Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 29 May 2016

Not much money in poetry, unless you're Pam Ayres!

I keep saying I'll write a novel but never seem to get beyond writing out the bare bones of my ideas.....

I did have a letter of mine read out the other day, a couple of weeks ago, on Points Of View on the BBC!!  

Daughter being kept in hospital another night, scans all OK but blood tests are showing inflammation. She is feeling nauseous but pain has subsided.

Making sausages, mash and home made onion gravy tonight. Not my favourite at all but OH likes it;-)I'm fed up with hearing him say that he is not hungry. He manages to eat his favourite meals. Emotional blackmail. Must go and finish housework, I abandoned it this morning and went to town. I pushed the boat out and bought two new teatowels at TK Maxx. Last of the big spenders!

Hi, all!  Must have looked strange when men came for routine maintenance visit to our alarm – OH was busy cleaning the shower rooms (because I can’t) while I was busy cleaning plant pots outside (because I can)!  I also sowed a few more herbs and hoed the patch under the bird feeders - yet again – wish they would wear bibs (and this is the no-mess mix)!

Lynette – glad your OH is doing okay and can get back to swimming.  Pleased that you friend had good news.

Liz – good to see you – still haven’t watched those programmes – weather too good for TV!

AQ – surprised you needed painkillers after previous knee op – I was on a morphine pump straight after, but stopped using it next day until nurse removing drain said I ought to use it while she pulled that out, and then she removed the pump too, and I was fine.  Sorry fencing boots trampled your garden; re-roofing shed damaged part of our back lawn which was muddy at the time and it’s taking time to recover now because it has been dry.

Annette – pleased you were able to act peacemaker between lap-top and printer!

Yas – my blood tests are done every 28 days to check that everything is functioning and balanced, due to various medications; we have a phlebotomist at the local surgery and she is very good – hospital nurses can’t manage my veins at all well!   I don’t mind if you think of me as “Old Girl” being OG!  But you don’t need to explain who I am when you repeat Linda’s poem.

Linda – I appreciate your thoughts, but you really don’t need to worry, I only attempt what I know I can do (except when I forget and then get horribly frustrated and shout at myself, and anyone else who gets in the way!)  When you put that about me driving the wheel to generate electricity in the poem for Yas, I imagined I was driving my scooter round a huge version of a hamster wheel!  Pleased to see that you think the Mad Spaniel could do the job as well as I!

Heather – sorry your Daughter has another night in and has inflammation and nausea, especially as they are not sure why.  I assume they have checked for an ectopic pregnancy?  Sorry your OH still reports that he isn’t hungry; I know older people cannot process huge amounts of food, but he is still so active.

Not sure what I need to do this afternoon; plenty more plant pots to wash, but others are still drying.

Yes, OG, they scanned her ovaries and uterus (and presumably fallopian tubes included in that !). She does have IBS - but has never had such acute and incapacitating pain, with that condition.

Strange they can't find out what is ailing, Heather:  do hope its not too much of a worry for you.  They do such a barrage of tests these days it must surely be unusual for them to be baffled.

OG:  I know you are sensible, but I can see that you like to be busy.  My OH is the same, although having said that he is sitting down at the moment, in the garden!  When we got back yesterday at lunchtime, we had a quick sandwich, then he read the post which had arrived,  then he went to the allotment to check & water everything, then he went to get his hair cut, then he came home and mowed the lawn, then he peeled the spuds for our meal,  then he went out for a long walk with the dog.....   by evening, he was asleep in front of the TV!   I did indeed picture you rushing around a big wheel with your scooter, providing eternal electricity for the little paradise in Yas's photo.  ;-)

Hope that your plant pot pile is not as large as mine.

My Friend had a lot of trouble with her knee op, for a long time afterwards:  she was in a lot of pain and asked for stronger painkillers, remembering that after one of her cancer ops she was only given some paracetamol which horrified a medical acquaintance of hers, who promptly prescribed some morphine until the worst was past.  The Doc and the pain relief nurse both said that she was particularly unlucky with the knee op, though. Apparently most people only suffer the worst bit for the first week or so, then it subsides.

Unknown said:

I imagined I was driving my scooter round a huge version of a hamster wheel!  Pleased to see that you think the Mad Spaniel could do the job as well as I!

  Hi  OG  Thats ok will not mention you with the poem, l just thought it's such a lovely well thought out peom will add to the picture. l'm interested in you using a scooter, and don't answer my next question if don't feel like it, but l have  had my wheel chair for a few years cause can't wake ver far cause of pain, but l don't use it like l should has in has much, because of  physicology if l spelled that right, l find it hard people looking at me, and roger has this thing ( hubby) of making way for them all the time which draws attention to me, l tell they are stronger and should move, but l'm the one that ends up in the hedge nearly, did you have this mental problems at first? l try not to look at there faces which has helped, and cause l can walk a bit, a few yards or so but still in pain, l think they think l'm a faulfor getting out of the chair to go to the toilet, so make sure no one is looking. Yas

How awful for you, Yas.  People should not judge.  I remember someone once saying that they were stared at because they had parked in a Disabled Bay but they had a heart problem, so no stick or wheelchair, and it seems that if you look alright folks will assume you are in good health!

By the way, if you are on a Google Page and you can see the logo for that day, you can often click on it (one click with the left side of the mouse)  Then it will show a little cartoon or something, according to what the subject is.  If you click twice, it takes you to an explanation of what the logo means for that particular day.

Heather B said:

but blood tests are showing inflammation. She is feeling nauseous but pain has

         hi heather l don't want to play doctors but being unwell myself have looked into many things to find answers. And the one thing that came to mind when reading about your daughter is a possibilty of Pancreatitis in my medical book says Diagnosis confirmed by specific blood tests, symptoms excruciating pain in centre of abdomen that may also be felt in the back, sides, nausea, vomiting, weakness, fever, and sweats. Just a thought thats all l could be wrong.  Hope all soon gets better and she will be home and sorted, a worrying in time for you all. take care Yas