General Chat

Evening All

I have just skipped through the posts as I seem t ohave been on the go all day.
Frank, It sounds like the Dr wants to give this infection a good blast with these new antibiotics.I hope they do the trick.

Another nice day out for you Ann I see :-D. Good to hear that OH's cough hasnt been too bad now . Did you manage ot get a better sleep last night?

It has been a horrible rainy and dark day here. I was expecting torrential rain and thunder last night but other thsn t jusy beong really hot and humid nothing really happened.

Frank ,Fitz goes in early tomorrow morning and has his op tomorrow .He is getting himself in a bit of a tizzy now. He says he is now thinking his bed is too low!!!! Silly so and so should have had this sorted by now. But this is what he is like . His OH is still taking him in at 5.30 am so she can go to the Gym :-S :-S
I will have to be in at 7am on Thursday. Ring the ward at 6 tomorrow night to check on the bed . I did remind Fitz just now to ring .

I went to the Chiropodist this morning to have a good toenail cut. She was a bit os a scary woman . Built like a brick you know what . She spotted a kind of cyst on hte underside of my big toe and decided to take a scapel to it .She really should not have done that as it bled and although she put a plaster on it it came through and the inside of my shoe (by the toe is all bloody) . I said i didnt need an open bit of skin just before going in for an op. I think it will be fine by Thursday . But I have to say I was a bit cross.I wont be seeing her again.

I have been wondering how things have been today for Vera and Bob.I do hope that things are ok.

Must make a start on food. I decided to night is an unhealthy one with Burgers,Sausages, Chips,Mushrooms (maybe some veg :-D)

Evening all

It's been a very busy day here today getting everything sorted ready for OH's op tomorrow. First we nipped to the shop to buy the screening, OH won't be able to do the job for a while and the shop doesn't stock much of it, so I thought it best to buy it and keep it in the spare room until we're ready to do the job. The builders next door to mum has offered us all the wood so at least we won't have to pay for that and OH's friend has kindly offered to take me to pick it up when the builders have taken it all out. I called around to see mum as she was supposed to have a procedure today making her heart go really fast then slow it right down to see what's going on. She got up at 6am and got a taxi to the hospital only to be told it had been cancelled so she wasn't very happy about that. We're not sure if she's going to have it done now or not. We then came home and I rang the dentist as my mouth is still a bit sore and I've finished the antibiotics now, but I think the receptionist got my message wrong when I asked to see the dentist for more antibiotics and she ended up booking me in to have my tooth out on Thursday, so I hope the infection has gone. At least the tooth will be out and I'll cancel the appointment I originally had a week later. OH is now cutting the lawns so that job will be out of the way. So all in all we haven't stopped today.

Good luck for your op tomorrow Jane, I'll be thinking of you. Hope all went well for Fitz today.

I see your OH's cough is a little easier now AnnG and he's managed some sleep.

How is Colin's tummy now Mandy, I hope the Imodium worked and he's feeling a little better now.

How is your headache Frank, I hope it's cleared up for you now. I've just taken a painkiller as I have a headache, but I think it's the warm weather that's caused mine, plus I'm a bit worried about OH's op and my dentist appointment. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll relax more and the headaches will stop.

Going to have a cuppa now and a lay down, that normally works and will give the painkillers a chance to work properly to.

I am sure all will go well tomorrow for OH's op Gill .I think you said he will home the same day? You are just a day out for Fitz and me :-D
Fingers crossed your tooth will be all cleared of infection and you can have it out on Thursday.

Vera It sounds like OH is picking up now :-D. I hope it all continues to go well . The bottom is not an easy place for these heat patches but they are good.

Why are our men so against taking any tablets and anything that will help???? I find it quite infuriating at times.

Hope all goes well for your OH tomorrow Gill, and then with you and your tooth. Good luck to Fitz Jane then of course to you. Have you stocked up on reading material for your rest periods after the op?

That's good OH has had a better day Vera perhaps he's finally on the up.

Gill I hope all goes well for your OH tomorrow and he's soon back home again.

Poor Fitz has his early drive in tomorrow to the hospital I wish him all the best.

Jane I expect you will be sorting your bag out ready for the hospital ,just think next week at this time you will be home ,I think Colin was only in for five days .

It's very murky out there now ,we did sit out this afternoon ,Colin is a little better it just takes him longer to get over tummy bugs because of his irritable bowl problem.

Ann my Kindle has about 12 books all lined up , and Hannah sent me Sarah Milligans book today. She thought that twould give me a laugh and cheer me up. It does look good. She also sent a moisturising face mask and a foot nourishing sock pack !.A lovely card too. I think she feels a bit bad that she is going to be away so won't be able to visit. Chris is going to bring in an old iPad on Friday so if Ifeel like it I can watch some tv programmes.I have learnt how to use it today :-D

Evening All,

A dull murky day here too!

I'm glad Colin is a bit better Mandy and hopefully he will pick up now. OH gets IBS so maybe that is why he took a while to shake it off.

Vera I find those patches are very good. I get the Deep Heat ones. They can be tricky to get in the right spot though and hard to do yourself as you say. I hope your hubby continues to improve and doesn't get those pains again.

Best wishes to Fitz with his early start tomorrow. He will have to find some of his large volumes to go under the bed legs at home to raise it up! Best wishes to you Jane on Thursday too in case I don't get on here tomorrow. <3 <3 <3 You sound like you have thought of just about everything and have some pampering treats from H too! You will soon be home again with Chris waiting on you!! :-D

Best wishes to your Hubby too Gill and try not to worry! I hope you get that tooth sorted on THursday. It will be good to get rid of the problems it's causing.

AnnG it's good you have both managed to get some sleep and the Sudafed seems to have done the trick at night. You find some good places to visit and have been lucky to escape the rain. I haven't visited much of that area either. Just Blackpool with training courses at work......usually in the middle of winter!! Also a trip into Morecambe when I got a lift with OH when he went to a match in the area. One more day then before you come home.........make the most of it!

I still couldn't play Frank's video, but thanks for sending it to me to try Mel. I don't think I have what you need to open Winzip files which is what it is.

Frank you will be like my friend with the Maine Coons. We have to be careful when we open the outside doors and one sits watching through the front door! I love their thick fur, like little Teddy Bears! Do you know whether Lewis's job is safe after the latest with Val Pattisserie?

Luckily I didn't need a biopsy last night as she thought the problem had improved. Still pain though, but I have different medication for 2 weeks so will see how things go. I had to smile in the carpark at the snooty looks some gave as they walked past my car. Being a private hospital, most of the cars were either Mercedes, Jaguar or large BMWs, and not lowly manufacturers like mine!!

I got a T shirt this morning for the block printing tomorrow. I couldn't decide what colour and they were only £2.50 so OH said get both which I did. I've also put some potatoes in my bag as I'm sure they said we might use those. Daft OH said would we be able to eat them afterwards!!!!!!! I wonder about him sometimes! ;-)

Mandy, pleased you were able to sit out, the fresh air will have done Colin good I hope..

Jane the IPad will be useful and the kindle too, imagine if you had all those books stacked up, they would be taking up a lot more space.

Silly me getting my days muddled up Jane, hope all goes well for Fitz tomorrow and you the next day. It sounds like you're ready with the Ipad and Kindle.

Thanks everyone for your kind wishes for OH, I've passed them all on to him. Yes, Jane all being well he should be home tomorrow evening. His friend is taking and bringing him back.

Pleased to see your OH is starting to feel a little better now Vera. Let's hope he carries on improving. Hope the heat pad works.

Pleased to see Colin is feeling a bit better now to Mandy.

That's good that you didn't need the biopsy in the end Ann. I hope the new meds help with the pain and you feel better soon. Your OH is such a funny man isn't he lol? Pity you couldn't see Frank's video, the two kittens were very playful, Sandra loved them.

Yes you will have to batten down the hatches when you have those lovely kittens at yours Frank, you'd feel awful if they got out and got lost somewhere. I didn't realise they were that expensive.

How are the Blackbirds getting on Mel? Sandra was asking about them today and asked me to ask you about them. Have you seen the hedgehog again? We've noticed a few coming into our garden so have started putting some food down for them. We all love watching them.

I am so pleased that your oh is feeling a bit better now Vera lets hope it continues to improve.

Good luck to Fitz for tomorrow an d you Jane the next day. At least you don't have the 5.30am start to your op. Will you be able to get on here on the old Ipad? It would be nice to know how you are getting on. Best wishes for Thursday and we will all be thinking of you and Fitz. Hannah's little pressies were just the right things for you to take with you. She's a careing girl. Bless. <3

I see Colin is on the up too and hope he continues to to get better.

Sorry about you not being able to open the video. I have to open in in something called Twinresult or something like that. It takes a while to open too. All the pictures were very large and I can't send videos from my new camera as they always say they are to big to send.

Glad you got your t shirts ok and wait in antisipation to see the results.

I did take a pic of the blackbirds this morning but hav'nt downloaded it yet. Its nice to see the changes even in a day as they grow so quick.

Gill what are you feeding the hogs in your garden? good luck to G today for his op.

Anng sounds like you had a nice drive around today and have been lucky once again with the weather this time.

We had a really hot day today and I am glad I packed all my ice packs as I bought a lot of stuff in Lidl which needed the cool bag and when I cam eback to the car after Morrisons it was really warm in there even though I had parked in semi shade.

Tired now as I did the works, the poundstretcher and the card shop across the way to find some crepe paper and not one of those shops had it. I then did Lidl and then Morrisons so was shattered by the time I got home and got it all away.

Morning All

I expect your OH will be at the hospital now Gill . I wish him luck and hope he will be home this afternoon. Fitz will be there now too.I hope he doesnt have to hang around too many hours before he goes to theatre. How is your tooth today?

Ann that was good you didnt need the biopsy done. What are the new tablets you have to have for 2 weeks?

It looks like it is going to be another murky day and it feels warm already. I will go to do my last bit of shopping at Tesco .Persil/Comfort and that kind of thing and then I will go and have my blood test done.

I hope Bob has had a good night Vera and that you too have managed to get some good sleep .
Chris has just brought me my cuppa so I will get supping :-D

Morning Jane and all,

Grey skies here this morning but its sill quite warm. We had the window open last night so oh must have been hot in the night.

Hope all slept well or better that they have been and Bob feels better today.

Good luck to G and Fitz today with the ops and G should be home today so you won't be without him long Gill. Hope all goes well.

Jane did you really mean you will be on the same ward as Fitz when you go in tomorrow? I hope you are all ready with everything you need packed.

Safe journey home AnnG and T tomorrow. Hope T had a good night too.

Morning all

A bit cloudy here today, but warm with it.

OH isn't at the hospital yet Jane, his friend is picking him up at 11.30am OH is supposed to be there at 12.30 but his friend has to go out. All being well OH should be home no later than 7pm. It's only a 30 minute op. I've just asked him to go to the shop to buy a washing up bowl so he can wash his feet, I doubt he'll be able to reach the sink and he can't have a bath for a while. He's just had a bath and Sandra got him some new trainers for father's day, to where to the hospital as his other's were a bit smelly, so they've been thrown away now. His bag is packed and he has been drinking water like there's no tomorrow, they told him to drink plenty of water as it stops DVT's and helps with the recovery, he can drink up to an hour before he has to be at the hospital, then it's nill by mouth until after his op. My tooth isn't hurting today, so hopefully the tooth will come out okay tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it, but it has to be done. I'll be glad when it's Friday and everything is done and out of the way with OH and I.

I hope all is going well for Fitz Jane and wish you luck for tomorrow.

I also hope everyone else is feeling a little better today, there are a fair few of you under the weather at the moment, which isn't very nice for you all. Sending Get well wishes to everyone.

You'd think it was me going for the op today, I'm that nervous for OH. I'll be glad when he's home safe and sound. My hair needed colouring again, so I've decided to do that today to take my mind of things. I need to rinse it off in 10 minutes and put the conditioner on, then once I've finished I thought I'd busy myself with OH's family tree. Sandra has some programmes she's recorded for herself and will be watching those, so I don't fancy sitting here on my own with nothing to do.

We're putting bird nuts out for the hedgehog as it's all we have in Mel, she seems to like them and comes back most nights. She's in and around my pot plants so she's getting plenty of slugs and the like to. We didn't see her last night but the nuts were gone by the time we got up, so maybe she came to our garden after we'd gone to bed, either that or the birds had them this morning before we got up. Either way they're gone.

I'm running a bath so I'd better go and check it. With my hair being so long I have to rinse the colouring off in there.

Good morning to MEL, TWICE lol lo and you too Jane, you are an early bird.

Another drab sort of day, no sunshine but a steady breeze. Lets hope it brightens later.

Yes, good luck to your OH Gill, and to Fitz. It does seem strange that you will be on the same ward Jane, but I think it's quite common these days. Glad that Colin is feeling a bit better Mandy and your OH also Vera. What with one thing and another we could all do with being put is A BIG SACK and have a good shaking. We all might come out feeling a lot better. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Barry rang last night to say he will be here Saturday. Lets hope the forecast is right, so it will be dry and warm. The half cut back lawn does look funny, I really should try to finish it, but I am not going to.Thinking about it, Lewis could perhaps do it, if he comes tomorrow.

We have our "TWO FOR A TENNER" at Toby this evening at 5.00 pm. So certainly won't want any supper after that.!!!

Going to dice with the shower gain now, lets hope it behaves. :-S :-S :-S If it plays up, I will have to buy a new one.

Hope everybody stays WELL today. See you later. xxxx

I don't know whats wrong with me this morning. I showered and shaved, got dressed, and I have had the shakes and shivers every since. If I don't feel better later I won't be going out to eat. I wish I could stop shaking.

Have heard from Paul, My sister's son. There is no change, she is sleeping most of the time. He did have a conversation for 10 minutes, when she knocked her jug of water all over her bed. He had the job of doing a full bed change at 11.30 pm.

Ros is down the garden again this morning, weeding round by the pond and greenhouse. She is so particular about her garden. I wish I could be more help to her.

I'm going to lay on the bed, to see if I can get warm and try to have a sleep.

An easy day for us today. This morning we went to a place called Wax Lyrical somewhere we always go when in this area to stock up on presents etc. It now comes under the Portmeiron company but it’s main stock is Colony candles, oils, diffusers etc.. It feels a bit sad that when we visit daughter in future it will be too far to go.. hopefully there will be other interesting places up there.

At the same place there is a very good restaurant where we had coffee and then lunch of very nice Haddock, chips and mushy peas. All freshly cooked and the fish was lovely. Couldn’t eat all my chip or peas though.

Came back and had a bit of a tidy round and packed ready for off tomorrow morning.

Gill hope OH will be home as promised early evening. You will be pleased to see him.

Also hope Fitz’s operation is well underway. Jane. Good luck for tomorrow.. I had better post this before reading back any posts I may have missed, if I don’t all this will probably disappear.

Annx I don’t know what your appointment was for but good that you didn’t need a biopsy. I have had quite a few of those on basal cell carcinomas and, while not a problem having them, they can be quite sore afterwards.

Frank, this shaking is strange, I think you should get it checked out, it could be to do with blood pressure or something, it doesn’t sound normal

Mel we have been relatively lucky all 12 days, not sunny and warm all the time but no rain and not too cold at all. Today has been lovely again. Warm and sunny. OH did a lot of tidying up in the garden here. I think he has done more to the garden than daughter has since she bought the bungalow.

Jane hope your bed is available when you ring up. When daughter’s husband had his hip done two years ago it was cancelled at the last minute twice.

Frank, are you feeling less shaky now? You often get this.I think like AnnG says it might be worth mentioning it next time you see the Dr. It does seem strange.

Ann, we used to love Wax Lyrical. I haven't seen one for ages now though. When we used to to Peterborough there was a shop there and we always headed for it :-D

I have just finished giving the Bathroom a good going over and got Chris t otake the loo seat off as there has been brown muck coming out around the fittings. I was thinking it was poo but he says it is rust.(Thankfully). He is now upstairs putting the seat back on :-D.

Oh I do hope I have a bed .I couldnt bare it if I am cancelled.I have got myself all worked up now. You do hear so often of things being cancelled right at the last minute (even when you are all gowned up !! ) I am assuming Fitz has had his op now .
Hopefully OH has had his too now Gill and that it all went well . I wonder if he still has his Belly Button?? :-D :-D
I have taken my rings off and earrings out now . Nailvarnish off,legs shaved . Just a shower and hairwash with the Hibiscrub at 5am and that is me ready. I can feel a few butterflies beginning :-S

Vera I was sorry to see that your Brother has to have yet another operation.It must be a worry for you wondering if he is going to be strong enough to go through it again .

Mel how long will the Blackbirds be in the nest.They are really filling it out now.
I will send you an email after the op to let you know how it went. Maybe you could just pop the message up on the thread for me :-D I think I will only be using the ipad for TV programmes(if I use it at all). I may just read my Kindle and do my Crosswords. I may be too knackered to do anything after having to do all these blooming exercises several times a day !!

I think it feels quite chilly here now. Its quite breezy and I have had to shut the big windows. The window cleaners turned up this morning just as Chris was having a shower.They had to leave the van and carry all their gear from the other side of where the road is closed off !!. I was quite impressed :-D They have done a great job too as all the sills and door ledges are really clean.

Chris doesn't seem to be able to sit still and is faffing around .I think he is getting more nervous than me :-D

Jane will you hear how Fitz is tonight. Will his wife go in and see him?

Hope Gill's hubby is back home now and being pampered.

Sun came out today again and its been warm and a bit breezey. I have been out tidying the garden and the pots on the patio outside the back door. Oh pressure washed the decking round the pond and hit some of my plants and bits of them have died. He will do it while I'm out and it dos'nt show at first.

I potted up two big agapanthus from out os the border a couple of weeks ago and when I went to water them this afternoon I had a bit of twitch and bindweed in one pot so they all had to come out again so I could get to it. Blessed stuff. :-S

Lamb chops tonight but I did'nt get them out till this afternoonish and they are still frozen at the mo.

Ooh seeing Jane’s post I forgot to say Vera that I am sorry that your brother has to have another op, a worry you could do without at the moment. Hope your zoH is feeling better and that the heat patch worked.