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Subject: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:56 AM Dammit, there are just too many people to name who are in need of a bit of TLC from Mudcat... I've given up multiple postings because a) I'm at work and not supposed to be here and b) I can't get everyone's names straight in my head! So... here's the Ward open again, post good wishes, complaints about hospital food, list your symptoms or just borrow a teddy bear and a blankie, and feel loved. Oh, and watch out for Nurse Ratched - she had a bad experience at the Christmas party with the weird guy from radiology, so if she offers a bed bath, say NO!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:03 AM Oh, good- I was hoping this would appear! I'm in the pink of health, so picture me as your cheerful Candy-striper (in my dreams! In reality I would look more like this!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Becca72 Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:16 AM Speaking as someone who works in Radiology...they're ALL weird. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:25 AM I am putting myself in charge of color coordinating sheets with personalities. I think a nice sunny yellow for Michelle with a vase full of daffodils and some bright red accessories for contrast. Curmudgeon gets an olive green base color, camouflage sheets and peacock feathers - not quite coordinated but suits him. Kendall gets baby blue to match his eyes and pale blue flannel sheets printed with big yellow labs. A nice singing dancing jumping chicken will add a litle pizzazz. UH OH I don't think the duty nurse likes the selection. And keep that candy striper out of here. She clashes with everything. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:35 AM Oh, but I just want to soothe the fevered brow and spread a little sunshine.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:37 AM Good! We can use you on bedpan duty. Spend your day where the sun doesn't shine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: mauvepink Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:17 AM "Speaking as someone who works in Radiology...they're ALL weird. :-)" ... it's the radiation! lol I have to admit that one of the things I have used over the years, in nursing, community care, disturbed children, and well adjusted adults!... is music therapy. Finding what kind of music a person likes, and sometimes playing an alternative, can have astounding reults in calming. So I think a Mudcatter's Ward is a brilliant idea because the 'folk music types' can actually be crazier than the Radiology Dept and twice as eficacious ! :-) mp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:22 AM Great idea, pinkie. Dr. Dre it is. That will get Kendall and Tom moving FAST! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,wys Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:10 AM I'll take flannel, aqua-blue sheet blankies. I'd rather be in the water, and it's cold in here! STanding order for caf staff: Coffee with LOTS of Real Cream and Chocolate. I'll take an hour of Ratched-babysitting too-- I can chase her around and work off the calories! Yer all SAFE from her for ONE HOUR. Dr. Dre, huh, I got Dr. DREW in my pocket in case Ratched goes too far, and he has staff of his own! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:21 AM You get nothing unless you have a surgical incision to qualify you for treatment. And an insurance card. Nurse Ratched! Another free loader! Off with her head! There you go - a surgical incision. Aqua Blue sheet blankies it is. And cornflowers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: GUEST,WYS-out Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:34 AM (I'm not aware that people need to post private medical info to get into this ward.....) Play nice, people. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:49 AM New management; new rules. At least if you want flannel sheets color coordinated to floral displays. Damn! that walking peppermint stick is back in Tom's room. Where did she find that loathsome shade of Pepto Bismal oink? YUK |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:14 AM Where's the chocolate? And how's the passage from the ward into the tavern? It isn't blocked by overcoats and wellies, is it? (Boots and jackets for those of us on the West side of the pond). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:28 AM No. In fact with the US bail out money we installed a monorail. Door to Floor service. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM Will there be pink flamingos? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:55 AM In Tom's room. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:12 PM So you;re trying to kill Kendall with the dancing chicken? I mean they look cute and funny and all but the damn things blow up......................oh wait........I get it now..................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:41 PM Spaw - the one I got him actually jumps up and down singing "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". He tried to kill me with it. Has thrown it multiple times but it refuses to die. Wonder why he hasn't shot it?????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Ebbie Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:47 PM Sinsull, I begin to understand your acquisitive successes- you got a good eye. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:54 PM Little Hawk has some of those singing Billy Bass things. I'm sure he'd loan you a few. Just ask him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:31 PM Stilly? You're conscious??? WOW I thought that bump on the head in the Tavern wiped you out. That squid ink must have cushioned the blow. Er Stilly. That's not wine you're drinking...could we have a wheel chair over here? SRS needs an EKG, an MRI and a colonoscopy toot sweet. Wish she had brought the wine instead of the squid ink. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: MMario Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:44 PM I thought the Pink Flamingo room was permanently reserved for Micca.... my incision's weeping again - could someone cheer it up? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:54 PM Now I'm confused. The Pepto Bismol pink room with flamingoes and lady slippers is Micca's? He won't mind if we borrow one flamingo for Tom's room. Linn will be very disappointed if there is no flamingo. Now MMario with the superating sore can have the lime green room with the lemon tree - to match the ooze. Glad that's all sorted out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: MMario Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:02 PM Lemon tree! very pretty Lemon flower smell sweet... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: ClaireBear Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:14 PM If you want to make Linn happy, just throw in any number of rubber squid. She'll never notice the absence of flamingoes then. (Hmmmm, great venereal term that: "an absence of flamingoes") Kendall's room needs black leather, or is he planning on wearing the black kidskin hospital gown again? And for Michelle -- well, I haven't met her, but I'm thinking one of those Mexican pottery sun figurines like this one might be a nice addition. Or this one, which is a more feminine aspect of the sun than one usually sees. Hope she likes it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Amos Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:22 PM Can I check in in order to recover from the Mudcat? I think a course of amphetamine IV would probably wake me up all right. And a video game where I can blow up Fox News anchorpeople and the guys who run tech support for Epson. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:38 PM More like Epsom Salts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:44 PM You can carry this stuff overboard if you're not careful. Like when I was in my "cool-beat" period where I did everything in black. I blacked out the windows and painted my room sompletely black. First thing happened was I lost my bowling ball........ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:56 PM And then there was the beatnik who painted his entire apartment white, furnished it with white furniture and drew a pencil thin blue line on the wall around the entire place. As his friends came in he was heard to say Welcome to my sanitary pad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:37 PM Severn comes back slightly morphined up from his PT torture stretches wondering what kind of sheets will be on HIS bed and why they put nurse InterVenus DiMilo, of all people, in charge of strengthening and stretching arms and shoulders. They must've been shorthanded.... Still, if she had arms, I'd grab one, pull and make a wish or two. (Sigh!). That reminds me, where are these Candy Strippers I overheard someone talking about? I know that, in my ward, every night is Burns Night, but could I have a break from the Scottish music? A little bit of constant "Neil Gow fiddles while Robert Burns" goes a long way. What's this? "A Choking Farewell"? Jay Ungar fiddles while Ken Burns will do for a while... And please swap the constant reruns of "77 Sunset Strip" and Edd "Kookie" Byrnes for a little George & Gracie fer crissake! That way, Robert still burns, if only between George's finger and thumb. Being "The New Crispy Minstrel" is getting a little old by now, but life still hurts and progress goes slowly, but it goes..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:13 PM Definitely not the red room, SEv. How about a nice cooling ultramarine blue? The sheets are especially softened for sensitive skin. Songs of the whales for music. And a huge aloe plant. Meantime, somebody check Michelle's room. Silly River Sage filled it with brown bears - real ones. I draw the line at shovelling bear XXXX.Who would believe a falling squid could cause so much grief. Anybody see Nurse Ratched? She can handle the bears. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: ClaireBear Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:37 PM SINS, I said it in the other thread and I'll say it here too: If you ain't got no woods in that room, you ain't got no bear XXXX. Honestly, some people! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:49 PM So what are the steaming brown foul smelling piles on the floor in there. And why is that cuddly 8' bear tearing my new sheets apart. He may be your relative but he is still sh******ng all over the place. This is a hospital you know. Where's Liz with the booze? I need a drink. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:52 PM A tonic? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:04 PM All right, all right, here is the candy striper with the shovel- gimme a break, already, with bears in one room and flamingos (ugh- have you ever smelled them???) in another- and, oh, no, please- are those NUNS??? That's it- mix me a peppermint patty, and stat! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:10 PM You put the lime in the coconut Damn... I posted my recovery ward ideas to the wrong thread. Can't be bothered to copy and paste them from the LilyFestre thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 15 Jan 10 - 06:35 PM Who amongst us shall bear the blame and who shall blame the bear? If it wasn't bears causing the trouble bruin and the blessed mess, could it have been The Pope? And there WERE woods (but not Tiger) and a few irons and a putter in the room a while ago, but they're gone now. And that might explain the prescence of the nuns. Maybe the Pope's across the road at the public links. Except, if it WAS the Pope, he would have healed her, right? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............ 'Tis a puzzlement...... Whatever, don't step in a "Kodiak Moment",,,,, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Bat Goddess Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:39 PM One of the post-Christmas marked down toys at Sears just across the way from Sears Optical is a really cute and tasteful baby pterodactyl -- when you touch its tongue it flaps its baby wings and squawks. I think it's the last one -- but if it's still there on Sunday I'm going to have to buy it. To add to the decor...especially if there are no plump plush squid. It's not pink, but right now I think it's cuter than most flamingoes. Wonder if I should take Tom's concertina to the hospital tomorrow? Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Jeri Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:47 PM I have a Beanie squid that turns 10 on Jan 25th. Of course he's not anatomically correct, but he's cute anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:56 PM Anatomical correctness is rarely required at Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 15 Jan 10 - 10:06 PM Just a strong stomach and a hob-nailed liver! Here's healing thoughts going out to all those folks who needs 'em... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Severn Date: 16 Jan 10 - 03:27 AM If you see Severn leaning against or hanging off doors, doorframes, beds, tables or flailing his arms and doing seemingly weird stuff,with a TENS machine and electrodes attatched to him, he's supposed to be doing all that stuff. Door mounted pulleys, huge rubber bands, his corkscrew walking stick, barbells and towels are other props that figure in. Everything seems to be a potential prop for strengthening excercises and stretches. It's working slowly, but it's working, and he's left to his own devices a lot of the time, so he can't afford to get lazy. Don't let him. It's gonna take a helluva long time, but he'll get through it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Bat Goddess Date: 16 Jan 10 - 06:51 AM What Beanie labeled as "squid" is definitely an octopus and a few tentacles shy, among other things. I have a Beanie-sized plush squid I acquired at the Monterey Bay Aquarium about 10 years ago -- they make a nice pair. What REALLY aren't anatomically correct are rubber bait squid -- but a bunch of 'em make a cool flapper dress (all those fringes!). Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:11 AM Oh, yes- bring the concertina!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: VirginiaTam Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:15 AM It seems to me that the inmates... err patients will need some art therapy. Also they will need to learn to breath deeply after surgery to help keep lungs clear and strong. So I deliver with all my good intentions for the inmates... err patients several packs of Blow paint pens WARNING: This toy is not suitable for responsible adults Someone will need to supervise the inmates... err patients, to prevent unapproved (by Sinsull) redecorating of the ward and its inmates... err patients. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Morticia Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:15 AM I certainly have the qualifying incision but I think I am sufficiently recovered to dispense coffee and crabbiness in equal proportions....only I can't hold a heavy cup with my left arm for any length of time so you'll have to catch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: Micca Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM VT is that the Amazon rain forest version of paint balling??? I have a Purple Octopus called Petulia!!!! Pixie of Doom had a "soft" toy(it wan't very soft,but was ,it said on the label,made from genuine Kanngaroo hide!!)) Duck-billed platypus when she was little!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:27 PM She put the lime in the coconut and drank it down... Great! Now I need a padded room and earphones to drive the worm out. Thanks a lot. Pure white room for me. Make sure there's a dog bed for Seamus preferably a green plaid. Put the F$#@**%^in lime in the %^@)*&%*&^#*( coconut and choke to death on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: gnu Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:38 PM You didn't even have to click the link to start that in your head, did you? It's fucking incidious! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2010 From: SINSULL Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:53 PM I have a luvily bunch of coconuts Here they are a standing in a row... |
