General Chat

Ralph's 3 years younger than me Mel, he was born 1948

Sorry to learn your hip aches <3

The nurse I saw for my Testosterone injection very kindly offered to do my blood test to save me going on Friday. They are testing my Cholestrol (sp) Thyroid and Testosterone. Apart from that I think I am O.K..

My brother is almost 4 years older than me. He is part of the elder twins. When I speak with my Nephew later today, I will know a bit more what's going on.

This weather is going to get worse as the week progresses. It's all coming across the Atlantic , and spreading right across the U.K. So BUTTON down the hatches.

Anne my Mother was just the same, Always putting one of the children against another with horrible rumours, which were all untrue. If she couldn't get one of us arguing with another, she was never HAPPY. There were times when I visited, she would plead poverty. Not knowing how she was going to pay this bill or that. I would slip a few quid behind the clock on the mantelpiece. Only to find that one or more of the family had done the same. !!! I have seen in the pass when she could hardly close her purse with all the notes she had in there. Why on earth she had to be like that I will never know.

Jan has just heard from her daughter that Alexander her G'son, is out of hospital, he is not allowed milk today only Diarolite (sp) as he still has a bad tummy. She will be off to see them in the next hour.

No plans for Ros and I today, just a quiet day with my book and T.V.

Nice to see you are staying with us David, It did seem strange without you.

I see Harry has not made another posting ??? Come on Harry, if you are looking in.

Morning All
Frank.I hope that you have a good chat with your Brother this afternoon.He does sound very ill .I have been so lucky with my Sister.I don't think we have ever had words (not as adults anyway).Plenty when we were children lol :-D
Also I hope that the baby will soon be well enough to go home again.I had James in hospital with Gastro Enteritis when he was 10 months old and it was awful seeing him hooked up to drips and trying to climb out the cot to get to me.

Mel do you find your hip aches more when it rains ? Or if rain is due?

David that is really nice to hear that Ralf is clear now of his Cancer.He did have a rough time didn't he.

Well the rain here seems to have stopped now but it isn't very nice.Will Amy have her walk later Anne ?.My old Chester never seemed to mind the rain.There were days when I wished otherwise as no matter what the weather was he would not let me rest until he had had his walk each morning.I suppose the good thing was that it made me walk everyday..Maybe I should get Thomas a Cat harness and lead :-D :-D
Jess (Jame's girlfriend) sometimes takes one of her Ragdoll Cats for a walk !!!

Better get a few jobs done before a bite to eat and then the Dentist .I think I might have soup for lunch as it won't get stuck in my teeth :-D :-D

I think Amy will get a shorter walk again as its only very fine rain now, the only water Amy likes when out is drinking out of very muddy puddles :-| :-|

Sometimes one of the cats will come to meet us when coming back from the walk but they have chosen to stay indoors at the moment. I had a dead mouse this morning it was the same size as the rescued one. When we were walking on Eastbourne seafront last week, a couple crossing the road had a tiny cat tucked in a rucksack looking around quite happily.

I always feel guilty when I haven't done much, I don't know why as I know it's silly perhaps because I worked full time since Richard was 10 and didn't have much time to myself then.

Going to have a jacket potato for lunch followed by an avocado

You know what saddens and scares me? Now as I near 70 I realise that my brothers

and I have drifted apart, something that began many years ago.

Dennis has his own family miles away, he is a grand father. Ralph chose to remain a

bachelor, seldom see him. The last time the 3 of us were together was at my Aunt

May's funeral. The time before that was at my Mother's funeral and the time before

that was at my Father's funeral etc. The common denominator being funerals.

I fear the next time Ralph and Dennis will bee at my funeral or Ellen's.

:-( Kind of makes me feel vulnerable.

David it so sad that you feel like that. As I have said before Peter, my late husbands family are very good at keeping in touch although not all living in the same area. Leominster being the furthest, then us in Berkshire, then Horsham, Ashford Kent and of course Hastings where we all came from.

All of his siblings are married with adult children now and most of us are grandparents and his youngest sister is a great grandmother so apart from funerals we have had weddings and namings a humanist ceremony as was my husbands funeral.

We try to take holidays which enable us to visit the further ones

It's good that you all show each other such respect <3

I've to think, there's 2 Anne's on this thread.

I shouldn't be morose. I've survived 6 surgical operations and a biopsy and weeks on

an IV drip. What did sadden me recently was after so many people saying I should put

a claim in, eventually I did. The biopsy flushed out of my knee a piece of metal from

a fixator removed from my knee. This caused the pain and inflammation and

infection of the bone and the immobility. On checking my hospital records there was

no record of a foreign body. The IV drip was for a urinary infection. Who would you believe, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, or me?

The legal people said my claim was unfounded. Wish I'd never bothered
:-( :-(

Hello David

I'm the latest Anne on this thread the other Ann signs in as Annx

I'm so sorry to hear how you were treated by this hospital would your own doctor been informed on your progress and maybe he could advise you. It wasn't the Staffordshire hospital was it? Someone I know nearly lost their leg through a wound being stitched up without being cleaned and a lot of grit from the road being left in at this hospital.

How is your treatment coming on ? It must seem never ending has it disabled you in anyway?

Frank, Norman and Henry Bones was about 2 boy detectives Charles Hawtrey playing one of them this was on the radio in the early 1950's, I think or it could have be late 40's

Still that fine rain blowing in the breeze here.

I don't think it is my hip now but a bit further up. If I sit for a while it hurts when I get up. It is more like around the sacroiliac joint. I think I shall have to go and do some ironing so I can stand for a while.

Hello Anne, Yes I am disabled by this series of operations in that my left has septic arthritis and is now inoperable. It has fused straight, like a peg leg. It will not bend as it should. In 2013 amputation above the knee was an option thought of and passed on.
Now, no more surgery means that option is not going to happen.
Could have been worse, it could have been a cliff I jumped over :-)

It seems by signing the consent form for all these operations I was accepting the risk of pain, death, all kinds of infection etc. :-S

Why did you jump over that wall David?

Good question Mel, it happened like this My wife told me to fetch her cat in.

So having nothing better to do I went the door, about 4.30pm 16/March looking for the

cat. I turned left out of the garden gate and walked toward the corner of the street.

On my left was a low wall bordering my lawn. I was looking into my lawn for her cat

I saw lying on the grass a bottle that some one had thrown there. To put it mildly I

was annoyed. I put my left hand on the wall and vaulted over it. The landing wasn't

so graceful. There's a 2 foot height difference on the inside of the wall. I landed on

the ball of my left foot. Before my bum had touched the grass I'd screwed my entire

body weight through my knee wrecking it and the whole length of the tibia. As to

why I jumped instead of using the garden gate, I DON'T KNOW

Impetuous, reckless, thoughtless, stupid....take your pick, it happened.

Back from the Dentist and all good :-D.I just have a Hygienists appointment on Monday ,then that is me sorted for the next 6 months.

Oh David I am shocked that there was no record of that bit of Metal :-0 :-0 :-0..That was conveniently left out !!!!!!.You told us about that last year!!!!!! Shame on the hospital :-S :-S :-S..You definately deserved to have had compensation after what you went through after that cock up.I suppose as there is no record then there is nothing else you can do.I wonder how often this happens ???? Far too often I imagine.

I do think it is a shame when families drift apart like you and your Brothers.But It happens a lot when there are great distances .Is your other brother the one who lives in Banbury?..
The only time I saw my Scottish relatives was when one of the family passed away.These were all my Dads Brothers.I wonder now if we will ever get to meet up again.I did keep in touch for a long time by phone but I was the only one who made an effort so it is up to them now to get in touch with me.I feel I have done my bit.
Chris's Parents never rang just for a chat.It was always us who rang them.There had never been any falling out.They just never thought to pick the phone up.
Whereas I always rang my Mum once a week and she did the same after my Dad passed away.I must speak to my Sister at least a couple of times a week .
Families can be quite strange sometimes lol

Mel I think David forgot that there was a big drop the other side of that wall when he jumped it !!!!..That's right isn't it David?

Where is Liz.I don't think we have heard from her for a little while.

Tomorrow Chris is going to Cambridge for the day.Guess who is coming up for lunch.
Fitzy :-D

Just one of those very unfortunate accidents David.You were neither reckless,impetuous,thoughtless or stupid :-)..But sadly you have suffered so much since that day.Life is a bitch sometimes :-(

Anne I would have loved to have seen that little cat in the rucksack :-D.It sounded like it was very happy in it :-D..I can't even pick Thomas up without him wriggling and trying to escape.I would like to think that one day he might just feel safe enough to have a little lap time.He loves a bit of a fuss but just is very cagey about getting too close.I wish I knew where he came from.
You said you had a Humanist funeral for your late husband.That is what I would like.I have been to a couple now and they have been the nicest(if that is the right thing to say) funerals that I have attended.

Just a few days to go now before the really dark evenings come.This year seems to have whizzed by.

You are sweet Jane, I didn't forget, I didn't think, it's the eegit in me SORRY

If I were to try a different legal team they would have to study the same hospital records and reach the same conclusion

here's another piece of negligence for you. Because I was immobilised due to injury and fixators and all that caper I went 3 weeks without a bowel movement!!

Distressing? I'll say. This chaplain came into the ward and asks "any last rites or confessions?" He was met with a wall of silence. I spoke up and said you could say a would for this man who hasn't had a sheet for 3 weeks. He smiled and left the ward .I don't know he said or who to, but at 3pm that same afternoon something started to move inside of me. I called for a walking frame and by hopping on my right teg I made it to the lavvy. I grabbed the rail on the wall beside the WC pot and descended. No sooner had my cheeks touched the pot I moved it all.
The power of prayer

:-D :-D :-D What a relief David :-D

I couldn't believe one man had that much in him

Well they say I'm full of it :-D :-D :-D

I hope Mel's pain eases off, it doesn't seem pleasant

Good evening All, Hi Anne I used to BORROW my Dads whisky as well, this is where Sarah went wrong I replased it with cold tea that way it didn't dilute the colour LOL.
Frank I spent many happy hours down the and Brick Lane, do you remember the stool holder that used to throw the plates and stuff about, I worked for him for awhile but my nerves got the better of me. My cousin had a cafe just by the number 8 bus stop.
Does anyony make bread by hand, I also make my own sausages. Maybe we can swop some recipes.
My youngest daughter has me rebuilding her mobile eating establishment, you should have heard her when I called it a burger van lol

Regards H :-D :-(

Good to see you again Harry. Mobile Eating Establishment sound very posh!! Does she do burgers??

I occasionly make bread but only usually for the harvest festival and I hav'nt done it now for a couple of years. I have a bread maker but also that is in the uti room on the side and has'nt been used for about 6 years. I really enjoyed using it too. Perhaps I shall get it back in the kitchen and perhaps start using it again. I like brown bread and oh likes white!!

Never made my own sausages though.