BS: SINSULL's Turn

Subject: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:01 PM

This past Thursday I had a huge infected lymph node removed and some additional biopsies done. My mastitis wasn't mastitis after all. But it also wasn't cancer. I seem to have contracted a bacterial infection possibly cat scratch fever which settled in the lymoh nodes. Antibiotics seemed to have killed off the bacteria but the infection was huge and not going away. I decided to err on the side of caution and have the mess removed and tested. It had the possibility of being cancer or exploding into a huge systemic infection.

Initial test results show no cancer or pre-cancer. The last results will take several weeks. They want to rule out tuberculosis. Meantime I am home sulking. My brother and his wife spent a few days looking after me. Spacey hardly describes my condition on Percoset.

So I am now joining the ever growing group of catters in recovery. Come gather in the Recovery thread and I will share my meds.

SINS

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Morticia
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:07 PM

I'm so glad it wasn't anything worse and so grateful you got something done about it! Let me pour you some good gin, the stuff they put in the I.V's is watered.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:08 PM

Crap! And Hallelujah!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Megan L
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:08 PM

This recovery ward will have to close to new admissions till the mudcat flower budget improves. seriously though hope all is well with you Sins.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 May 04 - 04:13 PM

YES!!! APPLAUSE!!!

Dig the percoset......I really see how folks get hooked on that one! It really is a quality buzz!   Sins, I've been thinking about your boobs a lot and ............

Seriously, I am happy for you and with you. Great news. And we can use some around here.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Deckman
Date: 04 May 04 - 05:39 PM

Hey Sins, thanks for keeping me abreast of what's happenning. Since my hip surgery, I am something of an expert on pain pills. Here's a short lesson: They come in all colors. The bigger they are, the more expensive they are. The smaller they are, the more deadly (effective) they are. The lighter, the better. By far the most powerful are the little tiny white ones. (I once dropped one on the floor and it burned a hole). Also, those little white darlings bring a good price on the street. Stay away from oxicontin, unless you plan on going into the radio talk show business!!!! (O.K., I'll find my coat now and steall quietly away). Hugs, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: DonMeixner
Date: 04 May 04 - 05:51 PM

Sins,

I got a ton of Perc that I can't take. I'd send it to you but I'd get busted. So I send my best wishes instead.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:17 PM

Deep sigh of relief that cancer is definitely ruled out. Trust you to get something exotic that flummoxes the medicos. (big grin) Are you SURE it isn't Oak Blight?

I was thinking about you somewhere between Portsmouth Hospital (visiting a friend who just had knee surgery) and Motor Vehicles for Tom's tempory handicapped placard, trying to remember when you said you were having the surgery.

Gimme a call if you feel like it or I'll give you a call. Are you still playing Mom to Seamus?!?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Deckman
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:18 PM

Don, Be Careful Do NOT flush them down the toilet! I did that, and the next thing I knew my toilet was crusing around our bathroom ceiling yelling that he wanted a shower. Go Figure!!!. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:24 PM

"Hey Sins, thanks for keeping me abreast of what's happenning." Funny how the mind works, isn't it, Bob?!

This is, indeed, good news, Mary. It is so nice to have all those good wishes and positive thoughts produce this kind of result. I'm also glad you came straight to the point about it all without mixing in a bunch of vague titillations. It is also good that your meds were able to prevent your being racked with pain. The world is filled with enough boobie traps without stuff like this to deal with.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Bill D
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:28 PM

well! Infections and miseries are Nature's way of telling you that you are mortal and can't spend ALL your time helping others! *wry grin*...

So, it's good news/bad news ...with the good news winning. We'll look for updates...take care--and as many yummy pills as they'll let you have.

(I went thru my college graduation with cat scratch fever (from a bite on the hand) total misery!...makes you want to switch to goldfish!)

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:29 PM

... and I'm glad to hear you nipped it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: DougR
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:30 PM

Way to go Sinsull! Good on you!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: DonMeixner
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:33 PM

Jeepers Wyssy,

Only some kind of a Brazen Boob would make a comment like that. I'll bet you were in your cups when you thought of it. Probably just tittered away to your self as you hit the submit button.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:45 PM

Well, um, yup! At least when I tittered I did have the good manners to use my chest voice.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Deckman
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:47 PM

Hey Sins ... aren't you GLAD you started this thread! CHEERS, Bob (Judy says "Hi")

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:51 PM

You'll have to take the rest of the cabbage and make yourself some 'slaw.

I'm glad to hear you've had this taken care of. The idea of systemic infection is horrifying.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 May 04 - 06:53 PM

Aw, jeez, Mary, don't go and scare me like that! I wasn't past the first sentence before I started getting the jitters! I'm so glad it's not CA, and I hope you are feeling better each day. Abundant hugs awaiting, when the pressure eases.

Love,
Allison

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Micca
Date: 04 May 04 - 07:05 PM

Hey Sins, I take my eye off you for two minutes........
just get well, OK???? Bug Hugs from your buddy, (and Love to Alice)

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Amergin
Date: 04 May 04 - 07:12 PM

I'm glad you decided to get things checked out, Sins and that so far nothing seems to be seriously wrong....I hope the good news keeps a coming for you.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 May 04 - 07:54 PM

Whew. There must be a conspiracy afoot to continually find new and exotic ailments. This will be one to recount in your old age.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 04 - 08:18 PM

oh dear!
i remamber when you had revealed this streak of bad luck you were having with pain, etc. a while back. I hope the diagnosis continues to be benign, and that you soon will be bouncing back to better status.
just keep lymphing along and soon you will sail right thru,
I have good mammaries of when you sent me the blue bird of happiness,
and now i think i should send it winging its way back to you.
oh mr. blue bird on my shoulder,
it's real, it's actual,
everything is satisfactual,
zip i dee doo dah
zip i dee ay...
best of health to you.
and good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: karen k
Date: 04 May 04 - 10:33 PM

Whew!!!!!!!!!! Thinking of you. Be well and take care.
love, karen

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: dianavan
Date: 04 May 04 - 10:44 PM

Oweee - Sounds like it was pretty painful. Glad to hear you are recovering. Take some time to be good to yourself.

...and clip that damn cat's claws.

What is Percoset? Painkiller? Anti-inflammartory? Antibiotic?

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Janie
Date: 04 May 04 - 10:51 PM

Now that is great news! (Percoset makes me puke.) Love, Janie

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Tinker
Date: 04 May 04 - 11:08 PM

Dang Lady, I went through how many possiblilities between reading the thread title and waiting for it to load.... Knowing how patient a patient you could be, I thought maybe I could send you a teenager or two to help out during recovery ? Well, maybe I'll settle for a huge sigh of relief and recovery wishes headed north.

Love Ya,

tink

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 May 04 - 01:21 AM

Hi Mary

So glad to hear that things are OK so far. Kendall's just about on his way back and ready to get his revenge for the looking after earlier this year. He says that he can be a mother too, at least that's part of what a guy called him when he didn't get out of the way in time crossing a London street!

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Mudlark
Date: 05 May 04 - 02:49 AM

All in all, good news. Now let people pamper you...hang on to convalescence as long as possible...but get well fast.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Naemanson
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:15 AM

Hey Sins! Good news! I hope you are in good enough condition to survive Kendall's mothering. I'd have called but I forgot your phone number. When you get old the mammery just isn't what it used to be...

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 May 04 - 09:34 AM

Brett, should we sing Sinsull a chorus of "Thanks for the Mammaries"?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 May 04 - 11:21 AM

I'm glad to hear this---just caught the title and flipped a bit. I'm happy to know that it only means I'll have someone to show-n-tell scars with! *bg* All that and percoset too?

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 May 04 - 11:21 AM

Surely Linn it is Fangs for the Mammaries, AKA Milk Teeth
John

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 04 - 01:23 PM

Thanks...I guess. The very milk of human kindness, you guys. I go back to work tomorrow. None too soon if kendall is on his way to "care" for me.
We can compare scars. Gee - Jen Ellen, Me, Kendall, Spaw, Curmudgeon, Deckman - who else wants to join the Scar-borough Fair. Prizes even.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: jacqui c
Date: 05 May 04 - 01:28 PM

Well - over the past five months I've managed to collect three scars, two on the foot and one beauty right down the stomach. Add to one on each hand for Carpals Tunnel ops.....

I saw Kendall off at the airport so he's on his way home as I type.

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:38 PM

A beauty pageant for scars? Reminds me of that scene in "JAWS"....LOL
~Miss Chievous

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Amos
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:46 PM

I am sure the Temple of the Golden Curve would be happy to consider volunteering premises for the pageant, providing we could charge a small door fee. (It is a house of a-door-ation, after all.) (Boooo hisssss). :>)

Padre Peter Pitter Pater,
Tactile Solutions Department
Temple of the Golden Curve

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 May 04 - 04:04 PM

Glad to hear so far so good!

I've been hacked on a bit, but not much of it shows. Sinus surgery about nine years ago, and Lord was it nice to be able to breath through my nose again!!! Endoscopy, no visible scars. When I busted my left leg real good in 2000, they put a titanium rod in my femur and bolted it in place with four screws. If I ever go throught an airport metal detector, I'll give them wall-eyed fits!

I was wondering about Bob's (Deckman's) hip surgery. I guess I haven't been keeping up with some of the latest trends, but isn't "hip" surgery something like body piercing? You know, navel rings, tongue studs, and such???

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 04 - 04:34 PM

Deckman is a tongue stud???? Why am I not surprised? iT'S THE ANAESTHESIA! iT'S THE ANAESTHESIA!

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Deckman
Date: 05 May 04 - 04:56 PM

SSSSHHHHHEEEEEUUUUUHHHH!

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 04 - 06:12 PM

I have a little scar on my foot from the bunionectomy last summer, but it hardly shows because he doctor did it in the little divit beside the tendon and Scandinavians don't usually have scars that show for long--they fade to pasty white. The hysterectomy scars hardly show because they did that from below--I had three bandaids on my tummy when they finished. Course it felt like someone had gone through my insides with a handheld mixer. . .

I think Bob certainly gets double points for his surgery, since they not only replaced his hip (as Don says, he used to "hip," now he's "cool"), they broke his leg in the process!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 May 04 - 07:14 PM

Geez, Curmudgeon's scar is nothing to look at right now -- for the time being no beauty prizes. What are the points based on? Grossness? Size? Location?

Argh!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: Tinker
Date: 05 May 04 - 10:35 PM

Hmmmm this from the woman who encouraged the video of Barry Finn's scar for future comparison ??? Should I start a collection of scar footage ? SINS I think yours would definately have the most interested viewership....but what would Mr. Perfect think?

kathy

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: KathWestra
Date: 06 May 04 - 07:35 AM

Hey sweetie, take care of yourself. I'm so relieved it's benign. Now get better. As Karen said, "whew"! Love, Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: karen k
Date: 06 May 04 - 10:31 AM

Hey, Sins, hope you will be coming to Old Songs. I think it will be a particularly good year. Tinker, you too. Hope to see you both there. Love, k

Subject: RE: BS: SINSULL's Turn
From: JennyO
Date: 06 May 04 - 11:52 PM

Well I'm getting quite a collection of scars. As well as one from a broken ankle which had to be operated on in '99, and my gall bladder scar, I have a network of scars on the inside and outside of my left wrist which has now been operated on 3 times, the latest was yesterday. Should we post photos? ugh!