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[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Good luck Lindsay.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

What a horror story Lynne.. Re the District Nurses no longer calling and your Niece having to attend surgery..... this is general policy - that "walking wounded" attend the Practice Nurse at surgery, but - and it's a big BUT - in cases where there were other difficulties, we would use our discretion and keep calling in these circumstances. It's bad enough to have a recalcitrant wound yourself - but to have one at the same time as you have an extremely ill baby must be unimagineably difficult to cope with.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Good luck Lindsay! You’re the man for the job I’m sure :)

Been a bit quiet this week, sorry a bit preoccupied

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Hope everything is OK R

[✿Claire✿]

Evening all. Bit of a busy week, first time I've managed to jump in. Got a resit on Thursday so I've been taken off shift tomorrow to revise, have to make the time up another day though which is fine. Looking forward to a lie in tomorrow, trying to stave off a cold, plenty of oranges!
Had a fantastic start to the week though, little baby couldn't wait to get through the doors at hospital and so made his appearance in the lift!!! That's number two in 4 and a half years, thrilled to bits :)

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Wonderful Claire - seeing a new life come into this world is the best ever.

[Jim]

yep, hope you get it Lindsay

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "What a horror story Lynne.. Re the District Nurses no longer calling and your Niece having to attend surgery..... this is general policy - that "walking wounded" attend the Practice Nurse at surger..."
That one I have sounded off about and told her mum to sort it!

[Patti (baconater)]

Good morning!

Woke to a cold cup of coffee next to the bed. Tsk. Got an extra half hour of sleep, though, so that's alright.

I hope the wound care at home is re-instated, Lynne. It's terrible that proper care has to be fought for rather than freely given.

I hope things will start to improve for you and your family, Rosemary. It's a hard time, I know.

Exciting, Claire! I have so much respect for what you do.

It's still blowing a hooly here. I really can't see how people can stand living in tower blocks in this city.

[Darren]

Good morning all.

Sorry, can't stop to chat.

Have a good one.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, was still awake at 3, awake again at 6.45. Not sure what is going on. Deadline today, need to do some housework tonight. Appears to be raining.

[Patti (baconater)]

It's snowing! Just a few flakes downtown (shut up in the back) but Dave sez it's snowing well up at school.

Unfortunately, it's not cold enough to stick.

[Benjamin]

Best of luck, Lindsey!

Morning, all. Quiet, damp kind of day here.

[Will]

I have a brilliant sun, and freezing fog. Stunningly beautiful.

What a shame I have to work

[Kath]

Morning. Good luck with getting the required care, Lynne, though it shouldn't come down to luck.

Hope all goes well with the job application, Lyndsay.

Another damp and dowly day here so on with the edits. They've come at a time when I've got a fairly busy schedule so I'm grabbing moments here and there.

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Sorry to be boring about health matters but one of the most shocking aspects of care for the sick baby is the shortage of nurses to care for him. I know both parents have been staying on site to care for him and they wouldn’t have had it any other way. Fortunately the father had paternity leave and extra time off as he had to feed the baby while mum was operated on and unable to attend to him. He’s also been feeding and changing to give her some rest but he’s due back at work this week, but and this is the big one, there’s not enough nurses to feed him. I’m truly shocked. It’s so basic and essential. I’m not going back in history but when I had mine 40 years ago mums weren’t allowed in the ordinary maternity nursery. We had to knock and ask for our babies, they were taken in there overnight and looked after. Progress? No.

[Will]

Morning all. Nothing much to report.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Got in to be called in a meeting, I made a mistake in Nov which has just come to light, and was being questioned, but no warning, so I couldn’t look into it to explain myself!! Was really foggy this morning, but have just had to shut the blinds, as the light was affecting my eye. Not sure why it then goes to my cheekbone though.

That is utterly shocking Lynne!!

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Morning all, was still awake at 3, awake again at 6.45. Not sure what is going on. Deadline today, need to do some housework tonight. Appears to be raining."

I know what that's like - you have my sympathy.

Be extra careful - sleep deprivation is dangerous. Hope you are of the ones who can catch up a bit with a nap.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Alicia wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Morning all, was still awake at 3, awake again at 6.45. Not sure what is going on. Deadline today, need to do some housework tonight. Appears to be raining."

I know w..."

Am not good at napping, it takes about an hour to get to sleep!! And if I sleep after 2.30ish, I don't sleep that night.

[Alicia]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Sorry to be boring about health matters but one of the most shocking aspects of care for the sick baby is the shortage of nurses to care for him. I know both parents have been staying on site to ca..."

That is shocking. It takes a lot of energy to feed a newborn! And the mother is not well.

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Am not good at napping, it takes about an hour to get to sleep!! And if I sleep after 2.30ish, I don't sleep that night. ..."

That's too bad. 3-5 half-hour naps a day, or I don't function at all! And many of them I go into a deep sleep, if only for a short while. I call it mental dialysis because my brain gets cleaned out, and I'm ALWAYS better after a nap. Hate taking them - I'm not a toddler - but I need them.

[Patti (baconater)]

Note to self. Never follow the directions on a packet of proper Thai curry paste.
It'll blow your frikken head off.

Tasty, though.

[Will]

Let me reassure you Patti:nI rarely follow directions of any sort (and i bet I'm not alone)

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Not surprised at that Will, men never do - well mine doesn’t 😋
He asked me where a shop was the other day I told him to turn left as he went out of our road- he turned right!

[Patti (baconater)]

You're male. You don't even read directions, never mind follow them.

If you fancy some proper curry pastes n such, Will, pop into the shop on the other corner by the vegan Indian we went to.

It's a brilliant shop. They even had dried durian!

[Will]

Dried Dorian?

[Patti (baconater)]

Yes, dear. Grey, it was.

[Patti (baconater)]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Not surprised at that Will, men never do - well mine doesn’t 😋
He asked me where a shop was the other day I told him to turn left as he went out of our road- he turned right!"

And came home to tell you you were wrong, I'm sure.

Asked Dave to bring toilet roll home today. Emailed him with instructions on which shop, which brand, which shelf.
Told him if he got it wrong, he'd be doing it again tomorrow.

He got it right.

[Kelly]

Hi All, been in London but am home now and, yippee, am not travelling again until the 24th.

Good luck with the job, Lindsay - fingers crossed.

Lynne, I was catching up on the posts and glad baby seems to be on the up a bit but horrified that there aren't enough nurses to take care of the basic needs of a poorly baby. Seems like things haven't progressed in the right direction since your kids were born.

Desley, that was naughty of them at work. You should have been allowed to look into what happened before being called to a meeting.

Am so happy to have a car again. The freedom of leaving work when I want to, not when the bus is due, is fab.

[Darren]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yes, dear. Grey, it was."

Oh yes. What shade?

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yes, dear. Grey, it was."

Does it smell as bad as fresh? Color isn't appealing. Even if grey matters.

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Not surprised at that Will, men never do - well mine doesn’t 😋
He asked me where a shop was the other day I told him to turn left as he went out of our road- he turned ..."

Funny how inconvenience to themselves seems to focus their attention.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Thanks Kelly. Glad you are enjoying your car. Shame you had to give such detailed instructions for something as simple as toilet roll Patti. Felt like I should have been paid for being a delivery driver today, the dog food I ordered for my friend last week finally arrived, while getting it in the car I took a parcel in for another neighbour,then came home and sorted out a parcel that contained things for both me and my neighbour!

[Alicia]

You can't make these things up:

Ordered an inflatable seat cushion.
It came with a small air pump for adjusting the pressure.
The needle valve has an OD of 7mm.
The hole in the pump has an ID of 8mm.

Can't screw the d**n thing in! It slips in and out - no way to seal, so you can inflate.

Sigh.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Use the pump to hit the person responsible very hard over the head.

[Alicia]

Gingerlily - The other Stroopwafel Sister! wrote: "Use the pump to hit the person responsible very hard over the head."

The person responsible is in some factory in China. I'd love to visit China (not enough energy to do that), but wouldn't spend time looking to bop some hapless Chinese persons whose manager ordered the wrong needles.

It's just one of those things that take so much energy to fix, it's not worth it.

But gave me a little relief to whine about it - counts as words, right?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Well its the person who ordered the wrong needles I was planning to bop. But if you do it in your head it helps a bit.

[Patti (baconater)]

Hehe. Love the grey puns.

Enjoy your home time, Kelly. Do you find flying plays havoc with your skin? Always takes a good couple weeks and a vat of unguent to undry my hands and feet after flying.

Well, that's annoying, Alicia. A inflatable seat cushion sounds nice. Or farty. ;)
We got Dave's mother a really comfy memory foam seat cushion a few years ago, as she'd got so slim the bones in her bum were hurting. Maybe something to explore instead?

Good morning!

Seems the flu is making the rounds at school. I expect I'll be getting call ins soon.

[Will]

Good morning folks. I'd like to suggest a small refinement to the "men don't follow instructions" idea. I think some of us do follow instructions in a limited number of circumstances. Not very often, I'll admit. I'll offer two ...

Cooking - ever watched a man being so terrified of getting it wrong that he follows a recipe to the letter?

Geeking - we positively luxuriate in instructions if it's a technical activity that we take an unreasonable amount of interest in. Old cars. Computers. Cameras.

I think the guiding principle is that we don't read instructions for activities that we expect to be able to do using natural hunter-gatherer instincts. It's an affront to our masculinity.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, took ages to get to sleep, but then slept till my neighbour left in his dodgy sounding car. Not sure what the day will bring

Sorry to hear you cant use your inflatable seat Alicia.

[Benjamin]

Morning, all. Nothing much here, though the puppy has picked up some revolting new habits we're trying to cure.

[Patti (baconater)]

Wooohhhh!

There was just a godawful big bang down by the Bulvar.

I wonder what went boom.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Good morning folks. I'd like to suggest a small refinement to the "men don't follow instructions" idea. I think some of us do follow instructions in a limited number of circumstances. Not very ofte..."

I suspect the problem is often that the instructions don't mean what the one giving the instructions meant

Like the chap who was sent to the supermarket by his wife. As he left the house she said, "I want two pints of milk, but if they have eggs, get a dozen."

He came home with a dozen pints of milk.
His wife asked, "Why did you get all the milk?"
"They had eggs."

[Tim]

Wasn't me.

[Will]

Nor me.

[Elizabeth]

Morning everyone.

Fog. Thick.

Best of luck, Lindsay. Nothing like getting a job you really want.

[Lisa]

Good afternoon everyone :) I have never known a man who didn't follow recipes to the letter. Mind you I don't know that many men who cook to be honest. Alicia, my dad had a memory foam cushion with a hole in the middle like a donut (for obvious medical reasons) I used to find it very useful for those occasions when you are really into writing or composing and your bum gets sore. These days I tend to control my enthusiasm and take frequent walks. I can recommend the memory foam donuts though. You can get nice tartan ones on Amazon.
Lots of news from everyone too. Did you discover what the boom was Patti? How are the cats doing Desley? Not much happening of any note here, today is a little cold and damp for the cats so they are playing in and out through the front door while I shiver on the sofa.
The grain free, sugar and starch free diet is going pretty well and I was pleased to get my A1c down from 49 (6.8) to 41 (5.9) . That and the luxury of choosing between eggs and bacon, flax wraps with sugar free maple syrup and microwave nut flour brownies for breakfast continues to hold me in thrall. It's amazing just how many goodies you can eat and still lose weight if you just give up grains, sugar and starchy vegetables.
Onwards and upwards, lots of stuff to do today and I have some 18th century memoirs I want to read. Have a lovely day everyone and good luck Lindsay.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad your diet is going well Lisa, and you have a good choice. Cats are doing well, Lucy is going back for bloods next week (last week was acupuncture), making progress with the fosters - mum has started playing, had lots of blood drawn this week though

[Alicia]

Enjoy the low carb version of life, Lisa. I can't tell you how long it's been since I had cake, though. But my brain gets even more muddled with the white stuff, so it's worth the effort.

I'm using my old seat cushion - which is like an exercise ball, only flatter, supposedly to encourage good posture as you fidget to cope with it being slightly unstable.

The new one was supposed to be so I don't have to carry it downstairs to watch TV on - only, of course, they don't make the exact same one I already have! They may have a point, as I've had it at least ten years with no degradation in functionality.

This getting old thing is not for sissies!