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One of these days - Andre - I will come to Ireland just to see you...
Claudine wrote: "Tahlia wrote: "I started out not defining it as much, but I got flack on a kindle board forum because I didn't have it defined. I'll think about it some more & see if anything brilliant appears. ..."
Thanks for the links. Al's is a good site. I can tell by his review policy that he knows what he's doing.
However Dark Wolf and Pat have no review policy or way to contact them that I can see and Grame doesn't read ebooks or self published works. Also none of them have anything there about their background.
Claudine wrote: "They are so popular, the voices in my head. They have more friends than I do."Same here
J.A. wrote: "Tahlia,Tara Fox Hall at Good Book Alert is on your vetted list and she just awarded 5 stars to book:
http://goodbookalert.blogspot.com/201..."
Thanks. I'll add it to the list.
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No they don't. Those links were just an fyi for you to see how other reviewers do it.
K. A. wrote: "One of these days - Andre - I will come to Ireland just to see you..."Psssst, Kat. Andre is not really real. He's a figment of our imaginations.
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Psssst, Kat. Andre is not really real. He's a figment of our imaginations."
No wonder he's never going to write his memoirs.
We can piece his memoirs together...the timeline is going to be jumpy.
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I thought Andre was a joint Irish/South African artificial intelligence project.
It's going to be a long book though. I mean he's 96 years old. 96 years worth of stories about bonobos and pink taffeta tutus (yes, I think it was pink) - that's a lot of words.
Claudine wrote: "Are the Irish intelligent?"I expect so. They're in everywhere else.
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Don't forget the pink wedding, the paranah in the swimming pool and the bath tub.
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Katie, don't downplay Andre's age. He's 97, not 96. His birthday is today. And since it's leap year and he counts his age increases only every four years, he's now 388. This explains how so much has been packed into is lifetime thus far.
Andre Jute wrote: "Problem is, it's true. If I wrote that in memoirs, you can imagine how many people would believe me."Ah, that explains a lot, thanks, Patricia. So his middle name is Methuselah?
Tee hee hee, great laughs for a day when it snowed here. Snowed! in Vancouver! And I had to go out to take my dd to get her cataract sugery done. BTW, while there 'live' human eyes were delivered in their picnic cooler (Esky to Aussies, at least those from Vic) and shortly after that a young lad came in looking rather nervous. Yep, you guessed it, he was the recipient. An old confused guy (almost as old as Andre) who had been dropped off from a nursing home and left to fend for himself for a couple of hours, got bumped. Now the poor old soul was really confused...
I want to know how both surgeries came out.
Thanks for asking, Patricia. This was the second eye and both went swimmingly. But yesterday afternoon dd had flu-like symptoms and the porcelain telephone was put to good use, alas. I have to admit that after being the type of mother where the kids, in their words, 'had to be dying before Mom would take them to the Doc', I now panic every time that happens with dd, as her immune system is so low. But her fever peaked at 101.5 F (Canada went metric decades ago and I cannot for the life of me remember if 50 F is warm enough to golf, only that 15 C is, yet I somehow also cannot ever remember what C temp qualifies a fever) and she gradually felt better. I suspect it was a matter of an ongoing tummy upset from going off the renal diet during a party she attended Sunday to watch the Oscars and the trauma, however slight, to her body from the surgery. Thankfully she's a whole lot better today. As for the young lad, I wish I knew the outcome of his, he was not taken in until after dd was recovered and sent home. But the unit is outpatient, so I'm assuming it's not that much of a big deal to the profession.
I got a virus right after my cataract surgery. Had to take anti-viral meds. It settled in my eye. Scared me because I couldn't see well and thought it was permanent, but all healed, I got well, and now I have better than 20/20 vision. Glad DD is on the mend.
So happy to hear all turned out well, Patricia. Were you by any chance given high doses of Prednisone during your cancer treatments? When DD was diagnosed with cataracts the Doc reviewed her history, looked at her wryly out of the corner of her eye and said, I'm guessing you were given Prednisone. The answer of course was, yep.
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It's the small things, the peripheral side-issues, that get you.
Sharon wrote: "So happy to hear all turned out well, Patricia. Were you by any chance given high doses of Prednisone during your cancer treatments? When DD was diagnosed with cataracts the Doc reviewed her hist..."
It wasn't called Prednisone, just steroids. It was part of the chemical cocktail I was given -- an experimental treatment conducted in conjunction with the Mayo Clinic. I would guess there was a very heavy dose of steroids because I gained forty pounds in three weeks.
I've taken Prednisone in bursts, sometimes two or three bursts in a row, for asthma. My mom took Prednisone daily for years. It gave her severe osteoporosis but it was a choice between that and intolerable pain.
I spoke too soon!! Symptoms worsened. We are at hospital, tests being done, peritonitis likely. Gallbladder a possibility (severe pain)
Oh no! So sorry to hear this. Keep us posted.
Hope she's okay, Sharon. Prayers coming your way.
Thanks for the concern and prayers, everyone. I was sitting waiting with DD and opened my emails from my iphone (something I've only ever done once or twice before), saw the post notice from Patricia at GR, clicked on the link, and decided to reply, then prematurely hit the send button when two docs came in for consultation. First, she's all right, we caught it in time, thank goodness. Her urine sample showed she was at 3400 for something (not sure what) that should have been 130. DD has a high threshold of pain and never believes she is sick until she absolutely cannot deny it any longer. Mea Culpa, she gets that from her mother. I did though, really question her shortly after my post when I realized she had taken a turn for the worse, and even though she still had not spiked another fever I told her she was NOT okay and insisted we get her in. They are keeping her overnight for observation, but she's already had a big dose of anitbiotics and is much improved from earlier. Whew!Patricia, yes, sometimes we have to weigh the side effects against pain or even Life, and the cataracts truly were easily fixable.
Andre, my sympathies for your cold. When one is that vulnerable something as simple as a cold can really knock them out. Not normally a worrier, I worry for DD all the time. And this time it was for good cause. I suspect Roz will be all over you like a mother hen for many moons to come...
Glad things are looking up for DD.Andre, what's your address? I'll send you some chicken soup.
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Andre Jute wrote: "The temptation of turning into an invalid..." Not you, Andre. That's just not your style. You can drink the soup while riding your bike.
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Andre Jute wrote: "The temptation of turning into an invalid..."Cluck cluck...
I'm good at one-liners, which makes me quotable."
Ah so that is what it was all about.
Tahlia, maybe you should contact indie author groups here on Goodreads and Amazon?