5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

I think I'll have to swap pleasures for thanks over the last few days. So this is Saturday at precisely 9.30pm until today.


1) Thanks to the NHS 111 lady who was chatting to me about organising an out of hours appointment for smaller son. And how she didn't hesitate when I squeaked "Forget everything I just said and send an ambulance".


2) Thanks to the first responder car that got here within minutes (takes 30 minutes for an ambulance to drive here). And to the first responders who muttered "meningitis" and managed to get a cannula in and pump son full of penicillin.


3) And to the 2 other paramedics who came here in the ambulance and also squeezed into my room (smaller son hallucinating on my bed)


4) And to my brother who appeared because I'd phoned earlier to say I needed a hand to get son in the car. He had to carry him to an ambulance instead.


5) Also to the paramedic in the ambulance and the EXTRA paramedic we needed. I had to laugh at the paramedic who was radioing in saying "Get a bed in resus. Get a paediatrician, X, Y and Z" while the other had the sirens going then he turned to me and said "Erm, don't worry, it's all routine" !!


6) To the dozen staff members in Resus who oooed and aaahed at his temperature of 40.8 and his impressively fast heart rate and breathing. He'd gone past hallucinating by that point to just nothingness.


7) And to smaller son for being unresponsive for 2 hours (felt like years) then answering one of the questions they kept asking him in huge detail :-D


8) To the other paediatrician who re-diagnosed him with a splendid kidney infection.


9) And to goodness knows how many nurses who have checked him every 2 hours and given him iv antibiotics periodically since 3am on Sunday morning.


(The ambulance men were freaked out enough to come and visit us in hospital the next day!)


And now he's home, watching Wimbledon.

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Frith my dear, thank heavens for the NHS, thank heavens for you being a level headed and on the ball mum, thank heavens for your brother turning up when you really needed him, the doctors and nurses and first responders and paramedics but mainly thank heavens for the strength and reslilence and recuperative powers of the young, I raise a toast to all of you. well done and I soooooo hope he's enjoying Wimbledon!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ooooh Sparra. Tried this morn to bring yellow. But at Poxford, skies of grey! Digging down south. Muck in old smoke!

Away again, so scoring the marks. Always a pleasure.

topsyturphy

Frith - glad your Ds is ok. Well from my experience of nhs staff, they are amazing people who do a fantastic job.

My pleasures for today

1. Pain is lessening, still taking painkillers.
2. Contacted drs and managed to get repeat prescription for more painkillers.
3. Lovely sunshine.
4. Being able to sit in the garden.
5. Ds2 feeling much better tonight after being ill last night. He worried me as he just slept and didn't want anything to drink.
6. Crocheting some more of my never ending blanket for my grandson.

judi24

Frith - what a nightmare - glad every one pulled out the stops and got DS safe and sorted - we may moan cos NHS is not perfect but it is bl**dy good in a crisis!!! and we would be lost without it!!!


Been deliberately AWOL due to dissertation - draft done, not finished and not happy with it!!! But I will get there!!!


Home is chaos, messy and busy - not new! Work the same - also not new! I will convince my self that order will be resorted soon - but its a lie I have been telling myself for 24 years!!! (since I had my DD1!) - ah well keep going! only 14 years til I can retire!


Pleasures:


1. Catching up on here - guilty pleasure given that dissertation not finished!
2. Succumbed to big supermarket shop as DD2 complaining that I had not done a 'proper shop' for weeks (very observant!!!) but got lots of YS bargains!
3. Camping trip booked for end of term - just 2 nights but really looking forward to it!!
4. Lots of flowers still around the house post birthday
5. Loving the warm weather and sunshine!

DundeeDoll

wow frith loads of thanks indeed. as you may remember we have the builders in. and no hob. and so i was a bit nervous about the weekend, but all OK
1) Friday was graduation. one of my students came over from malaysia and gave me a beautiful wood cutting, and we had a lunch
2) afternoon was gbf's retirement presentation. more food
3) evening playing at ozzie friend's leaving ceilidh held at Tay Park House, now a boutique hotel, but where we were based when she joined us. the song i wrote 'marking assignments' to the tune of waltzing matilda went down a treat
4) saturday morning was an attempt to get house straight enough and buy party food including 2 cakes to decorate for
5) birthday party #1 for cathedral friend (37) starting at 3.
6) joined by birthday party #2, previously of cathedral so some guests friends of both.
7) food was local community bbq
8) lovely service sunday
9) then lunch with 3 friends then walk home with 2 of them so they could collect their car
10) we walked via the lemmings, over the new footbridge over the railway, along the front, back over magdalen green and there was a brass band playing in the band stand
11) strawberries and cream in the garden - yes we had sun both days
12) and back to work today. builders back, we need a new loo. c'est la vie

mcculloch29

1. Parcels I had thought lost were actually next door who kindly brought them round.
2. Parcel 2 was 2 super-bargainous tops, at £6.00 and £2.50 cheaper than CS and lovely. One is dripping with Indian style jewels and will have to be a party top, the other can be worn now.
3. Lovely pics of great-nieces on FB from D'Nephew.
4. Watching models fall over on FB. I am a very wobbly person these days thanks to arthritis and worsening CP symptoms and these made me laugh. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J239C9lGE2Q
5. Chats on phone with friends.

villagelife

Frith so pleased he is recovering and watching Wimbledon.
They have no idea what happened to the bees.

1. DS2 actually letting me know that he was eating our. My psychic powers not needed.

2. Both sons came into garden and chatted while I watered.

3. Watching DS2 trying to get chickens into their coop. Really funny and not very successful. I had to take over.

4. Salad for tea.

5 Neighbour gave me a lettuce.

Skint_yet_Again

Oh Frith what a scare for you all - am so glad smaller son is ok x

Topsyturphy thank goodness for pain killers - hope you are feeling better soon x

MHags wishing your OH continued recovery - cant believe how much time has passed since you had the dreaded news again - but the time must have seemed to be crawling past for you x

Well I should be at work but more problems with this dratted car !


Pleasures for Monday (day off work)

1. car went into garage - they collected and delivered for free and changed the brake fluid for free after the service/breakdown fiasco 2 weeks ago.

2. I walked round the local pond in the sunshine

3. Lots more washing done

4. I then got a phone call from the garage to say I need 2 new tyres as one has a puncture and the other a slit (they reported the tyres were fine last time they had the car 2 weeks ago ) Told them not to bother changing them as they wanted a fortune - will get them elsewhere.

Timing belt was changed - a whopping £345 :eek: The pleasure in all this ..... as I was looking up the tyre details I found a leaflet stating timing belt offer £239. Phoned them back and after a bit of persuading they agreed to honour the price of £239 instead of £345 :j At least the difference will pay for the tyres I now need

5. all windows open and a nice breeze blowing through the house


So I am off to kwik fit as soon as they open this morning at 8.30 to see if I can get them to inspect my tyres and confirm what the dealer has said... that I need 2 new ones.

If I can get them changed there and then at the same online price (cheapest deal I could find for these tyres) I will, otherwise will have to book car in online. Then I am off to work to enjoy their air con :cool:

Stay safe everyone in this heat this week x

mhagster

skinto I don't feel that time has dragged, I feel surprised that 10 weeks has gone by already. I started reading back on this thread from when we found it last night....I'm about 2 weeks in! This is like my diary/ journal here where , usually , if I written enough takes me straight back to the day in question.

So today! Well!

Achy back/ joints ,have had them for years, they flare up every now and again, so last few days my back has been complaining about working again. I'm on my feet constantly for 8 hours ( not looking for violins out , just saying thats what happens) , by the time I've driven home and try to get back out of car I've almost seized up....anyway, thought I would go for a massage this afternoon! The lady was trying to get me to upgrade to a more expensive treatment, nah! I want this one. But this other one does this and does that...nah! I want this one. It's a very firm chinese acupressure massage which I've had before and its usually a bit sore but this was particularly painful...your back is very tight, said she....I felt I should apologise. I am getting very tired ,said she....again sorry!

Then , what I thought she said was I shall use 'heat ' if that's okay? , yep.....thought she was going to get a heat lamp or something. Then she propped me up with towels and cushions under my chest and stomach.

Then , I felt a much deeper massage on my legs , then my bum and thought that feels like she is standing on me! Nah! Can't be...by the time she was walking on my back I realised that bloody hell she was using her feet not heat! I was exhausting her poor arms because my back and neck muscles were so tight that she had to actually use her feet! She kept moaning about how tired she was and I think she was hoping I'd say stop!
Anyway......it actually felt a lot better after an hour and I'm a bit free-er muscled! But I do believe I may be bruised in the morning!

Prior to that I'd had a lovely bowl of cauliflower soup at a nice cafe we like.

Had had a nice chat with friend from home.

After massage went for another coffee with OH and I had some carrot cake.

It's been a nice day , bright but very cold. I'd optimistically hung some towels on the line, they were damp when I brought them in but smelled of lovely fresh air.

Do have a lovely day