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Subject: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 05 Jan 19 - 06:21 PM In the continued absence of Mudcatter Liz the Squeak, and a few others, there have been several years with no Mudcat Recovery Ward. In fact, since newbie me joined, I don't think there has been one. The only Recovery Wards I have encountered on the Mudcat, have been threads that went to sleep. Look, I'm not wishing ill health or misfortune on anybody. 'Specially not on me!!! But having said that ... maybe we should have a place for Mudcatters who are shocked and stunned by such events as obit threads that occur in clusters, so help me. Is it just me, or have there been 'way too many obit threads at once? And people coming down with stuff, and taking a turn for the worse ... so how about a thread for those who need to recover? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jan 19 - 11:55 AM Nurse Ratched nailed the door shut on her side - the route into the recovery ward is through the coat closet from the Mudcat Tavern - the one to the left of the bar. I see you struggled mightily with a pry bar to loosen all of the nails she put in the door through the frame. You have a couple of splinters. If I were you I'd quietly tiptoe over to the first aid cabinet and clean and cover them with Polysporin and bandaids yourself - Ratched is famous for using stinging iodine on wounds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 12:13 PM What a lovely idea keberoxu! I too have noticed the number of folk on Mudcat who have been ill, are ill at the moment or have problems in their lives. Here in UK, January is a difficult month - dark, dreary and Christmas is over and done with. In the Mudcat Tavern, as SRS says, there's a lovely place for quiet rest and recovery. The Old Lady and the Smiling African Man are still around, so come and sit on the huge sofa for a while and have a little chat, make use of a listening ear or have a refreshing doze by the log fire. If your state of health allows you to have buttered crumpets and a nice pot of tea, the Old Lady will put the kettle on and serve you. African Man is excellent at toasting crumpets! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Backwoodsman Date: 06 Jan 19 - 12:50 PM Crumpetsand proper tea made in a pot! I'll be there !;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 12:56 PM Oooh lovely Backwoodsman! Look forward to seeing you there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jan 19 - 01:10 PM I made a batch of gut-friendly oatmeal with minced up figs for extra calcium. Dish up a bowl with a modest amount of honey or brown sugar, topped with organic milk. I'm a tea drinker but I don't believe I've ever had a crumpet. Walks quietly past the curtained area where Jessup friends and family have gathered, and hums along with the song someone is singing to soothe all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Jan 19 - 01:25 PM Dammit, John, proper tea is theft. You're no Marxist, then... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 01:50 PM Hahahaaaa Steve! Very good! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 06 Jan 19 - 02:33 PM Is there no end to that smiling African man's talents. I'll be joining you on that sofa shortly. PS. I trust the tea is made with proper tea leaves - no plastic tea bags needed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 02:44 PM He's very, very good around the house Jos. Very handy, neat and tidy - a rare quality for a bloke! I've plumped up the cushions for you, and yes, the tea is made with real tea-leaves. Would you care for a crumpet? Or there are slices of my homemade coffee and walnut cake if you prefer? Or a sultana scone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: DMcG Date: 06 Jan 19 - 02:52 PM I could do with a change of diet. My brother in law is a chef and gave us an enormous and excellent Christmas cake amongst other goodies. However there is only my wife and I here, and she is on a strict diet in preparation for an op, so I pretty much have to eat the whole thing. Anyone care to take some slices off |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 06 Jan 19 - 03:12 PM Would I care for a crumpet? Or slices of homemade coffee and walnut cake if I prefer? Or a sultana scone? Do I have to choose? Well, OK, if I have to choose it'll be crumpets. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 03:19 PM Well I'm going to have some of Stilly's delicious-sounding oatmeal-and-figs, and one or two (or three) slices of DMcG's brother's Crimbo cake! (Diet? Moi?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 06 Jan 19 - 03:26 PM I have just put my mulled wine recipe on the 'What are we eating' thread. How about some of that as well? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 03:56 PM Ooooh yes Jos, great idea. That should get everyone on the mend and cheered up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 06 Jan 19 - 04:45 PM I am now feeling very mellow. My Christmas tree is naked apart from the fairy, who will fly down at midnight, and the tree in its pot will go back into the garden until next December. What the tree thinks of this annual palaver I know not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jan 19 - 05:07 PM How lovely that your tree goes on from year to year and doesn't die and get shredded for mulch material Jos! I think the Mudcat Recovery Ward tree has been replanted in the Tavern garden, and there is now a pot of gorgeous delft blue hyacinths sitting on the central table. That should make everyone look towards Spring. Now, who needs a bedpan? Anyone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 06 Jan 19 - 08:21 PM Tea and oatmeal sounds lovely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Jan 19 - 08:40 PM I won a tin of Quality Street in my mum's care home raffle just before Christmas. And I mean a TIN, not one of those pathetic and shrinking supermarket plastic versions. But my sister's been down for a couple of days. She spent an hour or two with me mum on Friday, along with a large tin of Celebrations. So, on Saturday, there I was with mum as she offered me the Celebrations. Eager I was as I prised off the lid - but do you know what? There was not a single bloody Bounty or Malteser one left. Not a one. The two best ones in the box for chrissake. My sister had sat there and systematically cleared the tin of both those, and had not eaten a single one of any of the others. Unbebloodylievable! So last night I thought twice about producing the Quality Street tin. No way, José. It's still hidden, still intact as I speak, and my sister is now safely back in Huddersfield. Jays, she might have swiped all the Purple Ones before I got a look in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jan 19 - 09:17 PM Sounds like the Mudcat Tavern crowd has all squeezed through that closet and into the Ward. Keeping your voices down and some singing for those in here who aren't well is entirely appropriate. And watch out for Ratched. The cats are all welcome to cuddle on the feet of any patient beds, and there's a special dog curled on Amos' bed. Give Maggie a pat if you pass by. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 07 Jan 19 - 04:14 AM Ha Steve, I absolutely loathe the Malteser and Bounty ones! That tin would have been safe with me. Old Lady has brought dog treats and cat treats for the pets on the beds. And a treat for Squiddy in the jello pit out there. Is Chongo around? She has some bananas. Steve, doctor says it's time for your enema my dear. I'm just preparing the enema trolley... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Jan 19 - 04:51 AM With friends like that, who needs enemas? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: JennieG Date: 07 Jan 19 - 06:02 AM I'll have a slice of that yummy Christmas cake, please! I lurve Chrissie cake. And a decent coffee, if anyone is making it......if not, I will do so. Not a tea drinker, me; don't like the smell, can't stand the taste. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 07 Jan 19 - 08:42 PM Today I feel as though somebody pulled the plug. I even felt too fatigued to get behind the steering wheel and drive the car. Better take it easy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Donuel Date: 07 Jan 19 - 10:01 PM An enema will give you a great feeling of accomplishment. Better than pulling the plug is to up the morphine drip. All I know is that everyone has bio rhythms of fatigue, depressions and energy spurts. Drama queens make them sound worse than they are. No drama Malala would tell you the same thing. :^1 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 08 Jan 19 - 03:41 AM No-one here is a 'drama queen'. If one feels poorly, one feels poorly. Keberoxu sinks onto the very comfy sofa, puts her feet up on the footstool and warms herself by the log fire. The Old Lady fetches her a lovely hot buttered crumpet. Another pot of tea and one of excellent coffee are carried in by the two Siamese cats. There is coffee cake and a Victoria sponge on a very posh lace doily. Steve is having his enema in a side room. He needs it due to constipation after the Liverpool match result... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Jan 19 - 12:01 PM Definitely in need of some TLC from the Mudcat Recovery room, having caught the current respiratory virus on Boxing Day: missed all the parties, and I have been very poorly! If there's any space on that lovely sofa by the warm and glowing fire (move up ya b*ggers!)I'll come and join you for a nice cup of mint tea and a slice of that coffee cake. Happy to have Siamese cats snuggle up for a stroke and a purr. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 08 Jan 19 - 12:27 PM Everyone moves up and poorly Tattie sinks into the comfy sofa. Smiling African Man brings mint tea and coffee cake on a fine porcelain plate (Royal Crown Derby) Paracetamol is dispensed (2X500mg) Siamese are purring loudly and soft music plays. (any requests?) Old Lady distributes tissues and some very nice sweets/chocolates. Forget post-Crimbo diets for now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 08 Jan 19 - 01:40 PM I had better stay off that sofa if I don't want to start snoring. I have got an ugly snore. But moving to a cot means attracting the wrong sort of attention. If you know what I mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 08 Jan 19 - 01:52 PM Old Lady administers Magic Anti-Snore tincture. One teaspoonful and no more snoring at all. Keberoxu has a lovely little nap after Old Lady puts soft snuggly throw over her knees. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Jan 19 - 04:20 PM Tattie is now purring contentedly - no, not snoring. And she LOVES those snuggly fleecy wraps: they have one in her daughters house which will easily cover 2 or 3 adults and a coupe of kids. Request: the cat duet: Cat Duet Er, well mebbe not so soothing! (Reaching for ear plugs!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Jan 19 - 04:23 PM P.S. Kind thanks to the African gentleman for the mint tea and cake. And I did bring a drum of "Roses" to add to the recovery. Sorry, but the "Heroes" have all gone! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 08 Jan 19 - 05:10 PM I believe you can get boxes/tins of chocolates with nothing except lots of big purple ones. But my family usually give me something more exotic with only very dark chocolate (they know I have expensive tastes). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 08 Jan 19 - 05:17 PM I used to love Green and Black's dark chocolate, but realised it was that (and runny/blue cheese) which caused my vertigo. I have to avoid both nowadays :( |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: JennieG Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:15 AM Many thanks to the Siamese kitties for the excellent coffee, and the yummy munchies! Love the Cat Duet. We were treated to an excellent rendition a few days after arriving in Toronto last October by a countertenor and a tenor; have heard it many times, but those two men (particular the countertenor) had a lot of fun with it. They even put on fluffy cat ear headbands to get in the mood. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 10 Jan 19 - 07:18 PM Mee-ee-ow! Toronto and the tenor and counter-tenor sound brilliant. Recovery slightly improving since NHS admitted that green jello in my sputum sample actually contained bacteria and not just viruses! Amoxycillin, I love you! Now I really DO feel like more cake and mint tea and Siamese kitties! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: JennieG Date: 10 Jan 19 - 11:33 PM It was indeed, Tattie Bogle! Always good to get a proper diagnosis, then the healing can start. Bugger me down, yesterday afternoon I tripped and fell on the brick path in our back yard. Now have a skinned right knee which doesn't like to be bent, a bruise on the inner side of my right wrist (which is not terribly tender, thank goodness), a sore left foot with a specially sore big toe, and a very hurty left thumb. But none of those bits have fallen off yet, so that's a bonus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Ebbie Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:15 AM JennieG, until your report I'd been feeling extraordinarily mellow over here in the corner. Lovely feeling. You jarred me awake. (Glad no bits fell off) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:53 AM A large van arrives and delivers two more huge sofas and some footstools, plus lots more comfy cushions. These are arranged near the fire so that all the latest casualties can find a roomy place to relax. Tins of sweets and chocolates are dotted around on side-tables, and the Siamese cats trot in and out with more tea and coffee. Smiling African Man brings a large tray with various cakes, and some home-made sausage rolls and Cornish pasties for those who prefer savouries. Poor JennieG! Thank goodness you didn't break any bones though. And Tattie, hopefully the antibiotics will get your chest better very quickly. More crumpets anybody? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Jos Date: 11 Jan 19 - 04:24 AM Hurray for Smiling African Man - just when I was thinking "That's too much sweet stuff, I need something with less/no sugar and a bit more salt", he comes up trumps. I'm a S.A.M. fan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 11 Jan 19 - 04:37 AM I'm a bit of a fan too Jos. He really is very good. One thing he loves doing is hoovering. He hoovers and hoovers. Our house is spotless. S.A.M. plugs in the special Mudcat hoover (it's completely silent) and gets rid of all the crumbs. He then sits down beside Old Lady and indulges in a Cornish pasty. It isn't halal sadly, but he pretends it is! :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: JennieG Date: 11 Jan 19 - 05:54 AM Thank you, Ebbie and Eliza! Pretty sure nothing is broken, just soft tissue injuries. Bugger of it is, our uke group has a gig on Sunday 20th so fingers crossed that my hand/thumb will be all right by then. Mellowing out right now with a nip of Sortilege.....maple whisky, brought back from the recent trip to Canada. Can't buy it here, sadly. Can't even buy it in a lot of Canada, but Northern Ontario/Quebec - yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 11 Jan 19 - 10:47 AM That'll take the sting out of the injuries, JennieG, and hopefully the kind attentions of the Mudcat Recovery team will get you fit for your gig. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 11 Jan 19 - 11:57 AM Thanks, Celestial Nurse, for the tincture. It's wonderful what a night of sound sleep and sweet dreams can do. Moving off the sofa so somebody who needs it more than I can get some rest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Severn Date: 11 Jan 19 - 04:46 PM Hi, everybody! As almost a permanent resident due to effects from two cancers, bad burns, diabetes and a recent ulnar fracture, I can tell you that a lot of the same crew still work here, Nurse Ratched and her boyfriend down in Radiology, X-Ray Ted, Hurty Gertie over in therapy, Ex-female boxer Bedpan Dora of the clean-up staff, Dr. Lance Boyles, and more. Alas, my former love interest, armless therapy nurse Intervenous De Milo transferred over to Our Lady Of The Inconceivable Conception across town, but look around you and see what old and new faces are still around the old Horse-Spittle. Actually, the closing of the link from the Tavern to the Ward was a mutual thing agreed to after the young squidlets managed to invade the Ward and wreak havoc. Since Squiddy is now a happily married father, we don't have to fret over the attempted romance of The Squid and Nurse Ratched. The back chronicles of the Ward are still in the Mudcat Archives for those who are new to the Ward and those who are merely nostalgic...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Tattie Bogle Date: 11 Jan 19 - 07:20 PM Laughter is the best medicine as Severn has just so comprehensively proved! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 12 Jan 19 - 02:46 AM I agree Tattie. That was hilarious Severn! My favourite is X-Ray Ted!! Hahahahahaaaa! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 14 Jan 19 - 05:32 PM I favor Intravenous De Milo, myself. I hear that the dog Maggie, and her recovering human Amos, no longer require a hospital bed but are now in the rehab wing. JennieG, hope you are mending well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Senoufou Date: 14 Jan 19 - 05:50 PM The Recovery Ward has had a large sauna installed. Everyone can sit in there on the wooden seats in their bathing costumes, get lovely and warm in the steamy heat, and sing some nice songs together. Afterwards, there's a large bubbly hot jacuzzi with seats all around. More songs there too. Old Lady and S.A.M. have big fluffy towels at the ready. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019 From: Donuel Date: 14 Jan 19 - 07:00 PM Severn sorry to hear your standing in the Mudcat Recovery Ward has dropped to second place. Here's wishing you well in recapturing first place in misadventures, bad drug reactions and diseases. What are your plans? There are ads on TV that say the drugs Invocanna and Farxiga for diabetes gives people gangrene of the genitals, if you need some let me know. In your quest for gold in the Mudcat Recovery O'Limpings you have a real challenge in overcoming the current champion Amos. (letters and cards can be sent to his room. Address is also found in mother of all BS threads) Well buddy remember the keyword is Recovery. I wouldn't want you to overdo do it. I for one revere our pun king to be H W and wise. |
