Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Moses Date: 27 Dec 09 - 03:09 PM Blissful Tom - I've only just heard. Oh dear, it could have gone so wrong. Very glad the news is good and that hopefully you didn't suffer too much, or at least for too long. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery, and yes, you should write some protest songs - well, any songs really - but whatever it takes to get the message across. Kindest thoughts and wishes for a happy new year. Christine xx |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,moira(flying cat) Date: 27 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM Hi Tom, only just home from christmas festivities at repsective families and saw the thread. So glad you're recovering well. Thank goodness it was diagnosed in time. Take good care, Love Moira and Malc xx |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: melodeonboy Date: 27 Dec 09 - 10:41 AM Good luck, Tom. I'm pleased you're on the mend. Happy New Year! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,cookie-less muppitz Date: 27 Dec 09 - 06:39 AM Stop being a drain on the NHS, get off your backside and stop moaning! ;-) Glad to hear you're still with us mister, reading this post was the first I'd heard of you being ill! Get well soon! muppitz x (Who is also racking up some bed-hours, but only with having the flu!) |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Georgiansilver Date: 26 Dec 09 - 11:55 AM Been there too... Best wishes for a quick recovery Tom, Mike. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,mauvepink Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:58 AM Plenty of time for protest songs, relatively speaking, and you priority has to be to get fully well and fit. Enjoy your resting and relaxation, the test match, and all things. Put on some Tom Bliss songs. I find they relax me. The thoughts of the Whisper not being finished is unthinkable... Glad you came through :-) Again, Get Well Soon mp |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Rasener Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:51 AM Good days work from England Tom |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Joe G Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:34 AM I knew you'd get round to the protest songs eventually - any songs would be good but appreciate you have to keep focussed on your work - take care & hope to see you at the Topic again one night. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: SylviaN Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:29 AM I know Keith has sent you a message, but extra hugs from me to you and Kat. Xxx Sylvia |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Mavis Enderby Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:43 AM Get well soon Tom - and keep us posted on your plans... Pete |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:31 AM Bed and the Test Match???? Top Banana......!!! Doing secondary Christmas....And the Test Match!! (Third Wicket down!! Yay!) Xmas pudding been boiling for 6 hours now...Thanks to the Nic and Julia Jones memorial steamer!! Just relax and milk the good wishes! All the best Ralphie |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Tom Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:16 AM Thanks very much everyone. No - not in Alderney this year :-( - though it's a damn good thing I wasn't. Even in Leeds the doctors all thought, like me, that this was another event (same symptoms) in a long-running saga that even had me misdiagnosed with advanced cancer of the liver in August 08 (we thought The Whisper would remain unfinished). If I had been in Alderney they'd not have been able to process the blood test which sounded the alarm. It was only because I was already in Jimmy's (and - after three days - finally on IV antibiotics) when they realised that this was in fact a burst appendix that I survived. If I'd gone to Alderney at the usual time - with just my lad Jack at that point, I'd have been 15 stormy miles of sea away from the nearest proper hospital. They'd only have found out what had happened at the autopsy. No, the Alderney life is on hold while I finish an MA in Landscape Architecture at Leeds Met - specialising in climate change/peak oil/green economics issues, and even then will only be viable if we do a Good Life. I'm sufficiently worried about developments (yes, I'm naturally sceptical but I've now read widely on all sides of the argument and, post Copenhagen, feel it's up to us to move things forward - and fast) that I feel I should be using my communication talents in the political sphere (small p) rather than going survivalist on a small island. The MA is to 're-green' my CV. I'm already a qualified Landscape Architect (that's NOT gardening, by the way, it's anything to do with anything that grows - from window boxes to allotments to farms to forests) but I'm having to re-learn skills I abandoned 25 years ago - and the business has changed out of all recognition in the mean time. I'm not going to practice, though. I'm going to work in communications - schools, local authorities, NGOs, pressure groups - who knows, so I need to understand all the issues at a level that will permit informed debate - and that means becoming something of an economist and something of a scientist too. I've NEVER worked as hard as I have these past few months, or been presented, at 54, with so much new information. I've been taking modules in Wales (The Centre for Alternative Technology), Leeds Uni (MA in Activism and Social Change - most of my classmates were protesting at Copenhagen) and anything else I could slip in - on top of the Landscape modules. Hence why I'd decided not to go home this Christmas (or to start a folk club - for the benefit for any point-scorers out there ;-)! Was a good thing, eh? Right. That's my 'sitting up time' taken care of. Back to bed and the test match. Happy Boxing Day love Tom Hmm... should I be writing some protest songs, do you think? |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Linda Kelly Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:16 AM Tom, good wishes and a speedy recovery from Hissyfit and everyone from Cottingham Live-and a Happy New Year! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,mauvepink Date: 26 Dec 09 - 06:28 AM Sorry, Tom, I hd no idea about ths unti I just saw the thread. I am glad you are home though and doing well now. Please take care. I still listen to and sing your songs regularly. They are still much loved out on the locl circuit but the truth is only one person I know can sing them all just like Tom Bliss.... you! Get well soon and good health in the new year. God Speed mp |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,999 Date: 26 Dec 09 - 05:47 AM Glad you're out, Tom. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,dicky boy Date: 26 Dec 09 - 05:44 AM Sorry to hear you have not been on top form TOM, Best wishes from Beeford and kelk. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Derby Ram Date: 26 Dec 09 - 05:19 AM Hi Tom, sorry to hear of what you've been through of late but glad to hear you are now home. Hope you're not in too much discomfort and that 2010 is a better year for you. Good luck with everything and hope to see you somewhere soon. K & S |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Merek'n'Dary Date: 25 Dec 09 - 09:07 AM Sorry to hear you have been ill Tom! Glad you are on the mend! We have very nice memories of the night you did at Banbury Folk Club. Has it been snowing on Alderney? Derek and Mary |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Surreysinger Date: 25 Dec 09 - 07:38 AM Not a nice Christmas present Tom! My Dad suffered the same thing when I was in my teens - very touch and go, and he was very nearly not still with us! Glad to hear that they sussed the problem in time, and hope you're feeling back to normal asap. In the meantime, hope you have a reasonable and peaceful Christmas. Best wishes, Irene |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Tim Leaning Date: 25 Dec 09 - 07:04 AM Phew! what a shocker. Peace and less eventful new year to you and yours. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: henryclem Date: 25 Dec 09 - 06:49 AM Hi Tom Glad to know you 're out and on the mend! Best wishes for a comfortable and happy Christmas, and hope to see you sometime in the new year. All the best Henry |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Dec 09 - 06:38 AM Wooo Tom! Buggeration! Happened to me when I was 15. I bet my scar is bigger than yours! (No, I don't want to see it!) As with everyone else, I wish you a speedy recovery, and a very Happy New Year.... Seasons felicitations Old Chap (emphasis on the old!) Ralphie and Sheena. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Les Sullivan Date: 25 Dec 09 - 04:42 AM Glad to hear the news all the best for Christmas and the new year |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Anne Lister Date: 24 Dec 09 - 07:23 PM Where did my earlier post go? Anyway, I'm glad to hear you're recovering, Tom, and hope you have a happy Christmas. We were wondering today if you were going to Alderney, but I think this thread has answered that question for us! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Betsy Date: 24 Dec 09 - 07:07 PM Think of it like an ould-ish car - bits start break down and they get repaired. Bless ya and have a lovely festive Season - then come out fighting. Betsy |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Gillie Date: 24 Dec 09 - 06:51 PM keep well Tom, don't forget to jump up and down to jingle all the bits back into the right place!!! Season's tidings Clare |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: breezy Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:36 PM Been there, never been the same since all the best Tom, so that was why you 'retired' ? happy new year 'breezy' |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Abdul The Bul Bul on his laptop Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:11 PM and a happy new year. Al |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 24 Dec 09 - 04:00 PM Some people will do *anything* to get out of cooking the turkey! Good to hear you're OK, Tom. A very Peaceful, Happy and Healthy Christmas...and isn't it lovely to be in your own bed, after those hospital ones! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Backwoodsman Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:50 PM Had no idea Tom. Good wishes for a full and speedy recovery, from the Backwoods of Gainsborough. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:38 PM You're obviously far too shy and retiring Tom ! Glad it was a good outcome , and all best wishes for the Season and a rapid recovery to Full Health and fitness. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Dave Hanson Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:36 PM Best wishes Tom and have a good Christmas. Dave H |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: r.padgett Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:12 PM O my word! Knew nothing of this get well soon Tom Dave Burland suffered this, must be 30+ years ago and had a fund raiser or two, with some notables of the day, I remember Ray |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: evansakes Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:13 PM Tom, next time you're planning to have a ruptured appendix can you make sure we're all forewarned? Thanks! :-) |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Rasener Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:12 PM Blimey Tom, what the hell happened. I hope you are well enough to enjoy your Christmas and hope 2010 goes well for you. Best wishes Les Worrall |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:04 PM Slainthé Tom. Enjoy being home among friends. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,Joe G Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:02 PM Glad you are on the mend again Tom & hope you can still enjoy Xmas. Hope you have a healthier year next year! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: BusyBee Paul Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:35 AM Christmas cheer on it's way from Gainsborough, Tom. Deirdre |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Maryrrf Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:33 AM That is scary - happened to a friend of mine. He thought it was indigestion but it finally got so bad he went to the hospital - good thing! I'm glad you are okay. |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: stallion Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:29 AM Sorry to hear the news great to know you are recovering maybe swop appendectomy stories sometime! |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: VirginiaTam Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:28 AM Damn Tom... We didn't know. Guess you have to lay off the rich food and strong drink over the holidays? Be well. Tam |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: 8_Pints Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:20 AM Glad to hear you're well on the road to recovery. Enjoy Christmas & New Year Bob & Sue vG |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:20 AM I'm horrified to hear what you've been through - I had no idea! Here are good wishes for a fast recovery and a peaceful Christmas. Thanks for keeping us posted - Bonnie |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: treewind Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:06 AM Welcome back Tom - shocking news as we all heard about it only after the event. Have a good Xmas and take it easy... Anahata |
Subject: RE: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: Herga Kitty Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:05 AM This is all news to me, so I'm glad the outcome is good news! All best wishes for Christmas and New Year. Kitty |
Subject: Tom Bliss home from hospital From: GUEST,tb Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:03 AM They JUST realised in time that this was a ruptured appendix, not the 'auld trouble.' Thanks to all who've sent good wishes. Was touch and go for a bit but should be ok now. love to all T |
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