General Chat

Evening girls.
Sallie how has Jennie got on today,she has been in my thoughts all day.
Just to update you all.
My grandaughter has got endometriosis,and has to go and see the specialist in two weeks time. We are now awaiting the results off her cancer biopsy.
My nephew was taken down to theater this morning at 9.00am. He was down there for over four hours.
They have removed as much as they can off the mass on his brain.
But they say he may suffer by losing his speech.
He was in intensive care when my niece phoned.
I have been on tenderhooks all day,waiting for news.
Thank you all for your caring thoughts.
I will pop back later. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Mo, fingers crossed that it is not as bad as losing his speech. The main thing is that they have removed it. I hope he makes good progress, what a nasty start to the new year for your family. I will keep him in my thoughts.
As I will your granddaughter endometriosis is bad enough without having cancer hanging over her as well.

Sallie how did your daughter get on today?

I have spent most of the day catching up with letters (snail mail. I must have written about 10 letters today and am really tired now.

Thank you Ann. I hope you have not got writers cramp.
It's surprising how mail can build up isn't it.

P.M. sent Mo,

Typists finger more like MO. I always write a lot of letters these are just replies tpo contacts over Christmas.

Hi All,

Very late looking in today I'm afraid. Mo I've sent you a PM.

Thank you all for asking, as I expected, Jennie will have to go on the other medication. Apparently, now that she's had a reaction the medication will no longer do what it's suppose to do, and she could react to it again, only it could be a whole lot worse, even if she was to be put back on the anti rejection drug, it's highly likely that she would still have a reaction. The Consultant was concerned that Jennie's throat had swollen up when she suffered the reaction, and if it happened again it could stop her from breathing. So Jennie made the decision, with the Consultants guidance to go on the new medication. She has appointment with her IBD nurse, in two weeks time. So we'll have to wait and see!

I hope you are all okay! I'll speak to you all tomorrow.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Mo, just sent you another PM.
Love, Sallie.xx

Hi all, sorry not to have been around, lots going on. I hope all your poorly people are soon on the mend and that Mo's nephew doesn't lose the power of speech, how sad for him to have all this to cope with.

O.h. hasn't been very well, I think he is not taking his meds as he should, keeps saying how hard it is on shift work but won't make a stand at work so he has regular meal breaks etc. He is always the same, won't stand up for himself in some ways yet in other less important things at work he will make a fuss. I told him if he doesn't do things properly re diet and meds and exercise (he can't cycle to work in this weather so hasn't exercised for weeks) I will have no sympathy for him and will tell his son that when he gets back from Angola, that I won't take any responsibility for his father's health. He is such a pig headed person who will only do what he wants or thinks when he feels like it. I didn't bargain for all this hassle when I got involved with a toyboy 7 yrs younger than me, well you wouldn't expect to have to look after him that much would you? Yet it's been one thing after another, what with the secret drinking that I didn't know about for ages, and the bleed on the brain and now all this.... wouldn't mind but he disregards my fibromyalgia pain and my cfs, and tells me I am lazy!

Anyway folks, take care in the bad weather that some of us still have, it's not snowed any more yet in Norwich since small flurries for a short time on Weds that didn't settle, but it's still cold and miserable and some icy pavements left around.

love to all
Lizxxx

Hello Everyone,I have missed you all,I have read all the back posts so have caught up on all the news.
First of all Mo sorry to hear about your Nephew and grandaughter,I hope they are recovering from their operationsand your nephew's prognosis is encouraging.
Sallie I hope you get your prayers answered and that Jennie doesn't have to go on the medication you are so worried about.

Hello to Ann,( Liz Purple) Huia belated Birthday wishes to you. Marilyn in Cyprus, Sylvia in Canada, I am looking forward to seeing some of the Winter Olympics.
Now i am sure I have forgotten someone OH YES LOL Our lovely Jean,
I hope you and J are well by the way what does the J stand for????

Well folks it has been so hot here, but late to-day we had a storm and it rained cats & dogs and thankfully it has cooled off.

I went to Water arobics to-day it was a pleasure to be in the pool, after gym I went up to Barbara's to look after the girls and we got into their Pool. They thought it was great that grandma was in with them and I also enjoyed it, we ended up having to get out as we could see the big storm coming with lightning and thunder----- very exciting.------
I spent yesterday afternoon visiting with my grandson Jaimen,he is now crawling , the poor dogs dont like it as they cant settle, he is getting so fast.
He doesn't hurt them but they are not used to having this kid in their face.
It is getting late I'd best be off.
Love&(((((((((((hugs )))))))))) Marie.

Hello my friends.
Good to hear from you Marie +Liz.
Liz,is your OH type one or two diabetic. He is so foolish not eating properly
why oh why will some men not listen. I think that,that they think we are moaning at them,when in fact we are only doing what we think is right for them.
Sounds like you becoming a proper water baby Marie. I bet the storm was such a relief for you all,after all the heat you have been suffering lately.
How old is young Jaimen. It's strange with animals,when a child arrives on the scene. They have been used to having the run off the house,and a
baby is an intrusion off their territory.
Update on my nephew. When he came to after the operation,he was talking to the family. Thank the lord,his speech was not affected after all.
It is still early days for him I know,and there are bound to be a few trials and tribulations ahead,but god willing he will beat this thing.
My grandaughter had quite a comfy night. She was a bit giddy,when she had to get up to go to the loo,but that is the after affects off the anaesthetic,
and morphine.
See you all later on today. Love Mo xxx

Hi All,

Just a quick look in to see how everything is.

Mo, I'm so pleased to hear that your nephew hasn't lost his speech, it must have been a great relief for all the family. As you say it's going to be a long haul, slowly but surely he'll get there. I hope and pray that he will make a full recovery.
Good to hear that your granddaughter had a comfortable night, lets now hope that the results of the biopsy are not as bad as you you all think they might be.

Marie, lovely to hear from you. While you are all baking in Oz, we are all freezing here in Britain, as you might already know from the news. It must be great to get in the pool when it is so hot there, I can imagine how happy the girls were to have you in the pool with them. The dogs must think that Jaimen is trying to get there before them.

Liz, I hope your OH will listen to you and see that you are only telling him things for his own good, and not just nagging.

Jean, received your parcel today, thank you. I'll certainly give the microwave bags a try to part cook the veg, when I next make a stew in the slow cooker. As you know, I'm always happy to receive the mags. Thanks again!

Ann hope you are okay. Hoping to go on your Scrapbooking and Craft thread later on. Couple of things I need to find out.

Our weather today is a bit better, not quite as cold as it's been. Let's hope it will stay that way.

Hope all our absent friends are all okay.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi all


warm and wet here!


heavy rain and high wind warnings for the next 24 hours.

Mo ................... so glad to hear that your nephew has come through the operation so well. It will be a long road to full recovery, but I'm sure he will make it. Also keeping my fingers crossed for your granddaughter.

Sallie ............ do hope that Jennie does well on the new medication.


Marie ................ whereabouts are you in OZ? We have friends and/or relations in or around Perth, Bendigo, Melbourne, Brisbane and Pomona, and Mudgee and Sydney in NSW.

On our last visit in 2006, we flew into Perth, rode the Indian Pacific to Adelaide, rented a car to get to and from Bendigo, then rode The Ghan to Darwin, a plane to Brisbane, and then drove via Mudgee to Sydney.


Take care everyone

Good evening my friends.
Sylvia,we have had rain here in Kent today,thank goodness it's washing some off the snow away.
You could do with a bit off the weather we have had,to cool you all down,you are not used to the temperatures you've been having are you.lol
We are weather hardened over here,oh my thats a laugh. We moan when it rains,when it snows,or even when we do get a bit off heat. It's typical off us Brits,never a happy medium.

Hi again,

Mo, you made me laugh when you said about us Brits, but it is so true, we love to have a moan about the weather. I've just come off the phone from speaking to my brother and sister-in-law, they've been telling me that between Tuesday night and yesterday afternoon they've had almost a foot and a half of snow where they live, near Abergavenny in S. Wales. The worse snow there for thirty years.

Sylvia thank you, I hope she does too, I think this is the last of any medication she can have, so dread to think what the next thing will be. As Jennie herself does andsays, we have to look on the positive side, but I'm afraid I cant always do that. Hope things are going well for you and OH.

Well I'll speak to you all tomorrow. Take care!

Love, Sallie.xxx

Mo good to hear that your nephew was speaking after the op.

Sallie we will have to be positive for you. Say after us..... This medication WILL work

Sylvia, you have travelled a lot haven't you?

Should have ~~~~~~~~~~~ to Marie
and ~~~~~~~~~~~ to Jean

Hello again, Mo I am so pleased your nephew hasn't lost the power of speech, he must be so relieved as must the family. And glad your granddaughter is ok and will be better still once the anaesthetic has worn off completely.

O.h. is type 2? diabetes - he has to take tablets and change his diet! He always sorts out his packing up etc for work so that's where he goes wrong but won't listen so S** him, not my problem. He already takes stuff for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and aspirin to thin his blood as he had a bleed on the brain a couple of years ago, (his father has had several t.i.a.s so it didn't surprise me) and he is very overweight. I have never seen him walk briskly or move fast but when he had the bleed on the brain, he had to stop driving for a while so had to get a bike and he started to enjoy using it for work most of the time, but this bad weather scuppered that! He really didn't lost more than half a stone in two years of cycling tho, so not sure why, I think he eats too many snacks at work as well as the stuff he takes like sandwiches etc, I try to encourage him to make healthy stuff but he isn't keen.
He was supposed to make a will before Christmas but for some reason, I forget what now, he cancelled the appointment and hasn't made another one. I wish he would hurry up and do it lol, especially as when he is feeling sorry for himself he says he doesn't think he will live more than two more years!

Take care everyone, I love to read about your travels Sylvia and all the news from others.
Sallie, I hope Jennie will adapt to the other meds ok - it must be so trying for her to have all this to deal with.

take care everyone,
love
Lizxxx

Hello everyone.
Liz,I did not know that my OH had a twin brother. lol They have both had the same problems,ie,Brain bleeds, Diabetes,High cholesterol,to much on the heavy side. Plus he had a heart attack.
Oh the joys off it all. But I still would not change him,better the devil I know
and all that.
Well it's fairly good news about my nephew. He is coming out off hospital tommorrow. He is still frustrated with his memory loss. But as Liz will verify,this does occur with any brain injury.
He has got to have radiotherapy,and quite possibly chemo. It's the beggining off a long journey.
My brother and neice are over the moon,as I am obviously,but I don't think they realise what is still to come.
Thank you all,for your good wishes,for my nephew and grandaughter.
My G.D is feeling a lot better today,she has only had to take one dose of painkillers,first thing this morning.
I hope Jean is feeling better today. She has been feeling pretty poorly with
what sounds like a chest infection. Get well soon lovely lady,we miss you.
I hope you are all well,and feeling a bit more heartened now that the snow is going.
Love and best wishes to you all. Mo xxx

Hello All,

Hope you are all okay, and that the weather is now alright where you all live. Snow has all gone here, so let's hope it will stay that way.

Mo, pleased to hear that your nephew is going home tomorrow, obviously the family are thrilled, but as you say he still has a long haul in front of him.
Please pass on my very best wishes to both your nephew and your granddaughter. I hope they'll both make a full recovery!

Ann, thank you for your support, I really appreciate it. It's lovely to have such good and caring friends on here. I hope that both you and T are alright.

Liz, hope your OH has started to listen to your advice--after all it's only for his own good. Also hope that you are okay.

I wondered where Jean was, I hope she'll soon feel better. We really miss you Jean, when you aren't on the thread. Hope J and D are both alright.

I hope Huia is okay, we haven't heard from her for a few days.

Jennie had the swine flu jab yesterday and Michael had to have one too because he's living there. They both have a few flu symptoms today, but are not too bad. Jennie has to have another one, something to do with the medication she's taking and her immune system, she think she'll have to have it in a couple of weeks time.

I've was going to do some baking today, but didn't get it done. Never mind, there's always tomorrow.

Hope all our other friends are all okay. Speak to you all tomorrow.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Good evening all, sorry not been on much, I had to take my car to the garage it was knocking, something to do with struts under the suspension (£140), then I was working on a scrap book page, and doing things with the writing group. Soo many interests, soo little time.

Hope you are feeling better Jean, stay in out of the cold.

Hello everybody ~~~~~

I have been reading threads but havent added much. I am hoping to make a catalogue of my granddads paintings, if I can get copies of the ones owned by a couple of cousins. Like Ann, I have sooo many things to do and not enough time.

Huia.