BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 11:58 AM

My bunny is a stuffed bunny that got chocolate smeared on it. But a chocolate bunny (not hollow!) would be nice if someone were to drop one behind the comfy chair.

I know, "not the comfy chair!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 11:45 AM

Still recovering from one too many supeona colladas, squid bro pros and Slim peach mints.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 09:08 AM

Having once washed my phone because it was in the breast pocket of my jean jacket ... I agree.

HAHAHAHAHA!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 06:22 AM

good one, Jeri!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 07:12 PM

You started it.
Come all you poor fellows who sadly do store
Your phone in the pocket your wallet is for
And down in the toilet I must chase my goal
Just give me a plunger, I'll fathom the bowl

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 06:58 PM

Somebody two stalls down from me in the men's !avatory just dropped their cars phone in the toilet and now I have to listen to him sing "Fathom The Bowl" to the rhythm of a plunger.

Lovely, just lovely.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 10:57 AM

Greetings, fellow Sick-Bay Rangers!

It is still snowing in Stratford. The stuff is nearly knee-deep and we're not even half-way through November! So I'm crawling under my metaphysical blankie, where I shall stay until I have hoisted in the notion of Winter Yet Again. This could take a while.

Maybe I'll have a toddy -- you know, the kind that comes in a big mug with a huge slug of rum or whisky (your choice) in the bottom, the juice of at least half a large lemon for what ails you, a cinnamon stick, and some brown sugar to make it all utterly delicious.

A chocolate bunny would also go down a treat -- I've heard they're full of vitamins. Good idea, Mrrzy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 10:49 AM

Ooh, eggnog, now that's a thought, thinks Mrrzy, still sucking their bunny.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 10:38 AM

X-Ray Ted is hanging around up here because apparently X-Ray Ted and Nurse Ratched are going at it hard and heavy in his usual workspace. Yes, she's still around, but she's busy at the moment, and we're safe, for now.....

They let me out long enough to go to my daughter's wedding on Sunday, but I'm back in my ward in bed, and my meds just arrived. Later, folks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 10:36 PM

It was down to 24^o last night, but many people have it much colder, so it's not much to complain about. Put the faucet covers in place and draw the insulating curtains. Put the jacket on the smallest dog with a thin coat. Drink lots of hot herbal tea. I don't have a fireplace (I filled it with a box made of insulation planks and it's held in place with that window insulation foam—the television stands on the heart in front to hide it). In the ward I think they've hit the eggnog hard, even though it's a bit early.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 07:52 PM

How are you coping with the cold snap?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 12:12 PM

Well you're already well ahead of wysiwyg who hasn't returned home yet. Maybe she's concerned about coming face-to-face with Nurse Ratched. I wonder if that creature is still lurking in the ward?

PMs can be managed for character posts. Put in html so I don't have to work on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 12:05 PM

SRS: " I'll remind him that checking into the Mudcat Recovery Ward needs to be near the top of the list."

I am home and lurking. I Have a long way to go before I actively post.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 12:58 AM

I'm nowhere near the fires, but have friends around the state & some are near fires. One member has fires in their region.

I'm re-opening the thread on Black Saturday - Bushfires in Australia - Feb 2009)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Nov 19 - 06:51 PM

If the Recovery Ward
takes in our Australian Mudcatters,
they need relief from the brush fires (bush fires?) --
hundreds of koala casualties, I hear.

Where I live, however,
the trees are bare for other reasons,
and we need relief from the sudden cold snaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Nov 19 - 07:14 PM

chocolate bunnies!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Nov 19 - 02:02 PM

I am back behind the comfy chair and am out of chocolate. I can suck some off the bunny, though, being messy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 11:30 PM

One pill a day is still no fun,but it's easier to function and get around and even go out. But actually, why should I risk trying to go out when it seems like there are enough mudcatters in the ward to have a decent open sing amongst the lot of us.

What's that? Bedlam Dora just heard me and claims she can sing. If X-Ray Ted can keep Nurse Ratched busy,maybe we could pull it off Hurty Gertie the has gone for the night, so all those who might complain are all gone......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Nov 19 - 12:49 PM

Gnu is headed home tomorrow and has a long list of things to do. I'll remind him that checking into the Mudcat Recovery Ward needs to be near the top of the list.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Nov 19 - 12:45 PM

If anybody needs the Mudcat Recovery Ward,
it is Mudcat Member Gnu.
But I have heard nothing direct from Gnu.
Maybe someone who has been in touch with Gnu
could, erm, confirm?
Until we hear from Gnu himself?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Nov 19 - 11:44 AM

*snicker* I'm American. You're a-peein'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 06 Nov 19 - 10:54 AM

That was Dr. Peter Dranes.

Sorry, I have been using this tablet he prescribed and have extensive site effects from the auto-correct. No wonder I couldn't call him back in the morning. Next time, I will ask for the generic or maybe get it in pill form......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 06 Nov 19 - 10:24 AM

for awhile, things were going from bladder to worse.

I experienced shortness of breath and it turns out that I had fluid in my lungs and was prescribed two diuretic pills a day. The doctor warned me, "Urine for it now!" But the dosage has been cut down to something liveable.

Under the name placque on the office door of Dr. Peter Cranes it Urological Consultant, and that's how someone introduced him to me. I told him that "I wouldn't be asking you questions if you weren't a logical consultant, would I?"

A whole platoon of Irish soldiers marched in formation out of his clinic and into the bathroom singing "Urination Once Again" .....

Anyway, things are pretty month back to what passes for normal around here......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 19 - 06:00 PM

Mrrzy's crouched behind the comfy chair with dark chocolate and a stuffed bunny.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 19 - 02:36 PM

I wonder if it is time
to have another look around in the Recovery Ward.

It's been, shall we say, eventful between then and now.
Some Mudcat oldtimers have not been heard from directly
for some time --
individual Mudcat members are, or are not, in touch with them.
There have been Mudcat members
who have suffered the loss of a family member.

And on the eastern side of the pond,
a special election approaches, symptomatic
of an entire government
which perhaps needs more than a Recovery Ward
to fix what is no longer working.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 19 - 04:53 PM

Well somehow we have all survived St Patrick's Day Weekend.
A big deal in the Greater Boston metro area where I live.

Is this not a Full Moon week? And in March,
which means that spring is not far away.
Spring before Easter, I suspect.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 19 - 11:26 PM

Um, I have hesitated to do this as a post --

Senoufou/Eliza is all right and would want you all to know that.
I exchanged PMs with here a while ago.

Another BS thread on which she participated
proved the final straw.
She said she would not post on the Mudcat any more.
I passed on this news with
a PM or two to some people.
This is the first time I have put it in one of the BS threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 16 Mar 19 - 11:12 AM

Sad to hear that about Amos.
How is the lovely Senofou? Unusually quiet around here for a while!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 19 - 07:14 PM

Amos, sadly, has moved on permanently and won't be back --
maybe his dog Maggie will say hello.
She must be missing him somewhat.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 11:55 PM

Thank you, keberoxu......I am, finally!

It is difficult to breeze through the day when one is dog tired (don't know why dogs should get tireder than any other critter, but there you are) from disturbed sleep because of cough cough coughing.

Never ever take a good night's rest for granted, folks.

Voice is still slightly croaky but it, also, is improving. Even made it through a ukulele gig on Friday morning without dissolving into paroxysms of cough, for which I was very thankful.

Someone at quilt guild on Saturday mentioned that there has been a bug going around which is like whooping cough without the whoop, mostly affecting children. Sounds suspiciously like what was bothering me.

Now, back to what passes for normality in this house.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 10:54 PM

JennieG, hope you are sleeping more comfortably by now.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 05:24 AM

Think I'll "pass" on the "Spicy Horror" thanks (no pun intended?)
Did you know you can now get Scotch Bonnet crisps? They were hot enough for me!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 06:44 PM

Naturally, the Old Lady wishes everyone a super-speedy recovery, but if truth were told, will miss all the patients once they've danced away feeling much better.

Smiling African Man has just made a terrifically hot 'Spicy Horror' with four Scotch bonnets in it. There are turkey pieces, onions, tomatoes, peanut butter (!) oodles of salt, curry powder and who knows what else in it.
I should think it would burn people's tongues, but might be good if anyone is constipated. However, one's innards will never be the same again, and we don't have quite enough bedpans! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 06:03 PM

The MRW garden sounds just blissful, especially with all that attention from Siamese cats, Smiling African man and "old lady" (young at heart!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 05:06 PM

The two of youse,
you are spoiling us all rotten,
you realize that ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 02:23 PM

Oh Tattie, I know only too well that awful dizziness! I get bouts of vertigo (vestibular neuronitis) and it's like being on a sailing ship in a severe storm. The ground whirls beneath one's feet and the walls spin. Consequence: nausea and vomiting. Can last up to four days. Lots of sympathy, you poor lass.

Fresh air is good for convalescent folk, and one can always use a bit of nice sunshine.
We had 16 degrees here today. Had a relaxing walk down by the Wensum.

The Mudcat Recovery Ward has a little garden with several wooden benches where folk can sit and chat in the sunshine. Cool fruit drinks are being served by Siamese cats and Smiling African Man (who is wearing his brightly-coloured W African outfit, consisting of tunic and loose trousers plus little white hat). Old lady is popping in and out with various salad dishes containing healthy foods.
We shall all feel so much better for a bit of nice Spring weather! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 02:08 PM

Uncommonly warm for February here in rhe UK: even in Edinburgh, tho needed a fleece and a warm jacket to stroll by the Forth this afternoon, and opted for coffee INDOORS rather than outdoors at the Beach Cafe at Silverknowes. The whole area was teaming with people running, walking, scooting, cycling, taking dogs out! And we were on today's incoming flight path: planes a few inches overhead every 2 minutes!
Not doing so well with the Meniere's Disease: 4-hour dizzy turn on Friday night, and still off balance yesterday,so glad to be out for some fresh air, with husband to catch me if I should fall over!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 07:22 PM

Vitamin D reminds me of sunshine.
Remember sunshine?

I was a grown person before I heard the UK phrase
"oppit sunshine" ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Feb 19 - 04:05 AM

Tinned sardines and smoked salmon Donuel. Nice and oily, and very rich in vitamin D.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 05:10 PM

Sardines from Sardinia? I thought we ate them all. Sardines do not absorb as many pollutants as larger fish. Salmon? Salmon is the dessert of seafood yum.

Reading your body: I can tell my body temperature by the degree of discomfort in rolling my eyes upwards and my blood sugar by the degree of ankle nerve pain. Needing to lay on your left side has indications of its own.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 02:03 PM

Not sure I'll make my radio show tomorrow night. Even if I feel any better, we are expecting a heavy snow. Thank God for co-hosts.....

Wait! Is that InterVenus DeMilo I just saw walking down the hallway talking to Aaron Boye the orderly?......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:10 PM

All is good, the Dreaded Lurgy is edging out the door as we speak. Haven't coughed much for the past couple of days, just a bit in bed at night - I have noticed the cough is worse if I lie on my left side, so I try not to. My ribs and muscles are thankful.

Enjoying a coffee now, one of only two that I have daily now (used to be four or five) before heading off to shower, dress and face the day. It will then be nearly lunch time......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:05 PM

I thought I posted this previously... ?

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/amosjessupsgang/journal

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 08:03 AM

Perhaps Donuel you would enjoy a nice salmon salad, with Spring onions, baby lettuce, cherry tomatoes and some tinned sardines? Quite healthy and no sweets/carbs to worry about. If you would like this, the Old Lady will happily bring it to you on a fine porcelain plate.

At this moment, I'm tucking into a lovely Ginsters chicken and mushroom pie, with spinach leaves, a Greek yoghurt and some small pink grapes. And of course, a nice cup of strong tea!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:42 AM

When I feel good I know "this too shall pass"

I shouldn't have carbs, sweets and comfort food.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 04:01 AM

Of course Tattie, you can be an axillary (!) nurse. Armpits need a lot of care and attention hee hee.

Pneumonia needs careful nursing Severn. Anyone with that should be monitored constantly. Warm wishes for a swift recovery.

I was a temporary 'axillary' nurse (love that Tattie!) at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmar every year during the long summer vacations at University.

I absolutely adored every minute, and didn't mind one bit the poo, sick, blood and wee that I had to clear up constantly.

Bedpans in those days were steel, not the papier maché things one gets now. They had to be sterilised in The Sluice. And given to a patient warmed, with a stiff shiny square of Izal loo paper folded around the rim to carry it.

My pet hate was the blooming Laundry Store. One of my jobs was to count all the stuff in there, re-fold and restock etc. Boring.

But one magic week I was detailed to assist the Theatre Orderly in cleaning and tidying Theatre One. Magic. I saw all sorts of amputated bits and pieces lying in bowls for transport to the Medical School.
The odd gangrenous leg, ovarian cyst etc. Most interesting.
I had to wear scrubs and natty white rubber wellingtons, and mop the floor.
I reckon I missed my vocation. Teaching was brilliant, but nursing... fabulous!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 15 Feb 19 - 07:22 PM

And I am fully recovered, but can I stay on as a ward orderly? (Or as described in one medical report - "This patient is an axillary nurse" - to which the reply is - Which axilla (armpit) does she specialise in?)
Preferably no bedpans but very good at hospital corners and mouth toilet.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Severn
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 07:32 PM

I can't get out of this place. Now, it's a bout with pneumonia.Hurty Gertie over in therapy is eagerly waiting for another crack at me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 04:21 AM

Excellent news about Amos - very pleased to hear it, and thanks for passing it on gnu.

Jennie, your Lurgy sounds like the one I had last year. Cough blooming cough cough cough. I ended up with one lung making a strange hooting sound when I breathed out. It wasn't an infection, just the tail-end of the endless blinking cold germ which had gone on for weeks. I called it 'The Haunted Lung'!

Donuel, don't feel guilty about being healthy. Smiling African Man and Old Lady are in the best of health at the moment, but are enjoying hanging around tending to those less fortunate, as best they can.

Would you like a toasted crumpet and a nice cup of tea Donuel? Or perhaps you could do a bedpan round? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 07:53 PM

I have never been more entertained and feeing guilty for being healthy than here in the Rediscovery Ward.