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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Aug 15 - 05:54 PM You betcha! |
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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: gnu Date: 08 Aug 15 - 07:55 AM One never recovers, M. One manages. Thanks for asking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 08 Aug 15 - 02:30 AM Hey Gnu you recovered from the back overdose yet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 31 Jul 15 - 04:52 AM You know Janie you might be right the hearings not what it was. Reminds me of the nurses when dauvit was in hospital who made everyone sickbowl hats to celebrate the Scotland England football match. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: ragdall Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:46 PM Welcome back, Sandra. We'll try to keep the celebration low key to enable you to get your rest. Stay well. rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:22 PM There's something poetic about a forty bedpan band. Like a bodhran, the bedpans could be tuned by putting the contents in them in various -- never mind. Maybe at Getaway this could be tried. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Janie Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:11 PM Are you sure about that Megan? I heard it was a 40 bedpan band. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Jul 15 - 07:26 PM do the 40 bodhrans come with 40 silencers? hello, Severn? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 30 Jul 15 - 03:37 PM You know that we are keeping the physicians in business when you hear the Doc's-ology played after every transaction at the cashier's window..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: fat B****rd Date: 30 Jul 15 - 10:58 AM all the best to you,Sandra. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 30 Jul 15 - 06:34 AM Glad it went well Sandra don't know about peace though I heard a nurse mention hiring a 40 bodhran band to lift the spirits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Jul 15 - 03:29 AM here I am, back home & looking for a comfy bed in a quiet ward, throat slit from here to there, nicely bandaged & healing. My local hospital is world class, & all treatment was excellent & cost me nothing, the food was great, the staff were marvelous, the only problems came from my room mate, an older lady with many health problems, including delusions which led to continual vocalisations in English & her childhood language & kept her awake all day & night. Did I say the staff were wonderful? which is why I want peace & quiet. Am I in the right place? sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: ragdall Date: 30 Jul 15 - 01:43 AM Severn, Sandra and Rap, Best healing wishes to all of you. Good of you to keep the doctors in business, the rest of us may need them someday, too. Bless you, gnu, for starting the topic. rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 15 - 05:06 PM "... pinching a nerve that goes to my leg." Ah yes. The Satanic nerve. Hurts like Hell. Hurts like the devil. Been there. Still tryin ta do it. Physio... it ya want exercise pics from my physio, ring me on FB. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 29 Jul 15 - 04:02 PM Whoops! Me on a library computer again for the last two posts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 28 Jul 15 - 08:43 PM I did get a steriod shot in my back. the other day to ease the effect of some vertebra pinching a nerve that goes to my leg. Shot in the back is the coward;s way out, I know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 28 Jul 15 - 08:40 PM It's great thall are in good health. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 15 - 11:22 PM Super Fantastic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jul 15 - 09:25 PM Heritage ones, I think. From when tomatoes were tomatoes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Jul 15 - 10:07 PM Those are very good tomatoes to accompany that bacon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 24 Jul 15 - 05:10 PM Can you die from a bacon overdose? Oh, never mind. I'll report in the morning... or not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 24 Jul 15 - 04:48 PM It sounds like a couple of slick operators, that is, until they are faced with doing an actual operation. Educated at the McHeath Academy Of Surgery, you say? It would explain the velvet gloves..... As I walk down the hallway, I see some familiar names on the doors from the past: Betty Beye, anesthesiologist Otto Pilate, Director Of Security Abraham Bortz, OBGYN Major Malcolm Function (USMC Ret.), Head Administrator .....and I saw Nurse Cathy Terr and a few others left over from former visits, but luckily, I have yet to see any former adversaries such as Nurse Ratched, Nurse Wretched, Hurry Gertie and that kinky bastard down in Radiology, X-Ray Ted. I hope my luck holds, but I doubt it will...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 24 Jul 15 - 01:47 PM Doc Vinnie didn't cure me of my wicked ways, Sev. All he does is write prescriptions that I don't get filled after I read about all the slide effects. I asked him about medical pot and he said it would be just what the doctor ordered but he wouldn't fill out the Health Canada authorization form because he said the new system is all fucked up. He referred me to another doc, Joey Banana, but his office is in a Caddy parked behind the Slop House Tavern on the other side of the tracks and he told me just to say to his receptionists "The Scalpel sent me." so I think I'll pass and just cook up some bacon instead. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 23 Jul 15 - 10:37 PM ^*^ comes in through the back door of the Mudcat Tavern, carrying a bucket filled with fresh garden ripe tomatoes and a grocery bag with loaves of crusty bread, a jar of real mayonnaise, and several pounds of thick-sliced bacon. "Anybody hungry? Do BLTs go with whatever it is you're drinking?" The squid slithers bashfully around the back door and slips noiselessly into the tepid tub of liquid jello. "Damn, it hasn't set up yet. . . Cook up the damned bacon and feed these fools sandwiches so they stop waving knives and asking for calamari! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 23 Jul 15 - 09:27 PM What did he cure you of? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jul 15 - 10:12 PM Sis Boombah? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Amos Date: 22 Jul 15 - 08:07 PM Really? I used to date his Sister. Everyone just called her Sis, because he did. She was made made famous by Johnnie Carson. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 15 - 05:07 PM My doc?. Dr. Vinnie Boombah, of course... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Severn Date: 22 Jul 15 - 04:27 PM Whoops! That last post was me at Someone else's computer. Even they have hired a Gormye cook to run the kitchen, alas, Nonnetta Bull is still the nutritionist, so life here's still another episode of "How Green Was My Jello?" I asked Gnu if anything else were bothering him. "Gnuritis and Gnuralgia.", he said. "The usual" "So who's your doctors, Gnu"....... The lovely Tanya Hyde in Dermatology gave me some band aids and Vasaline and instructions to keep the biopsy clean and gave some sly hints about the nature of her tattoos that remained unseen and dismissed me for the day..... Everybody scrambles to get out of the was as huge Bedpan Dora, an ex female heavyweight boxer, recklessly drives a gurny down the hallway. NOBODY messes with Bedpan Dora...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:39 PM Janie, besides the aforementioned doctors in Dermatology, there is a pool and complete rehab facilities. Unfortunately, they are now run by Hurty Gertie, who took over from InterVenus Di Milo the lovely armless therapy nurse who departed for Our Lady Of The Evening, Our Lady Of The Inconceivable Conception or one of those other Catholic joints the last time we chronicled the Ward (It's been a long time, so I'll have to go back and refresh myself on the damage we all did to this place last time). I'm sure this place is still in a chronicle condition. But anyway, there IS a spa in our own camp. Jacqui, I'm not even sure they'll let the squid back in here after he developed that mad crush on Nurse Ratched some time ago, but no calomari from him. He's needed whenever we we do one of these things. We might be able to sneak him in again through the secret passageway from the Tavern, like we did last time. Maybe we can hide him in the rehab pool, but we will have to have Chlorina (Chlorina, where you been so long.....) keep it full of just plain water, as they tend to hoard their green jello in this place for use in experimenting on the patients. A jello sea would cause much jelousy, and therehab patients would notice the change in the pool's contents. Good luck to you, Sandra. Meanwhile, Steve Lawrence & Edie Gormye are on the Muzak singing, "Blame it on the Carcinoma, Blame it on the hematoma Or your fake medical diploma....." .....or something like that. I here they hired one of Edie's relatives as chief chef, to try and make the kitchen sound high class..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Megan L Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:29 PM Severn and Sandra hope you both return to full health swiftly. The squid is most upset at people equating him with food watch out for low flying jello |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 15 - 01:36 PM Herrrre cookie, cookie, cookie. There you ARE! Gooood boy! Stop running away. Lightning never strikes twice in the same p |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Who stole my cookie? The lightning is suspec Date: 22 Jul 15 - 11:54 AM I see Sev saw the thread and made another grand entry. A true master of the pun! I figured you wouldn't mind me starting this thread. Your post made me fell better... thanks, Bud. gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 22 Jul 15 - 05:57 AM There is tremendous healing in music... ...so when you play, do it thoughtfully, with precision, and emote your innermost soul. It works... Try it. GfS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: GUEST,Kampervan Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:38 AM Best wishes and healing thoughts for your friend Gnu. I hope that the op is a success and that they make a quick and full recovery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2015 From: Janie Date: 22 Jul 15 - 12:06 AM One problem for an aging female with living in a region full of young people who keep many beautifully complected dermatologists in business with lucrative practices financed by the desire to keep acne and wrinkles at bay is a lack of trust and discomfort when presenting to said dermotologists with concerns about skin lesions in the presence of clear evidence we do not otherwise pay much attention to appearance, scaly dry skin on legs, etc. Probably all or most good doctors, but too young and their practices so based on cosmetic issues that I don't feel comfortable, and even feel intimidated and discounted because I don't pay attention to things like fish scale dry skin on my legs. I don't even notice such cosmetic factors until I am in the office of the very fashionable dermatologist who also is part owner of some spa in the area dedicated to beauty. And there are not many dermatologists in my medically rich region who are not who are in private practice. BAd insurance so I avoid the university based practices thats charge facility fees. Whine, whine, whine. If my Dad had not died from melanoma that his own dermatologist missed in spite of years of visits every three months due to basal and squamous cell skin cancers, I would not be so concerned. One case. One missed diagnosis. Can happen to anyone. Rattle the bedpans. Bring on the puns and good health to all! |
