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Sorry I've been missing in action. I've been really ill with a chest infection for the last couple of weeks and am only just starting to feel human again. Haven't picked up a book or my Kindle in nearly two weeks!!!
Hope you're all well.
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Glad you are feeling better Janet
I hope everyone is getting better!!!This has been a solemn week for me. My husband lost his grandfather and my boss lost his wife. And the this weekend I get to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday. So many emotions going on.
Sorry for your losses Lorrea. Hope you enjoy the celebration of your grandmother's 90th. All good women - my aunt turns 90 on Valentines day and she is going strong as ever. Hoping I inherited some of those genes.
Hope everyone battling colds, flus, and stomach bugs get well soon. The germs are running around our area. No school closings but lots of people are getting sick.
Pat wrote: "Hope everyone battling colds, flus, and stomach bugs get well soon. The germs are running around our area. No school closings but lots of people are getting sick."Same here, Pat. No school closings, but hospitals have restricted visitors.
sorry for your losses Lorrea.Pam and Brenda take care.
Hello friends! I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate interacting with you guys. Meeting people in goodreads, talking with them about books, life, passion, is way better than meeting people on facebook where it s mostly about things that don't really matter, trying to look like a big deal and act happy even when you re not, wearing a mask and trying to build a fake image of yourself. On goodreads I feel like I really know you guys, and we share the same passion and love each other for that, and more. So yeah, I realky aporeciate you guys, God bless you all :)
Aymen wrote: "Hello friends! I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate interacting with you guys. Meeting people in goodreads, talking with them about books, life, passion, is way better than meeting peopl..."What a sweet post, Aymen! People like you are what make this group special! God bless you too :)
Thanks for the post Aymen!! This is something I needed to hear today!
I feel the same way Aymen! I'm not a fan of facebook and I'm normally shy but I don't feel like I have to be here. I can be myself.
Aymen wrote: "Hello friends! I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate interacting with you guys. Meeting people in goodreads, talking with them about books, life, passion, is way better than meeting peopl..."That was a really nice thing to say Aymen. I feel the same way. God bless you too!
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Lovely thoughts, and often I get PM's from members with the same comments. It is so good to here comments like this.
It makes all worth while.
It is great if we can make members happy and feel better with their lives.
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From the Patridge Family
Sean wrote: "David Cassidy announces retirement and confirms suffering from Dementia.From the Patridge Family"
Very sad... but, on the bright side, he'll be able to forget Danny Bonaduce.
Aymen wrote: "Hello friends! I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate interacting with you guys. Meeting people in goodreads, talking with them about books, life, passion, is way better than meeting peopl..."Aymen, that is a beautiful post and you are a beautiful person. People on here feel like family. When life doesn't let me connect on Goodreads as often as I'd like, I miss it.
Sean wrote: "David Cassidy announces retirement and confirms suffering from Dementia.From the Patridge Family"
He is young for dementia, only 9 years older than me. Really makes you think about what it might be like for those of us with family with a history of dementia.
Sean said, "...the Noro Virus"sorry to hear that, Sean, but
it'd made a smashing book title
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The only fan letter I ever wrote as a teen was to David Cassidy. I still have a crush. I hope he takes care of himself. Best Wishes and prayers being sent.
Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't been as 'chatty' lately. I've been really busy, doing a weekly radio broadcast for Internet radio, weekly videos on YouTube, and writing two books at the same time...plus still somehow finding time to watch movies with my son, play a little bit of Mr. Mom while my wife works a new night job, and of course being a police officer at my day job. Good times... How is everything?
Hey Jason, I remember those days. I used to work 3 jobs sometimes all 3 of them on the same day and still try to keep track of a teenage son. Now I don't work and my husband will be retired on April 1st. I think he is going to drive me nuts. I haven't worked since 2009 and am set in my ways. I can do what ever I want to do when ever I want to do it. He has been using up his vacation time for the past 5 weeks and he gets all huffy when I take a nap. I hope he finds a hobby or I might end up in the loony bin. lol
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Also working full time, and also running a nutrition business, and doing 27 hours of tennis coaching a week.
Now help my wife do the jewellery stalls, but have taken a step back as I have got older.
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I correctly diagnosed myself and was suspicious that I had DVT again.
I am off work this week and next, as now for the last two weeks my left calf, ankle swelled up became hard and bigger and warm.
The shock for me yet again, is I have had DVT confirmed by the hospital, although I walk 14-16 miles a day, and played 3 hours singles on Sunday, but somehow still got a massive DVT in my upper thigh, in my main artery. On blood thinning tablets, already had in the last two days... X rays on my chest and lungs, X rays on both shoulders, ultrasound on my legs.
To see blood consultant 7th March (away till then)
Tests to be done for any cancers, that maybe effecting my blood flow.
Doctors are shocked as well.
Going to check everything, but the thought is that I am be just at risk for DVT after suffering previously in 2010.
The good news, is I am off work, and can watch my garden coming on, working for 5 weeks now, and next week the kitchen starts.
I can go out walking, as on blood thinners, not back to work till the 6th March.
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Last week we should have flown to a wedding in England.
We did not go (in the end no flights because of fog anyway)
Next week we were meant to also go on a plane to England.
Not going.
Either one of those flights could have killed me with DVT, would have gone to my lungs or heart.
Plus on Sunday I played tennis singles for 3 hours with a DVT, and my fitness saved me again !!
That is fate , the same as 7 years ago.
Thank God, Sean. I am so glad the Fates were with you. Take care and try to enjoy your time off from work.
Dang, Sean, you are going through the ringer! What a good thing, you got it indentified so you it can be treated. It sounds like you are taking good care of yourself, and I'lll say prayers for a fast recovery
Sean wrote: "Fate has had an enormous part of my life.Last week we should have flown to a wedding in England.
We did not go (in the end no flights because of fog anyway)
Next week we were meant to also go o..."
Couldn't you have taken a ferry boat? Just curious. Might have been slower than a flight but a hell of a lot SAFER. I mean once the fog cleared up.
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Last week no planes for four days, no boats this week last few days, heavy winds.
Getting off Jersey can be hard.
But I was lucky we did not go on a plane, the DVT would have moved to my lungs or heart.
Seven years ago I somehow survived with 16 blood clots on my lungs, discovered one day before I was going to fly to London to see my ankle surgeon specialist, again I would not have survived the flight.(some blood vessels in my right leg have died due to DVT)
So fate has helped me. Knowledge from last time has helped me, and fitness has helped me, especially playing tennis this last weekend with DVT in my left thigh !
As a child and as an adult, this fate has helped me three times.
One aged three, when I was left at my families home with my nanii(staff) while my brother and sister went in the car with my mum and dad. They had a head on collision. I would have been on my mums lap, and been thrown out.
Age nine years instead of going in my "favourite" landrover with my mum and dad's navy friend officers in Bahrain, I went in my dads car. The land rover was involved in a head on collision, all three in the from were killed, and my brother and sister were thrown from the open top landrover(filled with coke bottles) and again survived.
In 1985 my wife and I bought our first house, and told my mum and dad in law we could not go away in the car to the UK with them, they were killed in a horrific car accident, with also Tracey's auntie. Tracey and I always went away with her mum and dad, I was so close to them.
Sadly, our godchild, and nephew died at the age of 24 years old, in a car accident in Jersey, from a DVT that went straight to his heart !!
So, I am believe in fate, and how lucky I have been.
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Sean, Keeping you in my thoughts for a speedy recovery DVT is not fun.
Wow, Sean, you've been through the wringer. Stay strong!
Sean wrote: "We said no to the weddings anyway, before.Last week no planes for four days, no boats this week last few days, heavy winds.
Getting off Jersey can be hard.
But I was lucky we did not go on a pl..."
Sorry to hear about deciding not to go to the weddings and sorry about the family members who have died. Better safe than sorry, I guess, right?
Sean, I sure hope life gets to slow down for you soon. Be careful and remember to take care of YOU. That is easy to forget when you seem to be all about helping others and your family all the time the way you do.
I just saw a foot swing apparatus on FB that you hook under your desk or table so you can easily move your feet while sitting. I thought it looked like something that could help keep circulation etc. going while sitting.Hope your doing better Sean.
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The rest of the day we walk, a lot 14-16 miles per day, inside and outside, we lift 40-50 boxes of paper, empty over 60-70 full size shredding bins a day, and deliver over 200 litres of milk per day.
That is between four staff.
And walk to two different buildings, a mile apart.
Then come home and play tennis.
Doctors and specialists believe it has nothing to do with movement.
While I am off work, that will check if diabetes is not helping the movement of blood, If it is because I had DVT and PE seven years I am more prone to DVT's. Or the worst case, if any tumours that is effecting blood flow.
In myself I feel okay, just the high dosage blood thinners, they make you light- headed and dizzy, and pins and needles in feet and calfs and the worry if the DVT is going to move to my lungs are heart.
But as the specialist said, my fitness has saved my life again.
But good not getting up at 5.00 Am everyday. Watching my garden coming on and nearly finished after 5 weeks, one more week to go. The kitchen is started this week.
Pictures of garden on Facebook, and kitchen from the middle of next week (4-6 weeks work)
Thanks for all your kind thoughts, but I am a tough nut.
Also difficult as have to keep mobile, with short walks, but cannot get out of breath or do too much as the DVT can move!
Also not get stressed, the doctor says, that is easy when you have a DVT that can move !
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An slowly empty 20 boxes of goods/food from my kitchen as it will be all gone on Wednesday...everything out!
Hi guys, I m trying to decide which King's book to read next, Duma Key, Dead Zone, or Mr Mercedes. Any Suggestions?
Aymen wrote: "Hi guys, I m trying to decide which King's book to read next, Duma Key, Dead Zone, or Mr Mercedes. Any Suggestions?"Aymen, I recommend Duma Key. It was very good. Couldn't put it down good.
Aymen - I would vote for Mr Mercedes!
Beautiful Aymen! Hope it's warm. It's still chilly here.
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