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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: 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: 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: 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: 24 Mar 08 - 01:42 PM Just imagine gnu with pom poms ! |
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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: 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: 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 - 05:28 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 07:53 PM Surgeons. |
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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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney Date: 21 Dec 08 - 10:30 PM congratulations, Liz |
