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Bubblyrat ill again !!

26 Mar 15 - 08:08 AM (#3697081)
Subject: Bubblyrat ill again !!
From: bubblyrat

Oh dear !! I go for two months with no alcohol AT ALL, then I go to the doctor / hospital for tests on liver and kidneys, and get the "all clear" ....Great !! So I ask them about the terrible pain in my right lower back , and they suspect kidney "stones" . So off I go , "emergency admission" to Cheltenham Hospital, have a "scan" and am eventually told that it is PLEURISY !! No wonder it hurts so much ; I DARE NOT cough,burp, fart,or (worst of all ) sneeze, without suffering SEARING AGONY !! Let us hope the various antibiotics and painkillers ( I had some last week that you shove up your arse / ass ) and they were embarrassing but effective ! Wish me luck !!

26 Mar 15 - 08:10 AM (#3697082)
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From: bubblyrat

I hope they WORK, I should have said !).

26 Mar 15 - 08:20 AM (#3697086)
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From: Sandra in Sydney

you deserve lots of good luck & working antibiotics & painkillers.

sandra

26 Mar 15 - 08:37 AM (#3697096)
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From: Will Fly

Pleurisy's no joke, Rog - I hope you get better soon!

26 Mar 15 - 08:45 AM (#3697099)
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From: Megan L

Hope you recover quickly

26 Mar 15 - 10:04 AM (#3697121)
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From: GUEST,Bill the sound

I hope you get better soon Roger
all the best
Bill

26 Mar 15 - 10:48 AM (#3697143)
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From: GUEST,#

Ditto.

26 Mar 15 - 11:27 AM (#3697157)
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From: Waddon Pete

Aw Bubblyrat...you gotta stop doing this! Hope all the medicines work and you are fighting fit again soon!

Peter

26 Mar 15 - 11:55 AM (#3697163)
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From: gnu

Oh dear! I hope the meds work FAST!

26 Mar 15 - 12:49 PM (#3697187)
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From: Tradsinger

Hey, get well soon. I'll phone you.

26 Mar 15 - 02:17 PM (#3697219)
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From: jacqui.c

Sending good thoughts for a full recovery from Maine.

26 Mar 15 - 02:29 PM (#3697224)
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From: fat B****rd

I can totally empathize with you here, Bubblyrat. I had pleurisy years ago and it was AWFUL. Took my meds and it went away. According to my big sister it runs in the family !!
Take care.
Charlie

26 Mar 15 - 03:34 PM (#3697251)
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From: maeve

Bubblyrat- Good for you to have stayed clear and healthy. Your Pleurisy will resolve much better as a result... Try holding a pillow to absorb some of the force of sneezes, etc.

Be well,
Maeve

26 Mar 15 - 09:49 PM (#3697370)
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From: GUEST,Anniecat

Get well soon.

27 Mar 15 - 02:15 AM (#3697390)
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From: Mr Red

It's a pain in the bum - or   not   perhaps

27 Mar 15 - 03:11 AM (#3697401)
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From: GUEST,.gargoyle

YOU ARE IN WITH SOME MIGHTY FINE COMPANY...ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, POLITICIANS.



Gaius Marius, a Roman general and statesman, according to Plutarch died of the disease in 86 BC.[20]
Flavius Constantius III, a co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire, died of pleurisy according to Sidonius Apollinaris on 2 September 421 AD.[21]
Charlemagne, known as the father of Europe for reuniting much of the Roman Empire, died in 814 of pleurisy.[22]
Hernán Cortés died on 2 December 1547, from a case of pleurisy at the age of 62.
Catherine de' Medici, sometimes described as a "wife of one King and mother of three others", died from pleurisy in January 1589 at age 69.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Renaissance composer died in 1594 from pleurisy in Rome, Italy.

Benjamin Franklin developed fever and chest pain in 1790 at the age of 84. He spent ten days in bed having severe cough and difficulty breathing. He died after an abscess in his lungs burst from what is believed to be a case of pleurisy.

Francis Scott Key died in 1843 at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy.

William Wordsworth, the English poet, died of pleurisy aged 80 on 23 April 1850.

Dominic Savio, Italian Saint, became ill and died in March 1857 at the age of 14 possibly from pleurisy.

Tad Lincoln, the fourth and youngest son of Abraham Lincoln, had difficulty breathing when lying down and had to sleep sitting in a chair, and probably died of pleuristic attack, which was believed to be tubercular in origin, in Chicago in 1871 at age 18.


Mahatma Gandhi suffered from pleurisy during the First World War, while he was in London.

Enrico Caruso was struggling with pleurisy in the winter of 1920-1921, which contributed to his premature death.

Rudolph Valentino, an international movie star, died in August 1926 from pleurisy at age 31.

Alvin Kraenzlein was the first athlete to win four Olympic titles in a single event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. He suffered from bouts of pleurisy at the end of 1927 and died from a related complication early 1928 at the age of 51.

Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, became ill with pleurisy and died of related causes in 1928 at age 87.

Anna Pavlova, one of the world's most famous ballerinas, died unexpectedly of pleurisy at age 49 at the Hotel des Indes in The Hague in Jamuary 1931.

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., a Broadway impresario, who was credited with staging several hit musicals including Show Boat (1927), died on July 22, 1932 of pleurisy after a lung infection at age 65.

Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese poet and writer, suffered from chronic pleurisy and died of pneumonia in September 1933 at age 37.

Sir Robert Chesebrough, inventor of Vaseline, suffered pleurisy in his 50s and is said to have treated it by rubbing his whole body with petroleum jelly.

Colonel Edward Mandell House died on March 28, 1938 in New York City, following a bout with pleurisy. The Colonel was President Woodrow Wilson's advisor, particularly in the area of foreign affairs. Paris Peace Conference.

King George V of the United Kingdom suffered from pleurisy in his later life.

Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, was diagnosed with influenza and pleurisy in 1944.

Ringo Starr, former Beatles drummer, had chronic-pleurisy at age 13 in 1953.

Basil Sydney, the British actor died of the condition in 1968.

Ken Griffey, Jr., an American professional baseball player, complained of soreness in the chest and after a chest x-ray was diagnosed with pleurisy in April, 2007…

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Have you reflected upon how your epitaph should read?

27 Mar 15 - 05:13 AM (#3697438)
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From: Leadfingers

That's not exactly a cheerful post from Gargoyle , but I see not all of them died ! Hang in there Roger

27 Mar 15 - 05:28 AM (#3697445)
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From: Tradsinger

Phoned him yesterday. He's at home but on antibiotics and fed up with being ill.

27 Mar 15 - 08:39 AM (#3697541)
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From: Herga Kitty

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Kitty

27 Mar 15 - 09:16 AM (#3697560)
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From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome

Have a listen to Billy Connely's 'If it was nae for your wellies'. That will cheer you up. To the tune of 'If it was not for the weavers'

If it was nae for your wellies Where would you be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary
You would have a dose o' the flu or even pleurisy
If ye did nae have yer feet in yer wellies

:D tG

27 Mar 15 - 09:39 AM (#3697571)
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From: bubblyrat

Thanks ,Dave ; oddly enough, I have been singing that to Nicola (she had never heard it before ,but then she's from Twickenham !!) in order to cheer myself up a bit. It was working until I read Gargoyle's posting.Cheers a bunch, Gargoyle (but at least you put me in illustrious company ; it is obviously a high status condition and not for the Hoi Polloi ! ).
      Meanwhile, I am up and about and not feeling too bad , and not expecting to be on the "casevac" list for the duty SAR Helo !!
             THANKYOU SO MUCH, all you nice ,lovely people for your wishes for my recovery ; I shall strive to recover just for you (and Gargoyle ).

27 Mar 15 - 09:46 AM (#3697573)
Subject: RE: Bubblyrat ill again !!
From: bubblyrat

PS ........ I have just noticed, under Gargoyle's cheerful posting, a tiny ,green ,message saying "have you considered your epitaph ?"

Well, no, actually, but I will while away the hours in between coughing spasms, by thinking up something nautical and amusing .Meanwhile, should the worst occur, then you are all invited to the Fleet Air Arm Memorial Chapel at RNAS Yeovilton where my ashes will be buried ( no fixed date yet !).

27 Mar 15 - 10:20 AM (#3697590)
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From: Will Fly

Take heart from Garg's list, Roger - most of the people quoted in his post kicked the bucket pre-antibiotics. Far fewer names listed after 1944 - keep taking the meds - don't just Eke them out...

27 Mar 15 - 07:59 PM (#3697744)
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From: ChanteyLass

Ouch, ouch, ouch! Good that you were diagnosed and treatment begun. I hope you feel much better soon.

28 Mar 15 - 06:56 AM (#3697827)
Subject: RE: Bubblyrat ill again !!
From: bubblyrat

I must say , Will, that I am enjoying a Flood of responses ,which I am, as you suggested,trying to Eke out !!

28 Mar 15 - 10:20 AM (#3697873)
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From: Will Fly

LOL!

28 Mar 15 - 11:14 AM (#3697886)
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From: GUEST

Glad to see your sense of humour is intact!

28 Mar 15 - 08:02 PM (#3697967)
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From: Noreen

Wishing you luck and good health, and don't let the somewhat odd comments above get you down!

Hope you're able to play without too much pain- and I hope you'll be recovered for Upton, if you're planning to go.