General Chat

Hello everyone, where are you all, is the weather so bad that you have all decided to stay in bed?
I do hope all our poorly friends are stating to feel better, these 'flu' bugs take ages to go away dont they.
I see my daughter put a message on here last night, I have asked if I can see doctor doom as soon as he comes on the ward, I am not sure if I am more angry or more upset. but I do realise that mistakes happen, and I am in the best place at the moment. am trying to keep calm but it isn't very easy.
Will look in later,
Take care and stay safe.
Jean xx

Morning everyone
I hope everyone has a good day.

Good morning.

A wet and windy one here in London Town.

Just seen the news on text, flood warnings in the SouthWest, so lets hope it does not affect Marilyn, Dermot or Patricia.

Hope Rita has had her confirmation of Holiday in IOW. It is really lovely in the Summer. Sandown boasts the most sunshine in Britain [or certainly used to].

Keep calm Jean, you are in the right place, even if it is not where you want to be, take the opportunity of having a rest. Give Dr Father a right earful when you see him, then go back to serenity.

Hope everyone is well and warm.

Still coughing, but I dont think quite as bad, so hopefully going. If only it was warmer, I am sure it would 'dry up'

Take care out there.

See you later.

Maddie
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Morning everyone
Jean some of these hospital are really bad each doctor does what he thinks and forgetting to tell the other what he has done or thinking.? so you get lost in the change. My Granddaughter goes to Hillingdon Hospital and is in there for weeks .Months even a year once and the mistakes they made you would not beleive.? all because one doctor tells the nurse but not the other doctor on duty.The complaints the family have made about this( nothing is done.)
But I think if you weight things up a few more days might be better for you, you dont want to come home early just to go back in again do you ?
I know it must be upsetting for you. when you get your hopes up your going home and then you find your not. It has happened to me a few times.
so get busy on your laptop while you can.

Love Rita

Maddie
I am pleased you enjoyed your day out.my sister drags me to places I never knew exsisted. ? we go to one museum and I say the same thing, I didnt know this one was here ? . my two favourite venues are Hendon Air Museum and The Navy Museum in Greenwich The Painted hall is one of my favourites. but when you start getting old it takes you longer to get around. but then I have been there so many times now.
we were down there a couple of years ago when the Royal accademy of music was having a recital in the Naval church and we were invited in to listen it was lovely we were there for about two hours.
did I tell you Maddie last year I went to the Proms at St Judes Church in Hampstead.I expect you know the church.
Time to take my tablets now. see you later.
Rita

Morning all, it's quite mild here today, I think the sun might even get out later. I hope we've seen the last of the snow.

Has anyone seen Cath around? Haven't seen her name on here for a couple of days now. Is she still unwell?

So many people on this thread have been ill the last few weeks that I've lost track of who's ill and who's not. I think Pat and Maddie are recovering, Jean's in hospital and Linda is ill. Rita, Mo and Shelly have fought off bugs, and Marilyn has a sore mouth. Not sure if Yvonne's been ill or not, but I think Dermot and Stephen are fighting fit.

I know anyone can make a mistake but I think Jean's doctor should have been a bit more careful. I hate to think what would happen if he mixed the notes up of people who were going to have surgery.

I'm going out today to visit my aunt, it'll be the first time in 2 months that I'll be able to go out without wellies on.

Have a good day everyone.

HI pauline you enjoy your day and visiting your aunt. I bet she will be pleased to see you
. I feel well now. I still have a slight cough but nothing to worry about. I did some shopping this morning posted a couple of birthday cards then went into Waitorse to get milk and squosh I wanted blackcurrant they didnt have that so I had a summer fruits one Robinsons I found it was on speacial buy one get one free, Bargain of the day Lol.

I know these hospital are busy but some of the doctors do make mistakes. sorry but alot of the overseas doctors do. I suppose if they have come from another country they need time to settle in I am speaking of those who were not born here.
My Granddaugter walked into a hospital and came out in a wheel chair, she also caught MRSA in her water while she was there, then they gave her something with nuts in which she is allergic too and carried a card to tell others.and she was terrible ill.
I am not kidding I could give you a list as long as 5 feet of things that went wrong while she was in hospital.. we had hospital meeting we did everything but they admitted mistakes had been made
she is still on crutches is an invalid alway in hospital only the drugs she has keeps her going. Megan is her daughter.

I am going to finish off the stew I made yesterday. I have given the cupboard clearing a miss today my back aches .

Rita

Hello again, just been visited by Dracula, the young man who takes blood, he has been every day since I came in, my arms are now black and blue, [ I bruise very easily]
Dr. Doom isn't coming in today, he isn't very well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but another doctor came in, quite young, and VERY nice, he apologised for the mikstake made by his boss, and said if my blood results and temperature stay satisfactory until Saturday I can go home Sunday.
Oh, lunch is here.
Take care and stay safe.
Jean xx

What the devil is that hospital up to with our Jean, how the hell can they get
a persons notes mixed up for goodness sake.
In the hospitals local to us, all notes are kept at the bottom of patients beds, so there should not be any mistakes when a doctor reads them.
Jean I cannot tell you how sorry I am that they have messed you about like this. Building all your hopes up, only to dash them like that. But, god willing you will be home by Sunday, feeling as fit as a fiddle.
If you see the stupid idiot, who mislead you at any time soon, give him a piece of your mind.
It's so unfair when it is left to someone else to say he has made a mistake,and carry the can for him.
You just behave yourself with all them young doctors, ooooh perhaps not, you just enjoy yourself love.

Pauline I hope your aunt was well,when you visited her. You have often spoken about her haven't you.
How is Brent now,after his hospital treatment.

Rita, have a rest from doing those cupboards out today, you did to much yesterday, and now you are paying for it love.
Sit your BTM down and have a nice cuppa,and rest for a while.

Maddie it sounds like you had a fabulous day with your son. It's nice to have one on one time with our children isn't it.

Hi Girls
Jean thats is not too long to wait to come home lets hope your blood keeps to normal. like you I have terrible brusies on my body when I have injections they gave me warfrin in my tummy when I was in there and you could not see any white skin just masses of bruises blue black and green.If i knock myself now I come up with a hugh bruise right away and it last for a week

My son has emailed me a few minutes ago they are bringing his cancer operation up earlier he is now having it on 27th January instead of 17th Feb he said I am getting nervious now. he youngest son is in the army still out in Oman not due home till next month so I suppose he will be worried about his Dad and not being here.He thought he would be home when his Dad had the op.
I have been emailing the family to let them know, as he asked. me too.

what a start to the new year. I wonder if my family will ever be at peace without so much worry.abnout Health, ?
They still keep the notes at the bottom of a paitents bed Mo perhaps this docotor didnt read them correctly
It has started to get cold here now. I didnt have the heating on this morning but I have it on now.

Rita
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Hi Everyone,
sorry for neglecting you all! Just had a busy few days and been too tired at night to get laptop out. Jean sounds like shes in good spirits despite having to stay in a bit longer. Its been raining all week and I'm fed up with it, can't get the washing dry and I hate having it hanging all over the house.
Hope all are well and warm, back later,

Cath xx

Rita, your family have some terrible bad luck with health don't they? I'm pleased that your son's operation's been brought forward, the sooner the better!!

Hi Cath, I was wondering where you were. I got a bottle of that cordial, haven't tried it yet though.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Yvonne for a while either.

Mo, Brent's fine now thanks, and so is my aunt, she's the only one of my mam's siblings left. She gave me a lovely tapestry she'd made for my great niece, she manages to do them without wearing glasses, and she's 92. I can't even thread a needle without putting reading glasses on.

Hi Stephen, it's been 9°C here as well, amazing isn't it? I very nearly put sandals on today.

A man with a lovely soft Scots accent rang me yesterday (or maybe it was Tuesday), I thought for a minute it was you Stephen............ but it was a wrong number. He was ringing from an insurance company and looking for someone called John.

'One thing you can give & still keep is your word'.

I know what you mean about getting the washing dry Cath. My house looks like a chinese laundry at the moment.
I changed both of our beds this morning, and have had the central heating on all day to try to finish drying it of.
The towels are the worst things to get dried, especially the bathsheets.
Oh for just a few days of sunshine, to hang the washing out in the fresh air

My goodness Pauline, your aunt is a wonder, doing all that needlework without glasses. Does she have to wear them at all,for other things.
Like you, I have to have my reading glasses for close work, and my distance glasses for watching the T.V. I don't have to wear glasses permanantly luckily enough at the moment, but who knows what the future may hold.
My mum had the age related degenerative eye disease, and was registered as blind, and hated it when she could no longer do her knitting,
or read her books.
Beware of bogus phone callers LOL

Our weather isn't that good yet, haven't been able to get the washing out either.

Mo, she's got reading glasses but only needs them if she's sewing very dark areas. I need mine for reading and using my lappy, as well as sewing........... don't need them for knitting though.

Was your mam totally blind Mo, or could she see a little bit?

Pauline I think my family has a curse on it for the past five years our health has gone down hill
I dont think any of us have got away with anything in the way of health.

My daughter was intouch earlier and she said she had booked a holiday for her and her husband Steve they are going to a holiday centre at Chiesl beach in Dorset they are looking forward it . being as they didnt go last year due to Steve cancer,. she said I am going on
the 9th July ( that is the same date I am going with my sister to Isle of wight.)
My daughter really needs this holiday with all the worry she had with Steve being so ill she is a dibetic and has high blood pressure as well as heart trouble. so I do hope the weather will be kind to them.

I watched East Enders this evening for a change.
I am looking forward to "The Land Girls " which is coming back on on Monday afternoon. It brings back some memories. but it wasnt all like that.

HI Jean can you HEAR ME ? how are you this evening ? hope you are finding things to do.

Hi Catherine see you are busy. I recall the days when I had wet washing in the house tryng to dry it everything got damp even the wall paper.

Talking about wall paper
I thought of something that might bring a smile to your faces, a friend of my husband was called out to one of his friends he was a decorator. her husband had tried to get some washable wallpaper off their wall.and they were friends so he took his steam stripper with him. and used it on the walls it eventuall took all the wall paper off the wall . she had been and had a perm that day and she had been sitting watching her husband and his friend at work the steam made her perm come out. and her hair was strait. she was furious with them, she said it had cost her a fortune to get her hair done.
when I was told I laughed I should not have really but at least she got the wall paper off the walls,

Pauline so you enjoyed you visit to Auntie then ? I bet she was pleased to see you.
I have no Aunties left now to visit infact none of the family only my children.

Rita

Pauline mum could see some things, but they were quite blurred. I know you'll think this strange, she loved her T.V, more than her radio. Most of the soaps,were her favourite programmes,and she could follow a lot because of the dialogue.
I think I told you she had dementia, and on one visit to her, she told us that she had been made to drive a bus, even though she told them she was registered blind. We laughed when she told us, but she firmly believed she had done it. So sad really, but it's part of the dementia.

Stephen if I tried to put one of the Mull Driers in my garden, there would be no room to walk around the garden. It's so tiny out there, but big enough for me to manage when it come to doing the gardening.

Rita, I can hear you shouting Jean from here in Kent. I bet they have taken her lappy away from her again, the meanies.
I had to laugh at the escapade with the steamer. But they certainly do create a lot of steam dont they.
Ours not only took the wallpaper of, it also took the plaster of the walls lol
I am looking forward to the land girls coming back on again as well. I found the last series very interesting, even though some of the things that happened were not true to form.
The sooner they do your sons operation,the better, he can then get back on the road to recovery love.
I know it's hard to do, but you must try not to worry yourself to much, you have been through enough yourself, let alone making yourself unwell by worrying to much.
It will be nice for your daughter and son in law, to have a nice holiday this year, they deserve it .