) good, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Sapper sans cookie Date: 27 Aug 15 - 06:00 AM YO Sapper!!! Still riding the rails? Heyup Gnu! Yep, sat in the Holiday Let up at Larpool in Whitby as I type this, but otherwise still struggling with the machinations of Notwork Fail's mis-management and the total incompetence of the company supposedly providing us with working systems of the inspection trains!! |
