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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Liz the Squeak at home Date: 08 Aug 15 - 01:37 PM Hello!! Lovely to see the Old Guard still at work... this member of the Old Guard has been playing in another place, still keeping up with what goes on with the brightest and best, but I miss my old friends here. Having had a fairly crappy time back there, I got out of the habit of posting here, but hopefully, now I have a working monitor and a decent wireless adapter, I may post a little more. Keep up the good work - is Bert's card still good in the Tavern?! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Aug 15 - 05:54 PM You betcha! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 08 Aug 15 - 06:11 PM Now that is wild! I almost posted a 'where is Liz' thread yesterday but the phone rang and I just never got a round tuit. Maybe I am a clear voyant and I send out signals? Okay... here goes... fresh green beans, cabbage, spuds, carrots and a smoked shoulder ham. What did I have for dinner? Here's a hint for you who are not clear on voyantcy... I boiled it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 09 Aug 15 - 04:04 AM I must admit to having been put off by some of the more vitriolic regulars here, who have given the 'vibe' that they are not compassionate towards those with mental health issues, but one or two of the now dear departed were instrumental in keeping me relatively sane. Recovery is an ongoing process... so I shall keep on going. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 09 Aug 15 - 04:20 AM Can I check myself in to recover from Sidmouth, please? But I have to be better in time for Innerleithen and Whitby! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 09 Aug 15 - 04:24 AM AW Liz big hug I've missed my mc pals but it felt so contentious in here recently I was feeling less and less like visiting. Let's party but quietly we don't want to wake that tartar of a nurse she is far to fond of cold bed baths for my liking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Aug 15 - 12:45 PM Has the squid put in an appearance yet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Donuel Date: 09 Aug 15 - 01:05 PM gnu, you manage remarkably well my friend. I empathize. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 09 Aug 15 - 02:08 PM Acme just don't try dipping your toe in the jello pool he's still a bit sore that someone mentioned calamari |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Aug 15 - 03:26 PM Ah - that explains why the cats aren't perched near the edge watching the hot tub activity. He's probably swatting them off. The route through the closet from the recovery ward to the tavern has been propped open for so long I forget they're different places. I see the cats hanging out on a couple of beds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 09 Aug 15 - 04:49 PM Cool pool cats be chillin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 15 - 08:45 PM Hi Gnu. I recently rejoined the living after six months of constant pain. An MRI shows pretty severe arthritis in my neck and a fractured vertebrae with a missing corner piece. Two vertebrae are sliding baCK aND FORTH OVER EACH OTHER. THE KNEES ARE BAD AS WELL. Damn capslock - some things never change. I shoveled snow and broke up ice during the first blizzard in January setting in motion what Jacqui calls a perfect storm. It has had its lighter moments - stuck in the ladies and unable to get up. Dragged out of my seat at the movie theater by a maintenance man. The worst is over. The pain has subsided. I am left with carpal tunnel in both hands and the need to be careful. I don't usually need pain killers or even aspirin. But I do get handicapped parking. So how does one break ones back and not know it? Happened sometime in my 20s judging by the healing. The lowest point? When multiple doctors starting talking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia (SP?), both catch-alls for we don't know what is wrong with you and maybe it is all in your head. I am lucky to have health insurance and good friends as well as a caring family. My company has bent over backwards to accommodate my "issues". Not surprising, Jacqui and Kendall have been there with words of support, daily check ins, doctors' appointments, and humor - sorely lacking these last few months. so I don't need a bed but cannot haul bedpans. Can I play check in nurse? SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 10 Aug 15 - 04:38 AM sorry to hear of your pain Sins you can play nurse as long as you don't pick up bad habits from the others like big needles and cold wet sponges. I installed a keg of Skull Splitter behind the bar for those brave enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Aug 15 - 10:02 AM That Arthur Itis gets around, doesn't he?! I'm rapidly becoming Liz the Crunch, rather than Squeak... but having decided to give up my pills for a while, I actually feel a lot better! Painkillers when really needed, but the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are getting the boot for a while. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 10 Aug 15 - 01:15 PM Oh dear, SINS! I've often thought of you and wondered what was up. I think you're still on my "Nice e-mail" mailing list so I hope some of the forwarded and found stuff help a little bit. I wish you well. My old man broke his neck carrying a Bren Gun and ammo down dimly lit cellar stairs during WW2. A step was broken and he didn't see it... heard and felt a huge crack!!! in his neck. He was in pain but when you are advancing up a street by blowing holes in basement walls, you don't stop. In the early 60s, he went to CFB Camp Borden to see a doc. Doc asked him how he got there. "Drove." Doc went outside and looked at his car. "Why"? "You've got a broken neck." I've heard of this several other times. Sad to hear about your woes but glad to hear from you, SINS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: ClaireBear Date: 10 Aug 15 - 05:45 PM I could kick myself for not stopping in here back in the middle of May, when I first broke (and I DO mean broke) the 3 ribs that have kept me from doing much but groaning—and occasionally gasping, when the sharper pains hit—this summer. This is probably the only place I could have sat comfortably for much of the last 3 months. Actually come to think of it, I couldn't kick myself; it would hurt way too much. I'm largely better now, apart from mild discomfort, occasional fierce twinges, and a complete inability to lie on my left side (which is, of course, the side I've always slept on). So just dropped by to say hello and add my sympathies to the mix. It's lovely to see all of y'all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 11 Aug 15 - 12:41 AM Welcome home Claire there are a couple of spare beds or if you follow the smell of bacon I am firing up the grill in the tavern bacon sausage and mushroom butties wit tomato or HP sauce. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Charmion Date: 11 Aug 15 - 09:58 AM I am here today to report COMPLETE RECOVERY from cataract surgery (!!!) and the continuing adjustment to long-sightedness after a lifetime of severe myopia. It's kinda weird. The eye docs (surgeon and optometrist) are thoroughly pleased that their works and tricks have succeeded, and I am learning not to mislay my reading spectacles, which are also cooking spectacles. I don't dare pick up a knife without them, and I can't find them if I don't have them. That last part is the only aspect of managing my visual shortcomings that hasn't changed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: SINSULL Date: 11 Aug 15 - 01:11 PM It's finally happened - we have become those blue haired old ladies of my childhood who sat in front of a cup of tea forever while comparing notes on meds, surgeries, aches, pains and boils. SIGH! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 11 Aug 15 - 02:40 PM MRI scan coming up on Thursday - "take a CD of your choice" - could you hear it through all that racket? Wish me luck friends! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 11 Aug 15 - 04:33 PM Tattie, I tried to listen to a CD over all that noise and it didn't work that well. Maybe if you have one that plays "MRIs Are Made Of This" that you can sing along to loudly. And be fully warned that our kinky Radiologist X-Ray Ted, who also loves to put people through the "Tunnel Of Love" is back to being an item with Nurse Ratched, so expect the noise level to be doubled while they laugh behind the glass. Charmion, I just had Cadirac surgery done on my Japanese luxury car.... As for the Squid, we've not been able to sneak any of the hoarded sacred Green Jello out from under the watchful and vigilant gaze of Nonetta Bull, our Nutritionist and Overlard of the Dining Hall, the one who put Kitsch in Kitchen and the Gore in Gormet, so the rehab pool has not been properly converted for him yet. If the Squid still has a ten-armed crush on Nurse Ratched, he'll have to win her back from X-Ray Ted...... Wow! I just saw Hurty Gertie over in Rehab actually tie a patient into something that looks like a monkey paw knot during a massage (or shall I say misogyny) session. I have fore-bowed-ings about all this ado about knotting. I'm due to have my back worked on tomorrow..... So, SINSULL....What shade of blue did you settle on for your hair?.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Aug 15 - 07:44 AM Oi!! My hair is not blue!!! It's no longer blonde much either, but it's still |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Aug 15 - 07:47 AM Still not BLUE!! Dammit... cleaned the keyboard this morning, can't do a thing with it! Just don't get me started on teeth. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: SINSULL Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:09 PM Aquamarine... I had ear plugs for my MRI and had no problem with the noise but I can sleep anywhere again so... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 13 Aug 15 - 06:52 AM Hi I have just had a suspected melanoma removed from my leg. It was right on the shin bone so it was unable to be stitched. So I have a large open wound at the moment. Subsequent test have proved that is is a melanova " in Situ". I am going to have another procedure on Monday to " deepen and widen" the area and to take a skin graft to cover the wound as it cannot be stitched. Ah well, no gardening for a while. Regards and best wishes to all Mudcat revering "patients". See you all soon. MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 13 Aug 15 - 08:03 AM hope you make a full recovery mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 13 Aug 15 - 11:44 AM Hi Megan Many thanks for the kind comment. Kind Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: SINSULL Date: 13 Aug 15 - 01:30 PM Yikes! Mike. How do you ward off infection? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 13 Aug 15 - 02:40 PM HI Sinsull Good question. Infection is a potential problem. In fact I had an infection in the wound when they took off the 1st Dressing. I was given a course of anti-biotics which has cleared up the problem, I go to my Medical Centre and they clean and re-dress the wound regularly. This will be repeated after Monday's operation - of course with having a skin graft there will be two "wounds" to look after. Kind Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 13 Aug 15 - 06:35 PM best wishes from a patient with a well-healing scar, to one in the middle of medical matters & hello & best wishes to Liz!! sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 14 Aug 15 - 04:50 AM HI Sandra Thanks for kind comment. Glad to hear your wound is healing well. I hope to be at that stage soon... Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 14 Aug 15 - 08:21 AM Goodness me, Mike! Best of luck and heal well and soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 14 Aug 15 - 09:53 AM Hi Gnu Many thanks for you kind comments. Will keep in contact and let you know how things are going. Meanwhile just on my way to Birmingham ( UK) to watch Manchester United play Aston Villa. My son is taking me and will have to walk very little and have good seats. Of course if Man u don't win .......I will feel worse...lol Cheers Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 18 Aug 15 - 04:48 AM Hi I am home now after having my original wound on shin enlarged by surgery. Also they performed a skin graft, taking skin from my thigh to cover the wound. I had the procedures done by a local anaesthetic but it was quite painful. Much worse the the original operation. I now have my left leg bound from toe to thigh and have been advised to sit with leg up until I return for a clinic on Friday. My wife Jan is looking after all my needs so I am quite comfortable if not a little bored already !! Best wishes to all other Mudcat " patients". Cheers MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: maeve Date: 18 Aug 15 - 06:10 AM Thanks for the update, MikeL2. I'll be thinking of you this week. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 18 Aug 15 - 11:34 AM Hi Maeve Many thanks for kind comment. It really does help. Kind Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 18 Aug 15 - 02:00 PM maeve is like that... helpful. A kind soul. Really good at searching things too! >;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Sapper sans cookie Date: 18 Aug 15 - 04:30 PM I am guilty of forgetting about Mudcat and the wonderful people on here for too long and too often. Despite being older and having joints that creak and ache more often, I still seem to be in robust health, but my prayers go to those such as Severn, LtS and the rest who need support. Hopefully, might see one or two at Whitby. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 18 Aug 15 - 08:52 PM Good luck MikeL2 from me too. MRI went off OK, but still to get the result. Runrig helped me through.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 19 Aug 15 - 04:52 AM Hi Tattie Thanks for kind comments. I have my fingers crossed for you while you await the result of your scan. All the best Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 19 Aug 15 - 12:03 PM Gee... I got on the phone and forgot to send best wishes for a speedy recovery, MikeL2. YO Sapper!!! Still riding the rails? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 19 Aug 15 - 04:24 PM · . Yesterday I had a small spot of skin cancer, a squamouse cell carcinoma, successfully removed from the back of my left hand. Who among us TRULY knows the back of their hand? I'm fine, with a bandage I have to change daily until they remove the stitches The third time surviving was a lot easier than the first two...... I'll treat myself to crab cakes tonight. That's MY kind of Cancer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn (Hooda Guest Date: 19 Aug 15 - 04:27 PM That last post was me. Good wishes for your recovery, Mike!....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 19 Aug 15 - 04:41 PM A mist soaked figure staggers in from the foggy nigh. stares in confusion at the occupied beds for a moment before wandering down the line giving everyone a brisk encouraging pat on the head and mumbling get well soon. (Arhg I must be channelling my dad tonight.) Nurse spots the trail of puddles and shoos her toward the tavern entrance narrowly missing the mini jello pool of squidlets. I thought the squid had been putting on weight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Severn Date: 19 Aug 15 - 05:25 PM The sqidlets spread out in different directions to explore their new surroundings...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 19 Aug 15 - 06:02 PM Ahhhhhhh... thump! Oh crap. I slid on the squids, skidded and lost me balance and squished some squids. Heat up the frying pan whilst I gather meself together and scrape up the squished squids. A good fryup is good for what ails ya eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 20 Aug 15 - 02:05 AM Gnu don't try and eat that squidlet it will taste rubbery! Sadie Bleach the cleaner knocked Gertie's rubber bands on the floor she was washing. She was singing "dashing away with bucket and mop" so loudly she never heard them fall. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 20 Aug 15 - 03:21 AM A calamity of calamares! And thanks Mike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 20 Aug 15 - 05:24 AM Hi Guest Severn Many thanks for comments. Still sitting with left leg raised most of the time. Still quite a lot of pain ( despite pain-killers etc). Especially from the " donor site " - where they scraped the skin for the graft. I have had a few squamous cells removed from various places by excision or cryosurgery. but this beggar is much different !! Hope your heals well. They usually do in no time. Regards MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 20 Aug 15 - 06:57 AM Hi Gnu Many thanks for kind comment. Hey with regards to them squids....did you wash your boots from them canisters stuck on the walls. ?? They're there to kill off them squiddy things. Cheers Mike |
