How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak

Subject: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 06:48 AM

Since I only heard about your problems via Kendall's thread, I thought that you could do with a thread of your own.

I hope that you're feeling better after having your heart inspected via your femoral artery. Even I have never thought of that as method of getting inside your bra !

Best wishes from Linda and myself and we hope that you're back to normal very soon - actually after saying that - have they managed to find what it is that SQUEAKS . . . . .

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: pavane
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 06:57 AM

Sorry to hear this - Best wishes

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 07:19 AM

Yo Betty! Now we know why you aren't coming to Portaferry! Hope the poke about in yer ticker wasn't too horrible, and get well soon.

Loadsalove
Greg

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: GUEST,Ned ludd
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 08:16 AM

Only les Barker knows the secret of the squeaks!

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 09:21 AM

Dave - I'm NOT feeling Liz the Squeak. Anyway, I expect she feels too poorly just now!
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 09:37 AM

Oh Miss Lizzy! SO sorry. Kendall one-upped you as well! Shaved, bruised, and stuck. OUCH!
Feel better.
SINS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 10:08 AM

You don't know what you're missing Geoff.

BTW - the main reason that I didn't make this thread BS in the first place, was that Kendall's one wasn't. I think there's some favouritsm being shown here :-)

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 10:19 AM

Bad luck, Liz -- hope things improve now.

My sis-in-law had the same thing done last month. Whatever's causing her squeak, it wasn't her heart.

Steve

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: mooman
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 10:59 AM

Also from me ..all best wishes and I hope you feel better soon Liz.

All the best

moo

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 01:19 PM

I'd tell you all, but I'm a gentleman and don't feel and tell.

I hope that LtS's problems are now fixed, though. That whole procedure ain't fun at all.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Willie-O
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 02:46 PM

C'mon--talk to us Liz!

Your public--er, public, wants to know.

W-O

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 03:18 PM

C'mon LtS - it's just a way of avoiding overtime working for Her Majesty, isn't it.....? (I wish!)

Hope you're feeling tip-top by 20 Feb for MBS reunion.

Kitty

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 03:34 PM

Get well soon, Liz the Squeak. I hope everything checked out ok.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 03:47 PM

Manitas: kiss it better immediately......John

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 03:56 PM

Liz, I hope you're feeling well. Please, keep us informed, will ya?

Bruce M

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 07:43 PM

Gorsh chaps...

I'm shaved, bruised and afraid to sneeze, but otherwise OK. I feel like I've been playing rugby and I was the ball!

The good news is, there was a heart there, it isn't made of stone (enough jokes about the Inland Revenue already) but it does have an extra electrical impulse which is tripping too often. That's what's been giving me the palpitations, chest pains etc. See I told you I was ill!

They stuck 3 electrodes up my femoral vein and stimulated my heartbeats whilst watching on an Xray. The femoral vein is the one that goes through the groin, hence the jokes about Brazilians and alternatively coloured cats.

It's not a nice procedure, it's painful and very very scary to have someone else controlling your heartbeats from a room 15 ft away whilst you lie open to the elements on a very narrow table, watching the monitor hit 220 beats per minute then drop to 45.

The bad news is, I have to have a similar procedure in the future. Called an ablation, it's where they burn out the extra impulse, returning the heartbeat to normal. Nowhere near as drastic as Kendall's bypasses but still enough to freak out your average person with very low pain threshold and a tendency toward hypochondria.

Thanks for all your good wishes, I'll be bouncing around good as new in a couple of months (when they get around to doing the other procedure) and although Feb is looking decidedly iffy, I will make damn sure I'm well enough for the May gathering.

Take care all.

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 08:26 PM

Well, Liz, I will keep you in my prayers.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 12:37 AM

Keep squeaking, Liz!
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 06:32 AM

Oh and Manitas' reaction to his instruction above was a short exhalation of breath and a look that said 'you are kidding me, I know where it's been!'

All I have to do now is get the sticky plaster off without opening the wound again and train the cats to levitate across my lap.

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 06:33 AM

Dear Liz, you're in my thoughts and prayers, too. Sounds like a scary time but I'm glad you're having to endure it, if it means having you around for a long time!

Love,

Allison

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: fat B****rd
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 06:56 AM

Get well soon LTS Love from the FB

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: jaze
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 12:53 PM

Keep your sense of humor,Liz!

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 01:03 PM

Keep your spirits high and your humor dry.

((((((((((((((((((((((((((BoCBH)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Big ol Cherokee Bear Hug!

W.E.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Les from Hull
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 01:14 PM

All the best from 'ull, Liz. Get well soon and we'll see you up here in May.

Les

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Peg
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 01:21 PM

Blessings of Imbolc Liz, and here's hoping you're your old self by Beltane, if not before!

peg

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 04:55 PM

Best of luck with it all, Liz. Thinking of you. Joy

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: lady penelope
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 07:53 PM

Aaah! You have joined the Wolf,Parkinson,Whyte Syndrome club. (The other member being my brother, Ian).

I remember seeing the bruises Ian got, I envy you not. I shan't come round (I've got a yucky chest infection and the last thing you need is something to make you cough......) but give us a tinkle if you need entertaining.

Lots of cuddles around the shoulders, Love Penny

(P.S. Manitas, you shold probably not let her hear anything by Les Barker...................)

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 11:49 PM

Ugh, I had a cath done years ago, when I was much younger, and it was tough then. I hope to never have the need of it again. Good wishes and thoguhts for you coming from sunny Colorado. Do as they say and let things heal in good time, yeah?!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:27 AM

Whilst languishing in hospital after having a cesaerean to drag Limpit into the world, Manitas bought me in my walkman and a present of Les Barkers 'A Cardi and Bloke'..... that man has no sense of occasion!

Thanks everyone.

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 11:37 AM

A Cardi and Bloke NO Bacardi and Coke yes!
John

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 03:49 PM

Liz, I'm sensing a pattern here............


TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 06:27 PM

For the interested, the bruising now covers an area roughly 10 - 12 inches across.... makes me wonder what he was doing in there!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Dead Horse
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:04 PM

I do believe that Mr Gates's outfit are working on a sort of pace-maker thingy that sounds just up your street(so to speak).
Perhaps if you're having one of those fitted, you might like to give Les Barker custody of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete button.
......................gin?

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: open mike
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 01:58 AM

Hope your rainbow bruise will be entertaining while you
recover! take care, and best of luck and health to you!
maybe you will need to put a pillow on your lap so
the moggies won't go kneading in a painful spot!

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:06 AM

Better than Bacardi & Coke and more apt in the circum[cises]stances

Here Kitty
John

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:28 AM

If you've ever heard Liz on a Les Barker binge, you'd feel very sorry for the rest of the hospital ward - they probably had to move her to a soundproof isolation unit !   Poor Phoebe (Limpit), it must have been very traumatic hearing the famous squeak shortly after birth.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:54 AM

Someone has lent me 'Guide Cats for the Blind' and guess what.....

It's got 'Deja Vu' on it, and it's the recording from Towersey 1995 - the year I was there and pregnant with above mentioned Limpit. Someone has done some tweaking, but if you turn the treble up really high...... yes, you can't get rid of me!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Metchosin
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 11:38 AM

Hey Liz...take care, eh.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Carly
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:00 PM

Liz, I send sympathy, as I have lain on a table watching on a screen as doctors threaded tubing up a vein to my heart. In my case it was to install a special IV line. A weird sensation, to watch your own heart! I hope all goes well- you will be in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:29 PM

Liz
Your post about Guide Cats has reminded me of the Saffron Walden festival, when Les was appearing upstairs in the Scrivener room, and you were squeaking at the back, and a middle aged but not so old member of the audience seemed to be about to expire towards the front... it was great fun!

Kitty

PS I'm just trying to remember whether that was the year that Damien Barber came down to Saffron with the Wilsons....

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:35 PM

Ah yes, I remember that well... the singaround in the bar after hours and taking a very tired Damien home to Stratford station in our car on the Sunday.... it was the penultimate Saffron if that helps.....

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: jaze
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:44 PM

I wish I could hear Liz squeak!(or do I?)

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:12 PM

Liz, I hope you're feeling better soon. Keep an eye on that bruise, and if it keeps growing tell someone. They're not always supposed to do that.

Meanwhile, you can do some virtual swinging from the rooftops if the Mudcat Tavern opens for business any time soon. Kendall can join you (and this can turn into something that resembles a Twilight Zone episode).

SRS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 02:13 AM

jaze, no, you don't wish to hear that!
It is ear-splitting!

Liz, get well soopn, thanks for letting me stay at Hotel Draper in spite of your painfuöl condition!

MudGuard from Munich8

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Escamillo
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 04:24 AM

Good wishes from this far South, Liz. Get well very soon.

Un abrazo
Andrés

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 07:57 AM

Glad you're on the mend Liz - take it easy. Manitas is a wise man - laughter is the best medicine innit? (of course it might not do much for the neighbours)...

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:23 AM

Yes, I could have got her flowers and chocolates, but her friends at church had already loaded her up with about 3 months supply of chocolates and flowers die. A cd or a book keeps a patient amused and you can use it again later unlike chocolates.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: SueB
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 11:41 AM

Liz, you have my sympathy and my admiration - alarming symptoms, alarming procedure, and you appear to be taking it all in stride.
I'm so glad they can perform the ablation and take care of the trouble for once and all. A friend of mine recently went through part one as you described it above, and it was discovered that they wouldn't be able to do part two, for some reason, and instead she is on expensive medication which doesn't make her feel all that great and does not completely control the arhythmia. So I'm very glad yours is a problem that can be fixed, and I'm looking forward to hearing that you're all better!

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 12:15 PM

Yeah, but you have to keep finding space to put the CDs whereas, I ALWAYS have space available for more chocolate!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 12:31 PM

Liz - my prayers are out for a spectacular recovery. I know it's been a while since we talked but I am hoping the very best for you -

Be well Sis
Steve

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 05:25 PM

Hey Norton, good to see you're still around!

Recovery is progressing, back to work tomorrow. I feel a relapse coming on!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Hrothgar
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 05:04 AM

"Whilst languishing in hospital after having a cesaerean to drag Limpit into the world, Manitas ....."

I never read about this in the papers.

Take care of yourself, Liz. We tax officers are valuable.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Dr Will C U Now
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 01:32 PM

How am I feeling Liz the Squeak?
Why, with cold hands of course!
That will be 600 dollars.
NEXT!

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 05:36 PM

That's right - it's $600 for cold hands, $550 if you warm them up first... I accept travellers cheques, Visa, American Express and cold hard cash if you have it.

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Hrothgar
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 05:01 AM

Take care of yourself, Liz. We tax officers are valuablw.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 05:06 AM

It was rather a shock to them to discover that my heart isn't made of stone. I said I was the "good" tax officer and that if they wanted to meet the "bad" officer, to not send their returns in!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: lady penelope
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 07:03 PM

Jaze, if you find a recording of " daschunds with erections can't climb stairs" by Les Barker, yes, you can hear her quite easily.

She sounds exactly like a squeaky toy.

Which inevitably starts me on the systematic choking/ hammer house of horror laugh.

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak
From: Willa
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 04:47 PM

Hi LTS

Hope your bruises will grow ever smaller and that you'll soon be doing your unique backing group noises again.