BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Bert
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 01:29 AM

Get well soon or I'll send Micca out there to take care of you. Or worse than that I'll SING to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 01:21 AM

Good luck getting this out of your system, Sandra!

And as to the Google ad you saw for scar treatment, there are good ointments out there that do help reduce scars. I was seeing a plastic surgeon about a bad bite on my ankle and he told me to use an expensive ointment called "Mederma." It's mostly onion, apparently, treated to remove the strong scent. He told me that if I ate an onion a day I wouldn't need to use the ointment.

That'll get you discharged from the hospital in a hurry. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 12:37 AM

I'm thinking of you too, from way up north, here in Newcastle, NSW. :-)

Lots of love & light & hugs. And let yourself be looked after. (I know that can be hard to do when you are used to doing for yourself, being self-reliant, etc etc.)

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Syd
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 12:00 AM

so I'll just have to take take your CD along, Peace!

thanks Laurel, Art & Charlie & Judy & everyone for good your wishes

love from sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Syd
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:55 PM

Sandra -- good luck! Don't try and wear your contacts while you are in there......

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:35 PM

What they said. All of 'em. Except Freda: I won't be in on Saturday.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Syd
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:13 PM

Sandra-

I'm tuning in late on this thread but it's some relief that you do have access to good medical care, without having to worry about how to pay for it. Judy and I are also focusing good thoughts your way.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 09:05 PM

Sandra,
Please be well---and be quick about it! Your posts and all have helped me through much tough stuff. Thanks for that. Here's hoping we can give some of the good vibes back to you.

Art Thieme
(Peru, Illinois---where our governors make our license plates!)

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:40 PM

This is such a great place, isn't it Sandra.
More good thoughts and happy wishes to add to the ones I've already sent.
Joy and True-love and a little Penguin and a little Magpie.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Sydney
From: open mike
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:10 PM

no woman is an island...even if you come from one of the island
continents!

glad you have shared this with us and i hope someone can bring you
a print out if you do not have internet access while you are there.


gosh, some folks will do anything to get some quite time for reading,
knitting and sewing, etc.

i hope everything turns out good for you
and that you will be home & well soon!

Laurel

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please-Sandra in Syd
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM

NO! no Nurse Ratched, (please, please) - I won't go to hospital if she's there. I'll stay home here where it's safer.

spaw - thanks for your advice, I had tears in my eyes when I read it - I'm taking extra food - & have good advice from my nutritionist. Almost all I remember from my last (only) admission in 1964 for appendicitis, was not getting what I ordered. If I wanted cornflakes & a boiled egg, I'd end up with rice bubbles & a fried egg! I was planning to take my usual folk Festival snacky food (oatcakes, dried apricots & fresh fruit) & he suggested adding nuts & seeds & making sure I ate a lot more red meat when I get home. He said I'd lose weight so I needed eat enough when I get back to regain the lost weight, before getting back to smaller meals as I still have 7 or 8 kilos to lose.

And thanks to everyone - normally I'm a rock, & an island, & reaching out to local & Mudcat friends is not easy.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:03 PM

Thinking of you... and considering opening up the Mudcat Recovery Ward again... if only to keep an eye on Nurse Ratched!

Take care.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 03:26 PM

You will be in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 03:20 PM

Best regards from Charlie in Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 01:25 PM

"Get into the details of nurses and docs private lies....." Spaw

I'm not sure I want to know about their private lies.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:50 PM

Sandra, I'm sending positive vibration your way!

-Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:49 PM

My first and only hospital stay was supposed to be for ten days. By Day Four I was begging the doctor to take out the stitches /staples and let me go home. He did.

I hate sharing a room with a bunch of cranky women and their silly visitors.

Advice: if other patients' visitors get on your nerves, VOMIT! as loudly as possible. Preferably behind a curtain. The embarrassed silence followed by quick goodbyes is worth the effort.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:26 PM

Hi old friend! Sounds like things are at least moving in the right direction! Of course you have all my best thoughts coming your way but let's see if I can come up with something else.

I dunno' what you can do to pass the time in hospitals where you are but god knows I'm an expert on it here in Ohio! You need the music for sure but you need other amusements as boredom will kill you faster than heart disease or cancer! So take the small things and trat them as BIG things. For instance............

Do you get to pick your meals? Here most get a "menu" appropriate to their illnes with some selections. Spend too much time thinking about this and choose carefully. Sounds silly I know but it works and you can also check and see if you can get something additional......many times you can. If so get it and save it for later like you're pulling something illegal. Or save something to eat later and eat it in a special place, even a chair out of bed or the side of your bed will do. It just have to be different. If you have jello, eat it in a pattern. Find how slowly and neatly you can peel an orage. If you took small bites before, take even smaller ones and extend the meals and snacks as long as possible.

LOL.....I know that all sounds nuts, but then again, so am I. Get into the details of nurses and docs private lies.....its amazing how much some of them will ramble on with just the occasional question as a prod. Go past the nurses staion on your walks so often that ou gather info.....After awhile you can learn all sorts of useless crap and then ask one of them a question about something you shouldn't know. Freaks them out but they generally understand.

Its all dumb but then again its all boring!!! I'll be holding good thoughts!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:11 PM

Sandra you are in our thoughts and prayers

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: ClaireBear
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:06 PM

Healthy thoughts and a calming song from California.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:04 PM

Cancerous thingies are scary. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers, Sandra. You have a lot of company this week - all good people like you.
Love,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:04 PM

Bob, my sister used to work at Silent Unity. Thanks for the link and i second the recommendation.

Sandra, sorry I didn't check this earlier. I thought it was a previously started one for someone else.

I also second what Lizzie said; visualise where you will be and what you will be doing once this is done and over with...keep focussed on that and give thanks for it or something better for the highest good of all concerned. Of course, you don't have to do that, exactly, but it works, based on my experience.:-)

Good, good, good that it has been found and will not return!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:56 AM

More healing energy from Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:46 AM

As we all wish Sandra a speedy recovery and good thoughts in a myriad of ways, I will leave this reference for those in need of good thoughts, whatever your situation may be...
http://unity.unityonline.org/prayer
It has worked for me...
Best Wishes, Peace & Blessings to All...
bob

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:45 AM

Lots of love and light and healing thoughts from frozen New England!

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Escapee
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:17 AM

Here's a good thought for you from Ohio, Sandra.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 10:38 AM

Good thoughts coming from Maine, Sandra. Take care.

Does the hospital have PCs or wifi? Can you keep in touch while you're in there?

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 10:38 AM

May the treatment be sure and your recovery swift. Time passing so fast is a good thing when it comes to this kind of thing- you will soon leave it receding into the past.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 10:33 AM

Hi Sandra: May the Lady of the Roses be with you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8E-f92sr0&feature=related
Health & Blessings....
bob

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 08:07 AM

Love, hugs, good thoughts and good wishes from Northants, UK.

Get well soon, Erica and Bryn

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:44 AM

thanks for your lovely thoughts

Lizzie - moi, panicky? were you reading my mind.

I'm hoping to borrow a CD player as my little radio won't be enough. I'm planning to take my Harry Potter books as I can't read the latest without re-reading all the earlier ones cos I forget stuff (ps. I'm a fast reader & even if I don't get to the final vol, I'll get well into the series!) & some knitting & sewing.

sandra

google ads about scars?

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: bfdk
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:16 AM

Best of luck with it all, Sandra. You'll be back home in no time.

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:13 AM

Sending out light, love and prayers, dear.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:06 AM

Sandra - which hospital? I'll come in and visit on Saturday, if that's okay.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:56 AM

Best wishes and lots of healing energy being sent your way.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:29 AM

Ouch! which hospital? I'll be thinking of you on Friday morning.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:28 AM

My prayers are with you and for you. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:12 AM

Holding you close, Sandra..and when you get down, or panicky, just think of us all 'out here' thinking about you and willing you to get better. Slow the breathing down, and take yourself 'somewhere else'

Take your favourite music in with you and get your mind to focus on the part of the world you love best, outside that hospital. Lie there planning what you're going to do when you get well again, then write those things down in a list, and be determined to do some of them when you're once more back home and well.

Re-direct your thoughts to somewhere you *really* want to be and then...just go there in your mind's eye.

And smile..you'll soon be well again, and scars fade in time...scars of all sorts.

Sunshine and Smiles, that's what you focus on.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 05:41 AM

Best Wishes for a full recovery and NO recurrence.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 05:34 AM

Sandra- Warm hugs, and prayers on your account.

May your stay in hospital be shorter than it might have been, enhanced by excellent and compassionate medical care, with unlooked-for moments of joy to bring you light enough to carry you safely home.

maeve

Subject: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 04:48 AM

I'm booked into hospital on Friday morning cos my Doctor removed a thingy that was cancerous & needs to prod around to make sure all the cells are removed as it can come back. The good news is that it will never spread to other areas.

The bad news is that as the original thingy was huge - well, size of top joint of my thumb - the existing scar is huge (around 3" long) & as he needs to probe about 1" around the scar, the new wound will probably (definitely?) need a skin graft & that means 5 days in hospital. I don't want to even spend 1 hour in hospital, let alone 5 days.

So yesterday I visited the hospital & filled in all the questionaires & was questioned by assorted staff & they know about my other sore bits & will look after me wonderfully, but they are still doctors & nurses & it's still a Hospital & an operation & imprisonment away from my comfort zone & I don't want to be there.

sandra

The other good news is that it won't cost a cent cos I don't have Private Health cover & public patients get free treatment. Treatment for cancer and other life-threatening conditions is swift, with no waiting lists as there are for elective surgery.